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Personal Responsibility: Course Analysis

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Throughout this course I learned about the importance of personal responsibility. I personally have trouble buying completely into the idea that every single thing that happens to you in your life is just the results of choices you have made. However, I do strongly believe that even though you may not have control over everything that happens to you, you do have control over how you react to situations and events. Accepting personal responsibility is not trying to assign blame when something bad happens. What has happened has happened, the situation will still exist no matter how many people you pin down who were at fault. Instead, accept it and try to do what you need to get past the moment. For that reason I feel accepting personal …show more content…

I learned the importance of setting short-term goals, which what it is, is basically breaking down your long-term goals into parts which we call short -term goals. So, they're basically like ladders to your ultimate goal. Another thing which I found useful were the time management exercises. Such as the quadrant chart, I found that I've been spending too much and unnecessary time in both quadrant 3 and 4. So, it was more of a realization thing for me, personally. So that's definitely gonna be beneficial to helping me use my time more efficiently. Something else I found useful were the money-management exercises. Writing down my expenses was never something that I've done, in which I should have because they probably would have saved me a lot of money. But all that matters is I'm doing it now, it helped me realize where most of my money was being spent, even if it was a little transaction's like 5 dollars or 10, they all add up to a number which actually surprises you in the end. And the last thing is the Academic Planner, or just having a planner in general with special events on it, or maybe even goals. If you hang it up somewhere it focuses you towards your goal and serves as a daily reminder of what events are about to occur. So basically you're always reminded of what's to come which gives you the ability to manage time better, to fit those

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