...In my day-to-day life, I would like to address and solve the problem that I face with time management. I have found that in the past time management has been a major issue, not only in my personal life but also academically and professional. I am starting a new school, have a job and have a family to take care of. I want to make an effort to give all my endeavors my all, in order to do this I would like to refine my time management skills. To develop time management skills I plan on researching a plan of action from the textbook. The information that I have found was in Chapter one. The textbook gives various steps to better time management such as setting goals for you. Goals are an important part of life, but it is even more important for my time management plan. I will be seeking steps that the book suggests for time management and determine which steps will be beneficial for particular part of my life that I will be evaluating. Not all the steps will be beneficial for me, but most will. I will determine which steps will be necessary to use, for example, how my personal life will affect my professional life or how my academic life may affect my personal life. I will begin to set goals for myself before determining a time management plan. I will set short term goals along with long term goals for the part of my life that I need to work on time management plan. I will start with my long term goals that have the largest scope and a longer timeline to achieve. The timeline for...
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...Day-To-Day Life Time Management Lucretia Chadwick GEN/200 Robyann Musil August 8, 2011 In my day-to-day life, I would like to address and solve the problem that I face with time management. I have found that in the past time management has been a major issue, not only in my personal life but also academically and professional. I am starting a new school, have a job and have a family to take care of. I want to make an effort to give all my endeavors my all, in order to do this I would like to refine my time management skills. To develop time management skills I plan on researching a plan of action from the textbook. The information that I have found was in Chapter one. The textbook gives various steps to better time management such as setting goals for you. Goals are an important part of life, but it is even more important for my time management plan. I will be seeking steps that the book suggests for time management and determine which steps will be beneficial for particular part of my life that I will be evaluating. Not all the steps will be beneficial for me, but most will. I will determine which steps will be necessary to use, for example, how my personal life will affect my professional life or how my academic life may affect my personal life. I will begin to set goals for myself before determining a time management plan. I will set short term goals along with long term goals for the part of my life that I need to work on time management plan. I will start with...
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...have time management and set personal goals. This will insure academic success. Being self-motivated is the force that drives me to do things. It makes me hold myself accountable for academic success and personal success. Being self-motivated pushes me to achieve my academic goals and pushes me to finish a difficult task. It will help me be sharp and not be influenced by the wrong people, and to be open to positive learning. I will set higher goals than normal people because I am self-motivated. Being self-motivated it will give me the ability to do what needs to be done, without the power or influence from other people. It will give me the strength to complete a task, even when challenging without giving up or someone to encourage me. I will motivate myself not to give up on my academic success, and I will graduate from college. I always told myself that I wanted to go back to school and get a diploma, but I never motivated myself to go back to college. I was always working and taking care of my family, so I always found an excuse not to go back to school. Now that I motivated myself to go back to college, I will not look back and receive my diploma. Self-motivation will be an important factor in my academic success. Having time management is the key to having academic success. Without managing my time due to personal, and work life I cannot be successful in bettering my education. Time management will give me the ability to plan and control how I spend the hours in my day to...
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... 3-4 Dominant Personal Thinking Styles 4-6 Auxiliary Personal Thinking Styles 6-8 Impact on Management Style 8 Planning 8-9 Organizing 9 Leading 9-10 Controlling 10 Genesis of Personal Style 10-11 Conclusion and Reflection 11-12 References 13 Life Styles Inventory Every individual thinks and behaves in different manners. The use of Life Styles Inventory helps to identify the elemental factors which impact the individual’s thinking patterns and behaviors. An individual’s personal life styles greatly contributes to the role one fulfills in the workplace; from how an individual is able to communicate with fellow employees and upper management to their ability to manage situations and positions of authority. The different categories include constructive styles, passive/defensive styles, and aggressive/defensive styles; each of these categories are then broken down into subcategories which describe in further detail the main categories. These subcategories include “humanistic-encouraging, affiliative, approval, conventional, dependent, avoidance, oppositional, power, competitive, perfectionistic, achievement, and self-actualizing” (Synergistics, 2016). By completing a life styles inventory, an individual has the ability to gain insight into their personal thinking patterns and behaviors and how...
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...Achieving My Personal and Professional Goals Lamoine Benson Campbell HCS301 September 29, 2014 Glenda Meskin Since I was a little girl, I have always dreamed of being a nurse. However, when I took Biology in high school, I not only found it overly challenging, but I was also disinterested in the subjected matter. With this realization, I gave up my dream of becoming a nurse. Over time, I eventually ended up as a secretary to a nursing program and believed that this was the closest I would ever get to the nursing field. In working this job for six years, I saw many students struggle, yet most of them graduated and went on to obtain their nursing licenses. I began to think that this may be a possibility for me. So, at the age of thirty-four, I quit my full-time job, began a part-time job as a nursing assistant, and enrolled in nursing school. Because I was single and self-supporting, going to school full-time to achieve a BSN was not an option for me. Instead, I decided to earn an Associate Degree in Nursing with the intention of completing my BSN at a later date. However, when I completed my Associate Degree, I was more interested in beginning my new career than continuing my education. However, throughout the years, I have often regretted my decision to postpone the completion of my Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. At times I feel as though I am at a severe disadvantage to those nurses who possess BSNs. Fortunately, I have recently been pushed to define my goals...
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...for something within ones own power, control or management”(Dictionary.com, 1996). Within our own lives, we have everyday responsibilities from family life and finances, to schoolwork and making a living. We can simply call those Personal Responsibilities. Those with the successful ability to manage the personal responsibilities of everyday life, tend to be the better students, being that they have less stress, better time management, and more time for concentration on their school work. Stress Management Stress is an everyday part of life that sometimes seems unmanageable and is always unwanted. Although there is no actual definition to stress, the best understanding one can have of stress is “a condition or feelings experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize”(Rosch, 2011). We all have different ways of dealing with stress. Some use a long walk, or the gym to get out frustration, which releases endorphins and can alleviate the symptoms of stress. Some step away from the situation that’s causing the stress, and come back to it with a clear mind. Anyway that you can find to alleviate stress will help put things back into perspective and make even the most seemingly impossible tasks become attainable. I use a few hours of my day, everyday, to go to the gym and lift weights. It really gives me the opportunity to step away from all of lifes daily stress, and just put things into perspective...
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...STATEMENT: Life is a challenge. I’m always looking for new challenges and never stop at what has already been achieved. This life position is the main driver for all my ambitious ideas and goals. Currently this driver directs me to the Program and the valuable experience this Program can give to achieve my long-term career goals. Frankly speaking, I choose Management as a professional sphere, when I was at school. During my studies at the University, I finally decided that Management is my vocation. I have always been drawn to business management because to me it’s a very exciting environment with lots of demands and challenges. I have a specialist degree in Management. I always participated on the University life, so I took part on the scientific management conferences for 3 times and my articles were published in the annual university journals. My latest University research was awarded as the best project and helped me won on the conference with the topic “The Core competences beyond competition”. In support of this, my job helped me to confirm job interests and career direction. It’s a field that I am greatly interested in, and wish to learn more about. However the thing that excites me the most about business management is the way it can directly and indirectly affect the lives of so many people. I strive to learn all aspects of Management and I practiced all aspects in my previous job. During my work as a senior sales and service manager (Vimpelcom LTD) my interest in...
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...Running Head: My Personal Plan My Personal Plan GEN/195 26 June 2013 My goals for myself are to keep working in my current profession and get my degree in business management in the service sector. As I reflect on how I want to achieve my goals as a student and for my future I must look back and see what I have already accomplished. Some of the goals have been achievable while others have been set for future dates. I always knew what I wanted to do in my life ever since I graduated high school. I would like to successfully complete all my classes necessary to obtain my bachelors degree. There are many goals and steps to take before the ultimate goal is conquered. For instance, goals such as studying, time management, write papers, and collaborating as a team. I hope to learn and even be reminded of what my own kids give me, and also the knowledge I have from my military achievements and apply them now to college goals. First, while attending college I will be learning how to better manage my time with school, work, and my kids. Going to work fulltime and fulfilling the kids needs can be very time consuming for all the assignment and projects that need to be completed for school. Time management is a top priority and a responsibility that I need to use effectively to increase my knowledge in attaining my degree. Next, the future outlook for me in the business management is very much favorable. The industry will experience an uprising in shifts both economically...
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...tool to success in life. Time Management has helped me set priorities to meet goals, improve my skills, and helped me reduce stress. Setting priorities to meet goals will give me a clear idea of what I have to do and when it needs to be done. Using time management during an ordinary day helps to reduce the stress and simplifies life. Without having a plan on how to manage time, it can create stress in life and also forgetting important dates and deadlines. By not having some type of organization in life it will create problems and will seem as if there is not enough time in one day to complete daily task. Time management is an essential tool for me to be more organized and accomplish my goals in a timely manner. I have to do all my assignments and be at school on time. I create a list of things that needs to be done every day. Meeting daily goals is much easier when I have a clear idea of what needs to be done. I need to keep my focus on what to do every day. Being more organized has helped me a lot. On Thursday, I meet with my team to do homework. At work, being organized and setting a plan is very important, especially when you have more than one responsibility to do. Managing your time is one of the keys to success in life. Setting goals is essential to know what we want to do. Having a written schedule will keep me focused, proactive, and efficient daily. Being organized is a great tool that can be used everywhere, especially with my family in my home. It is a great...
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...Time Management: Mom, Student and an Active Family Time Management: Mom, Student and Gymnastics Being an Mom, Student and having an active family life is something that requires plenty of attention to detail, time management and plenty of flexibility. More often than not we ourselves to be overbooked or there is not enough time in the day. After reading these articles and implementing them into my daily plan I became better at managing my time. Making a Plan Being a military spouse, mom, and a student makes life a little challenging. Most of the time I ask myself where does the time go, or what did I do today that I didn’t get the major things accomplished. Most of the time it was my ability to manage my time, I was wasting time by prolonging tasks and procrastinating on a regular basis, waiting last minute to complete assignments and not actually spending time doing the things that I needed. Realizing that time management was paramount, I then began to start new, good habits and leaving the bad habits for someone else. By waking up earlier to make the most of my day, and sitting down at the table with a planner and scheduling out your day. First writing the high priority items, and making actual appointments so your day runs like a full day of appointments (Denison, 2001). After scheduling the high priorities everything else should can be filled in, of course in priority order. When I first began working out on a regular bases and my children were old enough...
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...person’s every day needs helps to define and help figure out what is important to them. What is best for my family helps define my personal responsibility. My responsibility includes a home life full of teenagers and a husband, a full-time job, a part-time small business, and my goal of earning a bachelor’s of science degree. By succeeding in my goal of earning a degree, I will be able to grow both professionally and personally. Professionally, a bachelor’s degree will help further my career by making me eligible for a higher series position. The positions that are of interest have certain educational requirements. A better paying job will help personally, also. I would be able to provide my family with not only our finances but also pride in my achievements. By succeeding in college, I can teach my son that goals are attainable. Since I was a young teenager, my goal has been to earn a bachelor’s degree in business management. Personal responsibility is the way of achieving my goals and demonstrating in being a good role model for my son and the other teenagers that look up to me. Developing valuable time management, using my principles and school resources, and maintaining a balance in life are important tools and strategies used in maintaining my personal responsibility. Time management allows me to obligate enough energy to fulfill college, work, and life deadlines. College resources and personal principles are important tools in building a successful platform...
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...There is only one way to cope up –through command of our mind. Thinking more effectively gives us greater control over our life, helps us deal better with adversity and transform more of our dream in to reality. Learning of Personal and Professional Development help to become an effective and confident self directed person and help become confident in managing own personal and professional skills to achieve personal and professional goals in life. 2.0 UNDERSTAND HOW SELF- MANAGED LEARNING CAN ENHANCE LIFE LONG DEVELOPMENT 2.1 Evaluate approaches to self-managed learning The key areas for self management 1. Less time management 2. Lazy 3. Quick anger 4. Stress mind 5. Carefulness The approaches that can take for self– managed learning Expressing anger is the best and healthiest way to express anger rather than suppressing the feeling. But it shouldn’t do in an aggressive manner. Count 10 to 1 with a hard breathe, when doing this our mind get relaxed and we pay our attention to breathe and the count .So that incident which made us will forget. For manage less time management and lazy: Manage to-do-list to write down the things I have to finish and also by prioritizing the work I can focus and spend more on the things that really matter to me. Plan the week at the beginning of the week. Give up the bad habits which make my time waste.eg: avoid long time facebook chatting and too much sleep. Stressful mind Identify the people and the incidents...
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...and Abilities Paper The professional association that interests me is the American Management Association. The American Management Association, I like to consider the proverbial “icing on the cake” of my college education. “The AMA is the world’s leading membership based management development organization.” “Customers and members worldwide learn superior business skills and best management practices from top practitioners through a variety of seminars, conferences, assessments, and even customized learning solutions, publications, and online resources” (About Us: American Management Association, 2010). The AMA website at http://www.amanet.org allows anyone to register free and can access a limited amount of useful information and classes. However, they offer a multitude of membership packages for individuals, teams, and organizations ranging from lowest price of $45 to the highest price of $1,995. The package, depending on the type, will give a member access to most anything the AMA has to offer. A student membership package is also available for $95 and allows access to everything a student will need to achieve that extra professional edge. I will be purchasing my membership next week and I am eager to try the training sessions so that I may stimulate my brain even more and learn new and innovative ideas. The American Management Association will help me to look appealing in workforce through knowledge I acquire through resources...
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...Life Styles Inventory: Self-Description GM591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Instructor: Christine Rainwater Ada Freeman afreex4@yahoo.com March 11, 2010 Abstract This paper explains the current way I think and behave using the results of the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) as defined by Human Synergistics International’s LSI Circumplex. The resource maintains that there are three major “life styles” traits. The first is the constructive styles which depict synergy and helps validate why certain individuals, groups, and organizations are particularly effective in performance, growth, and work quality. The second is the passive/defensive style which can produce a predictable and secure situation, however, learning, the ability to adapt and the organization’s survival is hampered. The third is the aggressive/defensive which may lead to stress, decisions are often based on status as opposed to experience and conflict instead of a team effort. Keywords: life styles inventory (LSI), constructive, passive/defensive, aggressive/defensive As I reviewed the LSI Styles Circumplex after the Life Styles Inventory, I could immediately see that some of my results for the behaviors were right on the mark. Others I felt were a bit off the chart but no results seem completely off the chart. After reviewing how the scores were calculated, I began to understand some of the inter-relations between the styles and my corresponding behaviors and beliefs. My...
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...Personal Responsibility and Life Jacob A Parnell Gen/200 Dr. Sherri Hartzell 1 Personal responsibility is having the ability to maintain a high standard level of performance in many different aspects of life such as; work, home, and school. Having this ability to maintain a high standard is crucial to being successful at anything in life at all. I have found that by maintaining focus and motivation of the goals ahead will get you much farther along the path of reaching your expectations. In our text book , Becoming a Master Student , throughout the book in every chapter it suggests new ways of communicating better and planning your time management much better by graphing time spent on certain activities everyday. It is essential as the book states that writing down your long-term and short-ter In the book Questions That Matter, it defines two different types of people that see personal responsibility and life. One is the hard-determinist feels that everything is already determined in life by something greater than our own actions and out of our own control and therefore everything has a reason we just are along for the ride. The soft-determinist believes that everything is determined by one’s character and actions rather than something greater determining our fate, in other words, we determine our own fate by our free will. I feel that I am more of a soft-determinist in that I feel we create our own results in life and that nobody can defeat...
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