Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Strengths Finder

The past few weeks have been spent galavanting across the country between Colorado & Florida. It's been great, but I am happy to admit that it feels good to be back in Nashville. I've already spent an afternoon on my favorite porch in the company of good friends & I am excited for the prospects that this summer will bring in this city that I am growing to love. While I haven't done much of anything productive in my last few weeks on break from school, I completed my first assignment for my management & leadership class this summer. I took the strengths finder  to determine how we will work in groups for the collaborate assignments we will complete in school. Those who know me know that anything that seeks to decode the intricacies of human behavior, interaction, & functioning is very interesting to me, so I loved every minute of it. 

Between Myers-Briggs, love languages, and this strengths finder,
[all of which I looked at this week]
I'd say I've had a decent amount of time to reflect on who I am & who my friends are. 
I love it. It almost freaked me out how spot on it was.

Here's my top profile: 

Input

 Chances are good that you absorb all sorts of information from books, publications, or other written
materials. You display a voracious — that is, never fully satisfied — appetite for knowledge. You
devour the written word to savor useful facts. For you, a great day is one during which you have
added new insights to your mind’s storehouse of ideas. Driven by your talents, you acquire lots of new
words from your reading. Examining how each one is used in various sentences probably helps you
grasp multiple meanings. When the definition eludes you, you are apt to turn to the dictionary for
clarification. Your passion for the written word is not reserved for entertainment. You probably are as
eager to dive into complicated, technical, or subject-specific texts as you are to pick up best-selling
books or popular publications. It’s very likely that you simply cannot have too much information. It is
impossible. Like a miner searches for gold day after day, you continually collect new bits of
knowledge. Depending on your other talents, you can delve into one or two interesting topics, or you
can opt to know a little about a wide range of subjects. Your longing for knowledge is unlikely to be
satisfied until you are recognized by others as the ultimate expert in a field or the grand champion of
trivia. Instinctively, you find it easier to befriend people when they tell you what they want to
accomplish. Knowing that much, you probably read books, journals, newspapers, correspondence, or
Internet sites to broaden your knowledge about their interests. When you can share information that
helps people move closer to their goals, you understand each other better. By nature, you fill your
mind with new ideas by asking questions, reading, studying, observing, or listening. Normally, you
accumulate facts, data, stories, examples, or background information from the people you meet.
Determining what they want to accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years generally satisfies
your curiosity. These insights also allow you to understand why individuals behave they way they do
in different situations.

2. Intellection
3. Empathy
4. Learner
5. Ideation


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Whirlwind.

I've used the word whirlwind a lot,
 when describing my life lately. 
As I approached my undergraduate
graduation ceremony on Friday, 
I think deep down, I thought
 I would have a lot of questions answered. 
Questions like: 

[What's next?]
[Where am I going to live when my lease runs out?]
[What will my life look like this time next year?]

I realize it's been less than a week 
since I finished my undergraduate career, 
but the feelings of
relief,
anticipation, 
and excitement 
that I always thought I'd feel at this moment in time
are being overshadowed by 
uncertainty. 

It's easy for me to think "when
[insert life event] happens...I'll feel content." 
But as I stand on the other side of arguably one of the most 
monumental events in my life thus far, I think I'm
starting to realize that contentment transcends my emotions. 
It's a way of choosing to live. 

I don't know what's next. 
I don't know where I'll be living when my lease runs out.
&I don't know what my life will look like this time next year. 
But I do know what I am trying for, where my hope stands, and 
that I now have some freedom to enjoy the future. 

I am content with that. 



Thursday, November 17, 2011

1 month.


One month from yesterday things change for me.
I will step away from what I've been doing for the last 16 years.
I graduate college.

[Become an adult?]
Yikes!
Although I'm hoping to go back to school in the fall,
this is perhaps the most monumental milestone of my life
[thus far]
It's scary, exciting, stressful, relieving.
All I know is that it is nice to know that the purpose of my life is far from over.
When I get discouraged for a moment when people say that this is as good as it gets,
I have to remember:

He has made everything beautiful in its time. 
Also, he has put eternity into the hearts of men; 
yet they cannot fathom what God has done 
from beginning to end.

It's not over. It's just beginning.