Serenity Now!
Today I am going to talk about a few of my faults and hope I can turn them into strengths. Some of these will be harder to do than others. I am really not good at organization! I'm a very scatter brained and disorderly person that tends to procrastinate. I am also very stubborn. That should be enough issues for one post. I know it's enough for me to handle right now.
So at the start of the list to cover is my disorganization. Order is very difficult for me to accomplish. I do try by attempting to write notes and to put things in the same place every time. I can do quite well with that. If there is a place that I have set up for a certain thing I do make every effort to put it back there. The problem is there just isn't enough established locations for all the things I have but if I were to have someone organize and set me up for success I know it would be sometime I could continue. Note writing I enjoy. I really does help to focus my scattered mind on one item at a time. So hopefully I can keep going with my to do lists. Being a disorganized person is quite often linked with being creative as well and that is something that I claim as a strength. I do tend to think outside the box and enjoy having a creative outlet. Being scatter brained means to me that I make many different mental connections to the same item. Hopefully I will be able to use this to put ideas together that wouldn't normally be associated with one another.
As far as procrastination is concerned I really don't know how this can be turned around. Procrastination for me is a lack of focus and sometimes confidence. I'm not sure if I can come up with a workable solution and will sometimes have a fear that what I do won't be good enough so rather than putting myself out there and just trying I leave it to the last minute or avoid the situation all together. Hopefully working on my confidence will help with this and allow me to be more assertive.
Being stubborn is also an interesting trait. Sometimes my tendency to not give up on something has gotten me into trouble. I push to much for something I want and drive other people crazy or I refuse to give up if there is something I don't agree with. Though this personality trait tends to drive other people crazy I think I just need to find a better way of harnessing this power for good and not evil. :) Stubbornness means that I can be quite competitive and when someone is wronged I won't give up until the situation is fixed. This can be very good as long as I know when a situation is "hopeless" and my continuing to push will just cause more issue than it fixes. Balance is something I need to work on in order to make my stubborn nature a little easier to take. If I find something that I really want I do not give up and taking no for an answer is not something that comes easy to me but it needs to be something that I am really passionate about. Once I believe in something there is nothing and no one that will change my mind. With the confidence I am building I should be able to be more assertive in going after what I would like but I hope that this does not also mean that I will have blinders on to when there is a "lost cause". I suppose in short I would like "the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." I guess when it comes down to it that's what we're all trying to do.
So at the start of the list to cover is my disorganization. Order is very difficult for me to accomplish. I do try by attempting to write notes and to put things in the same place every time. I can do quite well with that. If there is a place that I have set up for a certain thing I do make every effort to put it back there. The problem is there just isn't enough established locations for all the things I have but if I were to have someone organize and set me up for success I know it would be sometime I could continue. Note writing I enjoy. I really does help to focus my scattered mind on one item at a time. So hopefully I can keep going with my to do lists. Being a disorganized person is quite often linked with being creative as well and that is something that I claim as a strength. I do tend to think outside the box and enjoy having a creative outlet. Being scatter brained means to me that I make many different mental connections to the same item. Hopefully I will be able to use this to put ideas together that wouldn't normally be associated with one another.
As far as procrastination is concerned I really don't know how this can be turned around. Procrastination for me is a lack of focus and sometimes confidence. I'm not sure if I can come up with a workable solution and will sometimes have a fear that what I do won't be good enough so rather than putting myself out there and just trying I leave it to the last minute or avoid the situation all together. Hopefully working on my confidence will help with this and allow me to be more assertive.
Being stubborn is also an interesting trait. Sometimes my tendency to not give up on something has gotten me into trouble. I push to much for something I want and drive other people crazy or I refuse to give up if there is something I don't agree with. Though this personality trait tends to drive other people crazy I think I just need to find a better way of harnessing this power for good and not evil. :) Stubbornness means that I can be quite competitive and when someone is wronged I won't give up until the situation is fixed. This can be very good as long as I know when a situation is "hopeless" and my continuing to push will just cause more issue than it fixes. Balance is something I need to work on in order to make my stubborn nature a little easier to take. If I find something that I really want I do not give up and taking no for an answer is not something that comes easy to me but it needs to be something that I am really passionate about. Once I believe in something there is nothing and no one that will change my mind. With the confidence I am building I should be able to be more assertive in going after what I would like but I hope that this does not also mean that I will have blinders on to when there is a "lost cause". I suppose in short I would like "the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." I guess when it comes down to it that's what we're all trying to do.
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