Self Reflection

To tackle my goals this semester I needed to have a clear focus. Tackling my goals this semester has made me a stronger dancer. From the start of the semester, I have wanted to work on the continuation of my goals from the previous semester. In each class I have worked on finding ways to work on my goals anyway possible. Reflecting my work from the beginning of the semester until now, I have seen myself wanting to be more dedicated to my goals each class. The goals I had for the semester helped me to progress and I continue to work on the ones I struggle with. By having a strong work ethic and clear focus I have had a chance to work on all my main goals throughout the semester: musicality, fluidity, tension, staying lifted in the core, and confidence.

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged twelve or older (9.4% of the population) had used an illicit drug in the past month (NIDA, 2015). In 2016, about 3.6 million adults aged 18 or older received any substance use treatment in the past year, representing 1.5 percent of adults (SAMHSA, 2017). These numbers are not even taking into account any type of behavior addiction such as shopping, gambling, social media, etc. Strong of these numbers, as counselors we can see the importance to gain knowledge about drug and behavior addiction and its process. In order to have a better understanding of the process of change, we have been assigned to abstain from a substance or a behavior for a period of 15 weeks and to reflect about it.

Overall, I would classify myself as a generally healthy person. After going through the reading from the chapter, I can identify that some of these healthy characteristics are benefits of my environment and family history, while others have been established based off of promoting personal health. I know I personally avoid risk behaviors whenever possible, including smoking, using drugs, eating unhealthy foods, and consuming alcohol. Moreover, I take many preventative measures thanks to having a health education and knowing my family history, such as performing breast cancer checks and wearing sunblock daily.

This past semester in Modern III, I have found different things about myself in terms of shifting my movement vocabulary into something new. The somatic work in the beginning of class has allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and experience something new. Imagination has been a key factor in this. Three different goals that I have been working on this past semester have been keeping my abdominals engaged, my ribs to soften always, and allowing my transitions to flow smoother. As I mentioned in my midterm self-evaluation, I believe that I have come a far way from the beginning in the semester until now.

This spring semester I have evolved as a writer and reader. This course has refreshed my memory with basic essential writing techniques and it has made me more proficient when it comes to writing. When it came to writing essays, I use to be so scared to turn them in. I was never a good writer and composing an essay was usually extremely tough. I would have multiple people proofread my essays, but I still doubted my work. Now when it comes to writing essays I feel more confident in my work, I have less grammatical errors, and I don’t feel the need to have multiple people proofread it. It’s nice not having to rely on people to check my work and going back several times to fix the errors that were made. Now I have

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

Peoples appearances in todays society is based upon the clothes they decided to wear that morning, the hairstyle they spent hours on doing and the hours that they would never get back deciding what pattern would look cute to wear on the outside of their skin, bedazzled with sterling silver. With no anticipation of being stereotyped people continuously repeat these actions in the purpose of self satisfaction or expression. The two articles referred to in this essay provides personal experiences of the causes in self reflection decisions in addition to a medical perspective on why sometimes the risk outweighs the rewards.

There were two things I took away from the article, the first being finding out the root cause of where self-concept stemmed from. For example, according to the article self-concept is first shaped by our mother; we respond back with decisions or judgments based on our initial experiences from our first caregiver. "A child who had an unresponsive mother will act obnoxious or withdrawn so that people will want to keep their distance. Those with consistently responsive mothers are confident and connect well with their peers" (Flora). Evidently, this has always been the case, specifically true in a sense where our self-perception would be a result from how our

I plan to develop rapport with myself and work on learning how to avoid seeing crises as insurmountable problems, which refers to a person’s being able to accept the fact that highly stressful events happen, but you must learn how you can change the way you interpret and respond to these highly stressful events and learn to develop certain characteristic to overcome and improve your physical and mental abilities for future predicaments. My research study showed that working with yourself. (The American Psychological Association, Para.4)

At the beginning of this semester, I had no idea that I would take away so much new knowledge/experience from this class. After taking the pre-assessment I had scored myself very high in the goal setting and motivation category as well as the ethics and value category. Throughout the course of this semester I can honestly say I learned a variety of new things about myself and things related to the work field. However, the stress and self-esteem units were my favorite ones to learn about. I enjoyed them because those are two personal problems that I’ve been dealing with for awhile now, but have never taken the time to learn about them and address my personal issues. Thanks to this class, I’ve been able to find out how to deal with my stress

When talking about management, the definition of an effective manager will differ depending on who is asked. Some believe management should keep track of and dictate the actions of their employees, while others believe that managers should act more as leaders to inspire their workers to get a job done efficiently. With discussion about emotional intelligence present in determining management and leadership skills, self-reflection has been highlighted as an important quality. In “Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker, he mentions several questions that allow an individual to identify traits to understand and analyze them to reach “excellence.” By understanding the strengths and weaknesses of oneself, this allows the individual to utilize their understanding in order to achieve greater work by keeping their traits in mind.

To begin, I found it easy to discuss my race and ethnic background, racial upbringings, and life perceptions in the self-reflection response video because I believe this topic is consistently thrown under the bus due to people feeling reluctant in expressing their personal observations. Throughout my video, I discussed key identifying components such as my background, thoughts and feelings toward terms pertaining to race, early and current childhood experiences, attitude about contemporary racial issues, images of racial groups, personal identity, and social changes. In majority of my responses, I realized that after learning new topics throughout the duration of this course some of those answers were one sided while others were not in agreeance with how I feel today. For example, I made a statement to the following: Data documents that people of color are at a disadvantage in virtually every social indicator. I was asked to explain my reasoning and I stated that I was in agreeance with the statement because people of color need more assistance because they cannot maintain stability as much as someone with higher privilege from another ethnicity. I would like to interject to say that I now disagree with my statement based on personal experiences. Some white people do not report their social class and condition to others and neither do they exploit their downfall on a social platform, hence that statement would not hold as being true. I do believe people of color are

During my first year in my master’s program my first internship training was with Strength United providing family therapy to families with cases open under the Department of Child and Family Services. I was soon assigned my first case. A family of 4 in which the children were exposed to abuse (domestic violence and adult content) at the hands of their father. This was a Latino family and the father was the sole financial provider. I worked closely with the mother, who was Spanish speaking had limited education and were undocumented. The children in the home ranged from 3 years old to 14 years old. Due to the nature of the abuse the father was required to vacate the household during the time the case was to remain open. Naturally, the mother had several fears and regrets.

Walking into the stadium, my heart racing, I prepared myself to take on one of the biggest challenges of my life. The stadium lights blared onto mats as the 20,000 people in attendance made their way to their appropriate sections. As the youngest in my category, I braced myself for the assessment ahead of me: I would compete in the Taekwondo World Championships in hopes of earning a medal for my academy. After hours of competing, my academy returned home victorious with five gold, four silver, and two bronze medals. Participating in the competition taught me to work hard to help my organization be as successful as possible; this, and many other generous opportunities have allowed me to understand my own leadership potential and how I can fit into the leadership process.