Applying Signature Strengths Pt.2

Applying my strongest signature strength, kindness, to my task went semi-well for me. When planning to apply kindness, the task seemed so much simpler in my head. When Wednesday came around, I managed to listen to myself early in the day. I worked on my presentation but only got about halfway through it. Mid-way, I became lazy and decided to put the other half of my presentation off until tomorrow. I guess in that way, I was no longer being kind to myself. By putting it off until the next day, it added more weight to my shoulders and created more stress. After Wednesday night, everything went downhill. On Thursday, I began to work on the second half of my presentation. It took a lot longer than I expected it would take. I worked on this until 11, when the library closed. After finally finishing my presentation, I still had a paper to write. This took me about 4 hours and a nap in between. In the end, I didn't get to sleep until 4am. I was tired for my presentation, and I believe, if I were to have worked on the essay earlier, it would've turned out better. I think if I was more disciplined on applying my signature strength, things would've turned out better for me. 

Applying Signature Strengths

At first, I wasn't quite sure how to incorporate my strongest strength, kindness, into an upcoming task of mine. The definition of kindness, according to the strengths test website, is "doing favors and good deeds for others; taking care of them." My problem was that I didn't have any upcoming tasks that involved other people. So I decided to slightly tweak the definition and show kindness to myself. I did this by planning to make life a little easier on myself. My upcoming tasks are a paper and a presentation, both due Friday. Instead of procrastinating, I'm deciding to split the tasks up, giving a separate day to work on each one. By doing this, it helps me focus on both tasks separately. In that way, I'm relieving myself of stress, and getting the tasks done at the same time. In an odd type of way, preventing myself from procrastinating and actually getting my work done on time is an act of kindness towards myself. I hope that by applying this strength it will reduce my stress when it comes to assignments and overall make me a better person. I plan on further using this strategy and executing it not only in my schoolwork, but the rest of my life as well.