Personal Reflection Paper

“The only limitations you ever have in life are the ones you put in your mind.” This quote by Napoleon Hill changed the way I have faced various obstacles and is one that I carry in my thoughts. It serves as a vivid reminder not give up at first glance or allow others negativity and limitations to steer my path. Instead, I learned to keep moving forward to surpass even my expectations and achieve what people believe to be impossible. Looking back at all my experiences, the goals I have accomplished and the lessons I have learned otherwise, I realize that many were thought to have been out of reach. Furthermore, I've been put down by others saying it would require more effort than I could provide, discouraging me from even attempting. However, when put through adversity and challenging situations, I was able to commit to a life-changing decision that has altered my life into something I never thought possible.

Self-efficacy can be described as the level self-confidence that a person has when they try to do something. It is important in making a behavioral change because people need to envision themselves succeeding.

In this paper I plan to briefly review what happened during the counseling demonstration. Next, I will discuss two basic counseling skills that I believe I used well, and one that I struggled with. Finally, I will discuss the next steps I will take in order to improve my counseling skills.

Albert Bandura , defined self-efficacy as a person’s belief in their ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task. This can determine how a person approach their goals, tasks, and challenges.

Self-efficacy is defined as one’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task. Self-efficacy

A bit surreal today as I sit down and write my first paper in almost 20 years. I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to be very concise in my communication, to the point and easy to skim the important facts to ensure what I need to get across will be read. The fact that I am having some emotional response to the stress related to routinely writing papers that ‘feel long’ is just a great example of some of what I learned from my MBTI/Firo B results.

This paper will define the concept of self, and explain how an individual develops a self-concept. It will explain the relationship between the self and emotion and how this relationship affects an individual’s self-esteem. It will also explain the relationship between the self and behavior and how this relationship affects an individual’s self-presentation.

Self-efficacy is concerned with a person's estimate of their personal capabilities. Successful performance of a behavior leading to a positive experiences leads to a high level of self-efficacy, failures diminish the level of self-efficacy.

Self-Efficacy is having the belief and confidence on your abilities to achieve the goal you have chosen (Bandura, 2001). This means that self-efficacy is that believe that a person can achieve the goals that they set for themselves. These goals all should do with the persons entire self. Self-efficacy describes how they think, how they feel, and importantly how they feel.

I am now approaching the conclusion of my college career and starting to adjust to work life. This is a period of self-reflection and an attempt to put everything I learned into perspective. During this period of my life, I have been constantly thinking and contemplating my future. I feel very anxious yet nervous during this time while I am adjusting to this new stage of my life. When I was in High school my life was very structured, because I could be very dependent on peoples help and I obviously still lived with my family. When I went to college, I had to break away from that feeling of dependency and start the adjusting to adulthood. In college there was more responsibility and I started to become more independent. This was a crucial step in my life but choosing a career is going to be an even bigger step. It is a bigger step because; I have to start structuring my career goals and family goal for the future. At this moment all I can think about is my career, and how I can I keep improving myself for work life.

Have you ever wondered what others may think of you or how you act with certain people? Within this paper , I’m going to explain how I see myself and how those around me see me as a person. This should be interesting in the sense that who I’ve asked to complete this with me are on two different spectrums of my life. I’ve asked someone who has known me since birth and someone who has known me for a short amount of time compared to the other. I’m going to expand on how my interpersonal communication skills are influenced by my personality traits.

Self-efficacy is a situational form of self-confidence, underlined by the belief that one can perform within a certain situation (Zimmerman, 2000). Self-efficacy has a significant impact on how people feel, think, behave, and motivate themselves. A characteristic of an individual with high self-efficacy is that they develop stronger intrinsic interest, and focus in activities (Bandura, 1994). People who possess high self-efficacy have been shown to, on average, learn and achieve more than those with low self-efficacy, "even when actual ability levels are the same" (Ormrod, 2008, p. 137).

There is something very important an individual may develop after graduating high school, or for some, even after college. A life skill that is required sometime before someone is put into the “real world”, which is what most teachers would label as the start to earning one’s own income and live on their own. For most people, they may acquire this skill after graduating college or high school. For me, I developed this valued skill at a young age. In my household, I grew up with one brother in high school, a father, and a mother, a normal family. What’s different is that I grew up in an Asian family. In fact, I was the only one to be born in the United States in my family tree. What that means is that I have had to gain responsibilities at a very young age, one might say too young. My past is represented by many negative effects due to my ethnicity, but now I have found that the repercussions has caused me to develop everything I need to successful later in my life.

I remember giving myself goals and tasks throughout the day as a child. One of the earliest goals that I recall setting for myself involved showering and getting dressed after singing one of my favorite songs ten times. As aforementioned, I had to resort to singing because at that point I wasn’t able to tell time yet. However, I knew that setting and reaching this goal made time go fast and I felt happy. In reviewing the reading materials, I related to the main concepts of: emotional well-being and pursuing goals in innovative and positive ways as a formula for happiness; I appreciate the self-control theory and how it was linked to depletion of resources; and finally, processed my feelings about personal disclosure of persona on the internet.

There is a lot of pressure growing up in a small town where everyone knows you. My mom raised me to alway express myself and to be open minded in life. In the small town I grew up in, everyone knew you and news spread fast. Because of this I tried being like others, instead of being true to myself like I was always told me. After letting go of the ridiculous idea that I have to be like others, I now have no problem letting my real self be seen and showing others that they can also be themselves.