Personal Journal 3.3

When I start to stress out over school I try to take a ten minute power nap to relax and clear my head a little before I dive into it. I also like to pray to clear my head before a big test or exam. When I start to stress about having a relapse I call my sponser and ask for help. When I start to stress about going back to prison, I talk to my parents and that seems to help a lot. When I start to stress out about work I deal with it when I get off by watching TV. When I start to stress about my baby that is due in september I talk to my girlfriend and that helps a lot.

Personal Journal 2.3

My favorite interests that make me feel alive are for starters running and lifting weights, I love how it makes me feel. I love watching sports, like Georgia Bulldogs football in the fall and the Atlanta Braves in the spring and summer, and if they make it far in October. I love browsing through articles of history and thats all kind american history to shows that come on the History Channel that have to do with conspiracy theories. Honestly the classes I enjoy the most in school is psychology, I love learning how the brain works and why us as humans do certain things and the process it takes. But I could talk sports all day I love taking sports trivia test online. When I was a child I was enthusiastic about baseball, I ate, drank, and slept baseball. I pushed myself very hard.

Personal Journal 2.2

I can remember even as a kid I have always wanted to help people, I even would take the fall for my friends mistakes at times. As I got older I started making a lot of mistakes and I want to show people how I learned from those mistakes. If someone gave me an award I would want it to be for saving someone's life. The top reason I get out of bed every morning is for my family and that is what makes life worth living. The best thing that could ever happen to me is to get my degree and use it in a career that makes me happy. If I was about to die I would regret not seeing the world and visiting places and cultures in other countries. I could sum up my dreams to have a family of my own and to be able to provide for them doing what I love.

personal journal 2.1

The peson who knows me the best is my dad, he is my hero and has been a big influence in my life. My dream in life is to be a psychologist so I can help people at a young age and to have my own practice one day. In my practice I would want to provide help for everyone with or without insurance. I would describe myself as a happy person, someone that will go out of my way to help someone, and I'm well liked. What I don't like about myself is how much I have let my parents down in the past. I am good at playing sports, running, and lifting weights. I am not good at organization. I enjoy spending time with my girlfriends and watching TV and movies with her. I don't enjoy smoking, I need to quit. My careers that interest me are psychologist with my own practice, a career in the prison system, and a career in the public/private school system. My purpose in life is to teach kids in a behaviorist perspective and humanist perspective not to make the same mistakes I did.

Term Paper Blog #1

        Ok I have to be honest about this topic, the only reason I chose this book is a classmate I had never met told me it was pretty good. But with that said I am going into this with an open mind and since she told me this she seems to be a smart person, so she will probably be right. The book I chose is Everybody Wins by Gary Chapman. The only other topic I considered was addictions, I went away from that area because the only book on our list was on how to quit smoking. I am sure the points in that book could be used for any habbit not just cigarettes. Similar to how the twelve steps stay the same just whoever is using them subs a word in there depending on the addiction. I am not sure exactly what I was looking for in that area but that book just did not appeal to me. But I am excited about the book I did choose at least the title sounds optimistic and I believe the advice I did get from a classmate about this book will turn out to be good advice.

Personal Journal 1.3 "How Do You See Yourself?"

            How I see myself changes depending sometimes on my mood. I view my intellectual ability as a seven. I grasp concepts usually pretty quick sometimes I do not apply them in the correct way. When I was in high school over ten years ago I was did well in baseball and football. I took baseball very seriously, I not only played for my high school but for a summer team as well. So at the time I would rate my athletic ability at a nine. My creative ablilty is at a five, I can be creative at times especially when I need to make up an excuse for why something did not get done. I see myelf as a "people person" so I would rate my relationships with my close friends as an eight. My sense of humor probably goes over a lot of people's head but for the most part I can be funny, between one and ten I would put it at a six. I am somewhat low key, so even though I get along great with the friends I have, I don't try to make all that many new friends, so my popularity with others is around a six as well. At school and my job when it comes to competition I just do myself and my task at hand so I am not that competitive in those areas, I would put that around a four. I am not big on my self image so I can not give myself a great score on my attractivness to others, I would put it around a five. I have a great relationship with my parents and use the morals they taught me as a kid, in both those areas I rate it as a eight.