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Personal Development Day 5 (4th Grading)

I know that most of us has been imagining what we are going to be at the tender age of 5. Some of us might have even said " I'm going to become a Policeman", "I wanna be Doctor", so on and so forth. But as we grow up, our choices and goals in life change. As we become mature, we started to consider our capabilities, attitude, and even our financial aspects upon choosing our future professions. And honestly ,I am one of those people who are struggling to choose between passion and practicality of our chosen career. But whatever your choices are, as long as you are willing to commit, dedicate and sacrifice everything to it then you can do whatever you want to and be successful in life.

[angelkyrrieobsioma]

Reflection #1

Jan. 18, 2021

{PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT}

: (Getting to Know One’s Self) - Having this subject for our 2nd semester was refreshing and gives us a new environment as this one has a different “ideal kind of subject” to us. Personal Development entails and takes part on the assessing and understanding a one’s self or an individuality, family, loved ones, friends and even the society they’re living in general. Our lesson for today was all about “Getting to Know One’s Self” that had created an enlightenment upon valuing my self more deeply pertaining straight to my mental health and self awareness in the 5 areas as multi-dimensional mainly: physical, spiritual, emotionally, social, and moral human being. My takeaways for this lesson gained me a lot of questions in my mind like, Do you really know yourself? What makes my self- perception different from the people who I’m engaged with? Why am I afraid of judgment or negative feedbacks from others? Do I act differently with them and plays my ‘ideal self role rather than my ‘actual self role’? Will I proceed with my priorities and goals for myself in the near future? Who am I really? Are the information/things that I’ve learned and experienced already enough to fill in my satisfaction? When is the time that you’d realize who you really are?. By simply asking ourselves “who we really are” is already quite mesmerizing yet tends to neglect criticism and opinions from other human beings. And that’s when I realized that we can’t be really complete if External self awareness is a big hinder and never take them constructively. Starting with the questioning of our worths that’s synonymous with our regrets most especially with those certain standards we’re craving. The confidence that you live for yourself, own own ideals, own thinking and own expectations paved us the way to blame others when we failed. One contributing factors that would affect your failures is seemingly YOU. Always be non-judgmental and unbiased to YOURSELF. I’ve reflected my own thoughts on how important delay gratification is. You have to wait for the time given to you. You don’t have to fast tracks. Set your goals straight. Set priorities one at a time. Be diligent to get that reward in that way that is healthy for yourself. Discover yourself towards betterment. After all we’re just the same. This subject is really fun as I’m lookin forward to more self reflecting everyday, prioritizing your mental health as the world still exists in pandemic. :))

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Personal Development Day 6

We can't control the way we think most of the time. Our mental stability is determined through the way we think. Our mental health is very essential for our well-being. Not only it affects our mentality but also our physical, emotional and spiritual health. Sometimes, the way we think is also influenced by the standards of our society. We tend to overthink everything that we've accomplished in our life. We sometimes belittle ourselves because we're not able to meet the expectations from the people around us. Valuing our mental health start from within ourselves. We should stop comparing ourselves from others. We must not harbor negativity in our life but rather surround ourselves with people and things that can bring us positivity. We must let go of the things that tie us up with bitterness and unsatisfaction with ourselves. Instead, we have to have purpose in life, we must be self-accepting, have positive relation with others and the likes to become mentally/ psychologically stable and healthy.

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Personal Development Day 5

We face challenges everyday. Be it untangling your bird's nest of a hair. Cooking your breakfast early. Listening to the discussion during classes while fighting off sleepiness. Getting your activity sheets done. There are lots of it with different kind, with different level. The more challenging the situation is, the more that you will be stressed. Stress is the reaction of the body to a demand or challenge that requires your immediate attention. If you happen to face a problem that you can't solve, you become stressed and fruatrated.According to Hans Selye," it is not the stress that kill us but our reaction to it". As challenges causes stress, it is inevitable for us to cope up with it. We need to be calm and rational in solving our problems as to not result to bad stress that can affect our over-all health. There are actually a lot of ways to irradicate or can lessen the burden of stress to us. One of it is to have me-time. Giving yourself a retreat in solitude to enjoy the calmness and peacefulness and help us not to get much stimulated by stress. Eventhough there are lots of challenges coming to us, we sometimes need to stop and free up all the thoughts that are troubling us to keep sane. It is rather effective that way because as what saying says, "you can do anything, but not every thing". To make a sound desicion and response, we need to be calm and rational. And in order to be calm and rational, we need to relax and exhale the stress and inhale positivity

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Personal Development Day 4

"When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny".

-Paulo Coelho

The 12 year old me once said " I can't wait to become an adult. Once I become a grown-up woman, I can do anything I want". Such an impatient and curious thing I was then. Now that I'm nearing the legality stage, I just wanted to go back from being a child, joyful and free from worries and problems. As we reach adolescence, it's just natural to face challenges and problems along the way. But this time, unlike when we were still a kid, we are expected to become responsible. We must know how to respond to the challenges, know how to make wise decisions. Though it is inevitable for us to make mistakes, we must learn from it. Although we're slowly turning from a young girl/boy into a woman/man, it does not signify that we're able to grasp the challenges being thrown to us. We need to take action, an initiative, in solving our own problems. We can also ask our grown ups for advice and take it constructively to develop and improve ourselves.Maturity is not measured by age. Being mature means you have the attitude to react to your problems rationally. Experiences brings out maturity. And in facing the bumps in our life, we need to endure and persevere. As what the saying says, when life throws you lemons, make a lemonade. In short, you can't turn lemons into lemonades by itself. You have to take action in order for you to have the satisfying outcome, the result that you wanted to go your way.

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Personal Development Day 1

Knowing one’s self is not easy. Some of us rely on other’s perception and opinions to be aware of our attitude, how do we react on certain situations and how do they describe us as an individual. Each one of us has unique characteristics but  sometimes, we can’t help but compare ourselves from other people that can either have positive or negative result to our self-esteem. In today’s lesson, I have learned about self-awareness. Self-awareness helps us asses ourselves, how to reflect to our shortcomings and make this imperfection into a positive trait to improve ourselves as a person. Just like what Aristotle said “ Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom”.

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Personal Development Day 4 (4th Grading)

“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. And having both is a blessing.” - Anonymous

Having a family is a blessing. It may be that not everyone's family are picture perfect, having conflicts, financial problems and the likes, it what's make the bond of the family stronger. As we grow up, we may have witnessed the struggles of our parents, being poor that we were having difficulty on where/how to find/earn our daily expenses, or that having a bumpy relationship with our family. And with that, some of us may have promised to themselves that they should build a family like these, like that and they're not going to experience what they've been through. I think that maybe most of us, if not all, have our own ideal family. In my case, my ideal family is an upgraded version of our family today. I decided that I'm going to focus on our family since I haven't decided yet if I wanted to tie a knot with someone,someday. My ideal family is that everyone one of us has already achieved our dreams,our goals. My parents are both happy and contented of what we have achieved and experienced in life. My ideal family, to sum it up, is just to be happy and contented. We may have all of the material things we want in life but not all of us are able to achieve that happiness and contentment of what we have at the moment.

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Personal Development Day 3 (4th Grading)

Family is the basic unit of a society. They have been always in our lives, from birth to adulthood, guiding and shaping us into what we are today. Though, as the saying says, "Blood is thicker than water", not everyone of us has the smoothest relationship with our families. Some are very much detached or perhaps don't agree with a certain family member or maybe with the whole family. It is very much important to build and establish relationship with our family. In my personal opinion, it really bothers me to the core if I'm having conflict maybe with my Ma or Pa or my siblings. Taking an initiative to build a close and good relationship with our families is a good start to have a good, if not great, relationship with them. And with a good family relationship, it reflects to having a peaceful society.