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let's get real: a personal a****sment
If I am serious about figuring out my future path, if I am serious about having a "second act" -- then I need to be clear and honest about what I am willing to do and what I am not. About what my strengths and weaknesses are.
So here goes:
Strengths/Personal Resources
+ when I am inspired, knowledgeable, and "feeling" the topic, I am a passionate and skilled communicator: both orally and in writing.
+ I'm smart
+ I don't mind working hard
+ I can manage projects
+ I am empathetic, and a good listener
+ I enjoy empowering people: seeing the moment where they get a need met; or feel understood; or begin to understand something more clearly themselves.
+ I am good at seeking information and the answers I need.
Weaknesses*
- I really don't like physical labor and it's hard to motivate me to do it.
- I am not a skilled manager of people. I don't enjoy it and I am not good at it.
- I don't enjoy team work unless it's a small team of like-minded, equally committed, equally hard-working folk
- I am not as patient as I could be/should be.
Hmmmm... this is it off the top of my head. I think this post will have to be a work-in-progress as I continue this self-a****sment.
*I refuse to adopt the euphemism "areas for growth" for "weaknesses" here because I'm being honest and realistic. I'm 42 years old and I am not expecting these things to change in the near-enough future. So I want to figure out a path that assumes that I probably continue to be hampered by some of these.
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Comment by Josh Judkins on March 5, 2010 at 11:16pm
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The idea of doing a personal a****sment like this is great, Ayala - once we embrace our limitations and strengths, we can make sure we put both to good use!
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Comment by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 5, 2010 at 11:39pm
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Virginia Woolf in several essays wrote about 'moments of being' - I don't remember where I read it, maybe in her "A sketch of the past". You should give it a try if you haven't read it before. Well, it is almost a decade since I read it, but I still remember part of it - her description of when it was almost like the world zoomed in on some particularly beautiful flower she was looking at.Simone Weil also wrote of "moments", moments where everything seemed clear. Inspired.
I was reminded of this when I read your sentence: "when I am inspired, knowledgeable, and "feeling" the topic, I am a passionate and skilled communicator". Feeling the topic, feeling the moment.
We need to inspire each other. Inspiration is truly divine.
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Comment by Hayden Darrell Linder on March 23, 2010 at 6:33pm
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Some very good strengths there.
Unfortunately the only weakness I can help you with is Patience. But I don't think you're going to like how you improve that one.
To become more patient, you have to put yourself into situations where patience is required. So when those situations come up[ where you know you don't want to do it because it will drive you crazy, make the concise effort to go and do them.
Enjoy.
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