Self Reflection

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged twelve or older (9.4% of the population) had used an illicit drug in the past month (NIDA, 2015). In 2016, about 3.6 million adults aged 18 or older received any substance use treatment in the past year, representing 1.5 percent of adults (SAMHSA, 2017). These numbers are not even taking into account any type of behavior addiction such as shopping, gambling, social media, etc. Strong of these numbers, as counselors we can see the importance to gain knowledge about drug and behavior addiction and its process. In order to have a better understanding of the process of change, we have been assigned to abstain from a substance or a behavior for a period of 15 weeks and to reflect about it.

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

This past semester in Modern III, I have found different things about myself in terms of shifting my movement vocabulary into something new. The somatic work in the beginning of class has allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and experience something new. Imagination has been a key factor in this. Three different goals that I have been working on this past semester have been keeping my abdominals engaged, my ribs to soften always, and allowing my transitions to flow smoother. As I mentioned in my midterm self-evaluation, I believe that I have come a far way from the beginning in the semester until now.

According to the Keirsey Temperament workbook, my combined values make me a guardian. My knowledge, experience, dedication, authority, and reliability are strengths that make me a great leader. I choose to manage the recycling yard, public, and staff like any great manager would. In order for me to manage efficiently, I would like to improve a few things. I find myself to be very easy going, abrupt, and shy, and have come to realize these attributes hold me back. Aside from the areas that need improvement, the effectiveness of my strengths creates a healthy and enjoyable work environment.

The ingredients that form the foundation for human development, according to the relational developmental systems paradigm, are positive relationships with the divine, others and the world. Using the Christian doctrine of the Trinity as a model for God's ideal plan for human nature, this model integrates theological principles with developmental science and psychology to demonstrate a framework of human development that encompasses the many stages of life from infancy to late adulthood.

I plan to develop rapport with myself and work on learning how to avoid seeing crises as insurmountable problems, which refers to a person’s being able to accept the fact that highly stressful events happen, but you must learn how you can change the way you interpret and respond to these highly stressful events and learn to develop certain characteristic to overcome and improve your physical and mental abilities for future predicaments. My research study showed that working with yourself. (The American Psychological Association, Para.4)

Remember that time you felt passionately about something. An exciting desire to do or be something of your pure uninfluenced interest. Now do you also recall that time of doubt and criticism of yourself? But why? Why are we so quick to dissolve our own dreams and aspirations? In three key points, I will attempt to decipher this psychological anomaly called self-limitation and we can overcome its filters. Why this topic is important to me is because it is something I certainly struggle with and it is something we all have experienced. It is what holds us from becoming more than we can be and more than we want to be, which end the end is happy.

When I stare at a blank page of paper today, I am able to visualize the many possibilities of its potential use a much more than compared to when I was younger. When I was about elementary/middle school age, black sheets of paper brought the expectation of notes in classes such as Ms. Chilikoff’s history and language arts, Mrs. Williams’s math class, and Mrs. Apodaca’s science lectures. It brings memories of procrastination and hesitation as to how to begin my essays on trivial topics that didn’t particularly leave a lasting impression on my learning experience. I just remember the anxious feeling of trying to be “perfect” on the first try, trying to force myself to start long projects so I wouldn't stress as much, and the therapeutic doodles as I constantly get sidetracked from my work.

First, in relation to the work, I believe that if I cannot make better efforts on normal tasks, even the trivial one, then how can I expect to do more challenge things in the future? Everyone wants to reveal their abilities and to be famous including me. But, maybe I should focus on small things and prepare for big things’ coming. If I do not want to do something routine and trivial, I can figure out the creative method to be more efficient. I believe that the companies and managers would like employees could make more contribution in a smart way and save more cost and time.

As a young child, I experienced an immense amount of love and care from my family. My mother cared for me the majority of the time as a child, as she was a stay-at-home mom. Having siblings, I sometimes thought that I was not sufficiently being listened to or given enough attention. However, looking back on it, we were all given an equal amount of attention as children. Occasionally one of us would have an event or situation happening in our lives that required more attention and as any child would, I got jealous because I felt like I should always be the center of attention. In elementary school, I was not able to easily make friends of my own age. Instead, I would bond with my teachers and the surrounding adults. I would label myself as a mixture of a secure connector and a pleaser. I am usually able to easily communicate my feelings and describe my own strengths and weaknesses. However, I also constantly feel like I need to do everything right in order to please the people around me. As a result of having great parents and mentors in my life, God has been able to evidently care for me through them. God was able to take the times that I struggled with as a child in elementary school and use them to my advantage as I got older, by allowing me to communicate at a higher level with people.

Looking back to the beginning of the semester, I remember how out of practice I was in writing non-technical papers. My writing style felt clunky and awkward, and writing a persuasive essay was absolutely foreign to me. However, over the past weeks I have rekindled my ability to write non-technical, persuasive papers. I also have grown writing skills by the repetition of some new techniques that have helped me become a better writer. In this self-assessment, I will discuss the skills and strategies I have grown in as well as the steps I need to take in the future to continue to develop my writing skills.

Prompt: Some students have a background, identity , interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

Throughout this course I have had not only the opportunity to learn new ideas and new ways to better myself as a person, but also reflect on a lot of stuff I have already learned through my experiences in life. I have been able to learn a lot about myself by being open to looking at my flaws and committing to put in effort to change. I feel like this course helped me think about a lot of things I hadn't really given thought to before, so it helped me identify problems in areas I had never even looked for problems in.

“Mommy, why can’t we catch the water?” I think that was one of my earliest questions about the world. It was sometime before kindergarten, maybe even before preschool. A time when I didn’t even know what science was, but I was thinking about it. About the what, the how, and the why. I knew that I drank water, that I used it to wash my hands, and that it flowed. And yet I couldn’t take it at face value - I was familiar with it, but did not understand it. My first memory of curiosity, the first of many.