Personal Narrative: The Transtheoretical Model Of Behavior Change

This past summer, I realized that I was getting a lot more exercise compared to the school year. Aside from the occasional basketball, volleyball, or run, I do not have a set schedule or exercise regularly. As a result, I found the Behavioral Change Project the perfect opportunity to set the goal for myself of being more physically fit by exercising daily. To do so, I aimed to either play sports (basketball or volleyball) for at least 1 hour or run at least 1 mile (which includes 5 minutes of stretching beforehand) as my daily exercise. Having the objectives established beforehand made it clear to me what I needed to do to reach my goal. I also wrote down goal-facilitating behaviors (planning to run with others, to work and study effectively

Week two has been a bit of a rough week for my behavioral change project. I became sick and was stuck at home for three days this week. This caused me to have a bit of a relapse because when I am not feeling well I turn to things that comfort me. A big comfort for me is technology and I hate to admit it but I binge watched a lot of television this week and I used social media quite often. The worst part is that now that the binge has started I am having a difficult time stopping again. I am so stressed now because I missed a great deal of class and as a result I feel extremely far behind and anxious about if I can make it up successfully. Yet, all I want to do is watch Netflix and in all honesty that is all I have been doing this week. After the first week, I felt so strong (naively so) but now I only feel defeated by my own mind. That is a hard concept for me to grasp because how is it that something that feels so good, relaxing, and happy is so detrimental to my life in the areas of education, work, and relationships? I suppose though that part of the reason we do this project is to see what will make us relapse. For me and

According to the Trans-Theoretical Model I am currently in the action stage in which I have already made changes in my lifestyle within the last year. I have initiated behavioral changes to regain my active lifestyle and Regain my health and fitness. Over the years, I had begun to live a very sedimentary lifestyle that has taken a severe toll on my body and mind. Many things contributed to this; I worked at a desk job for twenty years, living in countries that had temperatures that were not conducive of outdoor activities and severe debilitating depression. My children had all grown up and left the house and my husband was having extramarital affairs, leaving me alone and not mentally capable of engaging in any activities

I think it’s great that you are trying to change your behavior because it will not only benefit you, but the way your family lives also. You are instilling routines and practices into your daily routine to help maintain your behavior and you have also made it a family activity which further motivates you to implement this behavior in your life. Regarding the previous attempts, were there any consistent factors that stopped your attempts to be physically active? For example, was there no time to fit in some physical activity or was exercising something that you felt took too much time and effort to do and dropped it? A model that can help you maintain the behavior is the theory of reasoned action model. It is an effective model that allows for

The behavior I have chosen to do my modification program on is increasing the amount of time I work out every time I go to the gym until I reach my target goal. My target goal is to work out for an hour and half every time I go to the gym in the morning. When I go to the gym I will be taking a stop watch to time the amount of time I work out to verify that I reached my goal as well as mark my calendar every day that I go stating how long I worked out for. To make sure I was committed to the goal I wrote down six reasons/benefits of making this behavior change that are both short term and long term. They are feeling better about myself throughout the day, getting to wear the dress I want to be able to fit by my birthday on July 24th, increasing my endurance for marathons, improving my mood, sleeping better, also something to enjoy doing with my husband. There are many more but these are the ones I placed on my bathroom mirror, on my desk lamp at work, on my dashboard in my car, the table next to my front door that holds my gym bag and shoes, on my fridge and in my husband’s truck in case he drives. I also let my husband know my goal and also invited him to come with me so he could monitor that I am actually sticking with my plan daily. I also had stated the table next to the door holds my gym bag and shoes so if I was to walk outside I automatically see them there taunting me to take them and go to the gym. I also put a reminder on my phone each day of my goal and why it

As a one year old child when my parents first moved to Stump Tavern Road in 1959 when my father was stationed at McGuire AFB, I have seen the metamorphous of Jackson from a sleepy rural township into a suburban bedroom community. After college, I chose to return to Jackson and raise my Jewish family here for the same reasons so many choose it today; the quality of life, public school system, and aesthetics of the countryside. It is with this background I am writing to you today to applaud your courage and foresight and voice my full support of Ordinances #03-17 and #04-17 for a complete ban of dormitories in all residential and commercial zones. Unrestrained development is environmentally unsustainable and as the caretakers of this town

Overall, I believe I successfully completed my behavior change, prior to this assignment I had only went on runs occasionally but with determination I have made physical activity a priority at least three times a week. I believe my biggest accomplishment from this project was

The Change-Readiness Assessment was right on point on most of the scores. After adding my scores, I started asking questions. In fact, I thought I was going to score high in all but for optimism, but I was wrong. The resourceful, confidence, and passion/drive score reminded me of my first job as a sales associate. It was mandatory for all to make monthly sales goals and it was tough associate in my location since our location was a dead shopping center. Even though I was not doing badly, I was bored stiff. Something terrible happened in one of our busy high volume stores and due to that, our District Manager fired everybody in that store. He reached out to all the other store locations close by for Spanish speaking volunteers to work in that

I personally have strong beliefs in change for the better. In the couples of years that I've matured I realized what was going on in the world around me, life has taught me so much. The right and wrongs, the left and rights, and even the ups and downs. Being that there's so much more to look forward to, i'm curious to see where life takes

Being the youngest of four siblings, I got dragged on many of college visits throughout the years. I found the setup to be fundamentally the same: Prospective students accompanied by parents, usually more nervous than the students, enthusiastic tour guides ready to impress, and admissions counselors trying to be as accommodating as possible. I never understood how my siblings knew the right school for them. The only thing they said was, "when you find the right school, it feels like home." Over time, my siblings had created a joke about that saying. Little did I know that in seven years, the saying would come true for me. When I first toured RPI, I approached it as any other school I had seen with my siblings. Following the obligatory bookstore visit, I told my mom that we did not have to go on any more tours. I finally understood what my siblings were saying. I found my home at RPI.

Looking back over my life and reflecting on what I could have done different, and how I should have changed my lifestyle, and now looking down from heaven, what I would have done, if only I was allowed a second chance. I am telling this to you now, so you will know that when you are young and healthy you think that you are invincible, but as you get older I am here to say things happen and maybe by taking the right steps in life you could be a healthier you. Here is my story, and I hope you will read it, think on it, and apply my lesson to your life, and that my story will help a life be saved.

To describe a time that a leader I know “Challenged the Process”, I am going to look back at the example that I used for our last reflection. One-day last summer while working for the Boulder County trail crew, my crew, as well as one more, were tasked with moving a 1-ton bridge using grip-hoists (manually-operated winches), and it proved to be a much more daunting task than we had anticipated. After many failed attempts to move the bridge, frustration among crew members was at an all-time high. We were working near a high-use mountain bike trail, and many riders had been watching our progress, so the pressure to accomplish our goal was higher than usual.

this point my body was exhausted and my energy felt like it had been sucked out of me. I kept trying to talk back to the crew members when I was questioned about anything. At first I could hear myself completely sounding fine responded to a question but I kept getting weird looks from the crew. They asked me "What's wrong, you aren't making words out." This started to scare me so I kept trying to talk then I could realize I wasn't forming words and my mouth was also not moving with the pace I was used to. I started to freak out because I could only communicate with myself at this time and all I could do was yell at myself for not stoping this before. I kept going but then the shaking started. This affected all of my actions because I couldn't act like a shark attack victim who was unconscious while shaking. I tried to stop it but it got the point where it was uncontrollable.

I do think we've gotten better as a society. Although I think it would be difficult to pick up all the bad apples on the tree. History does repeat itself, I just hope it never happens again. And if it does, I also hope we can stop it in the nick of time.

Allow me to introduce you too two people; their names are Nani and Kai. Nani attends a private school, has loads of peer support, and is a straight-A student. She lives with both of her parents and her three siblings, she’s the oldest. She’s diligent, organized, responsible, humble, passionate, creative but above all; very loveable-not in the romantic sense, but in a friend type of way. Then there is Kai. Kai attends an underfunded High School where teachers would prefer to be at home watching Netflix than at their job, she lives with a single mother of four kids; and she is the second oldest of nine siblings. She is constantly surrounded by negative peer influences, she suffers from major depression, ADD, and has