Weakness
Posted 10-30-2009 at 06:07 PM by Cloudrunner
Today I had some interesting experiences, some mundane, others fairly spiritual. It started with me dream-walking last night and having some interesting conversations with some old animal friends. The message all rolled into one is that I've been too tied into the stresses of everyday life and have forgotten who I truly am. I know the steps I need to take to gain myself again, but it's not going to be an easy or simple road (you know sometimes this time of year sucks ...).
I have forgotten my name.
Then I had the pleasure to experience one of the most grueling job interviews of my career so far. Talk about being on the spot and nervous. 1.5 hours of non stop questions on my technical abilities and how I would handle certain situations. One word: INTENSE!
They asked a fairly common question, but one that I find that most people have trouble with (thankfully I've answered this question before): "What are your weaknesses?" One has to realize that this question is not a negative or fishing for where you are going to have troubles. This question, during a job interview, is entirely about whether or not you can recognize your short comings and turn them into something positive and use them to your advantage.
My response to this question was, "My main weakness is the fact that I have the attention span of a small rodent." As I explained to the interviewers though, this shortcoming of mine, while it can be detrimental at times, has taught me how to multi-task and how to organize a lot of things that are going on at one time and has enabled me to learn how to overcome the issue of being "swamped" to the point that I rarely feel that I am overloaded with work.
See what I did there?
They responded well to this response, as they did laugh at the rodent comment, and then told me, "Nice response!"
Which brings me to tonight's blog subject ... Can you truly take stock of your shortcomings and find a way to turn them into something positive and use them to your advantage? What are they? How do you use them?
The ability to take stock of yourself is one of those "lost" abilities that we humans general forgo and ignore. Unfortunately, by doing this, we lose a part of ourselves and are constantly searching for something to fill that hole that's left behind. If you understand not just your strengths, but your weaknesses as well and how to cope with them, then you are that much stronger.
This is true both in your everyday life, and your pagan / spiritual / religious life as well. How successful you are is entirely dependent on how well you can identify your weaknesses and faults and use them to your advantage.
Side note as well, The Noble Pagan also released our Pagan Sabbat (holiday) newsletter / magazine / publication / whatever you want to call it today. You can find it here:
The Noble Pagan Holiday Newsletter - Samhain 2009.
I leave you tonight with one last thought along these lines:
I have forgotten my name.
Then I had the pleasure to experience one of the most grueling job interviews of my career so far. Talk about being on the spot and nervous. 1.5 hours of non stop questions on my technical abilities and how I would handle certain situations. One word: INTENSE!
They asked a fairly common question, but one that I find that most people have trouble with (thankfully I've answered this question before): "What are your weaknesses?" One has to realize that this question is not a negative or fishing for where you are going to have troubles. This question, during a job interview, is entirely about whether or not you can recognize your short comings and turn them into something positive and use them to your advantage.
My response to this question was, "My main weakness is the fact that I have the attention span of a small rodent." As I explained to the interviewers though, this shortcoming of mine, while it can be detrimental at times, has taught me how to multi-task and how to organize a lot of things that are going on at one time and has enabled me to learn how to overcome the issue of being "swamped" to the point that I rarely feel that I am overloaded with work.
See what I did there?
They responded well to this response, as they did laugh at the rodent comment, and then told me, "Nice response!"
Which brings me to tonight's blog subject ... Can you truly take stock of your shortcomings and find a way to turn them into something positive and use them to your advantage? What are they? How do you use them?
The ability to take stock of yourself is one of those "lost" abilities that we humans general forgo and ignore. Unfortunately, by doing this, we lose a part of ourselves and are constantly searching for something to fill that hole that's left behind. If you understand not just your strengths, but your weaknesses as well and how to cope with them, then you are that much stronger.
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Originally Posted by Tim Jahn What separates the successful from the unsuccessful is the acknowledgement of weakness. Bring your weaknesses to the front of the line, acknowledge them, and learn from them. Think of them as a valuable tool rather than trash to take out. |
Side note as well, The Noble Pagan also released our Pagan Sabbat (holiday) newsletter / magazine / publication / whatever you want to call it today. You can find it here:
The Noble Pagan Holiday Newsletter - Samhain 2009.
I leave you tonight with one last thought along these lines:
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Originally Posted by Celtic Spider When all else fails and you have nothing left to lose ... there's always glitter. |
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LOL!
For the glitter post. Because amongst the unhappiest times ( even despairing) glitter ALWAYS brings a smile to my face ( I know I am truly dead on some level inside, the day that glitter and its happy cousins and counterparts in shiny canna get a glimpse or smile from me....).
Sweety you na forgotten ( I hope you get this message as Butterfly applies.....YOU need to figger out, identify and flow with WHICH stage though.....). You too STUBBORN to NA know who you are ( internal baseline...sometimes youthinkhardtoaccess) and wha na.
You gonna falter n flail (sucks to be hoomahn).
You doon MOSTLY what you need to. The missing parts? They letting you ( and I and everyone else) know ins subtle and indirect ways. Sometimes it there only channels.....ohh I got serious....so how about them Mariners (ha ha)......
at any rate it is late.............
*hugs*
No matter who you are, nor how dire your sitch is..... there is ALWAYS a whimsical ( solace) moment to be found in GLITTER.....
Thank you ( SOVERYMUCH) of reminding me ( us/menhubby) of them thar words......)
I R tiredz..............
I responde more (?) (maybe) when I na tired n distractimated....
C/S/Posted 10-31-2009 at 03:13 AM by CelticSpider
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Thank you dear. It's a long road, and I get to walk it. I realize I haven't *really* forgotten who I am, I've just lost some parts of *ME* that I need to recover is all.Posted 10-31-2009 at 06:58 AM by Cloudrunner -
I am reading this thread with interest. I have been so happy with my spiritual life and the associated external focus recently that I too have forgotten who *I* am. I have forgotten to work on myself, and that is the basis for all spiritual growth. I have gotten so tied up in the big picture and helping other people with their spirituality that I forgot the small picture, too.
Posted 10-31-2009 at 08:52 PM by kattdaida -
Hi
Hmmm, that is a fairly interesting experience and I hope you look more into it to discover maybe more about yourself/Dream.
Posted 11-01-2009 at 11:42 AM by SuperPie55555 -
A certain someone informed me not so long ago that I am an egg/caterpillar/cocoon/butterfly all vying to be finished first. That I know many things, but at the same time, I don't know anything. I would really like to figure out how to justify each part of me to the other to become a cognitive whole.
Any body got a magic wand they can wave? Not our kind of wand, but the Hollywood *poof* everything is perfect kind? I could really use one.
I get so freaking tired of trying to figure out who I truly am; magickally, personally, as a mother, wife and so on. Some days I have a good solid grip, I flow through my day, making mistakes, but able to handle them and stay sane. Then I have days like today, where I feel like warmed over @#!$, um, pooh, every little noise, action and emotion grates across the fabric of my mind like rocks in a blender. How do I find myself amidst this chaos? How do I calm the storm long enough to even decide to seek safe harbor, let alone set a course?
Here's my thought for the day: When black days begin to follow you home more than once a month, do you move? lock the door and draw the shades? or open the door, skewer the thing with your intellect and flush it down the toilet?
(I am not always this black, just have trouble with the lack of light in the Pacific NW.)Posted 11-04-2009 at 01:37 PM by JadeButterfly
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