January 1 was a special day. It was the deadline for my university application. University application, at its point of submission, especially the application essays, requires me to have done a great deal of self-reflection and self-awareness, while a new year is all about the beginning - new journey, new resolution. So the December 31 - January 1 period was spent on thinking about the future and setting new resolutions, on the premise of a solid new-found foundation called, the self-awareness.

The application process enables me to see myself more clearly, and including somethings that I was previously oblivious too. What I’ve learn about myself:

1. I have rather high level of efficacy, in the eyes of many - Something which I sometimes doubt about myself. It baffles me in disbelief that I was considered someone who will be successful in whatever endeavors that I chose to commit myself to. Nevertheless, I have more to learn and achieve.

2. I am an empiricist - It had occurred to me that some of my decisions and behaviours of the present, are influenced by my past. I wrote an essay about self-belief, after I did a survey and found that what is most distinctive about me is my self-belief. Subsequently I did quite a lot of soul-searching, and managed to decipher what self-belief really is - it is a sense of confidence that was generated because you had made an assumption previously, and it turned out to be true. On the other hand, if you made an assumption and it turns out to be oh-so-wrong, that spells self-doubt.

3. I had poor writing skills - By reading this blog, it is not difficult to see this person had a problem of putting things in a short and succinct way. This was first pointed out by Hazell, and I then started to pay attention to how I write when I realize she was so true.

Self-awareness gives me a true picture of who I am, my strengths, my weaknesses. By leveraging on strengths and addressing weaknesses, one will certainly live life to the fullest.