360 FEEDBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My initial reaction to the assessment was very docile and relaxed. I was not shocked by what my teammates selected, because I had already had somewhat of a similar ideal of myself about the challenge. I was not able to be as involved as I would have like to have been due to scheduling conflicts and my faulty ability to juggle multiple big projects at once. There was a major discrepancy between what I rated myself and how my teammates rated me. I believe that this discrepancy came from the fact that I was not able to truly open up to my teammates and reveal what I was capable up due to the fact that I was not able to be physically present for alot of the meetings which we had. I knew what I was capable of and knew my qualities but my team was not able to recognize that which cause a major gap in the two scores. I loved the experience of soliciting verbal feedback from my teammates. I think our inability to do this initially is one of the factors which lead to our shortcoming. One thing which i felt from my team was that we were afraid to insult anyone or step on anyone's toes. Therefore, everyone took some sort of a passive role and was not open as much as we should have been. I have a tough skin and am not really hurt or offended by much, so taking feedback from my teammates was relatively easy. It seemed as if they were still reluctant to be one hundred percent honest, with the exception of Jenny, but after we had a good dialogue flowing, everyone had opened up and was accepting of everyone's opinion. We MUST begin to practice this within BLF if we are ever to success in becoming the leaders in which we have the potential to be. It is critical because feedback is the only way we are able to evaluate ourselves unbiasedly. With the feedback I received from my  teammates, I plan to incorporate that into my daily life and especially into this next challenge.

Happiness

Describe 3 experiences or environments that have been a source of happiness for you. What about them made you happy and what impact did that source of happiness have on your life?


As of late, one thing which has made me extremely happy has been being with my girlfriend Kia. She and I have truly been through many ups and downs in the short eight months in which we have been dating, but I believe that she has shown me what it really means to love someone. She does make me angry and we fight at times, but in the end we are happy and that's what matters. This source of happiness has impacted me in such a way that I no longer have to look for something I was seeking. I found love and now I'm just looking to build upon that for the future. Another source of happiness i have found is simply being here on campus. I am ABSOLUTELY INFATUATED with The Ohio State University and all that it has to offer. When I look across campus, all I see is opportunity. There is so much that is capable of being accomplished and achieved and I am going to tackle it all! Being here and seeing all that OSU has to offer has made me strive for greatness and has encouraged me to take full advantage of every opportunity presented. Never turn down any opportunity, even the smallest ones, because you never know what one conversation could do for your life. I've learned so much about life from being here and I want to learn as much as i possibly can. The last experience I will discuss here which has been a source of happiness for me has been being in church. I am a Baptist who has attended New Salem Missionary Baptist Church my entire life. The feeling that I get when I listen to my pastor speak or the choir sing fills me with a joy which I can't describe. It's as if nothing can go wrong in the world and I am in a place of pure happiness. Church has definitely been a place of strength and peace for me. Recently, I have not been going as routinely as I have in the past, but I have started attending more regularly as of late and I am loving the happiness that I used to have all the time.