Building A Positive Mindset For My Physical Fitness And Life Goals

Brainstorming all the thoughts that you feel are holding you back from achieve your goals.

My SMART goal was starting September 1, 2017, I will get 8 hours or more of sleep every weekday until the end of the Fall 2017 school semester. The psychological skills that have been integrated into my life to accomplish my goal are goal setting, positive thought management including countering, thought stoppage, restrictive negative thoughts, and positive self-talk, and dealing with anxiety.

Everyone has a different way of living and a different personality, and a lot of it has to do with how a person was brought up and their background. The person that I am today has a lot to do with my family's impact, the people I hung out with, the type of home I lived in, and the community I was raised in. There was a lot of lessons to be learned, but I was able to stick through them, and carry on with my life to the point where I am now.

Growing up is a journey, to be specific it 's a journey in a maze. We go around in different directions in hopes to find out who we indeed are. Left to right in every direction we run into things that change our mindset and by the end of the maze, we are entirely different people. Most mazes have doors; open one door new beginning, shut another end of that chapter. Specific events in life alter our young minds, and we tend to grow from these experiences. Personal and social encounters come our way and turn us into adults. Milkman in the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison goes through various incitements and awakenings that force him to change his ways and enhance his

The question “What makes us who we are?” has perplexed many scholars, scientists, and theorists over the years. This is a question that we still may have not found an answer to. There are theories that people are born “good”, “evil”, and as “blank slates”, but it is hard to prove any of these theories consistently. There have been countless cases of people who have grown up in “good” homes with loving parents, yet their destiny was to inflict destruction on others. On the other hand, there have been just as many cases of people who grew up on the streets without the guidance of a parental figure, but they chose to make a bad situation into a good one by growing up to do something

Humans are shaped through nurture in a way they their experiences and what people tell them could change the person that they are. Meaning, if a person experiences a bad situation, this might affect how they act from now on. One book that showed this scenario was the Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. Golding wrote about a main character named Ralph who was left on an island with a bunch of boys and barely any supplies. On this island, he was first elected leader and then everything went downhill from there. This character was put through countless exhausting troubles and complications during the the story. Relying on the theme that humans are shaped through nurture, the book proved that Ralph did change because his experiences showed that he lost his innocence and his leadership qualities were diminished.

This is true because our character traits change as we grow as people. You are never going to be a solid person. You may have the same silhouette, but it is impossible to stay consistently one way your whole life. You will never be the same person you were yesterday and that may appease some people or it may disappoint them, but that's just the way life is. One small decision could change your life and the world forever.

Most often in people we find a mindset that people will turn out how they were taught as a child meaning how and where they were raised. In the beginning of your life you will act how you were taught to act but there comes a point when you choose.You'll choose if you want to acft how you were raised or the opposite. Your nature is not dependent on how you were raised but dependent on who you choose to be. It is what is in your heart that reflects the choices you make.

Fear has been the barrier for goals and dreams leading to great possible success. Especially in athletics, many athletes experience failure and obstacles throughout their athletic career. Therefore, there are very few athletes that do not attempt or avoid the athletic fears. Whereas a student attempts to achieve the top of their academic rank, athletes will strive to be the best in the sport as well. Whether one is an athlete or student, one cannot succeed with just a strong “fixed” mindset of success. They must have more of a “growth” mindset to achieve. One must constantly seek challenge and difficulty in every step of their life. Avoidance is not the way to achieve success; in fact, you cannot achieve anything with avoidance. World-known NBA legend, Michael Jordan shares a very motivational statement through an interview, “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve almost

There are things that happen when we are growing up that change us when we are grown. There are things that change us forever. Every human being is different, and there is a reason why . All of us had a childhood and all kinds of experiences some good, some bad, some full of joy but also others very painful. Eventually we grow childhood and mature depending of what we have gone through. The way we are able to handle situations is very important because one thing leads to another. We can't rely on intuition, we need to have logic in what our choices are. We can’t just punch someone in the face just because we don’t like a certain individual, or go up to

In the article “What is nature vs nurture?” by Kendra Cherry it mentions, “... Tabula, which suggests that the mind begins as a blank slate… everything that we are and all of our knowledge is determined by our experiences”. A man does not grow up hating everyone and everything but is innocent; changed by society and it’s ways. As children we don’t have our own mindset but more of “a blank slate”. Man begins to follow and take over the habits of what they grew up seeing, both good and bad. Society has it’s ways in getting to people and pushing them to their limit and as a child we are exposed to how others react to those limits being passed. The more man is exposed to hatred the more man begins to grow hate towards what they

Is one’s life set in stone right from birth? Or does an individual gain certain qualities through experiences in life? Nature versus nurture has always been a controversial debate, and there are many different theories and explanations that have been provided around the world, and although many of these statements are true, no one has come to an official conclusion that explains this psychological phenomenon. There have been hundreds of studies conducted in order to explain this topic, and the findings can help develop an understanding that can eventually define the truth. By analyzing certain cognitive traits in individuals it is possible to learn whether these certain traits are predisposed or if the environment one grows up in influence the appearance of the traits.

There are a plethora of ideas and theories regarding the developmental psychology behind why people metamorphosize into different personalities and habits later in life. Developmental psychologists have developed several ways to try and determine where the determining factors are in peoples’ lives that cause the differences. Several of the theories tend to have overlaps in parts of the ideas such as the ideas of “nature vs nurture” and that of “social context.” These theories share the overlapping ideas that there are outside influences on the way a person turns out in life. While “nature vs nurture” states that there are outside influences, there is also a counterargument that the genetic make-up of a person is the determining factor for how that person develops later. Even still, there are some who also believe that both arguments of “nature vs nurture” have even attributes on the lives of people.

There are many arguments that have generated from the assumption that, human being is a product of his environment likewise; (McLeod, 2013), “nothing they say happen by chance, whatever a man does or say must have being thought about beforehand”. It is not unconscious, the theory made use of conflictual statement for instance, every behavior and feeling is deeply rooted in the unconscious mind, which means, what one does, is not being aware or not preplan, also, childhood experiences are also affects a person’s behavior and feeling. All the experiences a man has right from childhood age influence the character or personality of a person. It is widely argued that all behavior has a cause, whether conscious or unconscious action has being preconceived or determined. As long as nothing is new, whatever happens to a man has being happening in the past, the same scenarios applicable to attitude. Little information or experience exposed to right from childhood age does make impact on the later development of a person.

As the “self” expands we put together the different reactions making us a unique individual. Every individual has a different way of thinking and therefore they make their own choices about certain situations. Going through different life changes, means the “self” is expected to change to accommodate the life stage we find our selves in. The way we perceived things when