The Importance Of Personal Change

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Whenever I perceive change to be necessary the words of one of my past professors rings in my ears, “Stop the world and fix it”, a motto that I have stood by many times as a form of encouragement to ignite change in myself or my environment. A particular experience comes to mind when I think about necessary change and this change was personal, something I needed to change about myself. During my freshman year of college I moved in with seven of my closest friends. Not only is living with seven other people difficult, but when I started to slowly drift away from them things became even more challenging. I was pulling back into my own world and disregarding them as individuals that I had once trusted with my life. The situation at hand was definitely a fault of the whole group, but I knew my personal contribution to the situation was not helping because I did not view myself as the problem. I viewed my friends as the perpetrators of my friendship and loyalty. As we began to further drift apart, less words were exchanged, and loneliness began to creep in and I finally realized a change needed to happen. Friendships are not …show more content…

In relation to my friendships, once I began to voice my concerns, opinions, and feelings we were able to grow as a group and learn to work together. The personal change has also contributed to positive impacts in my professional and educational career by fostering my ability to build honest relationships. If conflict were ever to arise I feel I am now better prepared to confront the issue and come up with a resolution whether with a professor, boss, supervisor, fellow employee, or classmate. Even though the change I brought about was personal, the upshot of this change is that it is applicable in my daily life. This experience has provided me the skills to better deal with conflict and work effectively with

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