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    Being able to critique oneself is especially difficult when attempting to pick out the flaws that need to be worked on. In my personal life, I have been able to capitalize on my weaknesses and turn them into strengths. For example, I used to be socially awkward and not be able to hold a conversation if my life depended on it. I have since joined Toastmasters, an organization that is determined to help its members achieve their goals, and have been able to overcome social anxiety as well as build

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    I had Gwen go into meeting as soon as she completed fit training. I gave her he weekly scorecard sheet and praised her for a wonderful FBC completion percentage. I had a made a note on there about that and also notated that she also needed to continue working hard on her DPO and add-on sales. I then gave Gwen her take a peek from the prior week. Her talk time average was 8:19 and her ACW average was 0:06. When she saw this she stated she was trying. I said yes, but we have to get it down. I then

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    The four different categories that NJHS looks for which are leadership, service, character and citizenship. These are many different goals of NJHS, that I show strengths in. As a world citizen of my community and my school, I have many strengths that would support the goals of leadership, service, character and citizenship. As a student I try to use these goals to guide my way through things and it clearly shows why I am a qualified candidate and student for NJHS. The first goal that NJHS supports

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    ¨Stay strong.Finish strong.¨ A phrase I hear constantly during track practice.It could be said just to encourage runners to hurry up and finish faster, but I use it on and off the track. When I was six years old, I was left in the care of my grandmother my mother had left me and my father stayed in California while my mom came back to Washington alone after she found out she was pregnant with me. At such a young age, I was confused and couldn't comprehend what was going on. Being the oldest child

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    “The strengths for me are adaptability, restoration, individualization, empathy, and relator. Adaptability is easy for me because I don’t like confrontation. I try to just go with whatever as long as it doesn’t threaten my children or myself. Growing up I just learned to avoid bad situations. If an environment is good I deal with it. If a situation is bad I deal with that as well. Restoration is what I’m dealing with now. I need to work on restoration for myself. I do seem to have good advice for

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    hope I become photographer. I hope I get married to my best friend, and have kids. I really hope that I don't loose any of my friends. (that I have now). I wish I get involved in the church again. I hope to travel to all kinds of places. Agency Strengths Over the past few years I've picked up a bunch of really good and useful skills. One of them is actively participating in small groups. And another one is helping boost other peoples lives, to keep them here. My friend says she's worthless and

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    my strongest trait and even explains why I have chosen to pursue my EHCM. I am at a point in my career where I am ready to take it the next level and I believe learning new skills and challenging myself will help me achieve my goal. Openness Strengths I scored highest in the Aesthetics and Fantasy Openness sub traits (See Figure 2). I am always drawn to the creative side of life. Music especially is very important to me; I go to every music festival and concert possible. It is important for

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    Strength is the emotional or mental qualities necessary with situations or events that distresses or is difficult. People use these qualities to excel in their workplace, home life and social life. In order to do this, you have to have a basic understanding of your strengths. Recently, I took a strengths finder to discover a little more about me. It gave me two statements and I picked if I strongly agree, agree or neutral, in 20 seconds. It was not an easy task. At the end of the finder, I found

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    The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places. Flowers grow back even after they are stepped on, and so will I. Is it better to be here or there? She is a Princess with the Strength of a Warrior I don’t even remember driving home that night, it was that kind of high. Not the good kind of high where you are happy and bubbly because life is great, but the one parents warn you about never doing. I’ll admit it. Yes, I smoked pot. It was not one of my smartest

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    leadership position is almost like being an idol (although an equal) to the other students and meant to bring the team to the top. What are my strengths that will improve dance team of 2015-2016? Strengths I have to improve the upcoming year would be the optimist outlooks, loyalty, adaptivity and understanding of others. I figure these are strong strengths because anyone can gain them and I wholeheartedly believe these qualities would allow

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