Life Reflection Paper

I have come to realize that learning is one of my passions because it enriches my quality of life. To my recollection, growing up I have always ask my eldest family members to tell me stories. I enjoyed knowing how to do things and how not to do things. However, my adolescence period caused a bit of difficulty for my parents. I thought I knew everything that I stopped applying myself in school.

I believe my testimony is best described in three parts: the beginning, the growth, and the maturity. My walk with Christ began when I was little. I was always raised in church and surrounded by a Christian environment. I got baptized at the age of 10 when my grandfather passed away, and during that time of grief, I decided to take more serious my walk with Christ. The reason I took that decision was because I saw how of a godly man my Grandfather was and I want to be like that. As a result of that, for the past 10 years, my relationship with God has grown every week. I think my faith grew stronger when my father had his first heart attack in May of 2012. I was fifteen and I did not know what was going on. I felt helpless and confused because nobody in my family would tell me what was going on. So, the only person I could rely on was God. Then, four years later in July of 2016, my faith grew even stronger when my father had his second heart attack. This time it was different because he was not in Texas, he was in Pennsylvania. So, this time feeling of helpless due to distance, I needed to rely on the Holy Spirit that my father was going to live. Therefore, I believe, going through these experiences made me get closer to God and grow as a Christian. Finally, I believe I have matured in my faith by serving God. For the past, seven years I have served in my church’s children ministry. I started at the age of 13 as a teacher assistant, then when I turned 18 I became a teacher of

Procrastination. Laziness. Comfort. Everyone is faced with these struggles, and many tend to take them without question as they run through life.(Hook, Framing Start) It is often said that you should be meeting the minimum and you will be good, but in my work, studying, and personal projects I have found that doing the minimum will lead to minimal results for a minimal impact in life.(They Say, I Say #1) One practice I have begun to adopt and use in my daily life is the belief that anything is achievable, any vision, any idea, any dream, through hard work and the self-discipline to look at struggle and accept that there is no easy way out besides getting it done.(Thesis)

I achieved my goal of two-and-a-half hours at the gym, therefore receiving my reward, dinner Amigos restaurant. I experienced many enablers (Refer to table above). Although I reached my week one goal, I did experience some barriers that made reaching my goal more difficult (Refer to table above).

Change is painful. Change is risking the safety of what one knows to explore the vast unknown. To allow change to intrude into one’s life is to endure discomfort, to endure pain. As difficult as it may be to let go of the familiar, change is a necessity for human development. Without change, there is no growth. Once one decides they have a desire to improve themselves as human beings, they must introspect deeply, and question how their beliefs and mindsets shape their achievements, relationships, and goals for their future. I am willing to do this exact thing, my success in life depends on it. My beliefs and mindsets have truly impacted me as a person. We will explore these impacts by exploring my achievements, my relationships, and lastly, my goals for the future.

To begin I want to state that I had passed all my classes and thus I was allowed to leave early at 1:15 pm. The first week we came back from spring break though, our main goal was to start raising money as fast and efficiently as possible. Starting the week of April 24th my main job in the classroom was contacting and social networking our project, while still helping to fundraise. This week I also created the GoFundMe page and shared it on all my existing social media accounts. My main p.m. goals that week were more centered around linking our prototype ideas and sketches, going to Home Depot for materials. On Friday the 28th, my teammate Laurel and I had to go to set up a conference with City Councilman Mike Bonin. Instead, we set it up with Field Deputy Anna Kozma for the next week.

Throughout a person’s life, one is constantly making choices and decisions. From measly daily decisions to drastic life changing choices, one often does not realize that these choices could shape and transform a person into who he or she embodies today. Many times ordinary daily decisions are not dire, but as one travels down the winding road of life, he or she sometimes can run into a bump in the road that can change one’s life forever.

Being seven, perspective on life is commonly very optimistic, however when I was seven that all came crashing down in just one day. 08 August 2008 my father was murdered while my family and I were at the house with him. The death of my father changed my perspective greatly, it showed me what community really means, and impacted my school life throughout my elementary, middle, and high school career.

After just beginning a new position within the company I was asked to attend the Top Gun program. My initial thought was, “this is going to be overwhelming”. It has been an honor and a learning experience being placed into such a prestige program. I was very impressed with the first session we received in Greensboro. The instructors delivered content that was certainly relevant to the way a leader is received. The data that was collected from myself, direct reports and peers appeared to be extremely accurate to the way I was carrying myself. The data provided reports that relayed strengths, as well as weaknesses. The literature provided was to improve on both our strengths and weaknesses. We were also provided a coach who broke down the information and delivered feedback on the reports in a one on one setting. The coaches studied the data and also provided ways to improve. Along with helping us understand all the data. The information I received on the way I was providing leadership made me think about how I needed to try and change the way I was leading. The peer feedback were people from work giving their perception and also made me think about the way I was perceived by my peers away from work as well. Receiving the feedback from them and the way that Rich Clemson and their staff presented it reflected a personality that I felt had improved from the last time I had taken a similar evaluation. We were presented with several areas that need improvement and a systematic

Have you ever found yourself asking God to take you out of a rough season of your life? Your prayer may even look something like this “God, get me out of this mess.” We get consumed with our distress that we often miss the development. I will speak more on our personal and leadership development in the next blog. When was the last time you found yourself in a season of distress? For some of you reading this you are in that season right now. Guess what? You are not alone. I have been in a season of distress for the last several months.

On Tuesday September 12, 2017, I was getting ready to go out and pay my bills. I went out the door and went down the stairs and a woman approached me and asked if I had two dollars. I looked at the woman and act like I did not hear her. Then she asked me again if I had two dollars and I told her I would have to see if I had any change. I did not want to open my purse in front of the woman because I did not trust her. Then I went back in the house and looked in my purse. I went back out the door and gave the lady the two dollars. I asked the lady where did she live and she told me she move in the green house down the street from my house. I introduce myself by telling the lady my name. After I finished introducing myself to the lady, I begin talking to her about Jesus Christ and my testimony. She was impressed how I told her about how I met Jesus Christ. I explained to her how I had relationship with God and that she could also have a relationship with Him. I informed her that I would be back after I pay my bills. I invited her for dinner the next day. The lady came to my house for dinner. We talked and she informed me that she did not have any relatives in this city. She stated that she just lost her son and went through a divorce with her husband two weeks ago. As she was pouring out her problems, I listened to her. She started to cry and stated she was overwhelmed with things that was happening in her life. I asked her if I could pray for her and

I am currently sitting in 7th hour of Growth of America where we were asked to reflect back on our life so far. I am now sixteen and a sophomore at New Prague High School. This autobiography is going to show the ups and downs in my life. Most of my life I lived in Webster with my mom, dad, and my sister who is 19. Then at about age 10 I moved to New Market with my mom for a couple years because my parents got divorced. Now I live in New Prague with my mom and still in Webster with my dad, I switch between houses every other day.

Over the course of six months, I have become proficient in using the general ledger, purchasing and sales orders/invoice menus in QAD. My process areas involve searching for invoices and purchase orders to solve inventory, AR, AP or fixed asset problems. I am often entering or updating projects in QAD and have learned how to investigate and solve account, sub-account and cost center problems. I have become proficient in how to find, change, upload and post journal entries and account balances within QAD.

At birth, everyone is given a tool box. As one grows, learns, and experiences situations in life, tools are added. In my lifetime, as short as it may be, my toolbox has grown tremendously. For example, socialization by my parents gave me the tools to be kind and respectful, religious mores that have been instilled in me so I know what is right and wrong, and devices that my resourceful therapist has provided me with. All these devices and mechanisms are essential in who I am today, and how I perceive the world through the lens that only fits my eyes. Yet these past few months, my vision has been altered, and not in a negative way. A sociological imagination filter on that lens has led me to contemplate certain aspects of my life that have been influential in my life. Socioeconomic status, the modernization theory, education differences, ethnicity and white privilege, along with gender theories and gender socialization have all impacted the present day Marinah.

One's dream and aspirations to supersede in life must be stronger and greater than limitations set forth by others. The experience that were bestowed to me during my short life has elevated me to the woman I am today. Please walk with me as I give you the opportunity to see the world from my eyes: