Sunday, April 27, 2008
On 23 April 2008 I have my LMS lesson on self awareness and self –esteem. My teacher, Mrs. Esther wants us to set up a blog and discuss about our LMS journey. This is my first time doing a blog and this is also my FIRST BLOG .
Through the discussion on self-awareness I found out that in order to get along with the people around u .You must have a better understand of yourself before u can truly understand your friend , family members and the people working around you .Self –awareness is having a clear understanding of yourself, it helps me to understand my strength , weaknesses and thinking. In order to enhance on my self –awareness I need to be more open, do more reflection, and accept feedback from people. Through today lesson on self –awareness I found out that I am a cheerful, friendly, responsible, helpful, outgoing person.
-Cheerful because whenever I see my friend laugh I will also follow without knowing the reason what they are laughing for, so many people call me crazy.
-Responsible because whenever work is given to me I will hand it up on time.
-Helpful person because I will help my friend whenever they are in need. eg. I am better in my math and principle of account so I will help my friends who are weak in these subjects.
-I believe everyone have a common fear which happen every time when it is the first day of school , we are afraid that we will not have any friends in the class and whether our classmate are friendly or not ? I thought I will take a long time to get along with my friends like my secondary school . But surprising in poly everyone is so friendly and open , within a day I get to know all my girls classmate and can get along with some of them and within a week they give me a nickname which they call ‘auntie ’. sob sob . From this i can tell that i am an outgoing person
I am not totally perfect so I will also have my own weaknesses and through the lesson i found out my weakness-not physical fit, not adventurous, indecisive, stubborn and LAZY.
-Indecisive because I cannot make my own decision I will always listen to what my parent want me to do .eg my cca and my secondary school was all chosen by my parent.
-I am quite a stubborn person because I will not listen to advise given by people and insist of doing things my own way. BUT all these weakness can be improve if I not physical fit I can do more exercise, try to be more decisive in whatever I do, be ready to accept feedback given by people and listen to their advice. Don’t be afraid to know our weakness and keep trying to improve them .REMEMBER NO ONE IS PERFECT IN THIS WORLD!!!
Secondly I will talk about self-esteem. If you are a high self –esteem person u are confident in yourself and can overcome problem easily .Whereas a person with low self-esteem will easily give up upon facing difficulties, and your happiness will be limited as compare to a person with self-esteem . I m a person with low self-esteem , I care about what other think of me , the way they look at me ,and I have a lot of negative thinking about myself eg. I am not slim. Whenever I go out with people prettier than me, it will lower down my confident so I am not willing to go out with them. (Not saying that the friends I mix with are not pretty). To me I think the factor that are lowering down my self-esteem will be my appearance, as stated just now I think that I m not slim , sensitive to the way people look at me ,…..but I think that these problem can be overcome if I can raise my self-esteem . In order to raise my self-esteem I must stop comparing myself to other people or my friends. I must strive to improve myself and stop criticizing myself. Think of my strength and not my weaknesses, through the exercise done in my LMS classes I found out some ways to deal with my negative thinking which I think is useful to me .One of it is the technique of anchoring – it make me recall about an event when I found myself confident and clam,it is the time when I were participation in the school nation parade and I were wearing my red cross uniform standing in the middle of the school parade square waiting for the commander to give his command . The whole school will be watching us so we have to look smart and confident, that is the time when I felt good about myself. Whenever I am feeling low or less confident I will recall that I was once a Red Cross cadet in Hougang secondary.
Lastly, I hope that through my LMS lesson I will build up my confident and slowly become a person with healthy self-esteem. I don’t want to become a person with very high self-esteem as u will tend to be overconfident and harder to get along. Self – esteem and self- awareness will help me to become a more successful person .I hope 5 years down the road; people will remember me as a cheerful, happy, confident person and not someone with low self-esteem who is not confident in whatever I do.
The only obstacles that i have to overcome is ''myself'', if i can stop looking down on myself and have more confident those problem which i think is a problem would not be a problem anymore ,as there is a saying that say ''the only enemy is yourself''. I cannot predict how different I will be in the future comparing to now but I will try my best to be a person with healthy self-esteem and self-awareness.
self-awareness & self-esteem/2:10 PM
