emyoungmeditationmatters

[emyoungmeditationmatters]

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths

My age ( 60++) and maturity are a strength in that compared to a younger individual I tend to possess greater self-confidence, motivation and determination.

I have been and still am self-employed for many years. This has helped build my time management skills, and overall my skills around paper work organization.

Enjoy helping and supporting others especially with most anything involving self-improvement and especially confidence building. I have run various life mentoring workshops (in my current business), and have spent time completing a diploma program as a Social Service Worker. I am currently organizing a supervisor for my work to fulfill requirements for membership to the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

Love learning new things and having meaningful debates and discussions especially with new people from cultures and backgrounds different from my own.

Weaknesses

Struggling from time to time with computer technology. I know enough to keep files, school work and business documents maintained but find introduction of new features to an existing software or platform seems to take me extra time to master and feel comfortable. I strive yearly to do at least some kind of refresher online course to build my computer skills.

Sometimes guilty of setting unrealistic expectation of how much I can reasonably get done in a set time. To do lists, are notoriously sometimes too long. My partner is a great sounding board, and when I feel I am cramming too much into a day, or weakened – I will check in and get some objective feedback around how realistic my to do list is for that moment in time,

Sometimes struggle to delegate tasks, that are better completed, and managed by others. Similar strategy as mentioned previously, my partner is a very good sounding board, and at reminding me to leave time for myself by doing a better job delegating to others.