...to my scores, I am most comfortable with ‘modeling the way’ which I gave myself a score of 25 and it was my highest self-rating and observers rating. I believe this is the case because I always try to set the best example, one that is easily understood and to follow so that others can be successful as well. I set clear goals and plans in my initiatives and often implement plans to help me achieve those as well as regularly review my progress and success to see if there are noticeable improvements to be made. I have strong beliefs regarding leadership and make them known to others. From taking all of the Leadership classes with Wayne Hogue at LSUS, my belief that everyone should act with honesty, integrity, and ethics has only strengthened over the years. I know that I make mistakes, and that occasionally I make a wrong decision, but it is how you react and handle the situation that matters most and shows who really are. I am comfortable with ‘modeling the way’ largely because of my work ethics. I truly do love working and am okay with working more hours or working harder than others because it is one thing that I can control and be proud of. I believe that everyone has room for improvement and that by keeping an open mind, and by always continuing to learn that I can continue to become a better person and role model. Areas for Improvement According to the chart my lowest percentile score given by myself is ‘encouraging the heart’. With a self-score of 24, I fell roughly in...
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...nowhere Trust your faith to show you the truth Your status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. Your status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. We're connected to this world through our senses By what's tangible and easy to comprehend There are days when it seems We're going nowhere fast Trust your faith to show you the truth Give a listen to what faith says to you: Our status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. Our status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. My status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. My status is changing, there's no more decline I'm on my way to better days. I'm on my way, on my way, On my way to better days. [4x] I'm on my way, I'm on my way, To better, to better, to better days, yeah... I'm on my way, on my way, On my way to better days. [4x] Better days are in You, Jesus... My better life is in You, Jesus... Life's changing is in You, Jesus... My success is in You, Jesus... All I have to do is to look to You... Better days are with You... My future is through You... All I have to do is met through You, Jesus... For a better life, yeah... yeah... Empty Me Holy Fire Burn away My desire for that thing That is not of you And is of me I want more of you And less of me yeah Empty me Empty me Empty me Take it away Take it away Empty me Empty me...
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...being successful is being looked up to or by doing better than others. At what point do you consider yourself to be successful or not? Personally I believe that being successful is doing what you want with your life and should only be defined by yourself, not others. For example the only person that I think should consider my life successful or not is me. Margaret Mead defined success as a, “…a source of confusion. …We are taught to celebrate and admire the one who gets the highest grades, the one voted most attractive, or most likely to succeed.” (Mead The Egalitarian Error)...
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...“Becoming A Better You” OPEN: AS CHILDREN, WE ALL DREAMED OF HAPPY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES NO ONE EVER DREAMS OF BEING SICK, POOR, ADDICTED OR DEPRESSED. A. NO CHILD DREAMS OF A DEFEATED LIFE…YET MAY END UP THERE. WE GET STUCK IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE AND NEVER FIND VICTORY B. BUT THAT CAN CHANGE! TWO (2) QUESTIONS… QUESTION #1: WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO CHANGE ABOUT YOURSELF? A. YOU ASK YOURSELF, “WHY CAN’T I CHANGE WHAT I WANT TO CHANGE? BUT I DON’T SEEM TO HAVE THE POWER?” WHERE DO WE GET THE POWER TO CHANGE? TO GET OUT OF NEUTRAL? HOW DO I BREAK THE MOLD I’M IN? (THAT’S WHAT A LIFE IN CHRIST OFFERS US) Now may the God of peace [Who is the Author and Giver of Peace]… strengthen you…make you what you ought to be and equip you with every good thing that you may carry out His will [while He Himself] works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ to Whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20a, 21 AMP B. GOD DIDN’T CREATE YOU TO BE AVERAGE; HE CREATED YOU TO EXCEL! (ON A SCALE FROM 1-10, WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF? DO YOU SEE ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT?) QUESTION #2: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A BETTER YOU? WE ALL WANT TO BE BETTER – WE ALL WANT TO: KNOW GOD BETTER BE BETTER SPOUSES BE BETTER PARENTS BE BETTER LOVERS BE BETTER ENCOURAGERS BE BETTER COMMUNICATORS BE BETTER EMPLOYEES, BOSSES, MANAGERS, ETC. GOD HAS PUT SOMETHING DEEP DOWN INSIDE US THAT YEARNS...
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...Would you like to see some changes to my or your school cafeteria. Well if you do just keep on reading. Do you get tired of the same old food in your cafeteria. Do you get sick of the nasty chairs in there. Do want to have a swimming pool. Well those are my ideas of changing my cafeteria. First I would want to change the seats in the cafeteria. I would make them soft and they would have backs to them. I would still keep the long tables and also switch the seats like I said. I would also make them to where you sit down first and then they float around the food bar so you won't have to walk. Another change is the food, the food in the cafeteria is the worst. If I go into a cafeteria, I want to see, Chinese food, Mexican food, regular...
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...Coaching Success, an effective manager is a coach and not just a boss. The most effective managers are those who can coach and collaborate. If one is able to coach their employees effectively then they are able to create sustainable long-term results for themselves and their company. Coaching is action of helping others to perform better, whether it is through feedback, demonstrations, or teaching. It is investing in the people within a company and shaping them into better employees so that they can not only perform their tasks better, but also better qualify for promotions. Mike Noble’s article breaks down the five steps necessary for successfully becoming a coaching leader and the benefits of becoming one. By coaching your employees, you become a transformational leader who enhances as well as generates new experiences for employees, thus gaining a stronger level of commitment from them. The first step to transforming a manager into a coaching leader is to build a personal case for coaching. The manager has to want to develop their coaching skills and see the relevance of developing them. Once a manager understands that they can achieve better results through coaching instead of taking a command and control response to management, they will be willing to develop their skills as a coach. Managers are more inclined to seize the opportunity when they realize that many successful leaders and executives are coaches in their respective disciplines. Next, firm expectations need...
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...combats diseases, but he/she is not always your friend. What will never change is their constant struggle against death. However, their job is not only to prevent death but also to improve their patient’s quality of life. Many times there is nothing a doctor can do to prevent a patient from dying if the patient has a terminal disease; all he/she can do is wait for death to arrive. This waiting time can be very painful for both the patients and the people who surround them. Not practicing euthanasia at the request of the dying person is violating a person’s rights, creating an economic burden, interfering with a doctor’s job, and increasing suffering. First of all, deciding if you want to be alive or not is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide if you should live or not. Since it is not their life and they are not in your situation, they cannot make that kind of decision for you. It might sound like suicide, but again, that is our problem, not theirs. They give us the liberty to decide our job, our family, our religion, and even our sex preference. Why should they not give us the right to decide if we want to live or not? That should be the first right before all the ones I have mentioned. It is not logical that we can choose in all those other decisions if we cannot first choose to live or die. The photo is the "Sleeping Angel" carved from a solid block of marble located at Highgate Cemetery in Islington outside London. The Sleeping...
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...28/5/2015 Mentor Plan I strong believe that everyone want to be better one, but how to make an improvement plan is an important issue for us. For me, I want to speak English better, work out better, and write a resume better. In my opinion, I think a good mentor and a good plan are very important, because a good mentor can give the best advice to us, and a good plan can track our improvements. Otherwise, from the article “How to play your strengths” I got that to know yourself better is important too, because before you find the best plan to fit you, you should to know what is your strengths and weakness, then you can use your strengths to control your weakness, so you can overcome your weakness easier. In addition, the Reflected Best Self exercise is a perfect tool to know yourself better. Anyway, I will use this exercise to reach my all goals. For my first goal, I want to speak English better, this is my biggest goal. Actually I have been United Stated for almost four years, but my speaking is still not good, and I feel hard to communicate with American sometimes. Otherwise, I really want to know more information about U.S. And if I do some business with some customers who speak English in the future, so fluent English is very important to me. Therefore I have to improve my speaking, and then I can know what I want to know via communication with American, and success in business with international customers. For my second goal, I want to work out better. I have been working out...
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...Psychology of Leadership Mr. Bicknell Jonathan Figueroa 8-18-13 Authentic Leadership Story A life experience can tell a lot about a person and can influence others to become a better person. Many people have very sad life experiences, and others have had a great life experience. Each experience tells a life lesson that everybody can benefit from. In this case, my father’s life experience has motivated me to become an even better person. Life experiences from others can impact another person life to become even greater. That is what my father has done. His life experience has made me become an even better person than what I was before. Born and raised in the country side of El Salvador, my father, from the day he could start to walk has been working with his brothers, sisters and father and mother to just barley live on their own. He would start his day off by waking up as soon as you can see and start working until you couldn’t see no more. He has been doing that for 13 years of his life. Every day would be a challenge to him because he would perform different task every day that not your average teenager would do here. Living in the same room with 6 of your brothers, with no bed has truly made my father what he is today. At the age of 18, my father made one of the hardest decisions of his life and that was migrating from El Salvador to the United States of America. He started his journey in the United States by buying a flight from California to Boston and that’s when...
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...clear right now but I have some steps to at least achieve a happy and successful life, well at least to the point of college. There are many things I would like to become in the future. I like singing, acting, directing, art, instruments, and maybe someday to learn how to dance. I would like to have the best future for myself as possible. I only have a little time on this earth to achieve these great goals of mine. I would love to travel, help people, and maybe someday be closer to God. This year I sold my Xbox 360 because I want to make that first step to make it to where video games aren’t completely controlling my life. By selling my Xbox I have already started my first step. I don’t want to have to resort to planning a video game that half the time doesn’t teach me anything. When I get bored over the school year I am not going to pick up a controller I am going to learn something useful to better help me in the future. I want to learn how to play an instrument, bartend, sing (Better), Dance, learn a new language, direct, use my V.F.X program better. My Second step of course is to get grades and just make everything I do count towards the future. I will have to work very hard this year. I’ve got to learn how to buckle down and not procrastinate so much in just everything I do. I want to start a Glee (Show Choir) at my school. I am going to personally research how this will benefit our school and as the principal myself. I also want to get involved in...
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...Individualistic vs. Collectivist which one is better? As pointed out in class, America is more Individualistic. We focus on ourselves and how do we make things better for us. This is the way our community is, but is it always for the best? I think that sometimes yes it is for the best, but what would be so bad about always thinking as a group? Being more collectivist would work in several different ways which could ultimately be more successful. America would definitely be a more humble place to live in which could help out in several ways. There would be more success in Leadership, which is never a bad thing. Leadership is strongly needed to help run this society better. Being a collectivist is thinking of others first. In America we think of ourselves more than others, which is being an Individualist. Not a bad thing but when you put yourself first in certain situations its not always the best. We want everything that’s best for us not necessarily the greater community. We want what we can afford, it doesn’t matter if your neighbor cannot afford it, you can so who cares? I originally believed being Individualistic was a better route, it is the center of the world I live in. But the more I think about it I’m not so sure. I do enjoy focusing on myself to a certain extent, who doesn’t? But I don’t want that to take away from others. I would like for everyone to have a fair shot. I don’t want to be ahead of someone because they are thinking about the affects it has on other people...
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...people from suffering. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention getter : Imagine yourself being unable to walk, unable to see, and can barely breathe let alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. Although your family is there for your every step of the way you begin to think, could ending your life be the answer to the pain? You are in more pain than you can bear. There is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives. B. Background information of the topic: Euthanasia is a term still new to many of us. It is a Greek term meaning ‘good death’. It means self imposed death in a relatively painless and merciful way. Euthanasia is categorized in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary and active or passive. Euthanasia is usually used to refer to active euthanasia, and in this sense, euthanasia is usually considered to be criminal homicide, but voluntary, passive euthanasia is widely non-criminal. C. Preview of the speech (central idea): Now let's take a look at the reasons on why euthanasia should be legalized. Euthanasia is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money...
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...I have chosen fear and beauty as my persuasive techniques. These persuasive techniques will be effective because people or also the audience love things that they will remember. Something that will scar them for life! Espeicially scary ads like one of my persuasive techniques, fear. Fear makes people think if they were in that situation what would they do! My other persuasive technique is called beauty. Beauty ads sell beauty products such as makeup, for example concealer. These products helps male or female look a little different than they normaly look like but better or better in there taste. My products is a G.P.S in case you get lost, and also concealer to cover up bags and marks. In my opinion I especially think ads are effective, because in food commercials they convince me to want to buy it. Yes I do buy products because of ads. They are convincing of the results. Its appealing to male and female because of the usage, of the ad. The products I mostly buy is proactive, concealer, etc. I think ads hI have chosen fear and beauty as my persuasive techniques. These persuasive techniques will be effective because people or also the audience love things that they will remember. Something that will scar them for life! Espeicially scary ads like one of my persuasive techniques, fear. Fear makes people think if they were in that situation what would they do! My other persuasive technique is called beauty. Beauty ads sell beauty products such as makeup, for example concealer...
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...I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to write to you. Okay, I couldn’t sleep because of you. That sounds more truthful. So now I’m grasping at your memory to be “together” in the silence and solitude of this hour. It’s 2am and I have YouTube cranked up to a whisper, playing an instrumental version of “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” over and over again. I don’t know why that particular song, except that it fits so well in the emptiest hours of the night. And of course, I can’t stop thinking of the girl singing on the top of the hill of Dublin. I want to tell you that I very much enjoyed our night together and I very much want to spend more time with you. The rules of coy manipulation insist that I should never say things like this. But I don’t care....
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...things i went through that were some what difficult was trying to find some information on my topic. I think my opinion is much different than others, searching for some of my information was not easy many articles we more against letting felons have second chances. Many people think that these people do not change so therefore they should be given limited choices. I am aware that people who do not change will not even put any effort in changing and those who are willing to change will look for jobs and actually try to be somewhat successful. I liked the fact that a lot of interesting thoughts were coming to my mind. I would write about them and search them and i got a lot of information on my topic that i thought i would have not gotten and that was something that was really helpful. Another thing that was really outstanding about my presentation was my wording id say i did well on my wording by trying to make my words stronger....
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