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1. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is my laziness.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacles is my friend, Marlan.
3. How this person could help me is by keeping me active and on track with my assignments by enforcing me to maintain a to do list.
4. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in colleges is my late schedule at work.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacles is my manager.
6. How this person could help me is by switching my schedule so I could get home at a decent time.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is English 2100.
8. This course is challenging for me because it has the most content when coming to reading and writing materials.
9. Someone besides me who could help overcome this challenge is my professor.
10. How this person could help me is by giving me a guide to completing these task when I attend office hours.

Some choices I could make that could help me overcome my challenges and obstacles are: maintaining a healthy schedule, time managing my free time to school work or studying, and keeping Marlan around.

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1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my sucess in college is procrastination.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my mentor.
3. How this person could help me is by assisting me in setting up my schedule.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between ne and my sucess in college is my doubtful mindset.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome is my Godfather.
6. How this person could help me is by demonstrating how obtaining the degree would be beneficial.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is Calculus.
8. This course is challenging for me because it’s too complex.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is a tutor.
10. How this person could help me is by teaching me step by step how to solve these problems.

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1. One choice I could make to create a stronger support system for myself in college is put time aside from family time to put more focus on my work.
2. Another choice I could make to create a stronger support system for myself in college is go to tutoring.

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1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is procrastination.
2. Someone besides me who could overcome this outer obstacle is an upperclassman who had dealt with the same issue as me.
3. How this person can help me is by providing me with examples on how they have overcome their issue.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is not giving my all.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is a guidance counselor.
6. How this person could help me is by motivating and encourage me.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is english.
8. This course is challenging me for because it requires me to think critically and close read.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my English professor.
10. How this person could help me is by further explaining to me what needs to be done.

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1. Another obstacle I would like to overcome is getting things done last minute. I believe if I put the time and effort in and start my work early I would score higher than what I would normally get when I work last minute under pressure.
2. Another obstacle I would also like to overcome is not taking notes during class. If I take notes more often I would understand the course much better and can even get things done on time.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is time management and the feeling of being drained out by the time I get home because of how late I get home sometimes.
2. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my guidance counselor.
3. This person can help me by helping me establish good time management.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is my tendency to procrastinate.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is my mom or any of my professors.
6. How this person could help me is by using time management and stressing the importance of not procrastinating.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is Pre-Calculus.
8. This course is challenging for me because by the time I have my Pre-calculus class I am already drained out from the rest of the day and it is a lot of information to grasp in one day and requires more practice and then this is where the time management kicks in.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my professor.
10. How this person could help me is by helping me get by my challenge and having one on one tutoring.

To create a stronger support system for myself in college I could speak more to my professors and ask them for help even when I think I don’t need it and get help from my peers as well.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is the lack of time I have to study.
2. People besides me who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my counselor and older brother.
3. They could help me by giving me advice on how to manage time better and they can inform me of their experiences.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is my tendency to procrastinate.
5. People besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle are my friends and my counselor.
6. How they could help me is by helping me create a work schedule so I can force myself to start my work on time.
7. The most challenging course I took so far in college this semester was Pre-Calculus.
8. This course was challenging for me because the topics moved very quickly and I didn’t have a lot of time to study.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is a math tutor.
10. How this person could help me is by helping me with topics that I’m struggling in and we keep working on problems until I understand it completely.

Two Choices to create a stronger support system

1. Utilize all the helpful resources at my school.
2. Create a schedule to better manage my time.

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success is managing the limited time I have outside of school in order to use it to study.
2. Someone who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is my counselor.
3. How this person could help me is by helping me arrange a schedule that is most beneficial and suited for me personally.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is my shyness.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is a teacher. Taking communications may help me improve my inner obstacle.
6. How this person could help me is by teaching me good techniques that will help me approach different situations.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is Pre-Calculus.
8. This course is challenging for me because it is a course that contains a lot of complex curriculum, that of which requires a lot of time to practice in order to become more proficient. (like mentioned earlier, time management is a main concern)
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is my math tutor.
10. How this person could help me is by going over multiple examples with me and giving me feedback on my work.

In order to create a stronger support system for myself in college I could:

1. form study groups to make the study process less tedious
2. Ask for help when ever necessary. Feedback is a great way to evaluate progress.

• Write a conversation between you(ME) and your Inner Guide(IG) about a problem you are facing in college. Label each of your IG’s responses with the listening skill it uses: silence, expansion, clarification, reflection (remember to reflect feelings as well as thoughts). Let your IG demonstrate the skills of active listening without giving advice.

Me: I’ve realized what a difficult time I have keeping track of all of my assignments.

IG: Would you like to say more?(Expansion)

ME: Well, I have a total of five classes,including freshman seminar. I find it hard to balance all the work that I have for all my classes. I find myself forgetting about certain assignments which is why I tend to get them done at the last minute. I have a planner where I all my assignments are written but I don’t really check my planner regularly.

IG: What do you mean by “regularly”?(Clarification)

Me: I don’t check my planner at all. When I come home from school, I do assignments that is usually due the next day that I can remember. I don’t do assignments the day that they are given to me.

IG:  Oh…(Silence)

Me: I’ve never truly been a procrastinator. I only ever started to leave my assignments for the last minute was my junior year in high school. Ever since then, I’ve been leaving things for the last minute. In high school it’s acceptable since the workload is not as heavy as it is in college. But it’s hard to balance college, work and my personal life, all while being criticized

IG: You seem frustrated that no one is praising you for being able to balance all three or at least maintain all three aspects of your life.

Me:  Yeah, it’s hard enough that I have teachers with their assignments attacking me and with me beating myself up over it, now I have to deal with what others have to say when they don;t know how difficult it is and that I’m trying my best in everything.

IG: How are you trying your best?(Clarification)

Me: Well, now I’m attempting to at least start the assignments when I am given them. As well as doing some in between some of my breaks

• Write what you learned or relearned about active listening during this conversation with your Inner Guide.

What I learned about active listening is that I can often find the answers to my problems and that I can motivate myself to work even harder when I sit down and have a conversation with my Inner Guide. Through this conversation I was able to see that I am not trying as hard as I can try, that I am not giving it my all. I was able to identify a problem and see all of the little problems that come from the main problem. With this I will be able to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. I need to learn to be more organized and productive with my free time. Learn to mange my time properly and pace myself so that I have time to do my school work and concentrate on only that. 

1. An outer obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is the lack of time I have to study due to being busy.
2. Someone who could help me overcome this outer obstacle is a counselor.
3. How this person could help me is by showing me ways that I can open up my schedule and implement just enough studying time.
4. An inner obstacle that stands between me and my success in college is doubting myself.
5. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this inner obstacle is a friend that may have gone through the same condition.
6. How this person could help me is by encouraging me to go with my gut feeling and try to at least participate once in every class that I have these doubts in.
7. The most challenging course I’m taking in college this semester is Pre-Calculus.
8. This course is challenging for me because it is hard to just do the same one-by-one step process for questions that are in the same section but are set up differently.
9. Someone besides me who could help me overcome this challenge is a math tutor.
10. How this person could help me is by going over multiple examples from each section until I can sort of master it.

In order to create a stronger support system for myself in college I could,

1. Not doubt myself because I could be right
2. Ask for help in any way possible because it just might better me

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1. Time for study
2. My friends
3. By encouraging me to do my work bit by bit before the due date
4. Procrastination
5. My friends/peers
6. This person can help me by us studying together or making time to study together
7. The most challenging course I’m taking this semester was Math
8. This course was challenging for me because of the tests an how they were worded
9. I left the class
10. My councilor helped me by removing me from the class to focus on other classes.

Two choices that I’ve made to make a stronger support system is keeping the company I see myself excelling with and staying at a timely schedule.