As a student, I feel as if I have many areas of both strengths and things to be improved. Some of my strengths include being punctual, having determination, and being able to solve problems. I always show up to every class on time unless I have otherwise communicated with the professor for a valid reason of missing class with ample time before the class. This allows me to learn all the information from class myself without depending on others to get it. I have always been able to do anything that I have set my mind to because I have a very strong sense of determination to learn and to improve myself. I have always had a deep desire to succeed, and I do not allow things to get in my way of doing so. I possess a very good sense of problem solving; I dislike when things come up which try to distract me from my goals, so I always make to deal with these problems quickly and effectively. If I have a bigger problem, this may take me a few tries, but I do not give up and I eventually am able to conquer any problem. 

I have been slowly working through some of the many weaknesses that I admittedly possess, including procrastination, fear of failure, being a perfectionist, and being a people pleaser. I have always had very tough issues with procrastination, always putting tasks off for as long as I can. While these tasks always get done, they could be done better and in less stressful ways. To help aid this, I will start making a planner with set dates to start and finish tasks, which will be long before the due date so that any errors will be able to be fixed. A fear of failure has followed me throughout my entire life, I have always wanted to do everything right on the first try, even if it’s a very hard task that takes dedication and hard work to become good at. To help combat this, I will start to understand that doing something wrong is not a failure but instead shows that improvement is being made to get better. This fear of failure is also very connected to my sense of perfectionism that I have. In my mind, I think that if something isn’t done perfectly, it isn’t done correctly. To help myself see that this is not the case, I am going to tell myself that it is okay to not do things perfectly because that simply means that I can improve later; if I am automatically perfect, I cannot grow. Lastly, being a people pleaser has always been something that I have fought. I often put others’ opinions of myself over my own. I have caught myself doing things for the benefit of others and not my own many more times than I could mention. To help to put a stop to this, I will start to do things that will benefit myself instead of others and to simply stop thinking about others’ thoughts about myself and the things that I am doing.