My quest for an undergraduate degree began in August of 2008.I spent my first two years in college studying business and other random courses because I thought I wanted to be something that truly wasn’t the right fit for me. I always struggled as a student I just never found the interest in school like everyone else wanted me to. I always saw school as an easy task and I could just put off until the last minute. Some of my strengths include that I have a very strong work ethic and great communication skills. I have passion for literature it allows me to be somewhere mentally rather than physically. I can imagine myself as an actual character in that particular piece of work. I also have a passion for history because it allows me to learn about the past an envision my future. My communication skills might need to be refined so that I can be more focused when talking to large crowds. Recognizing my personal strengths wasn’t as simple as I thought. Knowing and understanding my skills, personality traits, and job qualities is a very important thing in today's work society. Once these characteristics are understood and identified, I then could begin to think about my weaknesses, which are generally more difficult to admit. The thing I loved about this class it focused more on my strengths as opposed to my weakness, which I thought, was ironic. Realizing my own weaknesses, and being able to admit them is the first step in creating a positive learning experience especially when that’s asked in an interview. While in my internship I could see myself as well as my team members assessing our strengths as opposed to weaknesses, it allowed us to the to focus on the positive and work better together. Resulting in a well-balanced learning team. Having a well-balanced learning experience is an important milestone in recognizing and building work ethics, skills, and improving known traits and qualities. Personal qualities, whether positive or negative, reflect ones strengths and weaknesses in many ways. My most important personal qualities are confidence and creativity. Confidence comes to me in many ways, mostly at the workplace through customer comments and satisfaction. My portfolio, my line of work, allows me to express myself in the workplace in ways that most people cannot in their jobs. My few years experience in this field allows me to be confident in my creative ability and succeed when challenged through the various internships I have attained. This does not only contribute to my creativity quality, but to the confidence as well when I get rewarded with commission or even a polite comment on my work and talent specialties. Having a confident and positive attitude at work can make personal morale raise it gave me the boost that I needed, which also benefits the people around you. Strengths can be defined in many different ways, but strengths involving knowledge-based skills that can be transferred from job to job can be the most important traits to strive for in the business world. I have always lacked perseverance, a lack of drive, and a general lack of self-pride. Never in my life have I felt that that the work I did would mean anything different completed or left half-done. This has been a characteristic of my life for many, many years. I cannot say I have worked my hardest this school year, but I can say I have not compromised my grades, and future, to what I have set for myself. During this course, I have learned that I have to observe myself and see myself from the outside to change myself and improve my leadership skills as an individual. Over a period of time I began to build up a sense of the things I liked doing and the things I perceived I am good at. I developed a comfort zone and if I got too far outside its boundaries I felt a certain amount of stress. Individual differences became obvious to me at an early age and my own unique behavior began to show and I gradually began to learn that everyone has a different characteristic that makes them who they are and that I should get to know those individuals so that we can work together to progress as a better team. All through my life and the lives of my classmates, we are continually letting others see how we behave and react in different situations. I learned in this course how to display that potential instead of hiding it and being afraid of getting judged. I was always told how confidence is gained by success and is diminished by failure, but sometimes my own understanding of myself was misplaced, I learned that at times I could become over-confident or under-confident in my own abilities. I learned that confidence comes from within and I learned to believe in myself and with this I gained my confidence and I’m working hard to maintain it. I have learned a lot from this course. I have learned to observe my behavior and myself before I do things that might hurt someone else’s feelings. Overall I am a more determined and confident leader then I was at the start of this course, I feel like my say does count and I do play a very important part in this world. I believe the need to get recognized for the work that I do and hence the need to being able to achieve higher and higher. These values particularly at the workplace keep me focused on my work and the desire to excel in what I do best. The aim is to achieve excellence in my work and at the same time stand up to my beliefs and believes in individuals being given the opportunity to make their own decisions.. As a person I am ambitious, industrious and very inquisitive. The things that motivate me to succeed would have to be my family. I pursue my goals and strive for excellence, I have a thirst for knowledge .I know that this journey is not going to be an easy one, I will be faced with several challenges and they will be tremendous amounts of pressure on me from everyone. I want to be a successful person. My top strengths include :Ideation, Achiever Strategic Input Intellection. With knowing these strengths allows me to grow even more and these can help me be an inspiration and guide for other people. Knowing my strengths has also gave me that extra boost of confidence as well as preparing me for interviews because I use them to my advantage. I have finally matured and now I am trying to correct all my mistakes. I find myself moving on to another path of my life I know that schooling will only get harder from here on out but I am ready to accept that challenge Learning never stops but that does not mean that it cannot be enjoyed. I hope that school will be a great building block in my future. I know in the past I have played around. I was once told that anyone who wants to be helped should be allowed that opportunity I am prepared with a new attitude and my understanding of the extreme importance of earning good grades to indicate my capacity to work responsibly; I assure you that I will never revert to the playful student I once was. . So overall as a student I have my work cut out for me but I am up for the challenge and will never quit, I wont be afraid to ask questions. So you can call me as a student a work in progress and I only plan on getting better from here on out. With graduation approaching I can truly say I am prepared to enter the workforce.