Describe 5 of your strengths:
I think I'm pretty good at being empathetic. I kind of hate it sometimes because 'I just have a lot of feelings'. ;) I don't love reading the news for this reason because I just have this super real desire to go hug all these people who have been hurt by someone else or who made the choices that hurt other people. (For example: Matt and I just saw Captain Phillips for a date last week, and I still wake up in the middle of the night and feel so sick for the poor Simali man who was the only pirate that survived and was sent to prison. I feel sick for the younger pirate that was killed in order to save Captain Phillips, and I feel so tender for Captain Phillips and having to live through seeing what he did and being treated the way he was. That'd be so emotionally traumatizing!! Oh my word. I seriously couldn't sleep the night we watched it because I was feeling all these mixed emotions about it all. I'm not kidding, I literally couldn't stop feeling awful for them all until I said a prayer for them. Cheesy maybe, but hey. Heavenly Father still cares about them and it made me feel a little better. :p )
I mean, I even get way too invested in feeling bad for fictional characters when I read books or watch movies. I'm pretty positive it's gotten more intense since I found out I was pregnant. I can't decide if that's the hormones, or if realizing you're going to have a little piece of you walking around outside your body changes your perspective on everything. :)
I'm good at smiling. (Usually. I guess I should say I can be. :p I hope I still come across that way even when I'm sick and grumpy on the inside.) When I worked at Bryce Canyon some of my co-workers kind of made fun of me for being so smiley and nice to the customers. But I really enjoyed feeling like maybe I made a difference in their day by being happy. I'm telling you, it's contagious. It's pretty fun to watch it spread.
I haven't always been good at this, but I've learned to be good at apologizing. (Haha. Which might just go to show that I have far more weaknesses than strengths that I've always got to be saying sorry for. ;p)
It's pretty amazing what a genuinely spoken two words can do for a tense situation. Apologizing doesn't erase everything, but it does go a long way.
I really can't think of anything else right now so for the last two I'll tell you what I'm working on and hope to make into strengths. Deal? Deal.
I want to be good at letting people learn. My mom is awesome at letting us do things for ourselves and learn hands on. I know for a fact that it's much easier to do things yourself rather than wait for someone to figure it out on their own- but I want to be the kind of person who is a good teacher because I let others figure things out for themselves. (Especially as a mother.)
I want to make seeing the good in everything one of my strengths. I think I was onto this concept a little bit when I worked at Bryce, I had a pretty darn good attitude the majority of the time. Then I got sucked into the little things in life and forgot that it takes effort for me to be positive. :p So I'm working on making that comeback. Don't you always appreciate running into people who are kind and positive and only have good things to say about everyone and everything? It's refreshing. I think it's kind of the same as smiling, being positive is contagious and I want to be someone who starts a little bit of sunshine going around. :)
I think I'm pretty good at being empathetic. I kind of hate it sometimes because 'I just have a lot of feelings'. ;) I don't love reading the news for this reason because I just have this super real desire to go hug all these people who have been hurt by someone else or who made the choices that hurt other people. (For example: Matt and I just saw Captain Phillips for a date last week, and I still wake up in the middle of the night and feel so sick for the poor Simali man who was the only pirate that survived and was sent to prison. I feel sick for the younger pirate that was killed in order to save Captain Phillips, and I feel so tender for Captain Phillips and having to live through seeing what he did and being treated the way he was. That'd be so emotionally traumatizing!! Oh my word. I seriously couldn't sleep the night we watched it because I was feeling all these mixed emotions about it all. I'm not kidding, I literally couldn't stop feeling awful for them all until I said a prayer for them. Cheesy maybe, but hey. Heavenly Father still cares about them and it made me feel a little better. :p )
I mean, I even get way too invested in feeling bad for fictional characters when I read books or watch movies. I'm pretty positive it's gotten more intense since I found out I was pregnant. I can't decide if that's the hormones, or if realizing you're going to have a little piece of you walking around outside your body changes your perspective on everything. :)
I'm good at smiling. (Usually. I guess I should say I can be. :p I hope I still come across that way even when I'm sick and grumpy on the inside.) When I worked at Bryce Canyon some of my co-workers kind of made fun of me for being so smiley and nice to the customers. But I really enjoyed feeling like maybe I made a difference in their day by being happy. I'm telling you, it's contagious. It's pretty fun to watch it spread.
I haven't always been good at this, but I've learned to be good at apologizing. (Haha. Which might just go to show that I have far more weaknesses than strengths that I've always got to be saying sorry for. ;p)
It's pretty amazing what a genuinely spoken two words can do for a tense situation. Apologizing doesn't erase everything, but it does go a long way.
I really can't think of anything else right now so for the last two I'll tell you what I'm working on and hope to make into strengths. Deal? Deal.
I want to be good at letting people learn. My mom is awesome at letting us do things for ourselves and learn hands on. I know for a fact that it's much easier to do things yourself rather than wait for someone to figure it out on their own- but I want to be the kind of person who is a good teacher because I let others figure things out for themselves. (Especially as a mother.)
I want to make seeing the good in everything one of my strengths. I think I was onto this concept a little bit when I worked at Bryce, I had a pretty darn good attitude the majority of the time. Then I got sucked into the little things in life and forgot that it takes effort for me to be positive. :p So I'm working on making that comeback. Don't you always appreciate running into people who are kind and positive and only have good things to say about everyone and everything? It's refreshing. I think it's kind of the same as smiling, being positive is contagious and I want to be someone who starts a little bit of sunshine going around. :)
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