Skills Journal #4

So after thinking about my skills even more and trying to think about ways in which I can improve these things I have come to new realizations. I find that the most important thing that I need to do is try and truly change myself. I need to completely realize that the only way that I can change these things about myself is if I truly want the change to happen. This means that I need to be willing to be a better person when it comes to teamwork and that I need to want to stop being a procrastinator. By understanding this I feel that I finally can start and actually improve these skills for the better.

When it comes to Teamwork I found that the only way to try and make my wiki group really work is to try and let everyone have a say in every thing we do even the small things. I found that last week was just a week when my group was slacking off and they were making me angry. Since then though people have actually been contributing more. This however does not mean that everything is going perfectly. In fact there is still a huge communication problem. People in my group keep adding and deleting things without actually talking to anyone else before hand. This is a problem that I realized only causes more issues. So in order for me to try and improve the groups overall teamwork I proposed that before anything new is added we have a talk abut it and weather or not we truly need it. This worked a lot and in the end led to a group that communicates a lot better and overall improved the teamwork a lot. By communicating more with a group I found that my teamwork as a whole improved greatly but there were still a lot more improvements I could make to this area.

Time management is something that I have been thinking about a lot lately. I found that by understanding that I need to change my procrastinating habits that now I am more willing to change them. I think that I now have a state of mind in which I now truly am willing to change. Hopefully as this year progresses and we get more assignments I will start to be able to see how I truly have progressed.

Skills Journal #3

After this last week I found that a lot of things have happened to both my Teamwork skills and my Time management skills. I found that my original plans around these skills would not work but after trying them and also just being around situations when I needed to use these skills more that I had a lot more things that I would have to do in order to truly improve these things.

To begin with I found that have a group wiki is something that really bothers me. I found again why I hate groups so much and why teamwork is something that I really lack. The main problem is that my group is very dysfunctional. We have one person who thinks that she should do everything herself and then two people who never even do any work. I found that in order for us to try and get anything done that I had to try and bring order. I tired many times to make people do work and try and share responsibilities but when it came down to it still nobody would listen. So as of right now I am a little lost about how to try and fix this problem. 

Time management was something that also kind of fell apart. I set down my plan to try and do work each night but I found that I just never did any of it. I would still put things off till the last minute and turn in work that I know could have been better. It was so bad that I was up all night until 11:57 writing an essay that was due at 11:59. I found that it is a lot harder to try and change this procrastinating problem of mine then I originally thought it would be. I think that I still have a lot more planning to do if I truly do want to try and improve myself at this skill.

Overall after first planing out how I would improve in these two areas I found that I still have a lot of problems that will need  a lot more planing to fix. I think that I need to think about these things a lot more before I actually do try and improve these skills.

Skills Journal #2

After thinking about how I would improve in my two skills for awhile I came to many conclusion about how to improve myself in both Time management and in Teamwork. For teamwork I find it a little harder to try and improve this skill until I actually am in a environment where I need to use teamwork. We were however assigned a wiki group in which I know I will need to start using my teamwork skills more. For this I think the ways I will start and try to improve this is through trying to listen more to other people's idea and not just thinking my way is always the best way. I hopefully will be able to try and use these skills soon. For Time management I found that there are many factors to consider when it comes to this. I found that for me that to try and create a schedule in which I can put time aside for school work is the best plan. Because I don't really have any out of school activities I believe that it will be very easy to try and just set aside a few hours a day just to work on studying and homework assignments. So what I have decided to do is try and set aside 1 hour each day to just studying and doing homework and then when a test or project is due I will set aside even more time in order to make sure I get my work done in a more timely manner.

Skills Journal #1

Terry assigned us the task of writing this Journal about certain skills that we think we need to improve in. After looking over the list I decided to choose two of these skills that I feel would help benefit me the most in my life. These two skills are Time management and Teamwork. I picked time management because it has always been a problem for me. I find that I am a great student when it comes to studying and paying attention in class but when it comes to turning in assignments I find that I am a complete procrastinator. The other skill I chose to try and improve was teamwork. This is a problem that I have always had throughout my life as a student. I found that it has always been easier to do everything by myself because I find that it is usually better. I realize that teamwork is something that is very important not only in school but in all of life. That is why I chose to try and improve this about myself.