Well, to start off, honestly, I
picked the virtues I thought I obviously need to work on. I hope I have enough time to even make worthy progress but I'm working on managing my time for all this My first virtue is moderation.
Probably a lot of us have this as one of our virtues. Moderation is having a
healthy balance in life. You don’t play too much, you don’t work too much, and
you don’t overdo certain things you like. It’s pretty much having
self-discipline. When we live in the age of technology, phones, social media,
etc. it’s extremely hard not to get
distracted when doing homework. I try, I really do, but not enough. I need to
start organizing my life, get my act together, and really try to control how
long I take doing certain things—discipline myself to say when I’ve had enough
of something. I already do try to control myself and my time-management but it’s
going ok. If I improved this virtue I’d probably do my homework twice as fast.
I’d count how much time I waste when “doing” homework but that’s too much math
to do right now, and this is not math class. I plan to get better in my
moderation by turning off my phone and shoving it in a drawer when I get home
(I’m not even joking about this—it’s the only way), tracking how much time I take
while doing my work, and getting my family to help by telling me to stop being
distracted and such; even though they do that already but I’ll try hard to
listen to them now.
My second virtue is assertiveness.
I am an extremely shy person—especially in the classroom. This virtue is very
important because to be heard, loud and clear, you need to be assertive.
Assertiveness is the quality of being positive and confident; you express your
ideas to others and think worthy of yourself. In the world, I think it’s important
to be assertive and especially now in school. I mean it’s always been important
to participate in school but now it’s really getting stuff. I mean in Greek
geometry if I don’t participate, I’ll fail the class. I’m already certain I’m
probably going to fail—my participation history isn’t exactly the greatest. It’s
not that I am too lazy to participate, for me it’s just a scary thing to speak
up and say what you think, especially in class. I fear looking ridiculous, or
saying the wrong answer. Outside of class I am a little bit more assertive but
mostly with people I know really, really well or I’m comfortable with, and that
isn’t a lot. As assertive as I want to be, it’s hard. I’m going to start little
by little, first by participating a little more in classes, and then by always
raising my hand. Most of the time, I probably know the answer to what the
teacher is asking and I’m too much of a wimp to say but I’ll start trying now.
After all that, I’ll move on to speaking with other people more confidently and
improving my public speaking.
Lastly, I’m going to work on my
confidence/courage. Confidence is more about yourself. Confidence is when you have no
self-doubt, you rely in others, you feel sure of yourself, and have faith. I
plan to focus on my self-confidence—which is not the best. I want to work on
the confidence I show and have on myself. Confidence is really important because
it’s not only what you look like to others, but how you feel about yourself. I
think having confidence really affects your outlook on life and what kind of
energy you radiate (I sound like a hippy saying this but like I don’t how else
to say it). I also want to have courage since I feel like it ties into confidence but it's more about taking a chance. I want to have less fears than I do now and doing things I think I can't do but I can. The more confident I can
get, the better I can perform. Since I have very little confidence, I think less
of myself, therefore believe I can achieve little or have no determination to try new things. I
want to boost my confidence by talking good about myself (instead of insulting
myself whenever I get the chance); believing I can do certain things even when I’m
not so positive about them; and being confident by taking chances and trying
new things. I will also get help from my friends so when I am not so confident,
they boost it or tell me to stop being so negative about what I can do.
Me reassuring myself I did this correctly:
