Journal Entry # 12

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Miguelina Ortega

Ilse Junod

FRO 2000S

17 November 2015

Journal Entry #12

 

  • Write a one-sentence statement of one of your most motivating goals or dreams in your role as a student.

 

A goal/dream that I have is to reach  3.0 GPA and maintain it.

 

  • Write a list of personal qualities that would help you achieve this educational goal or dream.

 

  • Organized
  • Intelligent
  • Hard-working
  • Persistent
  • Confident
  • Articulate

 

  • Circle the three qualities on your list that seem the most essential for you to achieve your goal or dream as a student.

 

  • Confident
  • Hard-working
  • Organized

 

  • Write three versions of your personal affirmation.

 

Format A: I am a confident, hard-working, organized woman.

Format B: I am a confident, hard-working, organized woman, attending Baruch College.

Format C: I am a confident, hard-working, organized woman, and I will achieve my goal.

 

  • Circle or highlight the sentence from Step 4 that you like best.

 

Format B: I am a confident, hard-working, organized woman, attending Baruch College.

 

  • Write three paragraphs- one for each of the three qualities in your affirmation.

 

The first quality from my affirmation is confidence. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was in my senior year in high school when I was trying out for the Spirit Squad with two of my friends. We were supposed to memorizes three cheer and perform them in front of the coach. Both of my friends were nervous and had doubts of not being able to make it in the team. I was confident that I would get all three cheers done correctly and get a spot on the team. I took the lead in the tryouts and was able to make it on the team.

The second quality from my affirmations is hard-working. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was when I volunteered for an event called Toys for Tots. It was a hectic event with many children to attend to and a small amount of volunteers. I had to wrap gifts, label them by age and gender range, seat the children, take children to the bathroom and help them, as well as prepare their food for them. I did not get to rest or take a break until I made sure that all needs of the children were met. I’ve never worked so hard until that day.

The last quality from my affirmation is organized. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was when I was couponing for my mother. I had to cut out all of the coupons and place them in our coupon book. I created a system where I cut all the pages with the same coupon together to save time. When placing the coupons in the coupon book, I created another system where all the coupons had a page or two to their specific type. For example, on one page I made sure that all of the coupons that had to do with cleaning products were in it and so on.