Personal Growth Initiative

I work in nursing home. My person values are ambition, committed, family orientated, hardworking, loyal, self-reliance, acceptance. My personal belief is to treat everyone equally, with respect and dignity. I always remember that every person is unique and different. I show positive regard to everybody. I am a Christian brought up in the Catholic faith, but in my work, there are a lot of people with different faiths like Hindu, Muslim, Jehovah, Anglican. Mrs X who is one of the residents on my ward is Muslim. I attend to her every day. She likes to pray four times a day, covering her face during the day with a hijab. When I finish giving her personal care in the morning, I make sure I give her the hijab to cover her face and then remove it at night before going to sleep. I make sure no male carers are allowed to enter her room or attend to her. She has a female carer at all times. I make sure that I don’t discriminate against any client or staff. I try to give each staff member and client equal opportunity like the same amount of time. I respect the right of clients and staff, by giving the clients the right to chose what they want to do. What they want to wear. What they want to eat. Mrs X wants to go to bed at 22.00 hours every night One night we were short of carers for the night shift, so I put her to bed early, her son came to visit and complained, and asked me to

This is a video was posted on the khan academy’s website where the founder, Sal Khan interviews Carol Dweck a professor of psychology, Stanford. The main aim of this interview is to inform all people about growth mindset and how you can grow and challenge it. Deweck described growth

According to Judy Willis, “When you are experiencing highly negative emotions or severe stress, incoming information is routed to a different part of your brain”. When the high-level thinking happens, the information routed is to the reactive lower brain. When that happens, the memory is affected, all active learning stops. A fourth way is recognized and valuing incremental progress boosts a person’s motivation and enables him or her to deal effectively with setbacks. According to Dweck, “people with growth mindsets, believe their abilities can be developed though dedication and hard work- brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have these qualities.” With a growth mindset, people realized by having a failure in the past don’t mean they will in the future.

The overall theme of the sources we studied was about growth mindset.The most important thing about growth mindset is that intelligence can be developed. Also, the brain can grow by hard working and practicing. In “You Can Grow your Intelligence,” the author maintains that contrary to the belief that a person is born either smart, average, or dumb, instead the brain is more like a muscle, it changes and get stronger when you use it. Lastly, Carol Dweck, in a Ted Talk titled “ The Power Of Believing That You Can improve,” narrates how she researches about the growth mindset and the fixed mindset, and the benefit of having a growth mindset. Also, in her video she gave many good advice of how you can change a person that have fixed mindset to a growth mindset.

This helped me create a specialized plan of care for my patients and their families.

Why having a growth mindset is good for someone. This helps people thrive on challenges. If people develop a growth mindset it could help them embrace their challenges. Embracing challenges could help people reach higher level of achievement. “Those with a growth mindset, on the other hand, were keenly attentive to information that could help them expand their existing knowledge and skill, regardless of whether they’d gotten the question right

People with the growth mindset care more about learning and are eager to learn. Dweck did a study of brain waves in the lab at Columbia. For example, Dweck explains that “only people with a growth mindset paid close attention to information that could stretch their knowledge” (Dweck18). This shows that individuals with a growth mindset are more passionate and motivated toward learning because they believe learning will make them grow and succeed. Anyone can learn and change how smart they are. Dweck did research for the students who entered the university and weren’t fluent in English. Also, she measured their mindset. Dweck told the students that they have a definite amount of intellect and they can’t do much about it. For instance, “those who learn with a growth mindset agree that: “You can always substantially change how intelligent you are’’ (Dweck 17). This indicates that students with a growth mindset firmly agree that an individual can constantly change how clever said individual is. People with the growth mindset strongly concur that success is about learning and gaining knowledge, so they don’t want to miss an opportunity to eliminate their language barrier. They have confidence that improving will expand their learning capabilities. The growth mindset can motivate you to continue when you have a

In the article “Carol Dweck Revisits the ‘Growth Mindset’,” Carol Dweck refines her definition of growth mindset, and she explains that since many have confused the concept, it is important to clarify the idea of growth mindset before people claim that they have one. Dweck explains that, although effort is an important factor for having a growth mindset, it is just as, if not more, important to ask others for help, to test out different strategies, and to ask what needs to be done in order to succeed the next time. Instead of claiming to possess a growth mindset just because it sounds better than possessing a fixed mindset, one should accept the mindset that they actually have. This will only help to develop a growth mindset, which is

To whomever may be reading this, I have personal story to tell you about my growth mindset. Up until the ending of my sophomore year my mindset wasn't a growth mindset, I happened to be accustomed to a fixed mindset. I used to be afraid of being judged and I hated the word failure, I hid all my flaws from the world and can you believe I actually thought that was okay? I would be going crazy asking myself what's my purpose? Why am I not good at anything? The truth is, I don't have a purpose and I'm not naturally good at anything. But I changed and it wasn't something I learned in an instant, I took some time to understand and reflect that my purpose comes from within. It comes from passion, hard work, practice, and most of all, a long-term of

Facilitated by our certified Life Skills Coach and Mentor. The primary goal of the Life Skills Enhancement Program is achieving significant and measurable improvement that enable individuals to enjoy a more productive and satisfying life by optimizing cognitive behavioral strategies that promote critical thinking and healthy decision – making. The overall focus is enhancing participants' functioning and behavior, developing skills for living a productive life within the community and engaging in behaviors that contribute to positive outcomes in society. Treatment is practical and targeted to developing greater independence, improving everyday functioning, and achieving academic and vocational

Although I did not pass with a distinction, I still managed to obtain an average of 72% for the overall degree.

I am a MBA student taking different courses to develop a great understanding of the various aspects that businesses entails. I want to be well –versed in a variety of other areas that will make me confident in my career.

date. In doing this I will highlight potential areas of development needed and will address these through Personal Development Planning. The rationale for doing this assignment is to enhance my professional development by undertaking an annotated reflective report.

Reflection on my behaviour in the workplace and my learning group I completed the online Keirsey Temperament

This paper presents personal development plan which I have formulated to identify my career objectives and improve my interpersonal and professional skills. Personal development planning includes a set of questions which try to identify career interests, potentials, and competencies, collect relevant information for future decision making, and personal development matrix to identify short and long term goals and their respective actions to be followed.