Personal Narrative: The Ones Who Developed Their Strength

Let me introduce myself, I was born here in Utah but spent most of my life outside of the state. My early memories of living in Utah were good. I remember having birthday parties with my cousins and my extended family would all be there, we went to family events on holidays and felt close with my family. My family moved to North Dakota just after kindergarten, that being the place my dad decided to attend law school.

I am a first generation child to have been born in my family, the first generation who is about to graduate high school and the first generation to go to a college and succeed in life.

In the next few pages I will discuss my willpower challenge. I read The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal (2012) that guided my writing. I shall begin with my will, my wont, and my want power. According to chapter 1, page 14, we have a prefrontal cortex that has three key regions that divide up the jobs of “I will”, “I won’t”, and “I want”. The “I will” area I found out helped me begin and stick with a difficult, boring, or stressful task. The “I won’t” area is noted help me hold back from my impulses and cravings. The “I want” region kept me on track of reaching my goals and desires. For my willpower challenge “I want” to be healthier, “I will” try to exercise more, and “I won’t” be eating to many sweet foods, and did try to stay away from food with saturated fats. I knew that would be a difficult challenge. I know I had many problems to address.

One aspect about myself, that goes unnoticed in my life is my determination. Determination has been a trait of mine for the majority of my life. Both my mother and father are very determined people. Having them as my role models growing up, I always wanted to one day be like them. I personally believe this is where my determination aspect came from. I don’t think that I was born with it, but rather developed it because of the people I was surrounded by in my life.

Lessons can be learned from unexpected sources. One morning my sister Kenadee and I were playing with toys. We had buttered toast that morning; it was as tasty as ice cream. Kenadee was being really silly and put her buttered toast in our VCR player! I thought I could get the toast out of the VCR player with no problem.

My first strength is discipline which fits me because I set up routines, know deadlines, and am a perfectionist. My second strength is futuristic because I focus on my future a lot, everything that I am doing in my life is going towards the goals I have for my future. My third strength is achiever because I like to achieve at things and do everything in my life to the best of my abilities. My fourth strength is deliberative because I am very careful with my personal life, so I am very private and cautious. My last strength is responsibility because if I have a task that needs to be complete I am someone that myself and others can rely on to get it done.

I am looking for my first gig on this site, and hope you are willing to take a chance on a newby of sorts. I do not have a website or proof of my writing skills, other than this Cover Letter. That doesn't mean I have no experience with either. I do have a rather unusual need for privacy, so I rarely share my information on social sites and whatnot. I took a chance on this site, as I also have a need to be productive, I kinda like to eat, and sorta enjoy the roof over my head.

You are a child, innocent to the land beyond a fortress of comfort and there’s a challenge you never could imagine, yet you were facing this challenge, years before you were even aware. Never believing in the possibility that someone close to you, would one day become one of the most difficult people to interact with. This involves accepting the reality that your parent has lost their true soul to a bottle of Tequila. You live a childhood pure and oblivious to any possibilities at this age of innocence, therefore ulterior motives are not suspected. You are at peace, left unaware of what happens behind closed doors. At the time, I never had a major concern for my mother’s behavior; I only assumed her to be an adult and one with full authority. Often times she behaved oddly and against her moral codes, however no further questions would be asked. There was only acceptance for her and what I believed to be a normality.

It was during the fall when I realized that I was going to apply to Saint Edward High School. I had shadowed there and many of my friends knew they were going too. I figured that this was the best choice for me and I was most comfortable there. I knew I wanted to be in advanced classes, but then the Mccullah twins introduced me to the IB programme.

A Lasting Impact My heart is pounding, Anxiety is taking over. The trauma won’t escape me, Even after a whole year.

Before long, I’m forced to sound it out syllable by syllable: CUZ-AY-ME. I’m used to the countless re-introductions that I must make. By the third time that I have to re-explain my name, I usually resort to nicknames or settle for whatever comes out. As if three syllables was too much, I allow them to call me simply ‘Kaz’. It’s not that I have an aversion to the shortening; it’s just that I feel like they are missing the full picture. Dick can often more truthfully reveal the identity of Richard, or some girls can be Kate’s but not Katherine’s. Whatever the case, I associate most with

I grew up in a semi safe environment that was filled with a variety of benevolent people, a vast majority of those people happened to be my family and family friends. The neighborhood was a little tough, there were gunfights in front of my home on three separate occasions and some home invasions but not too much. Thanks to my parents, I didn’t grow up around the rugged kids that Denver Harbor normally produced, so I grow up different from all of the other kids. My parents spoiled me as a child, but thankfully I wasn’t spoiled rotten. My mother and father were and still are fantastic parents, they’re the reason I’m where I’m now. I feel like I eventually grew up right, however I wasn’t always on the right path. There was a long time where I wasn’t stable, I often wish I could rewrite that section of my life, but it’s a part of my

Back when I first started high school it was a whole new experience and there were many learning curves. A story I read reminded me of my years in early high school and how i had it rough with the people there. I made some good friends but I also made many enemies. Through my time there I learned the ups and downs of this new society of people.

One of my failures that I experienced which can be indispensable for later success is letting both my severe depression and severe anxiety interfere when it came to any as well as everything. To a certain extent, I gave up an infinity of times without a doubt, extremely regretting it. Recently, I decided to stay single until I’m completely done with my education, thereupon not only can I focus on school, while I can focus on myself in order to be successful in life. It bothers me horribly considering it is difficult to focus without over thinking.People contemplate that I’m just making everything up in order to get out of it when in reality my mental illnesses, making it harder to participate in presentations, work in class, etc. Nobody gets

I love working out at the gym, but I also enjoy doing outdoor exercises. I started playing volleyball when I was around 9 or 10 years old. It is a sport that I enjoy playing, and I find it to be a stress release for me. When I decided to play volleyball, my goal was to become good, not professionally good, but just to be good at the sport. I will see my mom, who was really good at playing the sport, and I felt that I need to be as good as her. Also, at school, I will watch my friends play, which really made me want to be part of their volleyball team and learn different techniques from them. In my opinion one of the theories that will apply will be Growth and Mastery Theory, which states that we behave as we do to develop fully by interacting