Week 1

Hi!

  My name is Josh, and before I start, this is a quick note to whoever it may concern.

This is my blog, dedicated to the journal entry prompts and self-observations required by my course of study in the 8-week class, UC101 Momentum. 

  While the words in this blog are definitely my own, these posts are done at the prompting of my textbooks, so I can't take the credit for any clever or hard-hitting questions that I appear to be asking myself. Though I wish I could, since there are some really good ones in this book.

  Thank you, that is all. Now, let's get started.

 

Journal Entry 1

 

  In this activity, you will take an inventory of your personal strengths and weaknesses as revealed by your self-assessment questionnaire.

Cool. I'm ready when you are, book.

  1. In your journal, write the eight areas of self-assessment and record your scores for each:

Accepting personal responsibility: 70

Discovering self motivation: 58

Mastering self-management: 60

Employing interdependence: 42

Gaining self-awareness: 59

Adopting lifelong learning: 67

Developing emotional intelligence: 61

Believing in myself: 66

  2. Write about the areas on the self-assessment in which you had your highest scores.

By doing the self-assessment, I learned that I'm more personally responsible and confident in myself than I thought I was.

  I deeply believe (66) in my ability to learn the skills required (67) to succeed in life. At least I can manage (60) to not be too disappointed (61) that my scores weren't higher, and accept responsibility (70) for it.

  3. Write about the areas on the self-assessment in which you had your lowest scores.

I also learned that I'm less interdependent and self-aware than I expected.

  Maybe I wasn't paying attention to the fact (59) that I wasn't asking other people (42) about myself. 

I hope I can motivate myself (58) into doing better in those areas.

And that appears to be it for this week!

  That was kinda fun. I learned some new things about myself, that's for sure. I think I'll sign off this week with a quote from this textbook. And no, I don't know who Eugene F. Ware is.

"All glory comes from daring to begin."

Eugene F. Ware