Module 01 Assignment - Self-Assessment Pre-Test

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Module 01 Assignment – Self-Assessment Pre-Test Professor Mourad Your scores are as follows:  Accepting Personal Responsibility Score: 74  Discovering Self-Motivation Score: 70  Mastering Self-Management Score: 73  Employing Interdependence Score: 40  Gaining Self-Awareness Score: 60  Adopting Lifelong Learning Score: 73  Developing Emotional Intelligence Score: 65  Believing in Myself Score: 78 A score of...  0-39 indicates an area where your choices will seldom keep you on course.  40-63 indicates an area where your choices will sometimes keep you on course.  64-80 indicates an area where your choices will usually keep you on course.

My Response: By doing the self-assessment, I learned that I am very confident when it comes to believing in myself. Between 2019 and 2022, I have gone through quite a bit of trauma due to some unfortunate situations. In those situations, I was not in a good position physically or mentally. These situations, ‘woke’ me up, and I became aware of myself and the position I was in. I began to focus on myself, what I want for myself, and grow into who I want to be. As of now, I am physically healthier, in the best mental health head space than ever before, and I know my short- term and long-term goals for my life. I am confident in who I am now, and I’ll never go back to where I was before. I also learned that I am great at accepting personal responsibility. This is something my stepdad has ingrained in my head since he met my mom. He stepped up as my father and began teaching me valuable lessons. As a young child, I habitually blamed others around me for my bad luck or situations I put myself in. He helped me learn this was not anyone else’s fault but my own. He was never rude about it, but he ensured I was aware by parenting me in a way my mother, grandparents, or father couldn’t have. There was nothing wrong with them, my stepdad parents in an alternative way that I prefer. My blood family was and still is, a very angry, toxic environment to be in. My stepdad is someone who I’ll never forget, nor will I fail to realize the mass of respect I have for him. By doing the self-assessment, I also learned that I have weaknesses in employing interdependence and gaining self-awareness. My weakness in employing interdependence is something I was aware of. It is something I have struggled with since I started school as well as in the workforce. Whenever I would ask a question in elementary school, the kids would tease me for asking. My family would make it seem like an inconvenience if I asked a question as well. After many different times of this happening, I feel an inconvenienced feeling very often when asking others, a question or asking others for assistance with something. My husband was my best friend since I was in eighth grade. We met when I was accepted into the high school marching band. They allowed eighth graders from our two middle schools to march. He became my best friend and watched over me. I say watched over me because he is much taller than me, almost a foot taller! He has always been very protective of me and helped me with anything I needed. With him, I never felt I was an inconvenience. It felt natural to ask versus having some form of anxiety asking. Over the past two years of us being together, I have learned to ask for help from others besides him. He has helped me learn I am not an inconvenience and if I need help, then I need help. He taught me, “It’s never a nuisance to ask for assistance.” Although I still struggle with it, I am slowly growing that part of me. I have gone out of my way to make calls for assistance or ask my family when I need someone to talk to. It may not seem like I have from the score, but I have noticed I am growing that skill. Gaining self-awareness is something I recently started to work on. I was primarily raised by my grandparents. My grandfather is a retired SFC from the U.S. Army and was raised during a time where men shouldn’t have shown emotion. Growing up with my older brother, he taught us both the same. It has caused me lots of trouble controlling my emotions or understanding why I feel a certain way. I was diagnosed with genetic BD, Bipolar Disorder. This disorder makes controlling my emotions difficult as I feel anger and sadness strongly. I began taking a medication recently that has opened my eyes to the way I behave. With bi-weekly therapy and psychiatric appointments, I have discovered skills to

better understand my thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. These skills include keeping a journal of my emotions and what may have caused me to have them, having my husband inform me if I begin having a mood change, or even correcting me when I am in a drastic mood change. Mostly those mood changes are anger-related. I become easily irritated and from there if I don’t calm it done, I have an explosion. An explosion is where I just snap and say whatever comes into my mind. That is whether I mean it or not. It’s impacted my relationship with him a couple of times, so I wanted to better myself. I now know how to communicate with others when I am becoming frustrated or if I become overstimulated. I can calm myself down once I begin to talk or vent to someone. I will continue to improve this by talking to someone about the way I feel, visiting my therapist, and visiting my psychiatrist.

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