The Importance Of My Role Model In My Life

Imagine living in a world where teens are doing drugs, pressuring their peers, and trying to be just like the models in magazines. Unfortunately, that’s the world we live in today. What do these teens need? They need positive adult role models. It is important for a teen to be influenced by positive adult role models while growing up; because if they don’t have positive adult role models, teens can be influenced by negative media, negative peer pressure, and teen drug use.

The biggest influence of my life has been the Dr. Bill Neches Heart Camp for Kids. Heart Camp is a weeklong summer camp for children who live with Congenital Heart Disease. I have been attending this camp since the age of eight and have worked as a junior counselor the past two years. As I have grown older and learned more about my heart problem, I realized that I wanted to work with children who are faced with similar trauma. By attending Heart Camp, I have had the wonderful opportunity to speak with many nurses who work at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Not many teenagers have the opportunity to have a personal connection with people that save lives every day. By attending Heart Camp, I have met dozens of health professionals that I am

1. What makes a good role model and how can I ensure that I act as a role model for employees I supervise?

For this assignment I choose to shadow my mother, Toni Travis. She does so much for me and my family; she is a huge role model for me in my everyday life. My mom works at Lee Industries as an accounting manager, and she works all the time, when she gets off of work she comes home to work some more. I’ve tried to see what she was doing but I could never understand it, so I wanted to know what she actually did. Now I got the chance to see, understand and live what she really does at work.

Charles Barkley once said, “I am not a role model. I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I can dunk a basketball does not mean I should raise your kids.” No adult has a choice as to whether a child looks up to him or her, but parents are responsible for raising their children as best they can. The first role models or leaders in most children’s lives are in fact their parents; although they may not be the best role models, they are often the figures that children first learn from. Even if there was a perfect parent, that should not limit a child from observing other leaders. John Wooden, considerably the most successful basketball coach in NCAA history, led the UCLA Bruins to 10 NCAA championships with an all-time win-loss coaching record 885-203 (UCLA site). A Game Plane for Life: The Power of Mentoring, is a collection Wooden’s anecdotes related to leadership and the applications of those methods to his coaching practices. Observing leaders from the past allowed Wooden to envision clarity in the future; a clarified vision of the future gave Wooden more power in the present. John Wooden was a consistent and prepared leader who fostered a community of trust and knew his values.

I arrived at the clinic early one day for a splinting class. We had planned to go over placing different types of casts on each other. The class was about 3 hours long, and afterwards I went into the walk-in clinic department. Shortly after starting my regular job, the lady who normally registers the patients came over to me and asked: “Blake, will you go check on the gentleman in the bathroom? He went in there about ten minutes ago, and he didn’t look so hot.” I told her that I would go check on him. As I stepped into the bathroom, expecting to find the gentleman puking or washing his face, I witnessed a much more shocking situation. The man was laid out on his back on the floor, with his arms spread out. His eyes were turning a bluish-grey hue, and his face was turning pale. I checked to see if he was responsive, and then yelled down the hall for help. I went back into the bathroom and began performing CPR. I did not have a resuscitation mask, but I gave breaths as needed because I did not want to leave any doubt that I did everything I could to save this man’s life. After what seemed like a lifetime, several other doctors arrived and began an IV and pushed epinephrine. The man was immediately rushed to the emergency room and was successfully revived. I hoped that the man would go on to live a long time, but the damage to his heart was too significant. On the bright side, he was saved for long enough for his family to say their final goodbyes. From this experience, I learned how serious and immediate heart issues can be. The autopsy found that the man had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and, due to his significant alcohol use, his heart stopped working. What started as a fever and shakiness ended in a much more serious and eye opening experience. Often times, it hard for us to recognize that everyday people have these health issues that

What makes a good role model and how can I ensure that I act as a role model for employees I supervise?

I am healthier than ever and see that others need my help. Whether it be speaking at events to fundraise money, or personally helping out the hospital and other cancer and bone marrow related organizations, I always love taking on the challenge to help others. Every summer I lead a team comprised of my best friends on a bike ride known as the Courage Classic. The ride is the largest fundraising event for Children’s Hospital Colorado and together my team has raised nearly $20,000 dollars for the oncology unit that helped me during my stay in the

The person that I perceive to be my primary role model would defiantly have to be my mother. I chose my mother as my primary role model because she has always inspired me to go further with my life. She taught me to become an independent individual. She also has always taught me to strive for success, to be known as the over achiever in class. As a child, growing up was really tough due to the fact that my parents are divorced with three children (Including myself). Whether it was money, transportation, and school, there seemed to always have been an issue or a budget. I always have seen my mother to be my role model because she has been independent and never gave up. She had dealt with three children, got her masters, tackled on a full

Have you ever wanted to help someone that was hurt or unable to heal on their own? Have you ever felt the need to assist in saving someone's life? That’s what I would love to accomplish when I grow up and I believe that cardiology would be the best fit for me! Cardiology has always been a part of me in certain ways. When I was younger, I would always say that I would wish to be a cop or a soldier within the army, but then again what eight-year-old boy didn’t say that. As I began to grow physically and mentally, my view of the world became much more transparent, and I began to lean towards the profession of cardiology. From there, leaning lead to believing, and that’s where I currently stand, for I strongly believe that cardiology is the finest

I have had many positive role models in my life including parents, coaches, and teachers. Yet, as I grow older I notice myself modeling my behavior more and more after my grandfather. I owe my intense competitive drive to genetics and exposure to an encouraging environment. Part of this environment was witnessing first hand what my grandpa was able to accomplish from a young age.

I have been asked many times since I was a young boy what I would like to be in life, however, I was never able to explore or express my interests. As time has passed the question still remains, yet I am much closer to my answer. With help from the career research assignment, presented during my GEL class, I have been able to research this very question. Before this assignment I pondered countless ideas of what my future profession would be like, but I never went into detail; and never investigated how it would effect my overall quality of life. My future can only be shaped by what I choose to be. I want my life to be meaningful, and the only way I could accomplish this goal would be to positively affect other peoples livelihood . My personality traits and personal desires have prove to me that I would make a great leader. However, who do I want to lead? And how could I make a positive influence in the world? My dad is a standing role model in my life for he bravely serves as a Fire captain for Los Angeles County Fire Department. He has shown me a great deal within his field and I decided that a career in the medical profession would suit me well. Although my aspirations are not to become a Doctor, I would like to contribute my leadership ability to the medical profession by pursuing a career in health care management. Ultimately, my goal is to become a executive within a hospital in order to use my skills for the greater good. Moreover, I realize this is a

People see them everywhere; on the television, on magazines, and on the internet; celebrities. Since they are in the media so much, they are constantly influencing society, especially younger audiences. These celebrities are not positive role models for today’s youth. They are not positive role models because they make people believe dangerous, and untrue information regarding health, appearance is more important than everything else, and that more money means more respect.

Contrary to popular belief, how you view someone is not all that they are. People have different parts, or roles, of their lives. Often, we only see one role that someone plays, which is why they say that first impressions are usually wrong. Because humans adapt to their surroundings and act according to the group dynamics, we have created these varying roles that often have extreme disconnects between roles. I am no exception. Although I am one person, I also have multiple roles in my life to follow: I am a student, a friend, and a leader within the band.

As an oldest child, I felt previous to this experience, that I had strong leadership skills. Some of these skills include problem-solving, delegating, motivating, asserting, and being empathetic. I used these skills I had picked up over time, but learned how to be flexible and morph my skills to be effective for young children, which is very different to how you’d treat an adult. My siblings have been young adults for some time now and I had seemed to forget how I once cared for my siblings as young children. Through being a leader with my McClure girls I really worked on my emotional intelligence and communication to reach out to the girls. They better understood me after I had built a rapport with them, used active listening, and really improved my negotiation skills, which they were much better at than myself for sometime. I eventually caught on how to be a positive leader and role model for these girls that were my team.