balance in my children's lives, I stayed in the unhappy union. After many arguments, hurt feelings and disappointments, I made the leap and left the man I had spent the past five years pretending to have a family with. With this newfound independence and vast world in front of me, I have many goals that I wish to accomplish. I am a new woman, a new person and the most important goals I have are to be the best mother, best person and best student I can be. Creating an environment where my children
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Completing the Life Styles Inventory (LSI) survey has taught me so much about myself. Some things I already knew and some things actually came as a surprise, which makes me want to reevaluate my life. On the Life Styles Inventory survey, I scored extremely high, in fact in the 99th percentile on the “Avoidance”, “Oppositional”, and “Power” styles of life. Based on the explanations, I would have to agree with them all. Starting with avoidance, as far back as I could remember, I have always been
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describe my personal, professional, and academic goal, for my major field of study, how they apply to the SMART goal process, an accountability plan to meet goals and overcome obstacles, and how my past positive experiences and personality will predict my success in my major field of study. I am attending Ashford as an online student to further my education, to assist in successfully acquiring employment in my field of study. My Goals and SMART Goals After reflecting upon my past life experiences
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is near to my first class at the University of Phoenix. As I continue on with my education, I would like to have great academic success. Academic success can be achieved by being aware of one’s goals, the writing process and the importance of critical thinking skills. By knowing these things, I believe my academic success will be achievable. Goals Setting goals in life is the key to my success. I feel that without goals the task you do in life has little to no purpose. “A goal is whatever
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planning can in many ways be compared to business strategic planning. Just like in business, as with life, to be successful, one must have a clearly defined direction which they intend to go and a plan as to how they intend to get there. This could in fact be viewed as the mission and vision statement for your life .Before I delve any further into this topic I think I should first state my where my life is presently. Currently I am “permanently” employed with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service
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what I want to pursue as my career. The necessary skills needed such as, improve qualify of clients life, develop and increase clients individual self-sufficiency skills, provide empowerment, develop coping and problem solving skills. Also, judgment, patience and acceptance, experience, education, social skills, genuineness/warmth and discretion are important skills I must possess in order to achieve my goal in becoming a counselor. However, in this transition of my life, I will have challenges
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Goals for Comp1 Apathy is the proverbial rope that binds us all ,aspiration the blade that frees us.Though young I still have my share of experiences.These experiences define who I am as a person and my goals define what I allow myself to experience.Being human i'm subject to occasional apathy but at one crux of my life i became overwhelmed with a sense of nothing.Through hard work and aspiration I rose above my apathy and began to truly experience life as I aspired to.This class is another
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focus on when developmental goals and emotional competencies are considered in both my professional and personal life. While learning the different competencies I realized there are certain ones that I need to focus on improving specifically in my professional life in my goals to be a manager in a healthcare organization in the near future. One competency that I feel I have to focus on developing is Emotional Self-Awareness. My goal is to become more self-aware of my environment and surroundings
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Throughout my life, I have acquired effective learning and personal habits through my dedication and hard work, which have allowed me to reach new heights and have assisted in accomplishing my own goals and has helped to develop a high level of learning habits. My dreams and goals have been accomplished by employing the skill of work ethic in my daily life. Such as getting motivation from thinking about leaving the ghetto lifestyle of Los Angeles and become a successful person with value and achieve
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innovation. Strategic thinking can also be used in our personal lives to help guide us in the direction we want to go, and enhances our abilities to achieve our life goals. I had never given much thought about strategy and strategic thinking in my personal and work life, but I now see the many benefits of practicing strategic thinking in my daily life. Effective execution of a new strategy is widely believed to be more important than even the strategy itself, and therefore, it is extremely important
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