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    My growth in English 101 was a long and difficult journey for me this would be my second time around taking this class. The thing that was difficult for me in class was the fact my medication made me drowsy so it made it difficult for me to stay awake in class some days. I was lucky this time around I had a teacher that was energetic and kept me awake enough to understand what we are supposed to do in the next paper. When we did a new paper we learned a new style of writing and strategies on how

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    My Personal Growth This reflection paper will examine my personal growth in this class and planned changes for the near future. This paper will be based on some of the topics discussed in class because I found them most helpful, relevant and educational than the others. These topics are Mindfulness, Emerging Adulthood, Communication, Emotional IQ and Your Purpose/Meaning of Life. From this class, I learned the importance of mindfulness, the aspects of effective interpersonal communication, how to

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    Growth vs Fixed Mindset I will be the first to admit that I am—extremely—far from perfection. Throughout my seventeen years of existence, I have faced my fair share of challenging experiences and have handled these experiences with an abundance of different attitudes, or mindsets. Over the years, I have found myself in sticky situations, but have never put much thought into how my overall mindset has helped me get through each circumstance I encounter—until now. Carol Dweck, in her inspirational

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    running shoes, grab your towel, swimsuit and googles, and be down here lined up in two minutes!” Once again I pulled myself out of my sleeping bag covered bed and mindlessly followed the anonymous leader’s instructions. LGP, which stands for Leadership Growth Program, is a six-week long summer camp program made to help teenage boys grow into Godly men, through physical, emotional, and spiritual hardship. Throughout the course of the past three weeks, my fellow “LGPers” and I had completed work projects

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    generations of Soldiers after you leave the military. The purpose of this paper is to identify 1SG Blake Beasley who had a profound impact on my growth of leadership abilities and individual Soldier skills through his impeccable character, presence, and commitment to standards. 1SG Beasley’s attributes and competencies have greatly contributed to my personal growth as an Army Leader, the Army and NCO Corps, and have helped me discover the legacy that I would like to leave behind for my Soldiers. The legacy

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    When I first received the word that the University of Southern Mississippi was going to be offering a jazz dance technique course, I could not have been more ecstatic. Jazz dance has always been a major passion of mine, and I plan on continuing to broaden my understanding of this form of dance. In this course I hope to grow as a jazz dancer so that I may be more equipped to teach others jazz dance technique. Jazz dance has been a part of my life for a very long time. Jazz also happens to be my favorite

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    Individual Reflection : My Blueprint of Professional and Personal Growth II Mariah Kamal Walden University October 21, 2013 Abstract This paper is my analytic theorem to my Blueprint of Professional and Personal Growth from the course “Dynamic Leadership”. It gives a brief breakdown of my path to achieving my MBA. An executive summary is presented to show how the course educated me in a more systematic way and how it helped me identify my qualities as a leader and my values. Furthermore, in

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    Introduction As a humanistic counselling approach, person-centred therapy emphasises the potential for self-knowledge and personal growth (Corey, 2009). It views the deviation from one’s inherent goodness as a source of psychological problems, in turn aiming to increase one’s self-awareness to help them direct their life in more satisfying ways (Cooper, 2003). With the person-centred approach being more an attitude than a set of definitive techniques, a better understanding of its process is formed

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    author’s recommendations for application of the concepts presented in the articles. The first article presented and discussed is Impact of Personal Growth Projects on Leadership Identity Development (2012) written by Summer Odom, Barry Boyd, and Jenifer Williams. In this article, the authors performed a study to determine what the impact of using a Personal Growth Project (PGP) to help students develop self, which they identified as the first step in developing effective leadership. In the Literature

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    Practical Nursing Personal and Professional Growth 2: IPE Individual Essay From the Resident Care Conference I took part in there were times I did see effective and ineffective non verbal communication. Effective non verbal communication can be described as an individual who is not engaged in a conversation, showing little to no respect to other team members and lacking an interest in what the other person is saying. Examples of this are; lack of eye contact, slouched in chair, hands crossed, rolling

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