“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” –Stephen Covey1) Reflect upon what you read in Chapter 11 of Thriving in College. What does this quote mean to you or how can you apply it to your life?
I feel this quote means several things. The one that stands out the most to me is the fact of listening. Seek first to understand- seek first to listen, to understand what another person is talking about. In social situations you have to be willing to listen and pay attention to their interests, plans, and hobbies. "then to be understood" is the idea of you speaking. It's your turn to be understood by the other person, its the part where you now understand the other person, and now it is easier for them the understand you when you are able to relate to their experiences.
2) (Refer to page 380 of the text): Are you a “Crisis Tickler,” “Withholder,” “Irritator,” “Blamer,” or “Gunnysacker?” Explain.
I am clearly a gunnysacker :(... i do "collect" things and hold them in over time. Once i get so overwhelmed i let it all out. Its not nessecarily info or stuff about one person its collectively about several people or situations that i felt upset me. Then i usually explode.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
blog 10
sooo i realized it was just reading but i wasn't sure if we needed to answer this question... so i am
"Who are the people in your life that you tend to turn to for social support when you are experiencing stress or need personal encouragement?"
when i need social support when im dealing with stress i turn to my friends usually. I don't like asking for help so when i do bring something up its just for me to talk about it ramble on and on.. then be done with it... When i need encouragement i also go to my friends. My friends usually consist of the same group of 4 girls. I ask what they would do, what i should do, then i ask my dad.. sister.. or anyone really ( i'm indecisive).
Sunday, November 9, 2008
1) What are you most stressed-out with at the moment? Why? Is your body re-acting to this stress? Devise a plan to deal with it.
im super stressed about 2 things. one, anatomy, i hate the exams.. most anxiety i've had in a while. I'm stressed about this becasue it is the most challenging class i have this semester. The second thing is my parents divorce ( what truly is fair, and how a decsion can be made without knowing the whole story). It stresses me out becasue the whole 50 50 idea isn't fair in this situation, and i don't want the "good person" to get screwed over. My body is wanting to shut down. It is getting so over whelmed i feel like i could sleep all day. To deal with this i just need to wait till january 27. And to deal with stressing about anatomy exams is to actaully do what i'm told in the beginning of the year and read my damn notes after class so i don't have to do this the week of the exam.
2) FFN: Chapter 8 / This is a creative writing exercise! Read the following scenario and finish it based on your knowledge after reading Chapter 8. You are "Raul" and have just immigrated to the American West illegally from Mexico. You brought your wife and two young children with you on a frightening and expensive 4-day journey in the back of a beat-up truck to arrive in Texas. You can't find work there and Border Patrol is cracking down, so you decide to migrate north a bit where you have relatives in Colorado. You are hired on the spot by ConAgra to work in one of their "beef processing" plants. -Describe in sensory detail your place of employment. (What's it look like, what is going on, how do people act, what do you wear, what is your job? etc..)-
People are very quiet here, not smiling, chatting, but sweating and very busy at work. I come to work everyday to put on "rain boots" the tall boots you tuck your pants into, a white meat jacket, and several layers of this steal material to protect myself against being cut. The building is dark, very enclosed, and crowded with people and machinery. This plant is slaughtering hundreds of cattle per hour, very inhuman I might add. The cattle is directed into this gloomy building to get hung from chains and get their necks slit to bleed to death. The floor is covered in high amounts of blood, the smell is unreal. I am the Knocker. I am incharge of knocking out the cows. I shoot them to become unconcious so the workers can chain them up to be slit open. (ugh this is so gross)
How much $$$ do you earn?-
i earn abou 30,000 a year plus bonuses.
How do your days go?
What are your work hours and what do you do after work? i work long 8 hour shifts, when i get to go home, i simply eat and go to bed. i have no energy left. some times i wish i didn't wake up the next morning
-Where do you live, what do you live in, how is your quality of life? my quality of life is pretty average, there is no way i would be making what i do in mexico so i simply take what i can get. just like those easy shifts that come and go when you don't report an injury. I live in a small house with me and my family, we are doing better than we would in mexico thats all i got to say.
im super stressed about 2 things. one, anatomy, i hate the exams.. most anxiety i've had in a while. I'm stressed about this becasue it is the most challenging class i have this semester. The second thing is my parents divorce ( what truly is fair, and how a decsion can be made without knowing the whole story). It stresses me out becasue the whole 50 50 idea isn't fair in this situation, and i don't want the "good person" to get screwed over. My body is wanting to shut down. It is getting so over whelmed i feel like i could sleep all day. To deal with this i just need to wait till january 27. And to deal with stressing about anatomy exams is to actaully do what i'm told in the beginning of the year and read my damn notes after class so i don't have to do this the week of the exam.
2) FFN: Chapter 8 / This is a creative writing exercise! Read the following scenario and finish it based on your knowledge after reading Chapter 8. You are "Raul" and have just immigrated to the American West illegally from Mexico. You brought your wife and two young children with you on a frightening and expensive 4-day journey in the back of a beat-up truck to arrive in Texas. You can't find work there and Border Patrol is cracking down, so you decide to migrate north a bit where you have relatives in Colorado. You are hired on the spot by ConAgra to work in one of their "beef processing" plants. -Describe in sensory detail your place of employment. (What's it look like, what is going on, how do people act, what do you wear, what is your job? etc..)-
People are very quiet here, not smiling, chatting, but sweating and very busy at work. I come to work everyday to put on "rain boots" the tall boots you tuck your pants into, a white meat jacket, and several layers of this steal material to protect myself against being cut. The building is dark, very enclosed, and crowded with people and machinery. This plant is slaughtering hundreds of cattle per hour, very inhuman I might add. The cattle is directed into this gloomy building to get hung from chains and get their necks slit to bleed to death. The floor is covered in high amounts of blood, the smell is unreal. I am the Knocker. I am incharge of knocking out the cows. I shoot them to become unconcious so the workers can chain them up to be slit open. (ugh this is so gross)
How much $$$ do you earn?-
i earn abou 30,000 a year plus bonuses.
How do your days go?
What are your work hours and what do you do after work? i work long 8 hour shifts, when i get to go home, i simply eat and go to bed. i have no energy left. some times i wish i didn't wake up the next morning
-Where do you live, what do you live in, how is your quality of life? my quality of life is pretty average, there is no way i would be making what i do in mexico so i simply take what i can get. just like those easy shifts that come and go when you don't report an injury. I live in a small house with me and my family, we are doing better than we would in mexico thats all i got to say.
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