Change Anything Analysis

During my high school years, I can confidently say I have excelled in my academic endeavours. This success is partially due to my desire to learn. I am always intrigued by the lessons and concepts that are at the core of assigned work. My passion for learning has facilitated my learning process; because I am usually interested in the material that is being taught, my ability to retain and understand information is heightened. My academic success is also due to my drive to do the best I can. Since grade nine, I have demanded excellence from myself in all academic subjects. I strived to perform to the best of my abilities in the first high school years so that I would adopt that habit early and take it with me through the senior high school years. Finally, my academic excellence

A strong point in my life as a student is my growth mindset. This is an asset that I have acquired through perseverance and elders I have met that inspire me to give it my all. For example, one person who has inspired me and that I look up to is my ninth grade teacher: Ms. Seelye. The first day of her honors LA class made me very apprehensive because I wanted desperately to succeed. No matter how hard I tried though, on my first essay I received a D. Furthermore, this growth mindset is also demonstrated in my ap world history class with Mr. Bopp that was very difficult for me at first. My first assignment was a DBQ essay. I got a failing grade on my first paper since I had no idea the foundations for a good DBQ. In the two examples I listed,

Weight Watchers was designed so that people can take charge of their lives and their weight without having to suffer with horrible tasting food or having a constant rumbling stomach. Not only does it help people lose weight but it helps them be conscious about what they eat and how healthy something really is. Once they start to see pounds shedding off and their waist size shrinking, they will begin to eat better and change their life styles. This is not just a diet for when someone is over weight. This is a diet for a life time. It will continue to help a person achieve and maintain a healthy weight without having to cut out some of their favorite foods, fattening or not. Weight Watchers has activity points just like they do regular food point. This also comes with a nifty slider so that when someone goes to the gym or even goes for a walk, they can calculate how intense it was to how long they participated in this activity for and gain activity points which give people all the more motivation to get out there and be active. They can then turn around and trade these points in for food points.

Setting up my own rules, I realized that Maxfield ideas had a little influence my own. Setting up a goal is a step toward achievement, especially when it comes to eating. It marks where one starts and where that person wants to be at the end. For example, I weighed 135 a couple of months ago, I noticed I was not satisfied or happy with

I was also weighing myself every three days (It helped me hold my self accountable and focused, I got to see the consiquences of creating a box of thin mint cookies lol. So eventually I eventually I ended up changing my dinners over to a "healthy meal" 4/5 times a week and "cheating" on the weekend. And that has done a lot, I lost another 7/8 in 5/6 weeks. So now I have also introduced a workout video (20 minutes a day) and that has been working crazy well. Ive lost 3/4 lbs in just 2 weeks (and I get to eat more Oreo cookies!). So I think doing it in steps and portion control has been the best option for me. Its felt like a slow process but now I find myself not being able to eat as much crappy food, it makes my feel worse (less energetic, sluggish, unsettled atomic) In other words I'm actually starting to enjoy healthier food more. Sorry for such a long explanation!

Some of the goals of schooling and society in the United States are to develop students and citizens, who have high aspirations, believe in their capabilities, are hopeful they can realize their aspirations, and are optimistic about their future in general. Such characteristics are important because each leads to overall well-being (Bandura, 1977; Scheirer & Carver, 1985; Snyder et al., 1991), student achievement and higher graduation rates (Snyder et al., 2002) through a personal sense of urgency which allows them to take control of their life, challenge themselves, persevere through difficulties, and cope when obstacles arise (McBride, 2012).

Society is so focused on not failing that people are aiming not to fail instead of aiming to succeed. However, failure in many cases can lead to success by making a person want to work harder to achieve his or her goal. People should always continue to reach their highest potential because there will always be someone trying to surpass them unless they are working on improving themselves. Not only would broadening someone’s horizons lead to experience, but also personal growth.

The video “Graduation… now what?” spoke about Angela Lee perspective on what the key to success is for your future. She talked about students not learning a particular subject in school. She says you can learn the material if you work hard and long enough. Angela believes that what we need in education is much better understanding of students and learning from a motivational perspective. In education they measure best in I.Q, but that’s not how we measure success. If you want to be successful, you need to have grit. Angela says “grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals” you need to live it like a marathon not a sprint. You can’t believe that failure is a permanent condition. Always work hard even when you feel like giving up.

About a year ago, as I was browsing through the internet I came across a YouTube video; it was a trailer for a documentary titled Billions in Change. After I watched that short video, I immediately searched for the full documentary and watched right then and there. Since then, I have become inspired by Manoj Bhargava. Through this documentary I found out that Manoj is the man who created the popular 5-Hour Energy Drink, and that his net worth is 4 billion dollars, however how he uses it is what shocks me the most. Manoj is a man worth billions, and he has pledged 99% of his wealth to charity. A quote from Manoj that I found fascinating is, “If you have wealth, it’s a duty to help those who don’t.” This mentality is shocking to me, as well as

Throughout my childhood, I pushed myself to exceed standards and use my failures as motivation. My memories are filled with spending hours on end studying one subject so I can perfect my learning. As I sat in my black, broken swivel chair under my bunk bed with only an orange tinted light from my lamp, I repeated information to myself again and again until I could see the words on the page in my head. If I ever failed perfection, I failed because I pushed myself not because I did not try. My goals of excelling standards and achieving a bachelor's degree in engineering make me strive for excellence.

Just by watching what I eat and biking to school, I had already lost some weight prior to these goals. I wanted to add to this success by making my goals a little more challenging, and I am felt very confident about them because of my success with my first round of goals. I knew some potential barriers such as lack of time to make something healthy or work out could arise, but I hoped to combat these through the flexibility of my goals. Weight Watchers is a really flexible program that takes into account days where food decisions may not be perfect, so that makes bouncing back from a misstep easier. I could also prepare meals in advance and have healthy snacks available when I am running short on time.

The second portion of the “Immunity to Change” course book is comprised of four chapters filled with examples of what group wide immunity issues look like, and how to go about unearthing valuable adaptive change from investigative and learning techniques. In one of the first chapters in Part II called: “Overcoming The Group Wide Immunity To change” quite often team, groups and big leadership sometimes insulate or protect themselves from the very change they need. In addition, its sometime the same immunities that can be use among teams to collectively empower themselves as they learn, thus saving the group from unspoken dangers that would otherwise become lethal if left unaddressed. I think these ties in great with the work we do in

It is often hard for me to maintain a healthy diet. Although I have took several classes that outline the benefits of eating healthy, I often find myself setting a healthy eating goal and relapsing the next day. My goals first consisted of me getting a balanced diet for three months. This goal began to fail after two days. I had visited family members during the thanksgiving holiday and ate several unhealthy foods. I then set a small goal of consuming only healthy foods for a week. I wrote down the foods I would eat each day, within that week, and their proportion size. This goal last for three days, and failed due to financial issues. Foods that were easy to prepare became my best friend. However, when I became pregnant, I began to gain excuses weight. My doctor informed on the importance it was to eat a balanced diet. He also taught me the effects unhealthy foods could have on the baby, as well as me while being pregnant. Eating healthy then became a struggle, due to me having a loss of appetite. Now that I am not pregnant anymore, and have gained my appetite back, it was not evident to me the different foods and calories I consume in a day. Completing a dietary analysis has allowed me to gain insight on the foods I eat, my normal calorie intake, and the amount of calories recommended.

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”. A quote by Benjamin Franklin that has always been important to me, and in following it I have grown to be more and more confident in my learning. This led to a growth in my confidence, and inevitably allowed me to learn in a way that suited me. To believe in myself has and will always be my first priority. Throughout the last 18 years of my life, I have come to have many regrets, and have faced a range of difficulties. This constant notion of failure knocking at my door prompted my response of accepting it, only considering my failure as a way to learn from the experiences. I believe that how I choose to overcome these obstacles determines whether I will become successful or not. As many people say, we learn from our experiences and our mistakes, but there are very few people who actually choose to act upon it. I consider myself among those who accept their mistakes and as having the ability to resolve them.

First off, who I am as a learner has changed over the past years. At times before, I wouldn’t take certain classes or assignments seriously and have learned my lessons when I failed. I believe having classmates at the time who weren’t as focused as I wanted to be, played a big role in my lack of understanding in classes. I understood later that if I felt learning was so important to me, I need to realize that it is my future and I needed to focus on my own. Having learner in my top 5 strengths defines me very well. Rath (2007) explains that, “The process, more than the content or the result, is especially exciting for you” (p.133). I believe this defines me as a learner because I enjoy having books in hand, opening up my notebook to write notes and learning new ways to understand the class. Regardless if the content is something I have to get in to or if I don’t do well on tests, I enjoy the process of studying and learning more even when I know I didn’t do so well; that is what motivates me. I believe as long as I keep this mindset and understand that this is my strength, I will continue to grow and further my education as much as possible. Even though I have failed a few of my last classes, I never let that stop me from continuing. Knowing that I have “failed” makes me realize I know I can do better and I try my hardest not to let it get me down. I will not get further if I don’t keep trying and as a learner I am a motivator to myself in my studies.