Abigail received achiever, focus, discipline, competition, and relator as her strengths in the StrengthsFinder test. While she wasn't entirely sure about the results at first, she found that achiever and relator described her accurately. Her strengths help her excel in organizations like her business fraternity and allow her to bond with others. However, her strengths did not always shine in her past job at a restaurant that lacked management and motivation. Overall, Abigail feels her five strengths are generally accurate in capturing pieces of her personality in different areas of her life.

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StrengthsQuest Response
Abigail N. Borchert
University of Northern Iowa
I received achiever, focus, discipline, competition, and relator as my strengths when
taking the StrengthsFinder test. My first reaction was that, I wasn't quite sure if I agreed with my

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results. Once I read the actual descriptions, I agreed with most of what they described, it was me.
Some of my strengths I felt were part me but not all. Some even have pieces in the description
that I really didn't know if it was me or not, I just wasn’t sure. Then other strengths like achiever
and relator theme described me to a tee.
Such as when achiever talks about having to achieve something everyday. I find myself
constantly going through a list in my head of what I did or didn't do yet in a day or week that
needs to be done. For relator I again agree with everything especially when it describes how I
like to be around my current friends. I dont mind meeting new people and making new friends
but I would rather grow closer to my current friends.
When it comes to focus, discipline, and competition, I agreed with a lot of it but not all.
In focus I agreed with the parts saying that I need a clear destination, so I set goals that help me
get to where I need to be and stay on course. This can causes me to become irritated when things
aren’t done quickly as possible. However I disagree with the part about having focus forces me
to filter what I do. When I have a huge list of stuff to do I do not choose not to do things, I do
them all! Having focus as a strength does not help me get rid of the less important work, nor do I
think it makes me more efficient. Sometimes when I have a lot to do I think that I become less
efficient because my mind is always what else I have to be doing.
Discipline describes me for the most part. I agree with the part about my world needing
to be predictable. I like to have my day planned out very detailed. I like to know what I will be
doing for the next week and month, not necessarily in detail but a nice idea on what will be
happening. I also agree with some people resenting my need for order. There is many times when
people don't understand that I need things to be organized before I can even start working. I need
to have a step by step plan as to how to get everything done. Something that disagree with is that

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I work through those plans diligently and that they are not necessarily neat and clean. When I go
to do something, I sometimes jump between projects but everything has to be very organized.
When it comes to competition there is quite a bit that could go one way or another. I don't
agree or disagree with them. The some parts I do agree with are that I am always aware of the
peoples performance around me. When I don’t exceed the people around me, I have a feeling of
disappointment. However I do not need other people, in fact a lot of the time I like to be alone.
Sometimes my friends feel like something is wrong because I will just stay in my room instead
of coming to do homework talk to them in their room. I also don't agree with competing only to
win. I do the opposite, I compete for the fun of it. I would rather just fun and still have a little
competition, but not worry about winning.
In the business fraternity I am in called Pi Sigma Epsilon, my five strengths are able to
shine. In PSE I am in a new member group that I am the project manager of. This means that I
was in charge of the group, guiding them to what we need to do in the most successful way
possible. Having the strengths of an achiever, focus, discipline, competition and realtor, help me
to excel in being a manager and also being in the organization. Achiever makes me want to get
things done. Focus keeps me in line and on track. Discipline also keeps me on track and focus on
deadlines that need to be met for the project. Competition gives me the motivation to do better
than other new member groups. Relator gives me the opportunity to bond with new people in
PSE that I have meet making them my close friends. It also allows me to meet new people during
conferences or competitions, while becoming closer with the members of our chapter.
In dance team during high school my strengths once again shined through. Being an
achiever I always wanted to work hard on a routine everyday. No matter how much work we had
put in the day before. Sadly do to the poor coaching our team had made these strengths a

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necessity in order to have an motivation myself and my team to do our best. My strength focus
became a big part of this. I was always trying to get the team to work together and pay attention.
Discipline helped me set personal as well as overall group or team goals to reach, and stick to
them. As competition being a strength I tried to be the best on the team and work harder and
longer than my teammates or competition.
Also in high school I worked at a restaurant/grocery store, there I was a cook. Although
we did much more than just cooking. We cleaned, stocked, waited the whole bit. During this job
my strength didn't necessarily get to show. This was due to the lack of management and just
being in a small town, partnership owned restaurant. Even though many days my strengths would
of liked to show though and maybe sometimes did, they didn't always. Somedays it was hard to
feel like you did anything because when I would leave after a day shift, there would be dirty
dishes and stuff would no longer be stock. I would look like we had done no cleaning or
restocking at all but in reality it had just been a very busy day. Focus you could say is all I did. I
was focusing on getting as much done as possible. By focusing on the thing I was doing at that
moment. There was very little discipline in the job so it was hard to be able to discipline myself.
In the restaurant I suppose you could compete to get the most done or try to do something the
fastest. When I was working there I disliked it very much and had no motivation or reason to
compete with someone else. However I was able to use realtor to work with my coworkers and
also work with customers.
Another time that I didn’t use my strength to the fullest potential is when there is a bat. I
am not a fan of bats at all, infact they are number one on my scared list. When I see a bat, there is
no achiever, focus, discipline, competition or relator part of me trying to catch or kill the bat. It is

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just me hiding under a blanket screaming for help. That is if I have enough courage to get a
scream out at all.
One of my personal relationships that kind of butts heads with discipline, is my friends
Lexi and Kacy. They are both always wanting me to come to their room to study or go do
somthing. This creates a struggle to keep myself disciplined. My strength of relator helps to
mend any hurt feelings Lexi or Kacy may feel when I say no to things.
Another person relationship that works well with my strengths is with my friend Garrett.
Although he has not taken the StrengthsFinder quiz, I feel like we would both have competition.
We are always going back and forth on a topic of whose car is better or other similar subjects.
Since we live a ways away from each other my strengths of achiever, focus, disciple, and relator
work together to help me stay in contact with him and stay close.
In my academic life my strengths all work well together to insure that I get things done,
have good grades, and also relate to my major. I am majoring in business management, jobs in
my future will use all of my strengths. As an achiever and with the strength discipline I will
always want to get things done. Doing it as quickly and with the best performance possible.
Competition will shine as a strength when I am competing against other companies or trying to
be the best manager possible. Relator will allow me to relate to my co workers but also the
customers and/or investors. To be a business manager I will also be focused on meeting my goals
for my co workers as their manager. Even my own personal goals just for myself to meet,
possibly to be the best manager.
Over all I think that my five strengths, achiever, focus, discipline, competition and realtor
are very accurate. Although they may not right or present all the time. All five of my strength are
shown in pieces throughout my life.