...“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. 2 A.M was the time my whole family had awaken. The most folly thing I did that same night was drink soda when I obviously had to get a good night’s rest because I was leaving for Mexico for the first time in my life. My parents along with my siblings had to take down our suitcases into the truck. The car ride to the airport was really harmonious because it wasn’t that far, plus I was really excited to meet my family over there. At the airport we meet with two of our relatives. It was a devastation my parents couldn’t go with us due to the fact that they didn’t have papers. After a while of waiting it for the airport workers to check our luggage we had to say our goodbyes to my parents. My parents told me and my siblings to...
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...“Life’s not out to get you, despite the things you’ve been through…” A quote I will never forget. As a young aspiring musician, there will always be hardships and sinkholes. Three years of work turned to six, and now to nine. Although I fell apart after these fateful days, my achy bones tell a story along with my tattered clothes from each night after that December. 13 year old Jenaro, a wannabe local musician, has his first show only days away from turning 14. The event drew closer and I envisioned it being the best time of my career, possibly my life. That fateful night brought panic attacks, anger, and my deep seeded self-loathing up front to the masses, and I failed myself. A tightly packed crowd watched on as a younger me broke down under my internal turmoil reaching its boiling point. Repression set in, I was certain I’d never pursue music after that night. Secluded, I hid myself for close to a year after that day. I was humbled by my experience, but deeply I knew I couldn’t just give up forever. Mid way through the spring, my phone vibrated in my...
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...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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...Life Span Christopher Cook Point University Life Span I can say that my life has not been prefect all these years, but I must still consider that I have had a good life compare too many others around the world. I have seen several ups and downs throughout life, but through them all I’ve managed to turn the negative situations into positive outcomes, and the positive situations into greater achievements. There are several reasons why I feel that I have had a wonderful life and will explain what factors contributed my success and happiness in life. I am sharing several key events that happened while I was growing up that influenced my adulthood. I truly believe I became separated from a lot of my parental influences and depended on reading books, and the influence of friends from church, which strayed me into the right paths for my life. My life started thirty-five years ago on October 22, 1977. I was born in Carrollton, Georgia to Mike and Sherry Cook. I had somewhat of a typical childhood parents, brother, and a dog. When I was born both of my parents were very young at the age of nineteen, and had no money at all. Both of my parents had just got out of school, and had just started working their first real full-time jobs. After I was born my mother decide that she what to be a stay at home mother, which really put a finical strap on our family. So my dad had to pick of the difference of her income by getting two jobs to support our family. After about...
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...McAFEE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY “RULE OF LIFE” A PAPER SUBMITTED TO DR. DENISE MASSEY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION: THSP 501 MASTER OF DIVINITY BY JOHN WATSON ATLANTA, GA DECEMBER 2013 At the beginning of the course we were told that we had to put together a paper that would be entitled “The Rule of Life”. At the very outset of hearing this, my mind began to wonder what in the world that is about. I didn’t really understand the concept or began to understand the concept until I had the opportunity to experience the retreat at camp Pinnacle. This opportunity to go hiking was an experience that truly changed my life and how I spend time with Christ. It also helped me understand the importance of creating and implementing rules in my life that would be beneficial to my ultimate growth while at seminary. Now I understand that the “Rule of Life” assignment is more than just an assignment but actually a diagram of my plan of action with purpose and meaning behind it. Now as I begin to think about the methodologies and routines that I want to place into my life in order to enhance my spiritual process here at seminary carries a little more meaning than just something to put on paper. I believe that these rules will not only help advance me but also my family. As a married man with two children, it is important that everything I do always reflect the survival of my wife and two kids. As I continue to learn how to be an awesome...
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...in which they view life and perceive it. My story might not outstanding to other people, but for me, it was a spectacular changed. For years in my life, I would never forget the first time I had my first flight. My family and I immigrated to a new country that I never thought of. Because of that flight, my life had changed from one culture to a different culture in just 24 hours on the airplane It was winter in 2006 when my family and I decided to move out of the country. One week before the departure date, my mum told me that her, my brother, and I needed to immigrate to the United State of America for better lives. I was a teenager at the age of 14 years old at that time. I didn’t really know how my life would be in the U.S, but I was surprised to have a chance to travel outside the country for the first time. The time was liked a flash, I couldn’t had a enough time to say farewell to my friends and my special person, who is my great grandmother. The boarding time for my first flight had come, and I was so exited to watch my motherland from above. That was to have a better life for my family, but my tears just dropped for no reasons, may be I was scared or missed my old house. Well, no more tears to wasted; I boarded the plane with my family and took off. On August 2006 at nighttime, my plane had landed at International Airport of Houston. From the moment I stepped out of the plane, a whole new destiny of mine were waiting ahead of me, and I knew my life would completely...
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...live away from all my family members, so I spend a lot more time with friends and stay connected with family members over the phone/social media. Most of my travel time is spent visiting family members. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Well-being: To support my physical health, I run. I have been doing it for over 10 years, but the amount of time spent running fluctuates depending on what running events I sign up for. For my mental health, I enjoy hiking, reading, and taking...
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...Sometimes in life, we expect a marriage life to be happily ever after like the children’s stories, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty, but it isn’t always the case. In reality, some marriage life does last forever but some doesn’t. As for mine, it only lasted for a couple years till I finally draw the line and said, “No more of this miserable life.” As time goes on, I have been living in a more stable and happy life compared to the married life I have before. How and why did I do it? Basically, I did it by re-socializing to adapt and cope to the married life I have now. What do I mean by re-socializing? It means that I must learn from my past experiences and make a dramatic change in the area concerning my behaviors, attitudes, expectations, and values to improve my new life. Before I get into my behavior change, I want to give a brief discussion on the topic why people get divorced. There are many reasons why people get divorced, but I will list a few of the important ones. First reason has to do with the break-down in communication and disclosure. This occurs with when both party starts to limit the communication between them. When one stopped talking to the other, it showed a lost of interest to be with the other one. If this goes on, both parties will eventually have negative thoughts such as, he or she is cheating, he or she don’t love me no more, or he or she is up to something no good. These kinds of negative thoughts aren’t good in a marriage life. Another...
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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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...ability of each individual to maturely respond to the various challenges and circumstances of life. The challenges I face in my life are work, school and my personal life. Without personal responsibility I would not be able to balance between them. While not everyone believe you need to have personal responsibility to succeed, I believe that having personal responsibility is the key to success in college and in life because it is our capability to handle all of life’s challenges and accepting responsibility for our actions. Life brings each one of us so many challenges and it is hard to balance all of them together without getting stressed. Personal responsibility is needed in order to balance all of these challenges. I never thought I would be capable of working fulltime and going to school but I took action by putting my personal responsibility to use. It was hard for me to accept responsibility at first because I have never been a responsible person but I realized without it college success would be impossible. Failure to accept responsibility for the things in my life that made me unhappy would have led to me making excuses with no progress toward the goals in my life. I decided that I was in charge of my life and I was going to accept the added challenge of going to college into my life. In order to succeed in college I will need to accomplish goals and gain time management skills. My first goal accomplishment is to make a plan that helps me balance both school and work. The...
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...THE LIFE AND TIMES Gloria Garcia PSY 202 Adult Development and Life Assessment Maritza Leon-Veiguela June 25, 2012 The life and times of Gloria Garcia Outline I. What my family was like a. Size b. Personalities II. Jobs I have held c. Video game bata tester III. My family now IV. Greatest achievements to date d. Mother V. Personal, Professional, and Academic goals e. PTSD f. Clinical THE LIFE AND TIMES Ever try to live in a house with eight other siblings with you being the youngest? I did and it was not easy to say the least in fact it was a living nightmare or so I thought at the time. In this paper I will present a brief description of how I survived my family growing up, but most importantly how my family and some of my life experiences have impacted my life as I know it today. Using the adult development theories from this course I will also bring to light some of my future goals and what I would like to accomplish. I was the youngest of nine children living in Brooklyn New York inside what seemed to be a small two story walkup. So needless to say I had all the cards stacked against me, with five older sisters and three older brothers simple things people in allot smaller families take for granted day after day, I did not know of until I was almost the age of fourteen, simple things like; Privacy, having seconds at dinner sometimes just having dinner was a task by itself. My Mom spent most...
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...Learn from Life Life is an endless lesson; every impact is a credit. This year, I am 25 years old. I am not a weather-beaten guy, but life still teach me a lot. I was born in a not rich family, both of my parents are busy on their jobs. To earn money to support family and make me live better, my parents spend their times almost. At that time, may be eight or tern years old, I learned how to wash clothes and cook for myself. These things made my parents felt supervise, but they did not know why I should do these. This is life, and it teach me the first lesson is every thing should have done by yourself. Life also bring human supervise. When I was twelve years old. I was in the primary school, at that time I lived in the school because the school is far away from home. Before the week begin, my father tells me: “Son, I will come to you school and take you home this Friday after the class.” I am very happy at that moment because I was tired to take bus to home and stay at home alone. I even do not think about it then say: “OK, I will wait for you, dad.” I still remember that week is very tantalizing. The only thing I did those week is waiting for the Friday coming. I hope next second is the last class of the Friday and then I see my father is standing there wait for me, we will back home hand in hand. Despite all this, time is still slowly. Eventually, Friday is coming. I make up myself in the morning on that day, I know father will come to school and take me home. I feel...
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...aspect of development this paper defines my values, the sources that help to shaped those values, and the criteria used to revise values in the decision-making process and the impact that values have on the performance in the workplace. Personal Value Development The personal core values, which are my driving force influence both action and reaction started developing during my early teenage years. The core value I have today has taken a lifetime of experiences to develop and subsequently does not change much. I have inherited some of my values. I have learned some values from my parents, teachers, and other influential people throughout my life. Research, reading, and television have also influenced my values to a certain extend. However, I believe strongly that my core values weigh heavily from my life’s experiences. Defining my Values The core values I speak of are my integrity, hard work and valiant and honest effort, telling the truth, and doing the next right thing. I value my life, my children, my loved ones, and the integrity in which I live my life. My core values are aspects of my life, which I believe are my strengths. My core values are important to me as they guide me through my life. I hold myself accountable for whom I am and how I conduct myself in my personal and business life. I believe in my values enough to trust my own judgment. I believe I am a well grounded individual who believes in my own values enough that I have confidence...
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...My hero is my parents due too the reasons on why I am here today. My parents has showed me too work harder than what I can actually work on. I have too stay committed to myself on the things I do. I have too manage myself on what I do and don’t do. I have too always deal with setbacks and also deal with success in life. They have showed me to be self believed about my self and sacrifice myself. I have to do the most simple things in life as well as I can. There is a physical part in life an there is a mental part in life. There always have to be a social behavior on the choices I do and the actions that I choose to do. I keep my vision out there too see what is wrong an what is right for my life in making good choices. I have too be self confident...
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...They make me laugh when I remember the time I cried together! But make me cry when I remember the time I laughed together. They too can make me mad but, for sure, no matter what emotion they carry, they all share a place deep in my heart.” Every moment, when I recall them in my mind, they appear to be fresh. I cannot make myself believe that I already passed those times and will never be in the same time again. A chill runs down my spine awaking all my senses till date when I remember them. I especially remember the time when I was able to make my whole family proud of me. That was the time when I saw my own future as I had wished that to be. Every time I think of it, it takes me on a voyage of happy moments. In my whole life; it is uncountable how many happy moments that I’ve gone through since I was small. Happy moments are something that made us very happy and it is unforgettable. It will never be erased out of our mind and we will always remind of it for the rest of our life. It might happen daily, weekly, monthly and even annually but it really happened. It makes us smile to the ears and sometimes it tears us down. I just can’t imagine how it feels if we don’t experienced all those happy moments. I was staring at the stars shining in the sky. The city was dark due to the scheduled power outage. People in city were in their mid-sleep but I was standing at the balcony, checking my emails. I was checking my email account after five long months...
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