Assessing myself to find my strengths

((Ice breaker!)) This is the first blog post of the third year where I'll be working my way up to getting my degree in Creative Media and Visual Communication. Bit of a mouthful isn't it!

Monday 24th was the first official day back with our new tutors Paolo and Johnny.

Paolo's lesson consisted of various students from different pathways - i.e) New Media, Graphic Design, Photography, Film and T.V, Radio and Animation (which included myself) and after the cheesy "my name is Donna and I...yadda yadda" we were each asked to draw up a circle and split it into categories of what we feel have the most importance in our lives. These categories were:

Family, friends, loved ones (relationship)
Health
Finance
Career and education

I found this really hard, but right away i split the circle down the middle and gave 50% of it to family, friends, loved ones and relationship. I'm a firm believer that you can have all the money in the world and the most incredible job, but if you don't have loved ones then you're as poor as they come. I gave career and education 25% but of course this would be a lot higher and it would take the other 50% but I had to fit finance and health in there somewhere! Being ambitious and having goals is very important to me - I believe it makes us better people if we work towards something in life.

After that task we took a self-assesment questionnaire to help us find our strengths. My results told me that mine are social, which I'd agree with because I like to talk, I enjoy taking part in discussions, keeping a blog and a journal for myself. I like reflection.