AssignmEnt # 2

Your reflections/ insights on your personal traits test

We had taken a personal traits test (personality test) which would determine if we are business minded type of person. It’s a series of thirty two (32) items where in we should decide whether which of the given examples best describes us. It is only answerable by letters A and B. I remember some of the choices given where like this; I will blah blah blah, I wish to blah blah blah, some talks about friendship and most of the choices talks about money. I think most of my answers where about friendship. (My world revolves around friends, just kidding. I know it’s not always good but no man is an island, right? :p )

Well, after we finished the test, we are being asked to score our own sheets of paper. Sir Randy showed or provided us the guide of scoring, in the simplest term, the score sheet. The letters we had chosen has a corresponding remark of either zero (0), one (1) or two (2) depending on the question and of course, it depends with our answers. We summed it all up. I got thirty six. As a result of my choices, I had notice that I got eight zeros based on the given score sheet. Then, Sir Randy gave us the interpretation; not an entrepreneur, neutral, somewhat an entrepreneur and entrepreneur. I belong to neutral, still undecided and it’s up to me to come to a decision whether which part makes me comfortable, maybe taking the path of being an entrepreneur or the other way around.

After the class, I’ve come up to my senses. I would like to be an entrepreneur and I will need sufficient amount of money to put up a business. We could never start up a business without capital, right?

Money makes the world go round and when it comes to business, there are no exemptions; whether family, friends and whosoever. Business is business. It talks about money and how to increase it. It’s a cycle between money, I guessed. I’m always looking forward to put business on my own, but I realized that first I must set a boundary between friendship and business. (Friendship was the main reason why I remained neutral and the reason why I can’t be considered as an entrepreneur. Hohoho. But what can I do? That’s who I am). “Duty begins when friendship ends and friendship begins when duty ends.” It’s a military thought wherein friendship should not be distinguish in times of duty. I mean, when it comes to doing our works, we should never measure a persons worth. Business is not the same as camaraderie. Another thing, it is not about forgetting people you know, but there will always be some business rules to be followed, right?

It’s not about always following your heart, or following your mind either. It’s a combination of both. Being soft is not good in business, and being hard is not good specially when we are too strict and would not take any considerations about our employees. It should be equal, soft sometimes but not always and hard with particular reasons.

I think I’ve got what it takes to be an entrepreneur someday. I believe I can and I will. (Self Mastery). Hohohoh. Love love love. This is what we call “focus to your goal”. Hahaha. These were the traits I possessed and I should enhance which could help me follow the path to being an entrepreneur or technopreneur. (Level up!)

:P  fast learner ?

Maybe ? ! Hohoho. I’m still willing to learn more, gain more knowledge and apply it although high intellectual ability was not really needed to be a technopreneur. (Assuming)  We are learning everyday, right? Not because we are still a student but because it’s a part of everyone’s life. Learning is fun, because its fun, let’s make it a habit. Learn and learn some more. Like like like. We don’t need to be intelligent, we need to be wise.

:P  determined ?

I have it! Totally! The determination and the guts, determined to continue what I’d started. The one who does not even know the word “ quit ”. I do believe in the saying “ quitters never win and winners never quit ”. To achieve your goals, learn not to quit. This is the best way to spell QUIT, N – E - V - E - R - Q - U - I - T ! (en - ee - vi - ee - ahr - kyu - yu - ai - ti ) Keep moving forward. Go fight win. Hohoho.

:P desperate?

 Sometimes. If it involves the things I want and I love. I’m a desperate teenage girl. Hohoho. Desperate in the sense of doing everything I can just to achieve it as soon as possible. But I know my limitations; I will not do any acts that would harm others, easy to say, right? But I’m really doing the best things that I can do just to stay away from hurting others.

:P optimistic?

 Hell yeah. Even things go wrong, I could still see it as a challenge to improve my skills and do more. See problems as a blessing in which we are being tested. No problem is big enough for us not to face. Believe you can and you will. As if. Hohoho. Yet I know that sometimes, even a small problem would really cause me headache, heartache, wrist-ache, a little blood-loss and tears. Especially when it deals with the people who are important to me like family and close friends. Hohoho. I think I’m easy to be disappointed, sometimes stress and pressure make things worst. Hohoho. Now, where did I put my positive-ness? Hohoho. I can motivate, inspire and encourage others but the mere fact which I can’t erase is that it’s hard for me to motivate, inspire and encourage myself. But people could only see my happiness and inspires them to be like one. It’s the truth that lies behind the fake smiles I wear. But still, I’m optimistic in other person’s sight and I believe them. Besides, I’m not always sentimental. It would just appear if problem occurs, not dealing with studies but with friendship. Hohoho.

:P leader?

Since birth. Hohoho. “Leaders are born not made”. But I think I still need to improve it. “A good leader is a good follower”.  That was the best thought which was always given to us by our facilitator in high school dealing the characteristics about leadership. It means that you’re a leader if you know how to follow rules, if you could manage your people properly, if they follow you because you are respectable enough to be followed and to lead them, if you always look for everybody’s goodness and not just for yourself.

:P broad minded?

 I am open minded. It’s the same, right? I am open to every possibilities.  Simple or complex. Positive or negative. All are welcome. Hohoho.  Kidding. I know I could always listen to everybody’s suggestion and try to think the way how they think.

:p business - minded?

            I hope so. I know how to separate duties to other aspects. Like when a problem occurs in school, it should not be brought home coz school is a way different from home and vice versa. Is it enough to be called business minded?

:P assertive?

            I’ll try. I don’t know why but I know I’m a passive type of person which is bad. For example, allowing others to do the things to you which they don’t suppose to do. I don’t have the confidence to tell them they were wrong. Argh. Hate it. When I can’t even say a word when I’m depressed, I just don’t know how to express the things I want to utter. Sometimes I really wanted to shout out my agony, but I just couldn’t. I just face it alone. Hohoho. Now, when should I start this assertiveness? I don’t know yet. But hope I will, as soon as possible.

:P risk taker?

 Being an IT student is like risking your whole college life. Hohoho. Amen to that. In terms of work yes, we should be a risk taker but it must calculated.

:P noble?

            Yes! Of course. It’s being unselfish. Considerate, but we should consider the valid reasons only.

:P flexible?

 I’m adaptive to the changing environment. I could follow the latest trends but remain as I am. I could hang with different types of person. I’m thinking how could I relate to them, maybe we have similarities. Ahoho. I’m just an ordinary person like them. In terms of work, I think I can manage all that would be assigned to me. Applying this though, love the things you do. In that way, things get easier and faster coz you love what you do. Is it flexible enough?

:P friendly?

            I think so. Yet we could never find real ones in terms of business. We call them friends with benefits. That is business right? Symbiotic relationship which we could gain benefits to one another. It’s not a good thing especially in my age right now, it’s best to offer your help without expecting something in return. Do your best. But business is business so when we do something good, always expect something in return that could help you widen your business.

:P charismatic?

            Maybe. But I don’t know why my friends says I’m irresistible. Is it in the same thought as charismatic? Alluring? Charming? Hohoho. Humbly speaking, I just don’t know if these were true or maybe they are but I don’t’ have the confident to admit it. Hohoho.

Well, the personal traits test was given to know how well do we know ourselves, Self mastery as the first part of being a technopreneur. Maybe as of now I’m still confused on the things I want and I wish. Confused to what I would become after I graduate. I know I should be settled to things I will be sooner. I’m not a child anymore that when being asked what I would like to be in the future, I am only guessing and always changing my mind to what I like depending on the things which I saw on televisions and read on books.

I could still remember a line that was stated in the movie eclipse. It was a graduation speech. It goes like this:

“When we were 5, they asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up.  Our answers were things like astronaut, president, or in my case; a princess.

When we were 10, they asked again. We answered rockstar, cowboy, or in my case; a gold medalist.

But now that we’ve grown up they want a serious answer, well how about this?  ‘Who the hell knows?’

This isn’t the time to make hard and fast decisions; this is the time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stucked somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy because there’s no way we can make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again because nothing is permanent so make as many mistakes as you can. That way someday when they ask what we wanna be, we won’t have to guess; we’ll know.”

I don’t know why I loved that line but I could relate to it somehow. Life is not a matter of how many times we had succeeded but on how many times we failed and stand up again. That we don’t need to guess on what to become but instead we know what just to become.

Success is not a destiny, it’s a choice. It’s a matter of doing the things you think and believe what’s right. Nobody is ever gonna blame you when things go wrong, you only blame yourself. Hohoho. I mean, nobody is holding your future except yourself. Nothing is wrong when it comes to choice; we just need to face the consequences and fight for it. Do it yourself, it would be so great. I know I would succeed and I will.