Personal Philosophy Reflection Paper

From the research that I have done forming the three research articles, I have concluded that the authors who wrote the research journal, the magazine, and the book advise to not work out heavily every time. The authors suggest that if I do have a busy schedule, one that does usually fit gym time in the daily commute, that I should at least incorporate some level of physical activity whenever I have the free time. Simply walking at a fast pace on the way to work or class, or just getting out of a chair and stretching is beneficial for most, if not all, people. I can use the advice given to me so that I can be constantly active even when not in the gym, so that I don’t increase body fat percentages.

When I first learned about this assignment, I was a bit skeptical. Having to go to the same place every week and journal about my experience did not really appeal to me and seemed tedious. I was never really big into journaling, but after the first visit, I was hooked. After the first visit, I was amazed at how much of a relief it was to have nothing to worry about except the beauty that was right in front of me. Feeling the this sense of calmness wash over me was unbelievable.

Philosophy can be described as a chance for person to undertake an opportunity to understand themselves, our world and society, and relations between ourselves and one another. Those who are able to study philosophy, can find out what is to be human, what kind of person is it good to be, and especially how are we to live a good life. I, myself, have had an opportunity to take a philosophy class and as my time in philosophy is starting to come to a close, I am suddenly realizing how Philosophy has changed the aspects and my outlook upon my life.

For someone currently studying at the Sauder School of Business, I am amazed that I got into this school. I have never taken a business course in my life (asides from learning a little about marketing during my yearbook course and from watching television), and my high school curriculum was centered on the sciences. All I knew was accounting since both my parents are accountants; I was also aware of how prospective accountants needed to obtain their Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification and the existence of the “Big 4” accounting firms. Thus, I was fairly narrow-minded and just hoped to get my bachelor’s degree with a specialization in accounting.

The person that I talked to for this paper was my grandfather, Richard Davidson. I wanted to talk to him because I didn’t know much about his past, and knew that he has strong opinions about how the world has changed. I also wanted to talk to him because I was interested in seeing how much I could relate what I have experienced to what a family member of mine has experienced. I talked to him for about an hour in person over break. The main thing that we talked about was how he grew up going through World War II, and how much the world changed specifically during that time. During this part of our conversation, he described how they were always listening to the radio and reading magazines and newspapers to keep up with the war’s progress. He also told me that he “had blackouts every night and black shades in case the Germans bombed Boston, and that we captured/sank 2 German U-boat submarines off Cape Cod. I saw flights of American bombers going over my back yard everyday”. This was an interesting quote to me as it let me see a bit into the life of someone living through World War II and I could almost feel the fear that they must have lived with going through such a scary event. We talked about how aircrafts going to Europe were flown by female pilots so that the men could fight in the war. One thing that he emphasized was his belief that without WWII society would’ve developed more slowly as it brought about many technical and societal innovations such as radar,

We, individuals, observe our own character, emotions, and desires. We learn from ourselves every day on how we react and treat certain situations. We grow up to learn that we can't treat or react in certain ways because we will get punished or we'll be seen differently which shapes the way we are due to the fact we're afraid about what others are going to judge. Resulting in the way we grew up has taught us self-advocacy considering that we have to make our own decisions in life caused by our environment, family, and school. When our mind is maturing we start to distinguish our strengths and our flaws especially when we start to understand ourselves. Individually we make our own decisions when we're alone by having to support your decisions to responsible and stable. We learn how to be ourselves and experience failure to help us grow, it teaches us lessons that can later on helping us academically and socially shaping us self-advocacy. Self-advocacy allows us, students, to admit our failures that make us succeed from working on our mistakes. Similar to school we learn about our abilities on our learning styles and occasionally we need tips on how to focus in class. Taking educational surveys have actually helped students how to gain academic insights and making the learning process easier once you know how you function.

I would like to learn more about the topic of Personality in the class AP Psychology. Moreover, I would like to learn more about the topic of personality due to the magnitude of different things that can alter someone's personality interests me. Whether it be a tragedy in an individual’s family or a jubilant moment in his/her life, these moments have the chance of altering this individual’s personality. Also, I find it interesting that there is a plethora of different personalities such as whether an individual is social or not. Also, I find it fascinating how the media portrays different personality. That is why I like the topic of personality the best. If I had unlimited funds to conduct research in the field of personality, I would investigate alternate ways to assist people who are struggling with issues within their personality.

Throughout the entirety of this project I was able to take a step back and look at myself as a future professional in the fitness industry, and I was also able to help a person achieve something that he had been wanting to do for a long time. This project provided me with an outlet to be able to work one on one with a client in something other than just the workouts. For the entirety of my time in my fitness career I have been working on creating workouts that would challenge athletes physically, improve their athletic performance, and also reduce the risk of injury. Yet this project allowed me to look at a side of fitness that I had neglected up to this point. Overall it provided a chance for me to switch up my mindset on things and it really opened up my eyes to a whole different way of thinking when it comes to fitness, and it also provided very meaningful information that I can use and implement in my career moving forward.

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

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.

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

Academic: I am not sure in what manner I am mercy shower in regards to my current academic situation; however, I would like to be able to aide my fellow classmates as much as possible. Since, the classes I take are online I do not get to know my fellow classmates in the way I would if we were in a classroom setting. So, instead I try to pray for my online classmates, especially when I feel like an assignment may be stressful for everyone.

For some individuals attending school is not a very appealing prospect. School can seem like another hoop to go through to get somewhere else. The school system enforces the mindset of living for the future; we start from kindergarten to first grade, second grade third grade and so on. We are constantly running to get from one place to another, as if the best thing is not at the moment we are in, but where we are running to.

Jason was administered the A.P.S. and told about how the results would help reveal and understand his strengths and weaknesses. I wrote down some pertinent family information as well.

The person that I talked about for this paper was my grandfather, Richard Davidson. I wanted to talk to him because I didn’t know as much about his past and knew that he has strong opinions about the world and how it has changed. I also wanted to talk to him because I was interested in hearing how the world has changed from one of my older family members that grew up in the United States specifically as I was interested in seeing how much I could relate myself to what we talked about. There was also a perfect opportunity for me to talk to him for around an hour over thanksgiving break in person instead of over the phone. The main thing that we talked about was how he grew up going through World War II, and how much the world changed