Saturday October 2 2021

 

How do you use rhetoric in your daily life? What messages do you try to communicate? To what audiences?

 

In my daily life I use rhetoric to mainly impact my own actions as I strive to not just to better myself, but rather to not decline. I realize that many actions involving health, and pleasure are prone to bad decisions. Bad decisions to eat whatever is accessible such as fast food, bad decisions to do what is easy such as slacking off, bad decisions to ignore your own health such as not getting enough sleep to do God knows what, and much more. I’m sure everyone has their own list and most might agree with me that we all know what is good and what is bad. But it often becomes all too easy to succumb to the bad decisions because they’re also most often the easier choice. The message is that often the better choice is simply the opposite of the bad decisions we choose to make. Since we all already know what those bad decisions are, we know what to do and this is prompted by the fact that most of us question how we really feel when we are asked how we are doing. Do we say good just because that’s the easiest response? Probably. But that is why I direct these messages to myself and those around me to find out how we are really feeling. So that our actions can be utilized to make us feel truly good just like how we respond when anyone asks us how we are doing. 

 1.What worked or went well this week

• A new beginning for my personal journals

2.What was hard or didn’t work this week

• Staying on track 
• Time management
• Keeping up with habit building

3.To-Do list for next week

• Study for macro
• Work on excel and building new skills
• Start with small habits and build from there. Not even habits, just small actions that lead me to doing more

4.Where you left off/ Last thing you did

• Analysis rough draft

5.How you feel or felt about the week, your project, and/or your writing

The week went by both quickly and slowly. It went by quickly in the sense that I rested a lot during this week and it went by slowly in the sense that I didn’t get much done. I didn’t do beyond what I had to do to set myself up better for next week and I hope to just start as small as I can from here on out and build onto that