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Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes looking within yourself for strength and confidence. The document provides guidance on conducting a self-assessment to identify your strengths and achievements in order to overcome weaknesses and achieve goals. It recommends listing at least six achievements in life areas like family, work, hobbies. Also identify positive and negative influences, and next steps for putting strengths into action. The self-assessment aims to help you value yourself and tackle challenges with confidence.
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- 1. What you've got going for you What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- 2. To put everything you've got going for you into action You need to assess where you shine and where you need polish knowing where your strength lies helps you take the next step valuing yourself gives the confidence to tackle things
- 3. Contents of your assessment your achievements positive and negative forces qualities and strengths your skills your qualifications your assertiveness audit confidence
- 4. What you've got going for you Remember: you have so many aspects of yourself that you could use to achieve your goals. Don't underestimate them, put them to work for you
- 5. Your achievements Wherever you are in life, you have behind you all your achievements and your failures too. You have before you your unfulfilled dreams and ambitions. Lists what achievements you are really proud of? at least SIX in your life, family, work, home, sports, hobbies, social, relationships, community, etc. What is there that u haven't yet achieved?
- 6. Positive and negative forces List all the forces helping you, whether inside you or outside you. Ask family, friends, colleagues, what they think also if you want their suggestions List what you think is holding you back. What deflects you, slows you down or even stops you. You'll have to work getting over them, but it's worth knowing what it is.
- 7. Next Steps of Action Keeping a second part for later, if this first part looks useful. This material was initially developed from Springboard © by L. Willis and J. Daisley (Womens Development Training Workshops)