Please, proofread a tiny text

[AlexAD]

Hello.

As I was updating a social skills entry in my CV, I began to hesitate whether or not it seems good to someone who would read that.
Here is the text:

I consider myself as a hardworking and self motivated person. I do believe that sometimes we may experience problems with the basis and I am not the special one. Nevertheless, I guess that my openness towards people is a good feature to work out any sort of a problem. I attended motivation seminars and I practice methods of controlling my mental activity and I think that is a very good way to increase productivity of my own. I am able and excited to perform complicated assignments. While I aim at doing my work properly, I highly understand that work have to be done in time.

Could you please comment on that? What do you like or dislike?
The highlighted part is the one I am not sure whether I should use it.

Thanks, Alex.

 

[TheParser]

I do believe that sometimes we may experience problems with the basis and I am not the special one.


NOT A TEACHER


I most respectfully suggest that most native speakers would not understand the

meaning of that sentence.

 

[AlexAD]

NOT A TEACHER
I most respectfully suggest that most native speakers would not understand the
meaning of that sentence.

Yes, I shouldn't have used it. Actually I heard that in a movie and I was not sure if I got the meaning of this phrase right. The language of the movie was unusual to me and I think I couldn't provide any context to make it clear. So I won't use it.

 

[TheParser]

I attended motivation seminars and I practice methods of controlling my mental activity and I think that is a very good way to increase productivity of my own.


NOT A TEACHER


(1) As I type this, none of the teachers has/have answered. So may I start?

(2) Your paragraph is great.

(3) May I point out a few minor points that may interest you:

(a) self-motivated. (hyphen)

(b) Maybe "eager" is a "better" word than "excited" in your paragraph.

(c) Work has to be done on time.

(d) Finally, that long sentence with "and" should, IMHO, be revised. But I

do not have the confidence to suggest how. Hopefully, some other posters

will suggest some effective revisions.

 

[AlexAD]

Thank you, TheParser!
It was very nice of you to read all the text and suggest some improvements.
It counts for much with me.

 

[5jj]

I attended motivation seminars and I practi[STRIKE]c[/STRIKE]se (British spelling of the verb) methods of controlling my mental activity. I think that this is a very good way to increase my own productivity [STRIKE]
of my own[/STRIKE].

(d) Finally, that long sentence with "and" should, IMHO, be revised. But I do not have the confidence to suggest how. Hopefully, some other posters will suggest some effective revisions.

My suggestions above.

I'd also write 'fully understand' rather than 'highly understand'.

=Not an expert proofreader/editor=

 

[AlexAD]

Thanks a lot, 5jj.