I am good at interacting with people and choosing a communication style that does not demean or belittle subordinates. I have excellent organizational skills and need to focus on management rather than serving in behind the scene roles at events. Finding our motivators is the key to a healthy, happy, and successful lifestyle (Hartley, 2010). The ability to get people to work together to achieve a bigger goal is a key asset that is being under utilized in my current of life pursuits. When I have a cause to work for, I put everything into it and have the ability to inspire others to do the same. In my present position, I am unable to utilize these abilities and only have the opportunity to do so on rare occasions. In the future, I will spend more time of the working in areas where I can lead people and inspire them to accomplish larger goals. I will spend less time performing menial tasks that can the better be handled by someone who is better at them than myself. To spend my time doing tasks for which someone else would be better suited and ignoring my own strengths is not allowing me to live my life according to my best self-portrait.

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