The difference between having a Creator mindset and having a Victim mindset is the difference between success and failure. In his book, On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, Dr. Skip Downing defines Creators as people who make choices that result in the outcomes they want to achieve. He defines Victims, however, as people who leave their choices to chance, reacting to things that happen in their lives, instead of making things happen, which often has unfavorable results. If you wish to have a successful life and achieve your goals, you must adopt the Creator mindset. In Professor David Mirman’s blog, You are the Prime Mover, he has written a post on the Creator and Victim mindsets. In the post, he gives an example …show more content…
Having moved plenty of times before, my friends and I were used to maintaining our relationships over long distances. Even when we first arrived here I had ample opportunity to make new friends and form new relationships, but I was insecure and lazy. I used my old friends as an excuse to keep myself from making any effort to form new friendships with people. Anytime I was invited to go somewhere with a group of people I would use some excuse to get out of it and stay home to play video games with my friends. I told myself, “I don’t need to make friends here, because no one will be able to replace the ones I already have.” This mindset was purely that of a Victim. Instead of taking the initiative and trying form good relationships with the people that were in my life at that moment in time, I lazily settled those that were part of a previous life just so I could avoid awkward social interactions. This was a time in my life that I played the role of a Victim and it took the examples of Creators I respected to show me how to …show more content…
From there I’ll get a plan together of how I can achieve the transfer. Until then, I will focus on steadily improving my grades by not letting myself get behind on schoolwork. An effective way that I’ve been able to counteract getting behind on my work recently is by setting up a weekly study schedule and also studying with a friend of mine from time to time for accountability. The best way for me to move towards any of my academic goals is to put in the study time in each of my classes. Not only will this help me now, but it will set up good habits and a good foundation for the future of my education. I will need to do some soul searching to figure out what I would like to major in. I’ve narrowed it down to something music related, possibly a degree in musical engineering. It matches with my interests, but I want to get a little further into school so that I don’t completely settle on something before I know other possibilities. I believe that classroom experiences will change how I think about my future, as well as experiences out of the classroom with my professors and peers. So far, the best step I have taken this semester towards my goals is realizing that I have to take personal responsibility for the outcome of my education. My professors give me what I need in the classroom, and it’s my job to deal with it
This book catch my attention about comparison about between Victim Mindests and Creators Mindests are taking the responsibilies path. Firstly, I have to agree with this book about Victims Mindests have lot of problems instead Creator Mindests. I think Victims Mindest are not taking the reponsibilities seriously as result they get lot of troubles with the schools and grades. They are very busy with their minds about having funs, parties, and being lazier students, so they need to change their life sytples enable better responsiblies. They always taking advantages of Creator Mindests to do copies of their homeworks and tests. Additon, they are giving Creator Mindest to do hard works for them until Victim Mindests are going takes the big test
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I’m a military child. Change was instilled in me since my birth in Spain. My childhood was spent briefly in Europe, the east coast of the U.S, and eventually the Midwest. This change of scenery, schools, friends, and just about everything else in my life led me to be the person I am today. Travelling was amusing and I enjoyed change of pace every couple of years, but it wasn’t easy. I learned early on that getting attached to people wasn’t a good idea and should be avoided in preparation for the next move. This led me to being an incredibly shy child who couldn’t open up to people. The world I come from is an adventurous but problematic one. When I concluded making friends would assist with each transition I found myself too terrified to attempt
When I think of the creator verses victim dilemma, I think which one I want to be. Do I want to prosper and advance, or do I want to decline and linger? A creator is a person who thinks of different ways to be prosperous in life, or even in something as minuscule as a project. A creator looks for extra avenues to make sure the job gets done successfully, and as accurately as possible. When creators fail, they determine what could have been done better, and how can they help themselves, or their group succeed. Creators set life goals because they are able to embrace change including the acceptance of responsibility for failure along the way. A victim is a person who blames others to get out of situations and seeks out a scapegoat instead of
For the past year or so, there have been college pamphlets scattered around my car, dining table and room. I have mulled over everything possible, from colleges to majors and minors to careers. It’s been almost mind-boggling. At one point, I couldn’t decide between getting a PhD in Education to be a teacher or go for a biomedical career. I knew those weren’t the avenues I wanted to go down. Yet, the options felt so limited. However, I feel secure in what I have finally decided to do. The reason I never settled before now was because this goal always seemed unrealistic.
When I reached our destination, the geographical differences were just a tiny part of my life’s hurdle. Unlike, my previous assumption of the evergreen state, this was the complete opposite. Tumbleweeds replaced evergreen bushes, rivers replaced lakes and quail replaced red cardinals. My physical surroundings were the easiest to adjust to. Nevertheless, a new school was probably the most difficult part of moving. I grew up in a school where I was the only one in my grade out of a school population of eight. So when I walked into my sixth grade classroom filled with at least twenty-six boisterous children, you could say I was a bit overwhelmed. The lifestyle in eastern Washington contrasted sharply with my comfort zone. People in this area were constantly with a filled schedule including, sports, music competitions and recitals, and school activities, unlike the life filled with daily visits to the lake. School was definitely harder than my previous school, constant homework and tests were a foreign language to me. All the friends I’ve had up till then, have known me ever since I learned how to read, so making new friends was a new thing for me, as well. From the start, making friends was arduous, I’m not a very outgoing person and small talk isn’t my forte. I would be introduced to some people, most of the time neither one of us had a
Another goal I had during my first year of college was to figure out my major. Being that there were many options, it also became an obstacle. Knowing that people often change their majors more than once throughout college, I decided to take various courses that were part of my GE in order to give myself time to think about potential majors. Throughout the span of those courses, I was able to learn about various majors as I met new
When I first entered school and had to start making friends, I tried very hard but always seemed to had issues socializing. Somehow, I ended up being the target of bullies all the time as a kid, with few friends who always stuck around. As I moved around the first few times between towns in Upstate New York, this kept happening. It seemed I just didn’t know how to make good friends, or at least not many. But, this all ended when I moved out to California halfway through Middle School. I made a few very good friends after I came to Larchmont, and they helped me open myself up to more people. I made more friends than I ever had in my life, and began to spend time outside of school socializing— something I’d never done before. Through all of this change, my closest friends were still the same type of people I’d always sought out my entire life; it had always been more creative type people. Whether they focused their creative efforts towards games, art, writing or music, that was always the main thing that connected my closest friends to me. Also, despite my more extroverted approach now, I still do prefer a quiet setting with less people (or even no one) to one that is busy at the end of the
During my high school career I was able to make lots of friendships, but had few close friendships. I was unable to have a large amount of girlfriends, because I did not feel a good connection with them. Instead, I hung out with a group of guys and had two girlfriends who had similar life stories. When I was sixteen I started working and that was something I enjoyed doing to make money. Once high school was over I felt like I had so much to look forward to. When college came around I didn’t see the same people every day and had to make new friends here at Anderson. This was challenging for me, because the dorms are full of females which was something that I have not been used to.
“Blaming creates, and reflects, a relationship frame that is often not useful in creating and maintaining just relationships” (Kelley, 86).
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Being a creator is a more positive outlook then being a victim. Some people would rather be a victim but most people would prefer to be a creator. More doors of opportunity open for a person that
Upon graduating high school, I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life. I didn’t want to be like a lot of my friends and use college as an excuse to party all night and be lazy all day. So I decided to apply for a full time position as a diesel mechanic at Utility Fleet Sales so that I could at least begin earning income. Soon after starting this position, I realized that I wanted more. I decided to attend night classes at Blinn community college while continuing to work full time. I had no idea on what degree I wanted to work towards, but for the first time in my life I began to enjoy school. As I finished my first year at Blinn and second year working as a technician, I was promoted to an inside parts associates. This position introduced me to inventory management, building relationships with customers, cost management and basic accounting. I really enjoyed applying the mechanical knowledge I learned from working as a technician, towards my new position of
This paper is my personal SWOT analysis. The SWOT analysis discusses four specific categories to evaluate a project, situation or in my case my personal and professional life (Hay, Castilla, 2006). In this analysis I will look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that I need to address in my life. The concept of this type of analysis is a great way to find out ways to improve, but at the same time is a difficult task for someone like me who has a hard time outwardly expressing self attributes. That might be one of my weaknesses or threats, on the other hand it might be what makes me a good listener to others. I will refer to the SWOT analysis chart throughout this paper (figure 1.1) the list was difficult but, I feel it is pretty close to complete.
i believe i am a funny person in general, so people tend to be easy around me and not feel uncomfortable if they do not know me.