Weakness and strength. Yin and yang. Good and evil. Where one positive force can be found, there is sure to be an opposing force also. This is, and has always been the way of nature.
I shall talk about one of my weaknesses first. According to the MBTI personality test, my personality type is INFP. The letters stand for introvert, intuitive, feeling, and prospecting. The opposite of those letters are extrovert, observant, thinking, and judging.
The letter P in my personality type in conjunction with the letter I contribute to one weakness of mine that I'm trying so much to amend. The weakness is the fact that I plan almost nothing. I'm not really a long term planner. I just live life moment by moment and take it all in. And while this is generally not a bad thing, it doesn't allow for optimal work productivity. Any work I know I should do but don't feel like doing suffers because my personality type generally enjoys doing only things we fancy and enjoy. As a result, work mostly suffers in my hand, particularly work I don't really want to do, seven if I know I should.
I've been trying my best to infuse some scheduling in my life to correct this flaw a bit. Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love my personality and the idea of having fun and living life one moment at a time. However, I have also come to the bitter realization that life doesn't really offer such up on a platter of gold and sometimes, I'll have to do things I don't particularly enjoy till I get free to do what I really do enjoy. It is to this effect that I have got a to-do list going. I even got a sticky notes app on the phone's homescreen. All of this is in an effort to try to be more organized.
Of course, I fall off a lot and miss some activities on some days, but I've noticed some improvement. And I figure half bread is better than none, right?
On to my strength. I am very intuitive and creative. I am a musician and this strength plays helps me create new music originally composed by me. And I am very proud of my creations. I also write. Everything from poems, songs, articles, and blog posts. I do a lot of freelance writing. My creativity injects a special life into each one of my write-ups so that they are all unique individually. This strength helps me to have meaningful conversations with people. I also come up with dance choreographies in my head for fun sometimes. Overall, I am good at coming up with new and fresh ideas for ideas. It's executing the ideas that is the actual work.
I spent more time talking about the weakness because I feel like most people try to ignore their weaknesses and I feel it shouldn't be so. If we become conscious of our weaknesses, then we can begin the active duty of fixing them. This would ultimately make us better people. After all, aren't we all works in progress?
