Week 7

Hope everyone enjoyed the class from this past week! Amy and I really wanted to challenge you all to take into consideration your areas of strength and weakness for the different values outlined in the chapter. Everyone did a really great job of critically thinking about each value and comparing it to the others. They were also asked to base their decision on what value they thought of as their strength and weakness on the ways their role model expressed these values.

When I was asking myself to pick out my areas of strength and weakness among the values from the chapter, it was a very hard decision. I felt that there were different levels of strength and weakness I had for each value. My opinion also was affected when I thought about how my role model expressed these different values. For instance, my mother is who I picked as my role model and when I think about how she has a sense of purpose throughout everything she does, it is much different to where I am in my sense of purpose for my daily life. I feel as though I have a sense of purpose and direction every day to a certain degree. But my mother has a much greater purpose and overall sense of knowing of how her day is going to progress and what she needs to accomplish. This is a prime example of how I can look at a value as a strength in one way, and then re evaluate it in a different perspective and realize that I still have certain weaknesses about it that I can improve.

I will always be learning and growing throughout my entire life so there is nothing wrong with taking a step back every once awhile to re evaluate yourself and make necessary alterations to become stronger in areas needed. As peer mentors, we can guide our mentees into helping them discover their strengths and weaknesses as they venture into college. Hope you all learned a lot from this chapter and activity!