...Marilene Metayer The Social Mirror Assignment 1. What would others say about you that is generally positive? I am a generous person, I love to help someone that’s in need. My family and close friend would say I am to kind for my own good but I am a hard worker and I do not give up very easily. 2. What “constructive suggestions” would others offer to help you improve or change? I don’t have what you call a back bone, I don’t like to say no especially if I can help. My family or friend will tell me I need to learn to say “NO” it’s simple. Sometimes I go out my way to help others. 3. What do you most like about yourself? I am what you can say a go getter, I always want what best for me. I live life to the fullest, because tomorrow is not promise. My slogan inspiration “vivre la vie”. Which simply mean “live life.” I am currently taking care of my mother, and my 6 months old baby my sister kind of expects me too because of my background. 4. What do you most dislike in yourself and would like to change? My timid sometimes make me miss on opportunity, I hate rejection. And I have a big heart it seems the bigger the heart the easier it is to break in life. People take you for granted and use it to their advantages. 5. What beliefs to you have about yourself that limit you? I don’t really have a belief that limit me because I believe everything is possible you just have to put your mind into it. Majority of people believed they have limiting beliefs. As such...
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...When I was asked to write this, I was a bit overwhelmed because as I started reflecting on my life. And I was even more overwhelmed when I realized that, in the perspective of a full life. Nevertheless, I’ve adopted a few simple philosophies that have helped me get through life. Trust your instincts: Your instincts are there for a reason. So LISTEN TO YOURSELF!!! Recognize that feeling in your gut when something is off. Or let your instincts lead you to the right decision in an extremely difficult situation. It’s not always easy to trust them, and I’ve always found that, for some reason, the voice in your head called “logic” will try to hush those instincts. Logic will talk you into playing it safe and may rob you of opportunities. If I had listened to myself saying I lacked experience required to tackle the leadership positions. I would have lost the chance to positively impact myself and others, and I’d be a very different person right now. I’m not suggesting you dismiss your brain altogether. Just consider going with your instincts first, then incorporate logic second. “But what if my instincts are wrong?” Well, they will be sometimes, but you must possess the belief in yourself to allow those instincts to shine through and the confidence to act upon them. Which leads me to point #2… Live confidently: We all know someone that lives life with confidence. Can you picture him or her? In the most trying situations they can be calm, cool and collected. And their presence...
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...My Bio March 21st 2011 Hi my name is Regina C .Livingston, I am a single Mother striving to make Excellence! I have 3 loving Children. My oldest Daughter is 23yrs old and is currently in College to achieve her LPN degree, she has 3 children. My son is 21yrs old and is working and soon to be starting College. Last is my youngest Daughter 17yrs old, whom is currently in 11th grade. I am a very strong, hard working young Lady. I always keep priority 1st .I live a Christian base Life and I put no one before ‘God ‘! Keeping God 1st in my Life is what I have always done. This makes Life easier to live for! I live my Life to the Fullest and do not take my Life for Granit. I Love to sing , if I like a song after I 1st hear it ,the very next time I hear it I know the words . I am an Administrative Asst /Clerk at my Employment! I complete my jobs in a timely fashion. I have very excellent Customer Svc skills and I am very honest. I don’t have or make time for small talk while working, it’s strictly Business. If I make a mistake, I take full responsibility of my own actions. I am a people person and I get along with everyone, and treat everyone with respect when it’s due. I have always been open to discuss any concerns that I may have up front .I am attending school to further my Career to achieve my Associates and my Bachelors , and one day have my own Business in the same Logistics field that I am currently in ! This will allow me to advance more. Thanks Ms.R....
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...Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides." ― Steve Maraboli I believe that challenges and changes in life are the defining moments for a person. In the past decade I have faced several ones, which now seem as a blur but at the time were the harshest I had ever experienced. I first set foot on Canadian soil on June of 2008 after spending 14 years in my homeland Pakistan. I had moved into an environment surpassingly different than the one I came from and it was my first time something so drastic had happened. It was my mother's decision, a decision my father did not entirely approve of. Due to this reason, barriers arose between them, which only got worse over time. In addition to coping with an array of challenges and learning to accustom myself to the language, culture and customs of a strange land, I now had to confront to the rising tension in my family. In that time I had realized a few things. Despite the fact that I had no control over the changes happening in my life, I had full control over the changes happening inside of me. I could either allow myself to be completely taken over, or face the challenges and let them nourish my mind instead. Through these ordeals, I learned that whatever tension my parents had between them should just stay between them and not affect my relation with them or myself. I learned that despite the fact that I am now living in a place completely alien to me, it is rather an adventure not...
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...Some people enjoy change, and they look forward to new experiences. Others like their lives to stay the same, and they do not change their usual habits. Compare these two approaches to life. Which approach do you prefer? Explain why. Some people like to live in the same house, have the same job and habits all their lives. However, others aspire to changes and new experience. Personally, for the several reasons, which I will explain bellow, I prefer the first approach to life. First of all, changes in one's life bring many benefits. One tries new things, gains new knowledge and experience. I think it is great because without changes life becomes boring. I always try to make changes in my life. Moreover, when I feel that my life is boring I do not feel well about it. I feel like I spent those days for nothing. I did not do anything exiting, I learnt nothing interesting and I just waisted my time. Second of all, people need changes. Furthermore, we need obstacles to overcome and reach our goals. I believe that changes make us stronger, more persistent, more self-confident, and more patient. Also, I feel that all people who succeeded in life like changes and new experience because it is impossible to be the best at some field without perfecting the present knowledge and gain new experience. People catch every opportunity to learn more and change their life for the best. From the other side, people who like their lives to stay the same are very permanent. They have...
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...“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.” Changes and adaptation is the vital part of everyone’s' life and one should always be ready to accept the coming in the way. Being open to changes is a great benefit as sometimes "What You Wants Turns Out to be Not What You Wanted". In such cases in spite of having complaining attitude lets welcome the new changes in life. Don't regret from past. Learn from it and become more vigilant in making a choice in future. In this Agile world, most people have fear from change, not in the sense that change is negative, but because it is unknown. Therefore, the comfort zones that have been established will no longer be applicable. In personal or professional life try to be the best version of yourself. For example people you thought were going to be there forever aren't there anymore. It does not means that people change. It’s just that there role changes according to time or situation. As quoted by Mahatma Buddha “ Everything changes, nothing remains without change”. Life is just like weather sometimes too bad to resist and sometimes pleasant to enjoy. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Don't be afraid of changes, you may lose something good but probably end up gaining something much better. It is true. The only constant in life is change. From the day that we are born we em-barque on the journey of endless change, better known as the journey of life. Our lives...
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...happy with their life. Yet they continually venture down the same road of unhappiness. Never willing to change. As you take a birds eye view of your current lifestyle, do you like what you see? Are your relationships, career choices, financial situation and other aspects of your life truly satisfying? Or do you feel there should be more? While most of us have moments of joy, they are usually overshadowed by hours, days and even years of affliction. Stress, depression, heartache and overall anxiety are human nature. But it doesn’t have to be the case for you. You deserve to have the best life possible. The good news? Change is also a part of human nature. In fact, I believe there is an unwritten rule of life stating that the only constant is change. Put in other words, nothing will ever stay the same. This is a huge concept. The reason this is significant for you? Your life is going to change. But it is completely up to you which direction you will take your life when these inevitable changes approach. Will you choose to stay on your current melancholy life direction? Or will you rise up and pursue a life of fulfillment and happiness? The ball is in your court. 1. Get Disturbed We must become the change we want to see. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Enough is enough! When deciding you want change in your life, you must truly get upset with your current situation. Your emotions are very powerful. And you’ll find that by using this energy as a catalyst for change, your desired life will be within...
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...ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE GS1145 Graded Assignments Unit 1 Assignment 1: Change Wheel Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes Describe personal changes in relation to global/historical changes. Communicate information using Microsoft Office productivity tools and email. Assignment Requirements Review Chapter 1, pp. 4-19 and then complete the Change Wheel Worksheet (found on the next page in this graded assignment.) Required Resources Completed Preparation for Success Checklist Textbook Submission Requirements Submit completed worksheet to instructor by the beginning of Unit 2. The Change Wheel Personal and Global Perspectives Before completing this assignment, please review Chapter 1, pp. 4-19. In Unit 1, we looked at change from several vantage points, including need, difficulty, and strategies for success. To complete this assignment, think carefully about change you have experienced in your personal life, and change in the world around you during your life. Task 1: Personal Change Identification Directions: Brainstorm a list of significant changes you have personally experienced throughout your life. Review your list, and identify six major changes that have affected you in very important ways. List them here: 1. Paying Car note 2. Changing Friends 3. Keeping Postive Attitue 4. Stop Complaining 5. Becoming Independent 6. Looking and Talking Professional 7. __________________________________________________________ ...
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...Do you ever find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day? Is overtime becoming the norm for you? Do you wish you had more time to spend doing the things that you really want to do? Most likely you answered yes to one or more of these questions and feel like you are not really where you want to be in life. Maybe work is not going how you would like. Or you could be feeling guilty because you are not spending enough time at home with your family. However, don't worry just yet. There is a solution to this problem and it is far easier than you might think. It only takes a few small adjustments in the way you use your time to change your life forever. This is not only about managing your time effectively, it can change your life fundamentally and for the better. This time management article shows you the importance of managing yourself There are 24 hours in the day. This is something that will not change and we can do nothing about it. While you may not be able to control this, you can manage yourself. Once you realize this you have taken the first step towards effective time management. You must look at the things that are important to you in life and devote your time to these. Everything else should be eliminated from your life. Managing your time effectively will bring about some dramatic improvements in your life, but you must be prepared to make some fundamental changes. Because of this, you need to take one step at a time. If you bite off more than you...
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...the last segment of life. This doesn’t mean life ends, rather it’s a new beginning or a new chapter of your life. This is such a diverse age range. It can span over 30 years. Many things change during this stage in age. We are transitioning into retirement or partial retirement for the more adventurous ones. Our living arrangements may change and there are many relationship changes during this stage of life too. Changes and lots of them As we transition into later adulthood many things change. We are retiring, going to retire or partially retire in the next few years. Retiring brings on a lot of changes social settings and role changes. We go from being important in the work force to an elder. We seem to lose our identity when we retire. This alone can be too much for us to handle and may need a little extra time adjusting into our new role or we may even need a little help adjusting. We have spent so many years working and allowing that to define who we are as a person that we may feel a loss or even feel lost or unimportant anymore. If there is a partial retirement, maybe we take on a less meaningful job, or we are handing over our job to someone else that is slowly taking over, again we feel as though we are losing apart of ourselves. There are so many adjustments that will need to be made when you retire, you will have so much more time on your hands, what will you do with all this extra time? Will you volunteer, will you pick up a new hobby, and will you go traveling? There...
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...other time in life, and some people count on you most. When do you think a person becomes old? When they no longer maintain a regular job, or can’t be independent. What has been the best period of your life so far? High School Years. Do you (or did you) look forward to retiring? Yes because you don’t have to worry about getting up for work, losing your job, of having an income. What major changes have you had in your life? Switching from week day high school environment to real world outside of school and adapting to it. 1. What has been your favorite memory so far? Getting his first pay check and realizing he can make money by himself and be independent. 2. After you retire (if not yet) what are your plans? Hasn’t really thought about but take care of his family and go on vaca. To somewhere hes always wanted to. 3. What age do you think is good to stop having kids? 40 4. What was your first career choice(when you were younger)? A Dr. 5. What is one thing present in life you would want to change? His job, wishes he worked more and made more to feel comfortable. Person 2: Middle-Age Adult (Mom) How does middle age differ from other ages? Should be in a better financial situation, smarter about things, and establishing your career. When do you think a person becomes old? 70 What has been the best period of your life so far? The last 2 years Do you (or did you) look forward to retiring? Absolutely What major changes have you had in your life? A good relationship...
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...Things Are Ever Changing We all see the world and know how things rarely stay the same for long periods of time. The trees change in the fall and again in the spring, your friends come and go, your likes and dislikes change just as consistently as the seasons change. You may believe that you will have a person in your life forever, but then something happens and can take them away from you. Perspectives change, people, change, and time is forever moving so there are not very many things that you can say stay the same. In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, many of the characters experience change. Gene’s life changes dramatically from the beginning to the end, Finny’s life and outlooks on things changes with the things he experiences, and the atmosphere of the school itself changes along with thte boys and what they deal with....
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...CHANGE AND WHY WE NEED IT Pastor Bill Purvis Of Cascade Hills Church has a favorite saying: Change is Inevitable; but Growth is Optional Growth is the result of a Positive Outlook to CHANGE If you are not changing, you are not growing. Charles Darwin said: It is not the strongest of the species that survive, or the most intelligent, BUT the one most responsive to change: When something is inevitable your best bet is to: 1. Prepare for it 2. Adapt to it 3. Don’t be surprised by the next by always looking for it. Live a Life Of Expectancy…..expecting change. Dr. Spencer Johnson, #1 Best Seller of the Book “Who Moved My Cheese?” said Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger changes that are to come. If you don’t change your will become extinct: E.g.…is like Block Buster Video and Movie Gallery….with the event of RED BOX $1.00 There are no more Movie Galleries and Block Buster’s around why….change in movie rental industry. Lets establish here that GOD does not need to change, we do. And in fact he said “I am The LORD and I Change NOT” So if change is inevitable then we don’t have a choice but to change. Change What? LIFE: by that we talking Experience, Life Experiences The SUM total of your life now is made up of your experiences and the decisions you have made in the past. If you notice, it’s really how well you adapted to life’s changes determined your success today. If you change your life you change your experience and Vice Versa...
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...Live the joy of change Introduction Taking the decision of studying abroad implies leaving your family, your friends, and adapting yourself to a new culture and to a new city; but in the end you will live the joy of your new life with new friends, more knowledge, and probably you will get the job of your dreams, or whatever your first purpose of changing was. When we think on change sometimes we think that it must be something painful, and it can be, but we need to learn to postpone our rewards. Change means sacrifice some things to get others even better. And as I already said, although the process of change can be painful and frustrating, the reward can be bigger than this pain. Starting the change is just a matter learning where you must start; people can change their lives if they dare leaving their comfort zone, creating a dream and taking action. I. Create a dream Creating a dream is the first step to start changing your life, and this means that you need to set your first goals. Bird (2012) uses the term 3% to mean that you need set a little goal. He recommends setting a goal that you feel comfortable with, and that you are completely sure you can achieve. In other words, you need little dreams to star your change and then the change will get bigger and bigger as you go on, because if you want to succeed in change realism is an important point; for example, if your goal is to become a CEO of a company, but you have no experience, this goal might not be realistic, or...
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...The Fear (The major point of my paper is about the fear that people feel when they try to change and what they should do to overcome the fear.) Thesis Statement: As we see the characters, Wallace and Ronald Pryzbylewski in the Wire, overcoming fear can be a first step to change. (Introduction: This paragraph explains what I will cover in my writing.) People do not change easily. Many people fall in love with similar people and hurt because of similar reasons. They recognize their mistakes, but make the same mistakes over and over again. Why? One reason is they are doing it wrong. But another reason runs deeper. They are afraid to change. The decided personality is not changed easily like the foot stamp on the wet cement. Although the reasons for resisting change can be external and situational, I claim that the most damaging fears are internal because the individual is with the problem and situation. As we see the characters, Wallace and Ronald Pryzbylewski in the Wire, overcoming fear can be a first step to change. Four of the most prevalent common fears are: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of criticism, and fear of the new thing. (Give two examples that whether overcome the fears or not. These three example paragraphs show how they overcome the fears and how to change or not.) Here are examples from the Wire, the TV show. One is the person who overcome the fear, Ronald Pryzbylewski, and another is the person who does not overcome the fear, Wallace. Pryzbylewski...
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