Reflective Essay About Strength

All too often we do not think about our personal strength until a situation arises that causes us to use this natural attribute that we know as strength.

My father’s alcoholic. I’m not someone who gets a kick out of pity so I won’t dwell on this too much, but my dad was a rougher parent then most and he would lash out at me. I faced things that I shouldn’t have as a kid. As I got older I understood that this wasn’t normal and I took a greater control of my life. I have worked to create a life that I control now but having to comprehend the failures of adults around me is lesson that I cannot forget.

Before I can go on to celebrate my mother and what she stood for, I must share with you the reality of what life was like for her and our family. Of course no one suffered more than my mother, and we all shared her pain. There were many times as a family that we would be in denial of her illness. We would disagree with the doctor’s findings. And sometimes we didn’t agree with the course of action the doctor’s would take. But my mom would always assure us that they were doing all that they could do for her, given her complicated case. She always tried to keep a positive attitude.

Strength is that part of your intellect or nervous system that is more effective and productive than other parts. Throughout your experience of life, your actions or reactions drive different thoughts, behavior and emotion in your brain. The requests that are processed more efficiently and rapidly are known as your strengths. Nowadays, strengths-based approaches to work and life are gaining a lot of popularity and often they are used to improve leadership and create more productive and efficient work teams.

“By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of achievement, no matter how small, you will feel dissatisfied.” (PH.Ds, Clifton, O., Anderson, E., Schreiner, L., Pg 26) When I read this quote in our StrengthsQuest text I felt as if I was describing my own personality while starring at myself in the mirror. If there was a sentence to explain “Chrissy” this would be it, or at least a very good candidate when summarizing my number one strength. After completing my StrengthQuest survey online and analyzing my results with the three people who

I am a eighteen year old senior who has played and feel in love with sports . My love for sports stared at a young age. I have played football,basketball,golf , i am a powerlifter and i also ran track and jumped in field events. Sports has always been in my family , my family watchs a varieties of sports .The main sports they do watch would be football and basketball. Although I do have a favorite team thats is different from there’s they always watch my team play weather its sunday or monday night football.As of now powerlifting has won me over in the sense that i enjoy this tough sport more than any other sport .This sport has me going to the gym everyday ,trying to be the best i can be .Powerlifting has taught me so much more than just lift

With this growing strength comes the sense to use it. Then the child will become less dependent on others and become self-reliant as an adult.

Challenges have varied throughout my life in both health complications and society itself. Early trauma has conflicted my mom for sometime whose brothers died in a horrendous drowning accident in 1979 . As life progressed and I came into the world, drug addiction and other illnesses manifested in our outside family, eventually making its way to my older sister. These events at a young age helped me understand reality faster than a normal person.

As I got older things got better, my mom got help for her drug problem and I got healthier with the help of my dad and step mother. While living with my father my mom was supposed to come every other weekend to visit me, and many of the times she was scheduled she did not come because she could not afford the gas. This made me upset sometimes because I thought she didn’t want me or she was doing more important things. After being disappointed so many times it made me stronger because I learned not to let other people control my

My mother has a substantial impact on my life which shaped me into the college-ready young man I am today. When I was just a sophomore in high school she got arrested and removed out of my life in a flash. My two sisters and I did not know what to do. We had no father figure in our life, so, our grandparents came in and took us under their wing. Not knowing what to do, I was panicking asking myself questions like what am I going to do now and where am I going to attend school. These were really tough decisions knowing that I do not have a say in what happens. Having to leave all my close childhood friends, along with all the memories I had made in my hometown, it was a very dramatic sequence of events.

What are some of the issues you’ve had to face throughout your life? Your crush not replying to your SnapChat? Your phone charger not reaching your bed? I’d like to hope that people would not list some of these things as problems, but people do. There are many individuals in the world today who face hunger, disease, and war while others are only worrying about getting a stain on their shoes.

that affected my life where the things that affected my moms. My step sister started missing out

Watching my mother live from pay check to pay check when I was young was difficult. It was always hard for my mom to keep up with other parents but, she still somehow managed to get me everything I wanted, and more. Even though I was too young to understand, I could feel the stress, and the struggles my mom faced every day. She was only 20 years old when I was born and, because of that she had no choice but to grow up fast. At such a young age, I saw the effects of being a single parent, and the ways it changed my mom. She not only had to be a young mother but, she had to find a way to replace the void of a father, or a father figure in my life. My mom was strong, independent and courageous. Growing up watching her live her dreams under all the circumstances she faced, made me want to strive for a better life for myself. Seeing how hard is was to live and to have enough

Strength Perspective: This perspective focuses on individuals, families and community's strength opposed to their weaknesses, moreover, their ability to recognize and utilize their strengths in adverse situations.

When a knight is visualized, the first attribute that comes to mind is the shining armor. It’s strong, flashy, and apparent when seen, much like most of anyone’s strengths. What isn’t apparent, is the scars received over the years from weapons used against them that have penetrated their strong armor and slashed through their weak flesh. When training to become better one must identify their strengths, their armor, and most importantly their weaknesses. Only through a conscious effort will one turn weaknesses into strengths. My initiative, ability to adapt to patient needs, and communication with both staff and patients, have become my strengths over these past three weeks. On the other hand, my ability to submit clinical paperwork to instructors, long exam times and marker placement has been identified as my short comings.