...Think about having to quit your favorite thing to do, or be in pain. The thing you’ve been working for your whole life. The thing you’d give anything to do. It was probably the hardest decision I’ve ever made. I like being athletic more than anything, and that’s why it was so hard. The hardest decision I ever made was to keep playing or to quit football. This decision came up when I started getting pain in my knee last year. Deciding whether or not to quit doing it after years of playing is so difficult even if you’re hurt. Think of the only thing that makes you happy, and just never do it again or be in pain doing it. That’s how I felt. It was the hardest decision I’ve ever made, and it was the wrong decision. I choose to quit football. I...
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...intense novel is Arthur Miller. He showed in The Crucible that one’s choices are crucial to life in many ways, and some of those choices are a lot harder to make than others. This is because honesty is worth sacrificing one’s life for, in this case John Proctor has to decide if he wants to live with the reputation of a liar or die with honor. In the beginning, Proctor doesn’t believe that lying or confessing matters at all in...
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...The Hardest Decision 25 years old, just starting to get my career going, and newly married. Life was wonderful, but then I find myself in a situation that I never thought would present itself, pregnant. At that very moment, I sat on the bathroom floor, and just cried. My brain was racing, all I could think was, “what am I going to do? I can’t have a baby right now, I’m still a student, I have too much debt, I cannot afford to raise a kid.” I sat there for a good hour and just cried. Not knowing what to do, I called my husband. He was silent on the other end when I told him, all he could say was “we will talk when I get home.” The next few days after getting this information left us confused, lost and not really sure of what to do next. After lots of discussion, we came to the decision that we were not ready to be parents, so what were our options? Well, personally I knew that if I gave birth to this baby there was no way I would be able to hand over my child to someone else. So the only option left was abortion. However, for a long time I have looked down on women who had gone through with abortions, thinking there has to be some way it would have worked itself out if they had the baby. Now here I was, presented with the same situation and did I ever feel horrible. I felt selfish for even considering having an abortion, but deep down I knew that it was the right thing to do. On the day of the appointment, me and my husband go to the clinic and I am just racked...
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...The first situation, I want all to know is about my senior year. In my senior year I used to have a lot of fun with my friends, but keeping up with excellent grades was the hardest part. Even though, I'd have better grades, math class was the most difficult class ever. However, my grade in the class wasn’t excellent so, of course I was scared because of the fact that I wouldn’t be able to graduate on time. Although, I told myself that the concept I need is courage to face the situation by myself. So, I did.! I'd study surely hard, I went to tutoring, and I retake my failing tests even though grades were almost done. Finally, I did pass the class with an excellent grade and it made me honestly proud to be able to graduate on time, and to find my success even though it wasn’t an easy path....
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...Decision Making Process Decision making can be a complicated process that can have devastating results if not thought out carefully. Some decisions cannot be made within a few seconds…well they can but one might regret the outcome. It is amazing how much of difference a few seconds can make. In order to avoid conflict, some decisions must be well thought out. There are certain decisions that cannot be changed once they are made and the outcomes can be life changing. Sometimes one just has to deal with the consequences of their decision. Prior to deciding to further my education and pursue my degree, I had to make a decision to either work and delay my education (since my employer was not willing to accommodate my work schedule with my school schedule) or quit my job and focus on furthering my education and try to find other employment. Before a decision was made, I had to ask myself a few questions and find solutions for them. The first question was which college would be more convenient to attend. I wanted to stay near my house and not too far from possible employment opportunities so I would not have to worry so much about travel time from school to work. The second question was how many classes I would be able to take without it affecting my work schedule. I needed a job to support myself financially therefore; I had to find classes that would allow me to take a full schedule of classes and also work a full-time job. Lastly, I had to ask myself if I was stretching...
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...New Life 1 Running Head: PURSUTI OF A NEW LIFE Pursuit of a New Life Walter Morrison University of Phoenix MGT/521 February 2, 2009 New Life 2 Pursuit of a New Life Whether the decision is to start a new career, pursue a MBA, or even strive towards a personal goal, can be the hardest decision that anyone would have to make. In the times that this nation is in right now the decision to start a new career is not the most logically decision. The decision is not only made upon the person wanting to start a new career, whom ever that may be needs to make sure not only they can afford to take a break in job stability and their family supports the decision as well. The decision to start a new career not only is cost effective as well as the amount of time that it will take to be trained in a new environment can be costly to the person, company, and family. When looking to start a new career it takes time, patience, and dedication to be able to all a sudden change the career path. When the decision is made to change careers everyone must take into consideration how this will affect family. Family support is one the most influentially aspects of switching careers. When the decision to start a new career is made, the adjustment period could take a little as a few months up to possible a year. Several years ago when I was working at a local gas station, I realized New Life 3 that this is the most suitable career that is...
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...A Turning Point Our lives change not only because of decisions we make but also because of the events that are beyond our control. But I firmly believe the most significant changes in our lives are the ones influenced by when we make an impossible decision within an event that is beyond our control. When we encounter these obstacles where there appears to be not right choice – only the lesser evil – we must find it within ourselves to make the right choice an option. In August of 2013, I had found myself at the crossroads of wrong and not right. For most of the early years of my childhood, I hardly spoke and had never managed to make friends on my own. My family didn’t think much of it, assuming I was just a “shy” child. It wasn’t until we moved from the mountains and back into the Sacramento Area did their concern begin to rise. My sister and I were enrolled in the local public school and my sister was quick to make friends, whereas, I was not. My uncle believed I just needed time to warm up to the change of scenery, so he gave it some time and after several months, I still kept to myself. At this point, my uncle tried to give me a little push in the right direction by forcing me to accompany my sister whenever she did things with her friends. “Did you have fun?” He would ask when he showed up to pick us up. “No.” I would say and he would quickly reassure me that there was always next time. After about the fifth time of having...
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...playing cards with my grandfather. We played a game called memory and my grandpa didn’t seem to have a very good one. I will never forget the way he laughed when he told the story of how I beat him at the card game every time. Liver cancer took my gramps from me on October 29th, 2011. Dealing with his death was and still is the hardest thing I have had to deal with in my life. Cancer also took my other three grandparents from me, unfortunately I was too young to gratefully remember them. I come from a wonderful family of six and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I enjoy having a big family, it gives me more people to love and look up to, I am never bored, and I know if I ever need a friend, I will have five. My mom and my two sisters are my best friends and my role models. They are all strong, opinionated women and I adore them. I have three amazing best friends that I consider to be more as family than friends. I work at a boutique in Glen Carbon called Unique Boutique and Gifts and have been employed there for about four months. Art relaxes me. My dad gave me his artistic gene and I am so lucky for that. I don’t like to miss school, even though I hate doing schoolwork, I love to see people I normally do not get to see on a regular day. I am an outgoing, sociable person that loves to meet new people and make new friends. I like a challenge, achieving a goal after working hard to get there is the best feeling in the world. Making decisions is a huge struggle...
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...experienced the unflattering acne, the raging hormones, and the countless distractions. Yet, I think the hardest part about being a teenager is staying positive when it seems like the world is against you. It’s hard to remain calm and focused when you feel nothing is going right. It is difficult to stay positive when you look around at society and disagree with so much of it. I used to think the hardest part of being a teenager was just saying “no” to peer pressure or choosing to watch Netflix instead of finishing homework. However, early in my junior year I took my ex-girlfriend to the councilor because she had started cutting herself. Throughout the year I continually faced more adverse challenges, my brother was expelled from school and my Mom was admitted to the hospital because she fainted twice on separate occasions. My grades started to slip, and I found my mood decline. Sometimes I didn’t even want to go to school because I could not get a grip on the world around me. I didn’t really share much about my personal issues, with any of my friends, till this point. Then I discovered how much my friends thought...
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...Amid my initial immature years growing up, I never would have envisioned making such a troublesome choice at a youthful age. At just twelve years of age I understood that settling on the wrong choice can influence my life until the end of time. I confronted one of the most difficult situations on where to live. I was adhered between whether to live with my mother or my father full time. Despite the fact that it was one of the hardest choices I have needed to make so far, my family and companions arrived to bolster me the whole time. Having an astonishing care group helped on making the circumstance less demanding. When I was in the third grade my guardians got a separation. I generally had an awesome association with them two, but however...
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...Burgess page 1 Christina Burgess English 5/10/2014 My Supportive fiancé Having a supportive fiancé, is one of gods greatest gifts to a women. People say that men aren’t supportive; however, I believe they can be supportive. It’s the matter of finding the right man for you. Everyone should have that kind of man in their life. Support can help you overcome just about anything that everyday life throws at you. My fiancé, has been my biggest cheerleader through my triumphs and setbacks. The support that I have received from Christopher has helped me overcome many challenging obstacles in my life. Three months after Chris and I started dating we had a miscarriage. It was one of the hardest times in my life, but with his support I was able to overcome the pain. It’s not just the big things that he supports. It’s also, the little things that happen in life that he supports. One day, I told Christopher I wanted to get a dog; in fact, I told him I wanted to get one that same day. He supported me and really didn’t say much. No matter what, I always receive his support. He has supported me financially by pitching in for my school tuition and personal needs. I never thought I would go to college; however, Christopher always believed in me. At first, I wasn’t sure how I was going to work and find time to do my homework, but from the beginning Christopher has supported me working fewer hours. He encourages me to be the best person I can be all the time. I wouldn’t be where I...
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...Managerial Skills Does the means always justify the end? While writing the essay it comes to my mind to transform this famous phrase of the Italian historian and politician,Niccolo Machiavelli, into a question. I assume that we all know the answer to this question, otherwise we would`t have the Managerial Skills Course. The decision making process usually depends on the person and those qualities and tools that he or she possesses.Anyway everyone has its own set of rules and strategies that he/she applies in order to succeed. I will analyze those techniques that I use in the modern life to solve different kinds of problems. To my persistence it is very important not only to find the right answer to the question but also to ask the right question.This is the first point of my decision making strategy. I make a plan- a set of questions.I structure my answers and in the end I see the whole picture, the root problem and the consequences it may have. I forecast the possible outcomes and try to prevent them if that is possible. The first question that I usually ask myself is what is the final goal? It is impossible to make a good decision without identifying your final goal. The next question is to make the goal more specific.For example if I would like to start my own business the next question that I would definitely ask is what are the criteria of my final goal.What kind of business is it?What area is preferable for me?What should I do to make this business work? ...
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...Vicki Westphal’s Life For my biography I chose to do my grandmother. Her name is Vicki Westphal. My grandma is a very significant person in my existence. She has done many appreciable things in my life, her life, and the lives of everyone around her. My grandma is a very successful and fascinating individual, but the main reason I chose her was because of her riveting childhood. When I was trying to figure out my subject for the project there was many family members in my mind, but I chose my grandma because when she was little she lived in a native Alaskan village. This topic about her interested majorly because a native Alaskan village is completely unfamiliar than the lives of normal human beings that lived during the 1950’s. This is what made me so curious about my inspiring grandma. Vicki Westphal, my grandma, was born on April 14, 1958, in Defiance, Ohio. Currently, my grandma is 58 years old. Her mom’s name is Arvilla, and her dad’s name is Richard. My grandma was born into a family where she is a child of seven, and her brothers names are Edward, Richard, and Greg. Her sister’s names are Jo Ellen, Carol, and Pamela. Jo Ellen and Greg were both adopted Indian infants, but are still considered family by Vicki and the rest of her...
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...Decision Making Process Tara Wagner MGT230 April 1, 2013 George DeMetropolis I can honestly say that most of the decisions that I have made over the years have been spur of the moment. I was never really that great at planning out any of my decisions that I made. Most of the spur of the moment decision that I have made turned out to be the right decisions at the time. One of my biggest decisions was joining the US Navy, which was a life changing decision. I did use most of the decision making process discussed in chapter 3 of the text book except for the first step. Generating alternative solutions is the second step of the process which involved me making two avenues to go down. One was joining the military and the second one would have been community college for nursing. If I could not join the military my alternative solution would have been community college. The third step of the decision making process is evaluating alternatives. Evaluating community college I would have had to take out student loans because I could not afford to pay for my tuition. That would have put me in debt before I even really started my life and that is not an avenue that I wanted to take. So I tried my hardest to qualify to enlist into the military if it was the last thing I did. The fourth step in the decision making process is to make the choice. The choice I...
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...My friends and family are the people that have influenced my life. They have shown me rights and wrongs since I was a little girl. I grew up in a house with my parents, grandparents, god parents, sister, and three cousins. That leaves it at eleven people living in a three bedroom house. This house is in Pico Rivera, and I lived there since the day I came home from the hospital till now. Given that we all lived together, we grew up together. We went many places, even out to dinner at least once a week. They have influenced me because they have always shown me the right thing to do, and have always supported me as well. My friends on the other hand, have proved who I can trust and who I cannot, but they have too supported me in my decisions. When I was a little girl, I was able to have all the things I ever asked for. I had both my parents, and the rest of my family living with me…so what more could I have even wished for. I also cheered for Pico Rivera Dons throughout my middle school years. My family and friends loved going to see me “do my thang”. We traveled to Las Vegas, Arizona, Palm Springs, and had camping trips. We would even go to Sea World, the Zoo, Fairs, anywhere that came to mind. They motivated me to have fun with what life has to offer. In school, I had very good grades. Every assembly, I was on principals honor roll. I always tried my best at everything because I knew I had a sister and cousins to inspire right behind me. About 5 years ago, my parents split up...
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