Self-Analysis

Self-analysis is the key step in assessing your own self to   navigate your career. It's your ability to reflect and articulate your values, interests, abilities and personality preferences. Your responses are the criteria that you use to evaluate the pros and cons of your future.

This activity provides the opportunity to discover where a person's true interests, talents, values and abilities lie. Gathering this information it gets easier to determining a satisfying career in life. It is also helpful when creating goals and understanding one's personality.

This exercise should be done on regular basis every few months, as it can assist in determining whether you are on the right track or not. As a student self-assessment aids in the learning process for it can assist students in realizing, learning and rectifying from their past mistakes, identifying their strengths and well as weaknesses. Participating in such an exercise can help to determine what factors should be considered for improvement. ` 

To perform a self-assessment, it is necessary to ask questions that give us an honest answer to determine why a certain reaction to a situation occurred and if it was the best way to react.

Here are some things to consider that give this exercise a solid impact:

1.Distractions that keep you from special moments with special people. – Pay attention to the little things, because when you really miss someone you miss the little things the most, like just laughing together.  Go for long walks.  Indulge in great conversations. 

2.Compulsive busyness. – Schedule time every day to not be busy.  Have dedicated downtime – clear points in the day to reflect, rest, and recharge.  Don’t fool yourself; you’re not so busy that you can’t afford a few minutes of sanity. Relax and chill. Focus on the positives, and soon the negatives will be harder to see.

3.Negative thinking about your current situation. – Life is like a mirror; we get the best results only when we smile.  So talk about positive things more than your problems.  Just because you’re struggling doesn’t mean you’re failing.  Remember that every success requires some type of struggle and hard work to get there.

4.The desire for everything you don’t have. – No, you won’t always get exactly what you want, but remember this:  There are lots of people who will never have what you have right now.  The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for.  Happiness never comes to those who don’t appreciate what they already have.

5.Comparing yourself to everyone else. – Social comparison is the thief of happiness.  You could spend a lifetime worrying about what others have, but it wouldn’t get you anything.

6.Thinking about who you were or what you had in the past. – You’re not the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago.  You’re always growing.  Experiences don’t stop.  That’s life.

7.Worrying about the mistakes you’ve made. – It’s okay if you’ve messed up; that’s how you get wiser.  Give yourself a break.  Don’t give up.  Great things take time, and you’re getting there.  Let your mistakes be your motivation, not your excuses.  Be very sure that negative experiences from your past won’t predict your future.

8.Worrying about what everyone thinks and says about you. – Don’t take things too personally, even if it seems personal.  Rarely do people do things because of you; they do things because of them.  You honestly can change your mood swings to decide how you react and who you choose to be around.

9.Self-deception. – Your life will improve only when you take small chances.  And the first and most difficult chance you can take is to be honest with yourself.

10.A life path that doesn’t feel right. – Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.  When you truly believe in what you’re doing, it shows, and it pays.  Success in life is for those who are excited about where they are going.  It’s about walking comfortably in your own shoes, in the direction of your dreams.

11.Those who insist on using and manipulating you. – What you allow is what will continue.  Give as much as you can, but don’t allow yourself to be used.  Listen to others closely, but don’t lose your own voice in the process.

12.All the fears holding you back. – Fear is a feeling, not a fact.  The best way to gain strength and self-confidence is to do what you’re afraid to do.  Dare to change and grow.  In the end, there is only one thing that makes a dream completely impossible to achieve: Lack of action based on the fear of failure.

13.Doubting and second-guessing yourself. – When in doubt just take the next small step.  Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

14.People who continuously dump on your dreams. – It’s better to be lonely than allow negative people and their opinions derail you from your destiny.  Don’t let others crush your dreams.  Do just once what they say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their negativity again.

15.Close-minded judgments. – Open your mind before you open your mouth.  Don’t hate what you don’t know.  The mind is like a parachute; it doesn’t work when it’s closed.

16.Other people’s mistakes and oversights. – Today, be tolerant of people’s mistakes and oversights.  Sometimes good people make bad choices.  It doesn’t mean they’re bad; it simply means they are human.

17.Resentment. – Kindness is not to be mistaken for weakness, nor forgiveness for acceptance.  It’s about knowing that resentment is not on the path to happiness.  Remember, you don’t forgive people because you’re weak. You forgive them because you’re strong enough to know that people make mistakes.

18.Don’t stress too much about the future, it hasn’t arrived.  Do your best to live now and make this present moment worth living

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.” ― Confucius