After reading my blog, I was kind of amazed but not really surprised. I feel the most I have grown in this course was my thinking and how I perceive everything and sometimes everyone. Every since that video on the Secret, I realized how I have to be on a day to day bases in order to get the things I need and want. Reading my blog, I believe it's obvious that I pretty much know what I want and where I want to be but because of the many obstacles that I have encountered in my life and will encounter in the future. I realized that there are so many things possible for me that I thought could never happen because I have been educated and taught to basically not settle and truly strive for the best because I deserve it.
I think the activity that I have engaged in the most since this course was putting myself out there. For example, the interviews we did with our role models and getting advice and learning their experiences and what it took them to get to where they are today. I was extremely terrified when I made my first call becasue I didnt know what to expect but when I began talking and getting to know the doctor, I became more relaxed and comfortable.
I cant really some up the three things I liked most about the course because I LOVED it all. Everything felt so inspirational to me and instead of someone just telling me what I needed to do, I finally had people who showed me how to do those things with or without the everyday road blocks. I really liked the choice of books choosen for the class to read because I could relate to them and questions I had and were afraid to ask sometimes, they seem to be answered by the books.
The only thing I liked least about the course is the documentaries length. After a few people talked it was fine, but when it felt ongoing and times you thought it was over it would start back over again became frustrating. The documentaries were very helpful dont get me wrong, but they were a little to long over due with the helpfulness.
The only improvement which can or cannot be helpful is the panel. However, I was fine without the panel because I still learned alot without them and my role models was like my panel anyways because I probably would have asked the panel the same questions I had asked my role models.
I really appreciate Dr. Rock and her effort to help us because she showed us that she cared about us and was really trying to show us good leadership and what we really had to do to become successful. Dr. Rock is a very successful woman who I admire as a role model of my own because she knows the value of hard work and dedication. THANKS! I HAD A BLAST IN THIS COURSE!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Work The Plan
Each week that goes by, I get closer and closer to my goal and it feels kind of good but scary at the same time.
This past weeks plans were very simple and small because my current goal is my "half goal" to my real goal. My first steps for the week was to talk to my advisor about what actions to take regarding school and what it is looking like as far as me graduating at a certain time. The talk with my advisor was very helpful to me and I felt fine afterwards because I knew what actions I had to take but I was also terrified.
I was not able to hold a weekly buisness meeting with my buddy because he has been very ill so therefore that buisness meeting was not able to occur but in our last weeks meeting we kind of planned far ahead in the future of what our next few weeks are suppose to look like.
My sunday night meeting with myself did not consist of much but the usual doing homework and studying. The only difference is that I will register for classes if I am able to and try to see my way through how the rest of my semesters at UIC will look like.
This past weeks plans were very simple and small because my current goal is my "half goal" to my real goal. My first steps for the week was to talk to my advisor about what actions to take regarding school and what it is looking like as far as me graduating at a certain time. The talk with my advisor was very helpful to me and I felt fine afterwards because I knew what actions I had to take but I was also terrified.
I was not able to hold a weekly buisness meeting with my buddy because he has been very ill so therefore that buisness meeting was not able to occur but in our last weeks meeting we kind of planned far ahead in the future of what our next few weeks are suppose to look like.
My sunday night meeting with myself did not consist of much but the usual doing homework and studying. The only difference is that I will register for classes if I am able to and try to see my way through how the rest of my semesters at UIC will look like.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Buddy System
Completing the first steps makes me feel so much more closer to my dream, however my current first steps are pretty small because my goal is a half goal. My first steps are to continue to go to class, do my homework, study, and go to tutoring. I have been doing my first steps and completing them and now im just waiting for crunch time where I can transfer to the next step and phase.
I have a buddy by the buddy sytem from Babara Sher and we had our first weekly meeting. It went pretty well, we got down to buisness and followed the seps needed to take when in the meeting. The first 5 minutes of our meeting, we did a catch up or report in where we told each other what we did in the past week and how successful or unsuccessful we were. Then we spent the next 20 minutes a piece scheduling and telling what we need to do for the next week, when we were going to do them, and even how we had to do them. We didnt really have no hard times as much; it was kind of quick and fast. We sort of came up with solutions to our problems we had that was getting in the way of us completing our goals. The last five minutes, we scheduled our booster calls and did a short recap of what we were talking about and planned and then told each other what bwe were going to do for the following week and wished each other good luck in accomplishing our task.
I kind of like the buddy system because it is very helpful and encouraging to know that I have someone to root me on and let me know that they are there and that I can do it.
I have a buddy by the buddy sytem from Babara Sher and we had our first weekly meeting. It went pretty well, we got down to buisness and followed the seps needed to take when in the meeting. The first 5 minutes of our meeting, we did a catch up or report in where we told each other what we did in the past week and how successful or unsuccessful we were. Then we spent the next 20 minutes a piece scheduling and telling what we need to do for the next week, when we were going to do them, and even how we had to do them. We didnt really have no hard times as much; it was kind of quick and fast. We sort of came up with solutions to our problems we had that was getting in the way of us completing our goals. The last five minutes, we scheduled our booster calls and did a short recap of what we were talking about and planned and then told each other what bwe were going to do for the following week and wished each other good luck in accomplishing our task.
I kind of like the buddy system because it is very helpful and encouraging to know that I have someone to root me on and let me know that they are there and that I can do it.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Moving and Shaking
Creating the planning wall of my life for the next two years was fine but then when it came down to actually doing my first steps, it became scary. Although my first steps are pretty simple, it is still a step closer to my goal and dream. My short term goal for now is to get my Undergraduate degree but my real goal is to become a pediatrician but since I have quite a ways, I decided to break it down. My first steps was just to continue to go to class, study, and do my homework. I have completeed these first steps and it feels kind of good to know I have accomplished what I said I wanted and was going to accomplish. Even though it is a great challenge, I'm going to continue to strive on and be the best I can be.
However with doing these steps there is great fear. Barbara Sher talkes about how when you are beginning to move closer to your goal, you start shaking meaning you are afraid and then tend to find ways to almost get out of it. I myself am very guilty of this alot of times and thats what makes it funny because I'm not the only one. Sher calls it resistance. I believe I have experienced some type of resistance before when it came down to completing an assignment for school. I know in my mind and heart that I have to do something really important for school like a paper or project but fear overcomes without me knowing its even fear and then I would be like "Well it can wait", or "I'll have time to do it this day or that day" and basically procrastinating. I didnt think it is a fear of being successful but then again it may be just because of the overwhelment of how things would be once I start living my dream. I believe I have to have more faith in myself and take a chill pill and not be afraid to make a difference in my own life and be all I can be.
However with doing these steps there is great fear. Barbara Sher talkes about how when you are beginning to move closer to your goal, you start shaking meaning you are afraid and then tend to find ways to almost get out of it. I myself am very guilty of this alot of times and thats what makes it funny because I'm not the only one. Sher calls it resistance. I believe I have experienced some type of resistance before when it came down to completing an assignment for school. I know in my mind and heart that I have to do something really important for school like a paper or project but fear overcomes without me knowing its even fear and then I would be like "Well it can wait", or "I'll have time to do it this day or that day" and basically procrastinating. I didnt think it is a fear of being successful but then again it may be just because of the overwhelment of how things would be once I start living my dream. I believe I have to have more faith in myself and take a chill pill and not be afraid to make a difference in my own life and be all I can be.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Get Into Action
These past weeks have been all about getting into action and really accomplsihing our targets or working towards them. A present target for me was completing my five interviews of my role models which I was very successful and was able to make some bonds with the people I interviewed and they were really helpful.
This week was also about making our first steps which I have accomplished. After watching the documentary of "The Secret", I learned alot about my life whether it was the past or future and how I should act. I learned how I should think and how my thinking whether positively or negatively could reflect what happens. My first step was to try the new creative process of asking, believeing, then receiving. I wanted to focus my thoughts only on what I wanted and making them come true. Alot of times, I want a trouble free day, so one morning I woke up and the first thing I did was gratitude and being grateful that I woke up that morning and had complete functioning of my limbs. The rest of the day, I had to stay positive so I could attract positive things and I believe it worked for the most part. I was kind of excited that it worked and was ready to try something new and different. I also found out that although in the secret it kind of said that just thinking about what you want that it will come true but the thing behind the secret is motivation. When you think about what you want like gettinjg an A in a class and that's all you think about, then you start to do better in classes because you are now motivated to work hard for that A because you are only thinking positive and are now like I CAN DO THIS! and then you end up doing it. I felt really good after finding this out which motivated me even more to continue what I was doing in a positive way.
This week was also about making our first steps which I have accomplished. After watching the documentary of "The Secret", I learned alot about my life whether it was the past or future and how I should act. I learned how I should think and how my thinking whether positively or negatively could reflect what happens. My first step was to try the new creative process of asking, believeing, then receiving. I wanted to focus my thoughts only on what I wanted and making them come true. Alot of times, I want a trouble free day, so one morning I woke up and the first thing I did was gratitude and being grateful that I woke up that morning and had complete functioning of my limbs. The rest of the day, I had to stay positive so I could attract positive things and I believe it worked for the most part. I was kind of excited that it worked and was ready to try something new and different. I also found out that although in the secret it kind of said that just thinking about what you want that it will come true but the thing behind the secret is motivation. When you think about what you want like gettinjg an A in a class and that's all you think about, then you start to do better in classes because you are now motivated to work hard for that A because you are only thinking positive and are now like I CAN DO THIS! and then you end up doing it. I felt really good after finding this out which motivated me even more to continue what I was doing in a positive way.
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