Personal Essay: Accepting Personal Responsibility

Accepting personal responsibility is acknowledging that you are the only person responsible for the choices you make in your life. Life is one choice after another, and what you decide to make of them will determine your life experience. On the self-assessment for accepting personal responsibility I scored an 80, which I believe to be a pretty accurate score. I have been raised to accept responsibility for myself even if it means getting in trouble or upsetting someone, because if I didn’t accept responsibility than someone else might get the blame for something I did. However, it is not always about coming forward and accepting what you did. Sometimes when life gets hard people tend to blame other people for the things that go wrong, but

On the self-assessment for discovering self-motivation I scored a 77 which again I believe is fairly accurate score for myself. Ever since I went back to public school in tenth grade after being home schooled I wanted to prove the people who said home school kids were dumb. So, I studied and work extremely hard to make sure I received high b’s and a’s on every report card I have received in high school. But, the more I studied and received good grades I realized that I didn’t do it to prove someone wrong, but because it felt good to know that I can do this by myself if I believe in myself.

To master self-management is to have consistence, without consistence planning its difficult to take a purposeful action in purist of the goals and dreams imaged. I scored a 60 in these category on the self-assessment, which is accurate depending on the situation. In school I am normally good at self-management, but like many other I lose the motivation when it comes to planning, so hopefully this course will help me with

This is known as self-awareness which is a important, because it allows us to have a better understanding of ourselves. I scored quite low on this with only a 42, but I plan to increase that score as the class moves forward. If I gain self-awareness I hope to make the changes I need and build on the areas of strength as well as the areas that need improving.

Adopting lifelong learning can have serval different meanings according to the textbook its finding valuable lessons and wisdom in nearly every experience they have. I believe I scored a 59 in this category, due to the fact I view learning as a somewhat fearful thing, because I am terrified of failure. However, I do enjoy learning new things at the same time if I fully understand what I am learning.

Emotions can be difficult to control sometimes, especially when it feels like your life long dream and goals are riding on them. If I get overwhelmed I normally panic and end up messing up what I was working on therefore I usually end up redoing whatever I messed up. Its very easy to get anger or frustrated at school work sometimes, but I have learned if I take a break from what I’m working one I am normally able to go back with a blank mindset. Due to this system I have set up for this type of problem, I believe it was the reason I score a 64 in this