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Essay On Personal Strengths And Challenges

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As an educational leader, being able to recognize my own strengths and challenges can help me to become a better individual in anything I choose to do, whether it is a positive ability or skills that can help achieve my goals or negative personal areas that I need improvement in. Knowing yourself and what you can do, can help you recognize and overcome your biggest challenges in no matter what field of work you choose to be in. Everyone is embedded with things that make them unique. As an educational leader, it is important that through our strengths and challenges, we each bring something new, creative, and different to the workplace environment. This brings me to discuss my biggest personal strengths and biggest challenges that I will face as an educational leader as well as my everyday living. Personal strengths are very important in personal growth and development because they are the attributes that define us as individuals. Personal strengths are areas where we tend to excel, and seem to express above average. Knowing your personal strengths can help you create something remarkable while making it look like it’s almost effortless. Personal challenges are what makes life interesting as well as overcoming these challenges is what makes this challenge more meaningful. At times in life we all face personal challenges. It is how we deal with these challenges that can help us to learn from them. Whether large or small, it is often through these challenges that a sense

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