I have noticed that I am very family oriented. Every thing I do has something to do with others and how I want to make them happy. I think a perfect job for me would deffenitely be a teacher. :) I love kids and I love to make others feel special and happy.
This is a part of my list....
I find pleasure in:
Art
School
Family
Activeness
Making others happy
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Blog 4 :) Happiness and Work
Happiness at work? Who would ever think they could be having fun while at work but I believe you can. When I enjoy what I am doing I am a much happier person. If you have a job doing something you do not like to do it is pretty obvious that you won’t have any fun at all and you will simply just be miserable. That mainly one of the reasons why I chose to major in Fine arts. I do not want to be working at a place where I make very good money but yet be miserable and unhappy the entire time I am there. I rather work somewhere that I enjoy just making enough money to get by. I will be much happier with myself and life in general. On the other hand I will be more committed and successful because I am doing what I love. Daniel Sgroi states that, “Experiments suggest that happiness raises productivity by increase workers’ effort.”
When I was 16 my first job was at a day-care. I didn’t get paid much but I really enjoyed what I did. Till this day I would have to say that was the best summer I ever had. I learned a lot about children and it helped me a lot with being patient and compassionate. Now this summer I worked at the Hard-Rock Café. I got paid very good money and could eat everything that I wanted to. I didn’t last a month. The work was so easy but I hated what I did. It was so boring and on top of that my manager was an animal. That was the worst job experience I ever had.
When I was 16 my first job was at a day-care. I didn’t get paid much but I really enjoyed what I did. Till this day I would have to say that was the best summer I ever had. I learned a lot about children and it helped me a lot with being patient and compassionate. Now this summer I worked at the Hard-Rock Café. I got paid very good money and could eat everything that I wanted to. I didn’t last a month. The work was so easy but I hated what I did. It was so boring and on top of that my manager was an animal. That was the worst job experience I ever had.
blog 3
What is Happiness?
We all want to be happy but the definition to what we consider being “happy” varies within each person. In order for my level of happiness to increase I need to find ways in which I can express myself in my own unique way. As a child growing up and even now as a teenager I have come to realize that in order for me to be happy I need to be able to voice or illustrate my opinions. In elementary school my teachers would always call my house because they considered me to be too talkative. The fact that I am an artist helps me with expressing myself because it is a lot easier for me to illustrate my feelings, emotions and my point of view towards things. When I encounter a problem I like to voice my opinion and discuss the situation. I feel like conversing or drawing things out helps me overcome certain obstacles.
I know that I need to express myself mainly because whenever I get a chance to voice my opinion I take advantage of it and I make sure that my point gets across. I also make sure that whenever I have a problem I talk it out or write about it even if it’s only for my eyes to see. My body forces me to say how I feel and where I stand regarding my opinion. Being a person that expresses themselves as much as possible I am also a very good listener. I enjoy to hear what other people are thinking and how they feel. Hearing what others have to say has a great impact on the way I feel about the person and the way I portray their personality. Realizing that I like to express myself helped me learn a lot about the kind of person I am and what kind of things would make me happier in life. It is easy to know what would make you happier but the hard part, I would have to say, is taking action towards achieving your ultimate goal.
The first time I can recall ever noticing that I needed to express in order to be happier with education was in fifth grade. My teacher’s name was Mr. Guerero. He was very strict and all of the students were scared of him. None of my class mates ever tried breaking his rules. In his class I was considered the worst student mainly because he said I talked to my friends too much. He also would always call my house and tell my mother “Emely is very talkative. She just waits until I start lesson to start talking”. My mother would ground me and put me on punishment. The funny part is that every time I did speak it wasn’t in order to converse and interact with my friends, it was because I could not understand the lesson and I would ask one of my classmates hoping that they could explain the work to me clearer than how the teacher was. I always got penalized for something that I thought was helping me out and making me understand things a lot clearer. I always thought I was the kid until I got a little older and realized why I conversed so much.
I was very artistic even as a child growing up. In math whenever I made pie graphs or bar graphs I tried my best to incorporate some kind of my creativity into it. I would draw in the spaces that would have needed to be colored in. I also really enjoyed doing projects whether it was by myself or with others. I felt like researching the information was very interesting, then putting it onto paper was even better. In high school most of my teachers gave us a choice on whether we wanted to write an essay about our topic or do a presentation on it. I would always choose making a presentation because I know it would keep me interested and motivated. While doing anything artistic I feel like I’m in a state of flow. I focus on what I am doing and thoughts, information and ideas seem to come to mind a lot faster while I’m doing this. When I was younger I really disliked to take notes but as I grew up I really changed the way I felt about note taking. I taught myself how to look at writing as a form of art. I change my inc colors in order to make my notes look a little more interesting. Some words will be in one color while other words are in another color. I also capitalize some words that are important or put stars next to the points that I have to remember. I will also place hearts next to the things that I like or the things that I am interested in. By looking at note taking in this matter I tend to remember what is most important and what is most interesting in the passage.
By communicating with others I am happier and much more confident about my education. While communicating with others I get a chance to hear things from their point of views which makes the experience in or outside the classroom much more interesting. It helps me see things from another perspective other than mine. Sometimes the other person sees or hears things that you did not. And they always say “Two heads are better than one”
We all want to be happy but the definition to what we consider being “happy” varies within each person. In order for my level of happiness to increase I need to find ways in which I can express myself in my own unique way. As a child growing up and even now as a teenager I have come to realize that in order for me to be happy I need to be able to voice or illustrate my opinions. In elementary school my teachers would always call my house because they considered me to be too talkative. The fact that I am an artist helps me with expressing myself because it is a lot easier for me to illustrate my feelings, emotions and my point of view towards things. When I encounter a problem I like to voice my opinion and discuss the situation. I feel like conversing or drawing things out helps me overcome certain obstacles.
I know that I need to express myself mainly because whenever I get a chance to voice my opinion I take advantage of it and I make sure that my point gets across. I also make sure that whenever I have a problem I talk it out or write about it even if it’s only for my eyes to see. My body forces me to say how I feel and where I stand regarding my opinion. Being a person that expresses themselves as much as possible I am also a very good listener. I enjoy to hear what other people are thinking and how they feel. Hearing what others have to say has a great impact on the way I feel about the person and the way I portray their personality. Realizing that I like to express myself helped me learn a lot about the kind of person I am and what kind of things would make me happier in life. It is easy to know what would make you happier but the hard part, I would have to say, is taking action towards achieving your ultimate goal.
The first time I can recall ever noticing that I needed to express in order to be happier with education was in fifth grade. My teacher’s name was Mr. Guerero. He was very strict and all of the students were scared of him. None of my class mates ever tried breaking his rules. In his class I was considered the worst student mainly because he said I talked to my friends too much. He also would always call my house and tell my mother “Emely is very talkative. She just waits until I start lesson to start talking”. My mother would ground me and put me on punishment. The funny part is that every time I did speak it wasn’t in order to converse and interact with my friends, it was because I could not understand the lesson and I would ask one of my classmates hoping that they could explain the work to me clearer than how the teacher was. I always got penalized for something that I thought was helping me out and making me understand things a lot clearer. I always thought I was the kid until I got a little older and realized why I conversed so much.
I was very artistic even as a child growing up. In math whenever I made pie graphs or bar graphs I tried my best to incorporate some kind of my creativity into it. I would draw in the spaces that would have needed to be colored in. I also really enjoyed doing projects whether it was by myself or with others. I felt like researching the information was very interesting, then putting it onto paper was even better. In high school most of my teachers gave us a choice on whether we wanted to write an essay about our topic or do a presentation on it. I would always choose making a presentation because I know it would keep me interested and motivated. While doing anything artistic I feel like I’m in a state of flow. I focus on what I am doing and thoughts, information and ideas seem to come to mind a lot faster while I’m doing this. When I was younger I really disliked to take notes but as I grew up I really changed the way I felt about note taking. I taught myself how to look at writing as a form of art. I change my inc colors in order to make my notes look a little more interesting. Some words will be in one color while other words are in another color. I also capitalize some words that are important or put stars next to the points that I have to remember. I will also place hearts next to the things that I like or the things that I am interested in. By looking at note taking in this matter I tend to remember what is most important and what is most interesting in the passage.
By communicating with others I am happier and much more confident about my education. While communicating with others I get a chance to hear things from their point of views which makes the experience in or outside the classroom much more interesting. It helps me see things from another perspective other than mine. Sometimes the other person sees or hears things that you did not. And they always say “Two heads are better than one”
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Blog 2
Some may argue that happiness cannot be found in education, but I will highly disagree. Some students dislike school for several reasons. One reason would be simply because they believe school is boring due to the low level of difficulty, meanwhile other students are overwhelmed by school work due to the fact that it is too difficult for them. Other students might consider school a stressful environment because of bullies and even because of some mean teachers. It is very important to make sue students are challenged but not too much or too little. "When challenged, children, like adults,will find meaning in their accomplishments and enjoy the process of attaining their goals."
My greatest motivation is getting told that I can't do something but when an assignment is difficult my brain automatically tells me "I can't do it, I can't do it" thus incredibly becoming my motivation. In order for me to be happy with education I need to figure out what my present gain and what my future gain is when it comes to the assignment. Every little piece of work that is put in front of you while you are getting an education has some kind of present and future gain. Another way for me to increase my happiness connected to education is simply by staying positive. In The Futile Pursuit of Happiness, George Loewenstein said "Happiness is a signal that our brains use to do certain things. And in the same way that our eye adapts to different levels of illumination we are designed to kind of go back to the happiness set point." This shows that not only can we control when we are happy but we can also adapt to certain situations in order to be happy. For me to be happier with education I also need to learn how to detach myself from my feelings and emotions. Sometimes I find myself thinking "I can't say that I enjoyed school because then I will sound like a nerd" If I were to careless about what people think I will be much happier with the education I receive in school.
I will have to admit that I really enjoy school. I did not really enjoy it in high school mainly because teachers put too much pressure on their student. This pressure I found very overwhelming and I couldn't deal with it. After reading the passage The Futile Pursuit of Happiness the happiness I felt towards education grew a lot more. In the passage it states that you are responsible for your happiness and from experience I have grown to support this claim. You and only you are responsible for your happiness level when it comes to anything that crosses your path, big or small, good or bad. In school I enjoy every little thing because I think about all the positive things I get out of it today, and the positive things I will get out of it tomorrow. I experience flow throughout my entire day in school and I don't even realize how fast the time goes by.
My greatest motivation is getting told that I can't do something but when an assignment is difficult my brain automatically tells me "I can't do it, I can't do it" thus incredibly becoming my motivation. In order for me to be happy with education I need to figure out what my present gain and what my future gain is when it comes to the assignment. Every little piece of work that is put in front of you while you are getting an education has some kind of present and future gain. Another way for me to increase my happiness connected to education is simply by staying positive. In The Futile Pursuit of Happiness, George Loewenstein said "Happiness is a signal that our brains use to do certain things. And in the same way that our eye adapts to different levels of illumination we are designed to kind of go back to the happiness set point." This shows that not only can we control when we are happy but we can also adapt to certain situations in order to be happy. For me to be happier with education I also need to learn how to detach myself from my feelings and emotions. Sometimes I find myself thinking "I can't say that I enjoyed school because then I will sound like a nerd" If I were to careless about what people think I will be much happier with the education I receive in school.
I will have to admit that I really enjoy school. I did not really enjoy it in high school mainly because teachers put too much pressure on their student. This pressure I found very overwhelming and I couldn't deal with it. After reading the passage The Futile Pursuit of Happiness the happiness I felt towards education grew a lot more. In the passage it states that you are responsible for your happiness and from experience I have grown to support this claim. You and only you are responsible for your happiness level when it comes to anything that crosses your path, big or small, good or bad. In school I enjoy every little thing because I think about all the positive things I get out of it today, and the positive things I will get out of it tomorrow. I experience flow throughout my entire day in school and I don't even realize how fast the time goes by.
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