If I were to choose one of my greatest weaknesses, it would be my inability to do nothing. During my whole childhood, I have had a lot of free time activities. As the ambitious girl I am, I have therefore developed a great ability to organize my daily life and be effective. Undoubtedly, this has helped me significantly - I have a great discipline when it comes to starting with assignments in time, and I am never stressed in school. On the other hand, the "always being effective need" has some negative consequences as well: it comes with an inability not to be effective. An inability to do "nothing".
If I have spent a whole day without doing something in particular, I tend to become stressed. It's silly, because the majority of the population would find this relaxing.
In my opinion, it is extremely important to put the musts and organization away sometimes - and that is why I keep challenging myself to develop that. As an exchange student this coming year, I will do my very best to do "nothing" more regularly. Because "nothing" is actually something.
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Control
I am a person with a great control need. I have always been the one who takes lead, who organizes, who makes lists and who always has control. Today, I made a great progress: for the first time in my life, I was not the one to hand in a group assignment. Instead, I let my friend do it. I know that I can trust her, and I really respect her and find her ambitious and good in school. However, it was still a great challenge. To not have the control, not knowing everything, made me truly stressed.
Will I be able to let loose when I come to a new country? I hope so, and for the following two months, the time I have left here in Sweden before I travel, I will try to develop that side of me even further. It is extremely important to be able to trust your teammates, or else you won't be able to cooperate or be successful.
How do you do to practice letting loose and leaving control? I think one of the best ways is to do what I did today: challenging yourself by actually saying no to tasks and letting other people do them instead. Initially, it will be difficult, but you will be surprised when you see that the tasks still will be finished anyway, and hopefully, in an even better way than you expected.
Will I be able to let loose when I come to a new country? I hope so, and for the following two months, the time I have left here in Sweden before I travel, I will try to develop that side of me even further. It is extremely important to be able to trust your teammates, or else you won't be able to cooperate or be successful.
How do you do to practice letting loose and leaving control? I think one of the best ways is to do what I did today: challenging yourself by actually saying no to tasks and letting other people do them instead. Initially, it will be difficult, but you will be surprised when you see that the tasks still will be finished anyway, and hopefully, in an even better way than you expected.
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