Intellectual Wellness

I believe I sustain my intellectual wellness by coding and writing. As a software engineering student, I am often mentally challenged in terms of solving problems of various regards. Additionally, my interest in films propagates my creativity in terms of writing scripts and ideas down and thinking about making them logistically.

Strengths of Intellectual Wellness

• My ability to practice problem solving helps me to make better decisions and solve problems more effectively.
• Understanding the functionality of things helps me in gauging how technical I can be with somethings or how creative I can be with them.
• Figuring out sources of error has been an important habit in producing effective solutions, helping my intellectual wellness.

Intellectual Improvements

• Intellectually, I believe I need to read more than I do now. Reading different kinds of books helps me develop focus and concentration. It helps sustain a train of thought which helps in communication.
• I need to understand when I am pushing my mind to its limits by solving problems and relax accordingly. So that I can optimize my thinking for certain things.
• Having more frequent intellectual discussions with the people around me, whether it be online or in person. To gain better and different perspectives on things.

What else can I do intellectually?

• I think I need to bring more of my physical health in conjunction with my intellectual wellness because it would help me function better. Which involves sleeping better and being hydrated.

Intellectually Risky Behaviors

• Not Sleeping well, which affects my ability to think adequately and reducing my intellectual wellness.
• Not being hydrated enough. Need to drink more water frequently, so that there is enough oxygen in my body to think effectively.

Spiritual Wellness

I believe my interaction with my spiritual wellness to be strong due to my culture. As an Indian, Hinduism has played a significant part of my life and it has given me an interesting perspective to look at my life from. Sometimes the music I listen to and taking a walk outside help me keep my spiritual wellness intact and ever so flowing in my life.

Strengths of Spiritual Wellness

• Question purpose behind things and thinking about things abstractly helps in making sense of things in terms of the bigger picture. 
• Inner consoling. Amongst all the circumstances I have undergone, I tend to console myself which I find to be strength rooted in my culture and products of culture such as music and films.
• Practicing religion involves visiting temples and praying to relieve stresses and obtain a sense of calm.

Spiritual Improvements

• I think I need to better weigh the decisions of my life in order to prioritize myself sometimes and help myself make my life functioning better.
• Reflecting is something I need to do more in order to have a greater spiritual wellness because of how important it is to learn from the past, and keep moving forward.
• Accepting things as they are and understanding where the path is taking me rather than where I want to go. But being proactive enough to hope for favorable turns and results.

What else I can do spiritually?

• I think meditation is something I need to look more into in order to calm myself in times of stress and concern. This helps me grounded and not spiral into a whirlpool of overthinking.
• Sleeping better and getting up early in the morning and practicing abstinence from abundance of technology. I should be able to sit quietly without thoughts of getting on social media or stressing about results or work.

Spiritually Risky Behaviors

• Deeming things to be more important than they are, which really misplaces my concentration and derails my sense of purpose when I don't choose right decisions or make mistakes because of wrong prioritization incidents.
• Constant will to be different. I need to start accepting myself as I am now, before I hope to change my circumstances. This will help my spiritual wellness to be more stable.

Social Wellness

In my life, I have noticed that many of the social instances I have had or opportunities to make really impactful friends or connections have always been surface level or have exited from my life due to the circumstances I am in. Moving countries, then moving states, and changing my academic environment have all had effects on my social wellness. Although I can sustain conversations and be sociable, it is a source of a little stress in typical social situations because I haven't experienced impactful relationships, whether it be with friends of with partners.

Strengths of Social Wellness

• I do have a certain social acumen which helps me navigate social situations when needed. It helps me be aware of my social wellness.
• I understand social etiquette and can change my behavior based on the people around me in a social setting.
• I tend to come across as friendly and kind to many.

Social Improvements

• I think I need to express myself more clearly in order to get my point across. I tend to become quieter and listen more.
• Be more confident in my social skills, and initiating conversation with people. This can increase my social wellness by making me conscious.

What else I can do socially?

• Understand the weights of my relationships and choosing where to invest more of myself in terms of my time and emotional availability.
• Meet more people by visiting public venues and working at different places in order to understand the social scene and sense of my environment.
• Understand when to burn bridges with people and when to make it as healthy as possible to help me have a greater sense of relationship.

Socially Risky Behaviors

• Sometimes I tend to be reclusive and stay indoors for a long time, with close to no social interaction. This can be detrimental to my social wellness because I believe I do need to practice my social skills and let myself experience social outcomes or consequences like rejection, acceptance, or interest-building.

Occupational Wellness

I understand the importance of having a career and what it means to have a career in this day and age. As a student of software engineering, I often tend to think about job opportunities, the competitive and volatile nature of the tech industry. Sometimes changing industries into something more creative seems appealing but I still have certain questions about the future in terms of my career and I hope to improve my sense of purpose in terms of my occupation, career, and worth.

Occupational Strengths

• Working towards a certain occupational path with diligence. As of right now, I am working towards a degree in software engineering / computer science. It helps me understand the scope of things and the industry I am heading towards.

Occupational Improvements

• Due to the nature of software engineering, there are many things that can be done. So trying more things and trying to make things is encouraged. Ingenuity with software engineering is something I need to improve on rather than just doing assignments for classes.
• Time management is something I need to improve on because it will help me function better and understand occupational priorities better.

What else can I do occupationally?

• Networking with people. I can start networking with people on online platforms or in person events to make connections and secure job aspirations.
• Understand the value of financial stability and work towards it.

Occupational Risky Behaviors

• Stressing too much about the competition and not working on myself. This is very common in software engineering or perhaps in other fields as well, where competition becomes a reason to stress and procrastinate. That is something I aim to curb by understanding the purpose, functionality, and style of the things I choose to work on and make.