My number one character strength from today’s survey revealed that judgement was my number one traits. Frankly this doesn’t surprise me. I tend to weigh in every option I can when making a decision and choosing based on what will benefit the most while causing the least harm. This aligns with my third strongest trait, perspective. Friends of mine often ask for my opinion and help on counseling when they want to make decisions. Mediation comes easy to me this way, using my sense of judgement to make clear-conscience decisions. Going back to my scoring for authentic happiness with activities, finding meaning in things I do is most important to me. judgement plays into this for me since I feel like I don’t want to be wasting mine or anyone’s time when committing to decisions. This is what makes me want to analyze the most I can and make the best decision possible with the information presented to me.
In order to expand on the strength of judgement, I tried to use it to apply to one of my weaker traits. Self-regulation came 20th of 24. When answering questions about my discipline, focus, and resistance to temptation, I was fairly neutral, knowing that these skills I have in some departments but not all. In particular, I wanted to improve my self-regulation by managing my discipline, focus, and resistance with my sense of judgement.
I normally look at these shortcomings and dismiss them, telling myself that it is harmless or just a part of my character. Using the information from today’s lecture, I wanted to use my sense of judgement to the extreme, taking everything I do into consideration as to whether it will benefit from me or not and whether this is something that needs to be done to beat my shortcomings. With this ever-alert attitude, I was able to overcome procrastination and laziness, doing simple things like cleaning my room and getting over the attitude of wanting to skip rugby practice.
While this activity did help me beat those moments of weakness, it was tasking to over-analyze everything. But, when it was moderated to the things I don’t like doing but know need to be done, it helped me push myself to make better choices for my own benefit. This kind of attitude when it comes to basic chores and duties can help someone get their responsibilities done. It helped me and I would recommend it. It’s important to be honest with and ask ourselves, “Am I really helping myself by putting these things off? How much more time can I have to myself to do better things?” We may not want to do things in the moment but it helps build our character to work harder.
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A very good summary of who you are and what you do! It’s really interesting how all of your traits tie together and how you can use one to strengthen another, like judgment relating to your perspective trait and using judgment to work in self-regulation, which is also something I need to work on as well. In your opinion, can the relatively small decisions, like going to practice or cleaning, make a greater difference in the end than some might think?
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Absolutely, if we can’t even bother or bear to get through the little things, trying to get something big done becomes that much harder. Success in everyday activity means the world.
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