Weaknesses

We made it home last night after fighting some crazy holiday drivers from Denver to Wichita.  I'm working on homework right now.  Yes, it is homework that's due today. But at least I don't have a whole week's worth of assignments to do today, see, there's the positive side on that...or maybe it's just me trying to deflect the thoughts you're thinking.  That yes, I did procrastinate on my homework, again. Surprise? Not hardly.

The assignment I'm working on right now is about listing my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats when it comes to my professional life in the hospitality industry.  The hardest part of the whole things, you guessed it, finding the words to explain my weaknesses.

Let's be real for a moment.  I don't think anyone likes to look at themselves and then share their weaknesses.  Hell, if anyone is like me, they'll try their best to ignore the weaknesses...which is bad guys, because then you never really acknowledge them and work on making them into strengths.


Here's me acknowledging some of my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities (things or events that could happen in the future) and threats (things that could discourage or make goals difficult to attain in the future) .

Strengths

* the ability to connect with guests
* the want to learn more

Weaknesses

* impatience
* looking at the negative things first
* getting emotional/taking things too seriously on the inside even though my face and attitude doesn't always show it.

Opportunities

* getting promoted to a managerial position at the current job I'm at
* getting hired at a hotel

Threats

* forgetfullness
* the inability to sit and/or stand without any movement for long hours

For me, it's disheartening when I look at my weaknesses and even my threats.  See things that I'm flawed in or in some cases I'm just terrible at makes it difficult to want to bring those things to the surface and give them the attention they need to make them less terrible.

It's something that needs to happen though because how else am I going to grow as a person and as an employee in the hospitality industry?  I can't continue to be the same person without looking and working on these things and expect greater things from myself in the end.

The final part of this assignment was to answer two questions.

What do I want?

How do I get it?

This assignment is basically about goals, and I mentioned in a post last week that I'm terrible at keeping myself on track with goals or I get way too obsessive over them.  But here's the thing, unless I set goals professionally for myself, I'm never going to realize my potential for greatness.  I know I can be great, but how am I measuring that?

I want is to have a bachelors degree in hotel management and at least an associates in restaurant management and culinary training.  I want to be in the lodging industry.

My course of action: continue to do well in school and learn the most that I can with my current job and future internships.

 To be honest and fair to what my heart is telling me, which is that I'm still unsure of what I really want to go after in terms of occupation, this is how I'm answering these two questions.  It's short and brief, but it's an objective to reach towards in the next coming years.  Now all I have to do is face my weaknesses head on and continue to do my best in everything that I do.