Weekly Monitoring Reflection

Performing the Insite workbook activities, I analysed and reflected on my personal strengths and weaknesses and drew up a development plan to help me.

Tom Rath’s “Strengths Finder 2.0” on-line assessment identified that my top five strengths are: Strategic, Focus, Futuristic, Significance, and Learner. I see the Strength Finder Assessment as a great opportunity to get to know my personal strengths and it motivates me to work and practice my talents rather than trying to fix my weaknesses. Looking only at my strengths is a new type of skills-building which allows me to stay focus on my talents.

This week’s assignment started by directing us to complete a self-assessment, which I felt was a well laid out chart with established skills and a level in which to rate yourself from 1 being poor up to 5 being good. I think it was a good exercise, giving us a better insight to our strengths and weaknesses. I do in fact think that I learned something new about myself and could more easily answer the question of “tell me your strengths and weaknesses”, which is often asked at interviews or promotion boards.

Primarily, before I was able to use my time management skill to benefit my academic success as a student at Miami this term, I had to follow certain procedures. The first thing I did in the beginning of this semester was that I created a, To Do, list to help me identify a few items and the reasons for doing them. I create these lists every Sunday to guide me through my weeks of school. The first thing in the list is to make sure I go to sleep on time, so I can wake up on time and arrive on time in class every day. Another method I follow is the daily and weekly planner which helps me writing down my appointments, classes’ times, and meetings’ times on a

My phone helps with reminding me to stay on schedule while I have a weekly calendar on my desk that reminds me of everything I have to do during said week. For my classwork, I look at what I have to accomplish in advance so I can adjust my schedule to the amount of work that week. I take the most urgent stuff and make that my priority before estimating how long each assignment will take. Most days, I give myself extra time so I do not feel rushed in completing an assignment. Before beginning my assignments, I read (or in some cases reread) the necessary material. Occasionally, I will research certain topics in order to a more comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the material.

So staying to true form after facing the two big issues causing my procrastination I immediately began procrastinating my solving procrastination. However after two days I realized that this really was a problem that needed solving right here and now. So I began to brainstorm how I could solve my problem. The next week of the class couldn’t have come at a better time since we focused mainly on procrastination. After reviewing my notes from that class and looking to the textbook for advice, I found the solutions to my first problem to-do lists, calendars, timers, and specific study and work times with

While behavior change isn't easy, it can be made more manageable through the use of effective time management and scheduling. I have a bad habit in the form of procrastination, and I tended to procrastinate and postpone a lot of things in my life, including the activities I undertook for my behavior change project. By taking part in this project, I have learned that in order to accomplish my goals and fulfill my obligations, I need to set times aside for doing my different activities. By applying this attitude to both the project and other aspects in my life, I have managed to mitigate my procrastination and accomplish my objectives in a timelier

My goal for achieving wellness is to focus more managing my time better. I always feel like I’m running out of time. For this reason, I typically have no more than six hours of sleep. My poor time management skills have become detrimental to my health. Therefore, having to make a premediated plan for my week is the only way for me to change my maladaptive behavior. I can plan to designate time to do my homework, so my homework does not conflict with

Due to the difficulty that would arise later on in the project, it was determined that a useful way to encourage a change in the behavior involved having an overall daily on-time percentage of 80% or more. If the daily goal of 80% or better was achieved, then I could purchase an item of my own choice such as fast food, a tobacco product, or another small inexpensive treat that would encourage and reinforce the target behavior. After each week, the on-time percentage had to be greater than 90% in order to spend $50-$100 at an online store of my choice. However, in the first week it was required that I be on time within 5 minutes of the start time, in the second week less than 3 minutes, and the third and final week, I had to be on-time or early. These three tenements gave rise to the shaping of my project which would further allow me to alter my deficit behavior and reach the goal of my target behavior of increasing overall timeliness to classes, social, and life

The first strength that was identified for this week was summarizing and paraphrasing, I displayed these skills leading groups this week and that assisted in my strengths as a counselor. Another skill that was identified during my week from practicum was listening, during group I had the opportunity to listen and consume what the clients were expressing during groups, this helped me process and summarize certain things when the clients were done talking in the group.

When I first evaluated myself in the study skill academic test, time management was my weakest skill overall. This was priority in terms of skill development because I would always leave things till the last minute and stress myself out trying to turn in things on time. In order to improve this I made a smart goal to carry out in the beginning of the year. Now after some time, the results of my progression are shown. My smart goal that I created for myself regarding my time management planned out very well, I was able to successfully accomplish a majority of my assignments on time. I would review the material of the week on Monday’s and compile all of the assignments due for the week. The monthly calendar was also a key factor in helping me keep up to date in the month so see what where upcoming tasks the following week. If I needed more clarification on certain tasks then I would login and check the syllabus.

The biggest topic we come back to again and again is accountability. Install some sort of measure in your plan that keeps you accountable for staying on track. One highly effective way to do this is to start out with a friend. Both can be responsible for keeping the other going. You do not necessarily need to be highly motivated, just consistent.

My first problem that I have encountered while trying to accomplish my goal is, after about a week of my workouts I started losing motivation to continue every day. I felt

Chances are good that you have had your weaknesses pointed out to you your entire life and have been encouraged to work on improving them. From your grade school teacher to your boss, it is not uncommon to have progress reports barely touch on your strengths and then have a lengthy section that discusses “areas that can be improved”.

Use a Score Board: Create a scoreboard; set the days and your timetables. Track your performance. Every day when you will reach your goal makes a cross in that table. It will encourage you to complete that task.