She told me life isn’t always about doing what’s best for you, but sacrificing for others. You should never depend on anyone to keep you on your feet; you’re strong enough to stand up on your own. It was from her that I learned happiness comes in all sorts of forms, sometimes being happy consists of giving up your own. Through the duration of my parents’ marriage I witnessed so much hurt, mentally and physically. From thrashing choices of words directed towards my Mom, physical contact no child
Words: 717 - Pages: 3
wrote down my class times, when i am on my phone, when i work, driving to places, etc. after, i calculated the times and change them to percentages to see what takes up most of my time.i did get to find out about a few things about myself that i never really thought of. I even found out about something interesting. But I did not like the results on what i spend my time on at all. As a result, i had made a few discoveries that have surprised me and things that i should change in order for me to
Words: 1366 - Pages: 6
My house does not signify one thing about me, instead it signifies many. I decided to split my paper in half to be able to show myself inside and out. On the outside i started to create my house by first deciding what it was going to be made out of. I decided concrete would be best, because physically and mentally i am a very strong person. I try to be tough for myself because i know the tougher i am in life the less ill be taken advantage of. As for the large window, the shape had to be unique because i view myself as a very unusual person
Words: 392 - Pages: 2
While reflecting about myself, I realized that I am not as accepting as I thought I was. It made me understand that we all have negative thoughts and feelings about certain people, cultures and values. A stereotype that I was introduced to as a young child was that men were the leaders of the household and that women were not as intelligent to have a job and to be successful. Men would go to work during the day, come home to rest and eat what was made by their wife and then go see their friends at
Words: 540 - Pages: 3
Within the last couple years I have learned so much about myself and have been exposed so many amazing opportunities. Each one I have grown from and took something out of in which will help me be ready for my future. I believe these experiences with set me apart and allow me to be successful in the Davenport Nursing program. This past year I became a big sister in the program Big Brothers Big Sisters. During the school year I would attend my little’s school once a week. Together we would spend time
Words: 447 - Pages: 2
day, a little over a hundred students were all unitedly defying the expectations of them set by society. As I portrayed myself in a more unseen, intimate persona, most people reacted with their own comments and feedback. In the morning, my friend remarked on the cuteness of my dress and was slightly in shock (mixed with perceptible excitement) over seeing a new version of myself. A selected few of my friends took notice of the swipe of mascara I was wearing and mentioned it in disbelief. The most
Words: 694 - Pages: 3
that I decided to take was the “Buddha” assessment. During this assessment I was able to get a better understanding of the way I accept and/or feel about myself as an individual. My score for this was rated above average with a total of 32; the average rating for this score falls at 25. With these results the study showed that of course I accept myself more than the average person. Which completely true, even though I am not perfect and do have flaws, I understand that no one individual on this
Words: 672 - Pages: 3
November 19, 2012 Period 6 AVID Mandala The five symbols in my mandala represent me. Each symbol represents the most important things in my life. These five objects are other visual appealings of myself. The rainbow represents friendship. Friendship is hope, friendship to me is very important because friendship is like a rainbow. Each color of the rainbow represents each one of my friend’s hope, respect, and honesty. My friends are like my family
Words: 346 - Pages: 2
you want!). Although this seems like a very constricted definition of what identity is, it actually is a heavy term that is hard to explain and is very flexible. To someone like me, identity is something I enjoy and embrace about myself. It is difficult to fully label myself
Words: 399 - Pages: 2
younger self and the older one is saying you will lose yourself if she keeps spending trying to find herself. This all relates to me because I have been in her spot trying to find myself and almost losing myself. Be yourself is a short story I relate to because I have wanted to be someone else other than me. I Hang out by myself even though I have friends and talk to no one unless they talk to me first. A few years ago all I wanted was to fit in like in the
Words: 455 - Pages: 2
my entire year reflected this. I engulfed myself with the wrong people and took every word spoken of me to the heart. This caused a severe plummet in my positive personality. I became dismal, and people around noticed it. I always held in my feelings and thought everything was always acceptable, as long as I had more friends and somewhat knew more of my peers. My state of mind was becoming identical to the people the I surrounded myself with, and let myself become more of a pushover rather than someone
Words: 600 - Pages: 3
assignment to the class, many questions and thoughts came across to me. Will this help me in the future? Why are we doing this? Will I learn from this? Like any student, I thought that this assignment wasn’t going to be helpful because I already knew myself. Of course, I was wrong. As I began to work on this assignment, I realized that this assignment did fulfill its purposes by facilitating my understanding of Psychology and the examined activities related to my success. I gained insight when I compared
Words: 982 - Pages: 4
results from the two self-inventories, write about the areas in which your scores have changed. What growth do you see? How do you feel about this? The scores that changes the most is believing in myself. I feel very proud and happy about that because before that I don’t really believing in myself in my career or dream because I know I’m not that smart or not really good at anything so I always say myself I will not gonna make it or do it but now I trust myself really well in whatever I do because even
Words: 367 - Pages: 2
I completely tried to give attention to my behaviors that I develop when I was negative, critical, and / or judgmental. I realized that I could be very judgmental to my housemates about their behaviors when we are discussing the house issues. Because of being only girl in the house, we have difference of opinion about some different subjects such as the cleaning of the house or shopping. Because our priority is different to each other’s in the house. As a result, I have decided to be more positive
Words: 529 - Pages: 3
questions in our minds are called a Self Reflection. (1) “Selfreflection enables us to know about ourselves, control our actions, and present ourselves more effectively to others.” Now, the questions are in my mind and I am doing the selfreflection. All the self refection do is to assesses my strengths and weaknesses, contemplates how to reach their goals, and has a wonder how they come across to others. I also learned about myself more through a reflected appraisal process which that I observed and imagined what others think of me
Words: 917 - Pages: 4
Fiara Causo English 8B 06/6/11 GRAD PROJECT Thesis: TBS helped me find myself as a person and get more confident in myself and who I am. In Costa Rica not only did I get to see how strong I could be but also it helped me be more bonded to everyone. I got to know my classmates like I’ve never knew before, It was extremely interesting for me to see their different personalities and sides. During the hike we all had our problems and difficulties but in the end with everyone’s help we all made it
Words: 498 - Pages: 2
On the poem “Song of Myself” Whitman writes about himself and the individual. Whitman is expressing about the individual and his or her place in the world by talking about what almost everyone does and do in an regular day or on a special day. According to “Song Of Myself” Whitman writes about himself and the individual who is reading the poem. For example. He wrote “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”. What
Words: 211 - Pages: 1
At times I’ve had to ask myself, who am I? What is it that I really want out of life? I soon realized that I didn’t know who I was. And it took me quite a while to find out exactly who I am. Where I grew up, everyone wanted to be just like somebody else. I, myself, was so busy trying to be someone else, I ended up losing myself. Now that I am about to graduate from high school, I know who I am! I choose to be myself. I choose the path less travelled. I choose individuality. The degree program
Words: 449 - Pages: 2
thinking. |Stages of Critical Thinking |How to Move to the Next Stage |Obstacles to Moving to the Next Stage | |EXAMPLE: |Examine my thinking to identify problems |Deceiving myself about the effectiveness of| | |that affect my thinking. |my thinking | |The Unreflective Thinker |
Words: 531 - Pages: 3
concepts. As a student, it infuriates me when I cannot understand something. Therefore, I did something insane: I challenged myself by signing up for the AP Macroeconomics exam. To add to the difficulty, I also needed to study for AP Government and AP World History, both of which are tough exams as well. To do well on the AP Macroeconomics test, I was going to push myself harder than ever before. First, to approach this problem, I needed all the prep I could acquire. I first bought a prep book:
Words: 746 - Pages: 3
(Myers & DeWall, 2014). I do believe that the emotional intelligence scale does a great job with measuring my emotional intelligence. The scale gave me an outlook of things that I don’t realize I do and enjoy doing them. As an example the statement about, “When I am faced with obstacles, I remember times
Words: 364 - Pages: 2
Chapter 11 Reflection Paper In this chapter I learned about emotional intelligence and how well I can cope with the demands and pressures I’m faced with everyday. I learned that I’m too hard on myself and I never give myself enough credit. My expatiations are extremely high and if I don’t reach those expatiations I get upset with myself. If I do extremely well on a test, but I make one silly mistake and get a question wrong, I will beat myself up over that silly mistake. I also learned that its not
Words: 290 - Pages: 2
ft wide and the surface you would jump on was smooth. Also, the trampoline had side netting so you would not fall off. . I was about the age I am now which is 13 years old. When I was on my trampoline and everyone on the trampoline could do a backflip, well everyone but me. I could not do a backflip because I had this uncomfortable feeling in my gut that I would hurt myself. My brother was with me when I did the backflip. I don’t think he really cared! When I tried to do a backflip I would also always
Words: 358 - Pages: 2
collection. After completing this course, I have found myself looking at stats in a whole different light. Before I would read articles in the paper or magazines, look at commercials, read product labels or listen to sports announcers talk about stats and was easily manipulated because I never really paid much attention to the numbers. Now I find myself doing the same thing but this time I find myself trying to figure out how these numbers or stats came about. Just as an example, I live in a small town that
Words: 386 - Pages: 2
The Secret Of My Reflection Throughout my childhood I was very insecure about my appearance.Only recently have I been able to look at myself in a positive way. In the middle of my sophomore year my family went on the paleo diet. Also known as the “caveman” diet. You aren't supposed to eat any processed foods or meat , including sugar and flour. This was a real struggle for me. When I was young eating was my favorite activity. I wasn’t the skinniest child, I snacked whenever
Words: 469 - Pages: 2
Develop habbits Being a student at NOVA community college truly taught me to push myself in many different ways I never was possible. College life helped me to overcome some of my biggest fears and helped to teach me some of the most important lessons. It helped me to learn more about myself and grow as a person along the way. As stressful as it may seem at times, I know that it is important towards accomplishing my goals and dreams. Growing up in a dysfunctional household, there was little
Words: 799 - Pages: 4
Overdoer Procrastinator Procrastination has struck us all one time or another causing us to either have an all-nighter studying or fail assignments. As for myself I have discovered myself to be an overdoer procrastinator causing me too often take on more work than I can handle and never ask for help. I have experienced this in work and school and has caused me many setbacks and frustrations. I often put others first before any of my own needs and suffer from low self-esteem because of it. In this
Words: 496 - Pages: 2
Obviously for just about anyone, changes and transitions can be a very difficult part of life. When I was younger, I went to a small private school. In that school, there were around 20 kids in a grade (all in all about 200 between pre-kindergarten and 8th grade). Everyone had fairly the same beliefs, values, and overall character where I was pretty much the “same as everyone else”. After 8th grade, my parents decided that I was going to go to high school in a different school district all together
Words: 468 - Pages: 2
identification to be for several different reason. In my paper I will be discussing fours different things to support the reason why I choose the political identity I am. First I will talk about my point of view between the democrats, republicans and independent parties. Next, I will state the partie I would consider myself and why the other parties I didn’t choose didn’t appeal to me. When describing the democrats and republican parties I have learned they both parties have major differences when
Words: 539 - Pages: 3
I seemed to have an experience that I was just thrown into the wolves’ den and had to fend for myself during the second week at Fegs. I was notified on the fourth day that I would be running the group for the first time. Even though there is curriculum for each group, some of them are not sufficient enough to use it for more than two weeks. On my first day of running the group, I could not access the FEGS curriculum as my username and password wasn’t set up and ready so I used the materials that
Words: 619 - Pages: 3
