Self-Management and Goal Setting

This week in class we learned about self-management. I learned a lot from the presentation and the work leading up to the class. A part of self-management is goal setting, and for this class we created goals for ourselves and action steps to reach them.

I think goal setting is a great tool to motivate and a great way work towards achievements.  Goals are helpful in so many ways and I am a believer that they help people get to where they want to be. Goal setting is something that everyone should actively be doing.

I recently watched a TED talk on goal setting that was very interesting and beneficial. The speaker talks about the keys to setting and achieving goals and it is a helpful tool for anyone who needs motivation for goal setting. A favorite quote of mine from the talk is "You have to make the decision on what it is you want out of life. Because one thing I've learned is that if you don't decide what you want, someone else will make that decision for you." This is a powerful quote and drove the concept home for me. It truly shows that we need to be setting goals for ourselves and deciding what we want for ourselves. I hope this motivates others to set goals for themselves.

I have decided to share a few of my goals that I am trying to work on.

• Get a summer internship
• Make the dean's list this semester
• Work on saving money

Link to TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13MYY8qMWQg 

Personal Resilience

I started off this week not knowing much about personal resilience. I was familiar with the term but had never put much thought into what it really meant or how it affected my life. In preparation for our personal resilience class I took the quiz to determine my own resilience and I was surprised by my results. I took the quiz and came up with a low score  and I was surprised because on the document where the class was posting their results I noticed most of the scores were very high. After observing this I decided to take the quiz again to see if I missed something that was affecting my score. The second time I ended up with almost the exact same score, 55%.

I was confused why I was low but didn't take the time to think about it. However, from the in class lesson I learned a lot about myself and why my score was low. I learned that the things that make up being resilient are things that I am in fact bad at. A big part of resilience is adapting and that is something that I am resistant to. I don't like change and I'm someone who likes to stay inside my comfort zone. That definitely affects my ability to be resilient. I can sometimes also be dramatic and that can affect my ability to be resilient as well.  When I act dramatic it can make it harder to bounce back and not let things affect me since in my head I make them up to be a big deal. These are all things that I could work on in the future.

Learning about my personal resilience was very beneficial.  I am now able to move on from this and make it a goal to work on resilience. I have attached a link below to the personal resilience test I mentioned.

https://testyourself.psychtests.com/testid/2121

Personality Traits

This past week inn HMP 722 we had a class on personality traits. We learned a lot about ourselves and our traits by taking personality tests in preparation for this class. Learning about our traits and about ourselves will help us in the future when we move forward in our careers and onto management positions.

The two personality tests that we took were the Big Five test and the DISC test. They were both very interesting and it was cool to see the different results that they yielded.


The Big Five test was my favorite of the two tests. I felt my results were fairly accurate and I enjoyed reading what it had to say about my personality type. Below are my results.

According to these results I am very low in extraversion and high in conscientiousness. These are accurate because I am introverted and I am a conscientious person and it was interesting to see that those results came across through my answers for the test. However, one thing that struck me was that my agreeableness was fairly low at 20%. I consider myself to have the traits described in that category. I consider myself to be good natured and sympathetic and not rude and harsh. It was interesting to see that my results told me I was the latter.

The second test was the DISC test which I also found to be interesting. Below are my results. 
One thing I did not like about this test was the way that it ranked the different traits. If someone was very high in one area, by default they would have to be low in the others. According to this I am high in compliance so the other categories are much lower. For example I am very low in influence and that could have something to do with the other categories being so high.

Overall I found these tests to be beneficial so that I could learn more about myself and hopefully apply these findings to working in my future career.