LP7 Assignment: Improvement Project Research Paper Rough Draft Cover page As a committed, smart working and hardworking scholar, I have Confidence that I do my best and presented my perfect work. But as any other human being I have my strong points and my weak points. For instance, I like doing my activities to perfection and timely; I make sure I work very well on my assignments, duties and chores assigned to me by my lecturers, parents, friends, customers among others. Indeed, I keep time and do an outstanding job as directed by those I have mentioned. Besides this, am loving, honest, generous, welcoming, understanding, noble, and tolerant and someone with integrity! Sincerely, these values form my pillar within which am founded. Like any other human being, I have weak areas which I'm obligated to work on and improve. Most of my customers, parents, friends, and lecturers have found it hard to coup with me. For instance, they find it difficult to deal with me because they know I am an introverted. Most of time, I keep to myself my secrets and my problems and sometimes make no comment on any happening. They feel uncertain about exactly how I feel. Truly these are weaknesses that I need to work on and rehabilitate. My determination promises and self-confidence is to do my best to make sure that I'm working on all my problems and improving on them as soon as possible so that I can advance my knowledge my skills and improve my reputation in my career. Plan My intentions and great desire is to have great vast with the knowledge in information technology, improve on my intrapersonal skills an interpersonal skill to fit within my social context perfectly and meet with my peers needs and obligations an s well as be very reputable in my career. Above all I want to overcame procrastination, over keenness with other people's feelings and increase self-acceptance and self-awareness In accomplishing my targets, I'm going to make sure that I keep on working in groups which will be occasioned by the class group discussions seminars and other social places. I'm the process of increase interaction my aim is to have more language development, communication skills, improve on my listening skills and creates concrete vocabularies and pick up lines in any conversation. I will also gain the courage to speak confidently and hold on my stances without sacrificing my ego. Attending information technology class will be my step number two in achieving my goals. I'm going t get myself more rooted into books, more research in the internet and in the libraries. I will enroll an IT class which I'm sure will form a fundamental step to going all the relevant skills and the knowledge that need in my career. I will also work any task that has been assigned to me as per the schedule provided. In going to work as per the schedule, I will have my own schedule for each activity of the d ay and I will make sure that I'm disciplined and committed to my schedule and will avoid any unnecessary plans that crop up and make me procrastinate. I will have colleague that we shall be working with within my schedule. I will create self-love and self-concern and avoid the negativity part from the people who strongly desire to bring me down, intimidate me and make fun of me. I'm going to chuck such friends and work with those allies who love me, who value me, and who respect me. The killer of time is procrastination. This is a problem that can be overcome by creating to-dolist, finishing the hard stuffs first, create timed work frenzy, give oneself a break, remove distracters, stop being a perfectionist, motivate yourself, and focus on the end goal and doing one task at a time. All of the above will be in my fore front of practice. I will review the avid procrastination tools often so that I'm not making the same mistake again when it comes to this deadly killer of time. Evidence based research (Improvement comes from the application of knowledge). Do In a proffer to overcome my weaknesses I create personal time table that accounts for all the 24 hours of the day. This was to aid to overcome postponing some of the most vital tasks that I would have accomplished just within today. I'm going to do what I can and avoid the standards and the expectations of the society and other people. That means my target in doing any task is for the personal satisfaction but not for people please. This helped me to over the issue of fear of people's comments and it made me have an improved self-awareness. I enrolled in the school of information and technology where I acquired sufficient knowledge to keep me a breast in the technological conversations and discussions. Library and internet became my hub for great knowledge that I need a place of work. I did a lot of research and a lot of reading which made me not just more knowledgeable but aware of almost all the information technology concepts that were needed. I also started attending more seminars more group discussions and more conferences to improve on my interaction with people. I had a schedule altered routinely to accommodate any seminar that I was invited and any conference that in need to attend. I had great time in the seminars, getting chance t talk, listen to different people articulate their issues and that made me improve my personal speech. With time as I continued with the interactions in the seminars and in conferences, I overcome fear, I mastered myself, now my personal weakness and can now be able to associate with all people. In short the groups and the seminars have formed a great pillar to bridge the gap between the introverted me and now the extroverted me. I can socialize feely. Study My realization that I wasn't an introvert anymore came when I noticed how often I stood on conferences, in seminars and articulate my issues with all the confidence and out of passions. Communication has suddenly become my hobby and not my stumbling block anymore. I'm a semi extrovert and semi introvert but I'm going to continue with my attending of seminars attending more of the discussions and making sure that I converse in any occasion created for me. My procrastination came to a halt immediately I formed a work schedule. Although getting it difficult to work on certain duties as planned, I must acknowledge the fact that I have far improved in my skills and my area of work. On avoiding perfectionism, has made me beat all the deadlines. The fact that no man is perfect and I needn't be perfect has really helped me. I do what I can do within the time frame I have and let go. In this case, I realize that I have done some very perfect job but on time. My study in libraries research on internet is making no more of spectator but instead I becoming the reference material in my groups. A question posed gives people the anticipation for the right answer from me. This is a great for me although not yet very fluent and still stumbling at one moment, my belief and confidence is that the more and more I'm going to practice, the more and more I'm going to become a great source of knowledge. However, regardless of my effort to become more extroverted, is still face problem with concern for other people's feelings and comments. I'm often times get annoyed swerve from the right track to interact with people hence a great stumbling block. I'm also sometimes craved by disapproval of some people on some task I do what makes me more and more yearn to be perfectionist in all that I do what again compromises my desire to walk out of procrastination. Act I'm going to begin using the issue of self-scheduling and disciplined sticking to the schedules so that the matter of procrastination is no longer an issue of concern but a far forgotten matter. I will also make sure that I mange myself when it comes to people's disapproval. I will not just remain an epitome of scorn and a living evidence of frustrations from people who mean little to me. I will get the scars healed immediate by being content with the self-pleasure but not what others think of me. I'm going to reach my standards because I have crated myself belief and confidence that yes I can and yes I will! Summary of Learning My project has not just awakened myself that was really dead, but it's secreted an about turn in my life. I can now speak in public, I can now argue with others. I also have knowledge to contribute in the major conversations that people engage in. The process has just awakened another spirit in me the spirit of learning. I'm now on the run for more and more knowledge. I'm acknowledging the learning process as dynamic and not static. This PDSA Improvement model has not just made me realize my worth but instead reminded me of all the things that I need to partake in order to lead a whole some life. I'm going got remain disciplined to the does and avoid the don'ts in my PDSA Improvement model so that I'm more and more getting to the best highest level that I should be at I'm confident that I'm not just remain where I have reached but instead I will be a great person. References (2015). Avoid procrastination to manage personal stress. UWIRE Text. Breckenridge, L. J. (2014). Introverts and extroverts. Salem Press Encyclopedia Of Health, Bohnsack, J., & Hawig, S. (2015). Choosing the right strategy for point-of-service collections: front end drives improvement in self-pay collections, patient satisfaction. Healthcare Registration, (11). 6. Education: Workload - How to avoid procrastination. (2014). 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