My Strengths

Introduction

As a second year student of the Institute I have learned a lot of things in my life. During my 23 year life I have come across a lot of problems and tried to solve them quickly and smartly, but there were difficult ones and I could hardly manage to solve them. Sometimes I made big mistakes, sometimes I asked help from my parents and friends. My parents taught me a lot of things and had a great affect in forming my personality. So, I have gained a great deal of experience to overcome my problems by using my strengths. However, it is very difficult for me to avoid some of my weaknesses. Moreover, no one can be perfect. Everyone has his/her strengths and weaknesses. In the following paragraphs I will be discussing my strengths and weaknesses, the resources of Student Self Development module which are most beneficial to our learning and my goals to decrease the number of my weaknesses. As a reference, I have used my personal information gathered from my friends and family members. Here is my assignment plan:

My strengths

 Tying to go only forward, being calm, clever, physically strong

 Strong will power, thinking strategically

 efficient and effective if there is a competition

 having good responsibility

 ability to cope with failures and try to learn from my mistakes

My weaknesses

 rely mostly on myself, desire to please people

 procrastination, Poor time management

 hardly raise questions whenever I am in doubt

 difficult to speak before a group of people

SSD module and other resources

 analysis of learning styles, group discussions

 SSD and effective time management

 living situations, books on personal development,

 web sites and personal development online questionnaires

Working on my weakness

 Weakness

 Action plan

 Conclusion

My strengths

Early years in my childhood I was a very naughty boy who fought with other boys every day, because at that time my uncle lived with us and he used to make me fight with different boys, even with older boys than me. He was a sportsman and " Try to go only forward" were his favorite words that were repeated every day. From that day I have kept it in my mind as my slogan and it has become my first strength. Later it helped me much.

After some time, when I was 7 my parents took me to my first school to the city and I became the strongest boy among my peers. My father made me study hard and be the first and the strongest, but my mother likes to solve every problem in a diplomatic way if it is possible. So she made me be a calm and clever boy. Usually my mother punished me for my wrong-doings and for my bad behavior as my father left for another city to work, but I also remember my father punishing me with his belt when I once got "3" mark from my essay in my fourth grade. After that I never got bad mark, the only mark for me became "5" from all subjects. With the help of my parents I have become a calm, clever, smart and physically strong person who tries to solve problems in a diplomatic way and who thinks first before doing something.

Later, in my eighth grade, somehow, because of some events I become so depressed and I almost lost myself and my interests. Fortunately, I came across the book by Jack London. It was "Martin Iden". It helped me to learn how to overcome different obstacles in my life and increased my will-power. I have become interested in reading fiction, adventurous, fantastic and historical books, too. All those books contributed to increase my strengths and I have learned how to speak to different people in different situations and how to make people speak and share their ideas, besides I have become able to understand different people's behavior in a short time. Also, I have learned how to write poems. In addition, I have become good at history and literature.

Thanks to my elder brother I went in for boxing from my sixth grade. My trainer explained me that trying to go only forward might not always help on the ring, the most important technique was first to think and then to act. He taught me to be patient, quite and calm when I was so nervous and how to act smartly in that situations and think strategically.

Another strength of mine is that when I studied at lyceum I realized that I can be efficient and effective at my study and work if there is a competition.

The next strength of mine is that I like to have a great responsibility, but someone should make me take the responsibility. That's why, at my lyceum when I was given a responsibility of a commander of our lyceum military team and was preparing for military competition with other students, it seemed to me very difficult to monitor my team, but soon after two or three days I managed to monitor them and trained them in one line. We took the first place in the competition which were held among college and lyceum students in our region and had an opportunity to participate in the next step of the competition. It helped me to understand that I can work hard and effectively if I have responsibility and opportunity. I also learned that I never know what I can do till I try. I have understood that when I have become the student of MDIST.

As my greatest strength I can tell that I have the ability to cope with failures and try to learn from others' and my mistakes. I can never forget my mistakes and I try to be always ready not to make the same mistakes. Moreover, I try to put high standards for myself. So, I am studying in accounting faculty.

My weaknesses

Now turn to speak about my weaknesses. I think every person has weaknesses. My greatest weakness was that I had big expectations from my friends and I believed in people much if they promised to do something for me and usually in the end I was disappointed because if I promise I try to keep my promise and expected my