Reflective Essay: Development of Skills and Overcoming Challenges

This reflective essay explores the author's journey of skill development and the challenges encountered while pursuing personal and professional goals. The essay begins by emphasizing the importance of acquiring the right skill set to achieve objectives, drawing from the author's experiences and the realization that skill development is essential for success. It details the process of acquiring new skills, such as blog writing and management, highlighting the importance of analyzing successful models, and learning from mistakes. The essay also identifies the challenges faced, including the selection of appropriate skills, managing intuition, and the need to balance work and breaks. Finally, the author reflects on future goals, emphasizing continuous growth, improved teamwork, and enhanced communication skills, underscoring the value of lifelong learning and adaptability for professional and personal success.

Reflective essay.

Tables of content
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Development of my skills during my learning and how I developed my skills.......................4
Challenges that I faced during my journey towards my goals..................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflective writing is a practice that describes a real life experience. In essay type of reflection the
writer describes any imaginary or real life experience such as event, interactions, goals setting,
memory, thoughts. It encourages the writer to analyse and observe the experiences that they have
in their past. Reflective writing helps you to create a new set of knowledge as it will let you think
about your achievements and your path towards that achievement. It helps in drawing a
connection between experience and theory which will be helpful in better understanding.
MAIN BODY
Development of my skills during my learning and how I developed my skills.
The first and the foremost thing that every learner must know that in order to achieve goals in
life one must have a skill set that is required in that path towards the achievement. Without
developing the right set of skills the person who fixed the goal will only waste their time and
efforts and will only frustrate the individual (Rascaroli, L., 2017.). I have faced this issue myself
as whenever I try to achieve my goals for which I don’t have proper skill set I always suffered. I
loose my confidence every time I failed. But after some time I realized that I need to develop my
skills first and then will be able to achieve my goals. It is not bad to feel unconfident but it is
important to gather courage to at least give it a try.
My first goal that I wanted to achieve was to start my own blog after completion of my
graduation. I was not very confident about my English communication skills as I am not a very
good communicator. I was a business student and all I learned is about how to do business and
nothing related to blog writing. After realizing my goal of blog writer I started to develop my
skills that are required in order to achieve those goals. I started spending most of my time in
reading blogs so that I can understand traits that are necessary for a good blog such as attractive
headlines, attractive topics, etc. In order to understand the structure of the posts, I started
analyzing and observing the articles of popular blogs (Rodríguez-Castro, M., 2018.). I also
searched different styles of blog writing on the internet so that I can find the best suitable match
according to my skills. But still even after developing skills that are required it took a long time
for completion of my very first blog that I wrote. I got to find about my mistakes and my actual
skills only after that.

My second goal was to become MBA as i had my interest I management skills and I want to
learn it from the best professional in this field. I started my journey in my graduation. I worked
hard in my studies and also in my soft skills that is personality development, communication
skills, leadership skills, time management skills so that I can become flexible and adaptable. I
worked hard in order to get admission in the university of my choice and to be able to deal with
the college environment (Schindler, D.C., 2020.). I scored good grades in my graduation and
because of my good grade & my skill set I got the admission the college which I always wanted.
Challenges that I faced during my journey towards my goals.
Whenever I set a goal for myself their were lot of challenges that I faced In order to reach to my
goal I always have t become flexible so that I can learn the skills that are required in order to
achieve those skills. Being flexible in all situations is not an easy task as I have to manage things
continuously so that I can make sure that I am moving forward towards my goals. The first
challenge was to choose the correct set of skill that I needed to develop in order to achieve my
goal. I always give more importance to my Intuition. Whenever I feel stuck in any situation I
work according to the instinct, sometimes I also felt negative about any task I always worked
with positivity and with all my abilities so that I do not have to regret afterward.the challenge
was to when to take a break and the time that should be assigned to the break (Scott, R.E.,
2017.). It is important to take break from time to tie so that you can have a proper amount of
motivation as when required. Break allows your mind to take rest and think about the skills you
already achieved and about the skills that are yet to be achieved in order to fulfil the goal. My
expected goal is to make sure that I deal with my professional life according to me and also to
make sure that I develop my skills continuously. I want to have continuous growth in my life. I
want to improve my team work skills so that I can be prepared for the management of my own
team. I am also working in my improvement as I am currently joining some programs and
conferences in order to improve my team management skills. I also wants to improve my
communication skills so that I can make sure that I communicate clearly an properly to my
colleagues as well as staff in order to avoid miscommunication (Spinner, J., 2017.). It is
important to learn new things in order to develop a skill set that is beneficial fer professional life
as well as for own personality.

CONCLUSION
It the given essay, it is concluded that one need to set a goal in their life in order to be successful
and in order to make sure that they are fulfilling their dreams. It is necessary to set a goal in
every point of life as it will provide continuous motivation to the individual which keeps them
going forward. It also helps the individual to develop a set of skills which not only help them in
achieving goals but will also help them in their professional life.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Rascaroli, L., 2017. How the essay film thinks. Oxford University Press.
Rodríguez-Castro, M., 2018. An integrated curricular design for computer-assisted translation
tools: Developing technical expertise. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 12(4),
pp.355-374.
Schindler, D.C., 2020. Response to “Understanding the God of Love: An Essay on Lonergan’s
Systematics of the Trinity”. The Lonergan Review, 11, pp.135-138.
Scott, R.E., 2017. Part 2. If We Frame It, They Will Respond: Student Responses to the
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Reference
Librarian, 58(1), pp.19-32.
Spinner, J., 2017. The Essay in America. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.