If you are to check on a scale of 1-10 how far you are
performing in certain areas of your life, what is going to be your score in
these areas? A lot of us will not have a good enough reply for this question.
Self-evaluation is a way to know how well or badly you are
doing in areas that has to do with how your life progresses. You ask yourself
certain honest questions about yourself and also answer these questions
honestly. If you can do that, you will discover that you will be able to know
how you are progressing in life.
Here are certain important areas you should evaluate
yourself…
1. Ambition
You should definitely have a plan for your own life because
no one is going to help you live your live and by planning you are securing your
future. To evaluate yourself in the area of your ambition, you will watch out
for some certain things-
- Know what your ambition in life is. Ask yourself- “what do
I really want to do with my life”
- Know what your motivation is. What drives you to move on,
what makes you want to work and get results?
- Know what you focus on in your everyday life, that’s most
likely where your ambition lies.
With these few questions, you can know what your ambition is
and how far you have gone.
2. Achievements
Pick your notebook and list the number of things you have
achieved. Also list those things you will want to achieve and determine how far
you have gone towards getting these things done. Be true to yourself and make
sure you critically analyze your achievements. By doing this, you are helping
yourself know what you should be doing and what you should not concentrate on
per time.
3. Strength
You can do much more in certain areas than you can in some
but you cannot easily know what areas your strength lies if you don’t take time
to find out. Study yourself and know what you love to do, know where you
perform and function well. When you do this, you can know what strength you
need to develop more and where.
4. Leadership
This is one area that you should really look into while
evaluating yourself. Do you have natural qualities of a leader? Are you always
at the fore front of issues or do you do perform better as a follower? Ask
yourself and discover for yourself where you stand. While you might not be too
good as a leader, it is very ok to be a follower because we are humans and we
have various capacities where we function greatly and for some, leading is not
just it. Don’t blame yourself when you discover you are not a natural born
leader, you could do very well as a follower.
5. Persistence
Pushing yourself to do things is very good but you have to .
What’s your level of persistency? How often do you want to learn and how much
do you really wish to learn that thing? Are you persistent enough when it comes
to doing things? Are you really interested in pushing more and more until you
get results or you just back out when it starts getting tough?
Now ask yourself these questions and know in what areas you
find yourself persisting more and in what areas you most times relax.
6. Confidence
What level of confidence do you possess, and in what areas?
You can be very confident when it comes to certain things, but when it comes to
others, you find yourself stuttering. What areas have you built your
confidence? Building your confidence in a particular area is actually knowing quite
a lot about that area. So the fact that you are not confident in an area
doesn’t mean you cannot be confident in that area at all, it only means
stepping up your knowledge and ability in that area.
You can evaluate yourself by finding answers to these
questions alone, or you meet those you know that can assist you in getting the
answers. Sometimes, people know certain things about us more than we do and
they are sometimes more honest than we are in answering questions about ourselves.
So while you get your answers by yourself, you can also get answers from others
as well.
Note: Take a notebook, write down these areas and write down
your observations on each one. Follow up on your progress by doing this often.
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