The Three Strengths

My top five strengths are Responsibility, Learner, Discipline, Belief, and Developer. The characteristics of “Responsibility” are following through commitment, take ownership, trust worthy, and make sure the work get it done right. The characteristics of “Learner” is looking for an opportunity to learn and grow. Next, “Discipline” is organized, ordered, and structured. As well as seek for efficiency and plan ahead before the deadline. The characteristics of “Belief” are family-oriented, altruistic, spiritual, value responsibility, and high ethics. Lastly, “Developer’s” characteristics is helping others to

These strengths include organization, participation, and creation of checklists. I feel I stay very organized in this class, as I have all of my documents organized inside my binder ready for a notebook check. In regards to participation, I try my best to raise my hand nearly every class. I stay active and focused so that I can obtain all of the information. I also ask questions frequently which helps me to avoid mistakes or any confusion. My final strength, the fact that I create checklists, has benefitted me immensely. Checklists help to make sure all requirements are met for any project or essay, which is how I received a 91 on my Pilgrim Presentation and an 85 on my Canterbury Tales Short Essay. Checklists have helped me to score higher on assignments with multiple requirements, but not all assignments were as simple as creating a

One important study skill to use is self-explanation. to practice this study skill you are going to need to do three major things. Get organized to study, finding time to study, and note taking. This study skill bases all for you. Self-explanation can be used in any class and it is simple. Say if you are ready, your textbook or just a random

Taking a look back at my past writing assignments and drafts for each one, I can clearly see the improvement in how they are organized. My first draft for writing assignment 1 was basically one long paragraph. I clearly remember Mr. Bogdaniec’s advice on how to separate and create individual paragraphs that only contain one topic or main idea. Also with his handouts on writing an introductory paragraph and how to write the conclusion paragraph were extremely helpful in putting together my first writing assignment in this class. I followed the steps on brainstorming and then steps for creating a plot, and didn’t feel overwhelmed and confused as I had

My weakest area is time management because I just don’t think about things most time till the last moment when it’s something I don’t have a lot of thought for, or I just end up not remembering it. My way of improving my time management is to make sure that I focus on that class more and end up finishing that class to make sure that I’m getting work done on time. Another way for me to remember to do my work is to start writing my work assignments in a notebook or something so that I get it done when I look at

2. What qualities about your study habits do you think you could improve? Explain why they need improvement and what about them should change.

I believe that my two strongest characteristics that were mentioned by Alison Lake and Carl von Baeyer are taking good notes because when you are taking notes you not only listen to professor using the auditory memory but also you use your motor memory that helps you to remember material much faster and better. Also, it is almost impossible for most of the people to remember material just by listening to the professor because the next day most of the information is forgotten. When I came to my first nursing class I didn’t pay enough attention to the notes. I thought that power points will be enough for me but I was wrong because just after the class I almost forgot everything that professor said and I had to ask my classmates to share the notes.

Knowing how to identify internal strengths and weakness can be beneficial in helping to prepare for any examination. Time management and organizational skills are a key trait that should be mastered extensively (Shelley, 2005). The most successful students use their time wisely. An upcoming exam can create a heavy burden. Making a realistic study schedule and having the proper study space that is free from distractions and kept well organized is vital (Shelley, 2005).

From the LASSI Assessment I discovered my most dominate study skill is auditory learning. What that means is I do better learning material when I hear it repeated by other classmates or my instructors. To help myself I could get into a study group or I could organize a study group myself so I have more chances to hear the material and it will stick with me more than me sitting at home trying to read over my notes myself where I get easily sidetracked. Another way I can help myself is read my notes off while recording myself and playing it back multiple times so I hear about the materials more.

During my time in study skills I have learned what kind of personality I have when it comes to learning as well as how to handle stress and create free time for myself. The most important areas I have learned and will focus on at this point when I finish my class is how to improve my future test scores, keep up on my note taking, how I can keep improving my reading skills, and my goals I now have after taking study skills.

The term strength goes beyond its literary word and physical manifestation, and the exploration into the realm of what defines someone as strong, leads to the emergence of three fundamental pillars that convolute together to define what strength is. These three pillars represent the: physical, mental and spiritual aspects of strength. Strength is often overlooked as simply pertaining to the first pillar, which defines a beings physical strength. However, to uncover the genuine essence of strength it is fundamental to search beyond what is flexed on the surface to reveal an intricately complex connotation to the word.

Every individual has personal strengths and weaknesses that show his or her life in a positive or negative way. Everyone has to understand and be able to use his strengths and weakness in a good way to succeed in life. Our everyday life, whether at work or at home is affected by how we use our strengths and weakness. We can improve our strengths and work on our weakness to achieve positive goals in life. The most successful people know that by working on their weaknesses can bring significant results.

In this class, College Seminar, there were new strategies for success I learned, but the three I am committing to are Mastering Self-Management, Organizing Study Materials, and Taking tests. The reason I choose these three is that I believe they are what I need to change and develop the utmost. The one I choose first is Developing Self-Discipline because although, I start with every intention of finishing a project and doing a grand job I often don’t. Unfortunately, it is not unusual for me to become distracted by work, family, and other issues and stop or become behind in my studies. For my second choice, I have picked Organizing Study Materials since the problems I encounter are because I am unorganized. Often I have difficulty finding

• Audit - I have not yet carried out an audit and have only a basic theoretical knowledge which, of course, needs to be developed and expanded upon.

Another habit that is detrimental to my study skills is being overconfident. There were times that I read my textbook once because I tend to believe that I understood and remembered everything. I did not have the initiative to even quizz myself to find out if indeed an information was registered in my brain. Sometimes, I also took examination without adequate preparation I just relied on the stucked knowledge from previous readings and lectures. As a consequence of this laxity, my scores were low. This result will not help in the future because getting into my major course is highly competitive thus high grade is a must. However, gaining into this aspiration is not too late because based on what I have learned from the study skills module, there are some techniques that can be used so that certain topic would surely be absorbed by my brain. Among which is