To me success is accomplishing all the goals that you have set for yourself in life.I must say
what worries me the most is my low self-esteem. I have been dealing with this all my life,
not being good enough, or smart enough. When I don't do my best, it really bothers me
because I feel like I should succeed at everything that I do. It is very important to understand
your own strengths and weaknesses because your strengths should always out-way your
weaknesses. When your weaknesses out-way your strengths then you sometimes have to
reconsider somethings. Your strengths say a lot about you. When you become self-aware
you know better and when you know better you do better in life. Having self-aware helps
you avoid some difficult things in life.I feel that having a good support system in your life
helps you achieve your goal more easily. Having people like friends, family, and counsellors
help you get through things and difficult times in life, like being stressed, discouraged or
feeling down about something. Success for me is accomplishing and or completing the
things that I set out to do in my life. It does not have to be something someone would
consider major for it to be a success for me. Success for me is something as simple as going
to the grocery store on the day and time i said I would. Accomplishing that task is a good
feeling and once it is complete that is success is for me. However the most difficult part of
success for me is self-awareness. This is difficult for me because, I have always lived my
life according to what other people thought was good for me. This time around I believe I
will achieve success because I have a great support system that consist of family and a few
good friends. I feel they will help support me through the good time and bad especially
when I am doubting myself and wanting to give up. Also I have just recently got my
Professional Coding Certification and that has helped me to believe I can achieve success in
this program as well. I define success as being goal driven while maintaining a family
balance. I find myself consistently juggling many different hats (wife, mom, boss, now
student); it seems that my biggest struggles is trying to find the right formula for time
management. I often get lost in thought on how much more time I could be giving certain
things or how I could manage better, so much so that I lose more time than if I had just done
the task. I often lose sight of positive thinking so much that I stand in my own way. I believe
it is important to be honest about your flaws (at least with yourself) because, they exist. I
incorporate my strengths and weaknesses into my planning to avoid curveballs; this
especially helps with time management and helps to prevent me from losing my positive
thought. When I have a plan and things go according to it, my days feel lighter.I find that my
biggest resource that will be vital to my success is the support of my family and that my
profession lines up with my degree choice; it should be easy to go from work mind, to
student mind. Success is an accomplishment and the feeling of happiness and completing
something. To me I feel like completing my bachelor's degree is a success because it brings
me happiness and the since of completion. To have success for yourself it is anything that
you feel is an accomplishment that has been completed or obtained. Creating goals for
yourself and taking the right path to accomplish those goals even when it gets tough and
being able to stay strong and focused to complete them will lead you to success. I believe
the self-awareness and being positive would be the most difficult because it is hard to look
at yourself and deal with your flaws or negative qualities about yourself and when those
flaws and negative qualities do appear its hard to be positive about things. I am guilty of this
myself, but people throw pity parties for themselves and use it as an excuse not to succeed
or to give up. It is important to know your own strengths and weaknesses so you can learn to
build on the strengths and use them to your advantage and understand your weaknesses so
you don't allow them to bring you down. Knowing your strengths and weakness will help
you reach your goals by profiting off of your strengths and working through your
weaknesses, so they both work to your advantage. Resources that are vital to my success is
knowledge and support. Gaining knowledge whether academically or even knowledge from
a mentor is all beneficial to succeeding you can learn new things from anyone that can help
you succeed. Success comes a lot easier with the support of friends, family, or mentors they
help you through the bad times and give you advise when your unsure. I believe that there is
always someone their helping you reach your goals and succeed. I would define success as
happy with how your life is and what is going on around you. I agree with Shawn when he
says success is defined internally by each individual, I believe that you as a person are not
happy with your own path and the way things are going you will not feel the feeling of
success in your life. I find that self-esteem and positive thinking are the most difficult for
myself, due to the fact that when you grow up and you do not have that much self esteem in
the first place it is so much harder to get that good self-esteem back. Then you have positive
thinking, I have always been told if you think positive, positive things will happen. It is very
important to know your own strengths and weaknesses because you can work on them if
need be and fix them so you can become more self-aware of your own success and be
everything you want to be. Like i just stated being self-aware will help you reach your goals
because you will know what doesn't feel right and what does so you will reach your goal
faster and more efficient. The resources that I believe sre vital for my success are definitely
my support system, as well as mentors because if I do not have them then I can not fall back
on anything for advice or any help needed. I define success as a feeling of being satisfied
with where my life is and the course it is on. I believe that success is defined internally by
each individual. Therefore, the way I define my own success may be different from the way
each other person defines their own. Considering the ingredients for success, I believe the
two most challenging for me are self-esteem and positive thinking. I tend to be very hard on
myself when I make mistakes or don't understand something that I think I should. However,
knowing this, I am more willing to ask for help if I cannot find the answer myself;
improving my positive thinking, and thus improving my self-esteem. It is important for me
to know my strengths and weaknesses for many reasons. If I know what I am good at,
sometimes I can use that to improve where I am weak. Concurrently, if I know where I am
weak, I can work to improve myself. I would define success as being very personal
depending on your own morals and ethics. Success is having the ability to complete any
goals created for yourself. As well as having self-satisfaction with the things you have
accomplished overall in your life or just within that moment. I feel like being self- aware,
having self-direction, and having self-esteem all play a part in self-control. Having control
over these ingredients just proves to self that you can be successful in the first place. But
sometimes being positive can be a test for me, because I can control that within myself just
not with others. Therefore, it is important to understand your own strengths and weaknesses.
With me recognizing these specific traits within myself I can set boundaries on certain
situation or people just to protect myself. If I am aware of the things, I need more
improvement on I can physically work towards it. This would be being self-aware which
helps provide more motivation towards accomplishing your goals. The resources that I
consider vital would be having support and mentors. Having a support system while trying
to accomplish goals goes a very long way just due to the physical and emotional journey that
may come along. But having a mentor is just as important due to receiving feedback from an
individual that have your best interest.
