Creating A Personal Affirmation: My Role As A Student
In this activity, you will create a personal affirmation. If you repeat your affirmation often, it will help you make choices that will strengthen the personal qualities needed to achieve your goals and dreams.
1. Write a one-sentence statement of one of your most motivating goals or dreams in your role as a student.
As a student, I will graduate college with an accounting degree.
2. Write a list of personal qualities that would help you achieve this educational goal or dream. Use adjectives like persistent, intelligent, hard-working, loving, articulate, organized, friendly, confident, relaxed, and so on. Write as many qualities as possible. confident, persistent, creative, intelligent, optimistic, articulate, responsible, goal-oriented, …show more content…
mature, focused, motivated, organized, hard-working, curious, honest, enthusiastic
3. Put a star by the three qualities on your list that seem the most essential for you to achieve your goal or dream as a student. (from Step 1)
persistent, optimistic, challenging
4. Write three versions of your personal affirmation. Do this by filling in the blanks in sentence formats A, B, and C below. Fill the blanks with the three personal qualities you starred above. NOTE: Use the same three personal qualities in each of the three formats.
A. I am a persistent, motivated, challenging woman.
B. I am a persistent, motivated, challenging woman, achieving my goal.
C.
I am a persistent, motivated, challenging woman, and I thank my family give me opportunities to pursue dreams.
5. Write three paragraphs--one for each of the three qualities in your affirmation. In each paragraph, write about a specific experience when you displayed your desired quality. For example, if one of your desired qualities is persistence, tell a story about a time in your life when you were persistent (even a little bit!). Write the story like a scene from a book, with enough specific details that readers will feel as though they are seeing what you experience. Your paragraph might begin, The first quality from my affirmation is... A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was..
The first quality from my affirmation is persistent. When I was an Accounting major student in China, mastering the skill of calculation with an abacus is one of the most important skills for graduation. I practiced every day to become more efficiently and accurately. I was nervous at first, but through persistent practice, I developed a lot of experience in this skill and finally succeed. The second quality of my own is focused. I always keep focusing on what I want to do until I achieve it. An example of my being focused was baking a cheese cake. I read baking books, weighed ingredients, examined every process and baked
perfectly.
The last quality I could think of was challenging. Studying abroad is the biggest challenging for me, because of the language barrier, cultural differences, the ability to understand and so on. These challenges are not easy for me to overcome. But when I get determined, nothing can stop me.
1. Write a one-sentence statement of one of your most motivating goals or dreams in your role as a student.
As a student, I will graduate college with an accounting degree.
2. Write a list of personal qualities that would help you achieve this educational goal or dream. Use adjectives like persistent, intelligent, hard-working, loving, articulate, organized, friendly, confident, relaxed, and so on. Write as many qualities as possible. confident, persistent, creative, intelligent, optimistic, articulate, responsible, goal-oriented, …show more content…
mature, focused, motivated, organized, hard-working, curious, honest, enthusiastic
3. Put a star by the three qualities on your list that seem the most essential for you to achieve your goal or dream as a student. (from Step 1)
persistent, optimistic, challenging
4. Write three versions of your personal affirmation. Do this by filling in the blanks in sentence formats A, B, and C below. Fill the blanks with the three personal qualities you starred above. NOTE: Use the same three personal qualities in each of the three formats.
A. I am a persistent, motivated, challenging woman.
B. I am a persistent, motivated, challenging woman, achieving my goal.
C.
I am a persistent, motivated, challenging woman, and I thank my family give me opportunities to pursue dreams.
5. Write three paragraphs--one for each of the three qualities in your affirmation. In each paragraph, write about a specific experience when you displayed your desired quality. For example, if one of your desired qualities is persistence, tell a story about a time in your life when you were persistent (even a little bit!). Write the story like a scene from a book, with enough specific details that readers will feel as though they are seeing what you experience. Your paragraph might begin, The first quality from my affirmation is... A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was..
The first quality from my affirmation is persistent. When I was an Accounting major student in China, mastering the skill of calculation with an abacus is one of the most important skills for graduation. I practiced every day to become more efficiently and accurately. I was nervous at first, but through persistent practice, I developed a lot of experience in this skill and finally succeed. The second quality of my own is focused. I always keep focusing on what I want to do until I achieve it. An example of my being focused was baking a cheese cake. I read baking books, weighed ingredients, examined every process and baked
perfectly.
The last quality I could think of was challenging. Studying abroad is the biggest challenging for me, because of the language barrier, cultural differences, the ability to understand and so on. These challenges are not easy for me to overcome. But when I get determined, nothing can stop me.