Of the 7 challenges to being an exceptional manager listed in my text, I see challenge # 7: Managing for Your Own Happiness & Life Goals as the greatest to overcome. I chose challenge # 7 because I am not sure if I can handle the career path that corporate America has to offer like Ann Garcia in our text (Kinicki & Williams, 2003). According to Reh (2014), “A manager is the person responsible for planning and directing the work of a group of individuals, monitoring their work, and taking corrective action when necessary”. I do not have any managerial experience professionally but, I am a full-time stay at home mother of eight children in the age ranges from 2 years to 18 years old. I do not think that I could maintain my sanity without
In “Happiness 101,” Harvard professor Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar presents his ideas pertaining to the achievability of happiness. He begins by discussing how individuals must give themselves permission to be human, so that they can feel the negative feelings before they reach the positive feelings. If negative feelings are held back without release, then they only intensify eventually blocking out the positive feelings. Ben-Shahar continues his presentation to the topic of managing stress on the micro, mezza, and macro levels. These levels include the ideas of meditation, sleep, taking time off, vacations, and the “three deep breaths.” Simplifying agendas and practicing quality over quantity has a positive effect on stress levels as well. At the conclusion of his presentation, Ben-Shahar discusses the positive effect of practicing gratitude on health, happiness, and well-being. After listening to Tal Ben-Shahar’s presentation, I completely agree with every point that Ben-Shahar uses over the topics of giving permission to be human, stress management, and practicing gratitude covered throughout his presentation over happiness.
This week’s reading of Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success goes into further detail on how to use the six influences for the advancement of ourselves personally or worldly. It goes through each of the six different influences and shows interesting and different ways to combat these influences and turn them in favor of the goal.
Catherine, you provided some great insight about the “life coach model” at you place of employment, by stating what it consist of, and the role of what the staff is to do with it. From what you stated, the life coach model is very important for the staff and clients. The loss of training is needed for all organizations to be able to effective provided the service and treatment to the clients they are assisting towards achieving their goals. Funding is an important aspect to keep in mind to make sure that staff has the necessary knowledge to get their job done. The funding that could potentially decrease can interrupt the focus of helping the clients, and the training that is highly recommended for the life coach model.
After reading Melissa’s career path and goals , I analized how Melissa and I share similar struggles in our career paths. The two of us experience related obstacles to reach goals and become successful. Like Melissa, my career development is troubled so my decison to venture back to school twice. Working as Director of Operations for a charter bus company for 6 years has provided me with a great deal of work experience. My job duties are somewhat similar to a managers position and I have the ability to make management decisions. Unlike Melissa’s hectic schedule, my work day starts at 8am and ends at 4:30pm each day. Weekends are my off days, but occasionally I am on call after hours. Unexpected inturreptions can interfere with family time.
A plethora of experiences, both professional and recreational, have prepared me to work in a managerial position. In my high school, I serve as a varsity captain of the swim team. Serving as a varsity captain since freshman year has taught me about how to effectively be a leader for a team. Leading a group of older, faster peers as a freshman challenged me to find a way to earn people's respect and heightened my appreciation and my drive for true leadership. The past two summers as a lifeguard in the Aquatics Program have also helped me become familiar with how to work with my co-workers, many of whom are friends, in a professional environment.
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Success can mean different things to different people. The definition of success can change for a person at different stages of their life. A person's culture, family, friends, experiences, and environment can be a big influence on defining what success is to that individual. We all hear the stories of people failing and failing until one day they make it to the top, beat the bad guy or pass the trial. The story can also go that they got all they desired or raised up from the ashes. All of these have one thing in common, it is at the end of the story. It's never the beginning or middle. It's always at the end of the story that the person succeeds in their quest. But why does it have to be at the end? Simply, like how there is no good without evil. You can not have succeed without struggling and failing first.
Setting a personal goal allows you to decide what you want to achieve in your life over a period of time. The personal goal for the assigned project I have set for myself reveals handling stress effectively. I have experienced ulcers in my past, relationship problems, and changes my mood often due to stress, therefore this explains why I chose my personal goal to handle stress appropriately and possibly overcome it. The plan of action I chose to help me obtain my goal includes changing my behavior, creating a social support system, and establishing a reward system.
What is happiness? The Oxford dictionary suggests that the word happy is a feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. However, many people know when they feel content. The question now becomes, “How does one become joyful?” While there are numerous different ways to stay happy, there are three main ways. We can achieve happiness by having satisfactory income, having good relationships, and staying positive.
I want to volunteer at Johns Hopkins because I like to help people. I know that’s the most basic thing ever and usually people don’t even mean it, but I really mean it. When I help people, I am happy. I especially love to help kids. I have a lot of experience in babysitting and teaching children Sunday school at church; I’ve helped at the library with helping kids how to read, etc. Speaking from experience, I know what it feels like to be stuck in the hospital when all your friends are out living their lives. In August 2015, I had spinal fusion done by Dr. Sponseller. I am mostly recovered now, but the week in the hospital was the longest week of my life. One of the child life specialists’ helped me by giving me movies to watch and
Peter Drucker argues that we live in an age of unprecedented opportunity; that people can make it to the top no matter where they start (Drucker, 2005). However, no matter what natural talents you may possess, people still need to learn how to manage their lives and their careers over a fifty or more year period. He asks people to ask five primary questions honestly about their career.
As a child and even as a teenager one tends to make dreams and set goals for life. On occasion these goals are far stretched and sometimes even fairy-tale like, we tend to see life through a rose-colored glass, not taking into account the many sidetracks life throws our way. At that stage in life our goals tend to be less focused and somewhat unreachable. However, the process of growing up, or maturing, tends organized and center our goals, we learn to make compromises and set goals for our goals. There are different types of goals, short term and long term. I have learned to separate the many goals I have into three main categories: family, professional and personal.
In considering personal growth and happiness we naturally connect with the concept of subjective wellbeing and also the positive psychology movement. Positive psychology, with its foundations influenced by Aristotelian ethics, concentrates on the elements of human behaviour that effect personal and community development. These are referred to as our universal character strengths and include the acts of integrity, forgiveness, kindness and gratitude (Peterson & Webb, 2006). Suh’s (2000, p63) metaphor of ‘Self as the hyphen between culture and subjective wellbeing’ is useful to aid our understanding of the construction of self, identity and happiness. Indeed, in exploring how the self interacts with social institutions and the daily lived world, we can begin to understand the meaning of spiritual wellbeing (happiness, life fulfilled) for individuals in different cultural systems. Contextual and cultural factors influence our spirituality and the manifestation of psychological wellbeing and so the patterns of expression of psychological wellbeing in various cultural contexts do need further clarification (Keyes 2007).
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A year or so after graduation, I expect to be living on my own without assistance from my parents. However, for me to achieve a happy life on my own, I will need to do a lot more than just make a living. The key to happiness is making progress towards becoming the best version of oneself through use of one’s strengths and passions in order to achieve contentment with their life. I would like to ensure happiness in the future by keeping my body in the best physical condition possible, working at a job that brings me joy, and loving a woman with all of my heart because to complete these goals I will need to take steps everyday on things that are meaningful to myself, while also finding solace with the progress I am making, thus leading me to a happier life.