My Character Experiment Experience so far.
The first virtue that I will be working on is patience.Patience as defined on Merriam Websters dictionary is “the ability to wait for a long time without becoming annoyed or upset.” Patience is a very important virtue to have in life considering that we basically have to wait for everything.I want to work on my patience because I not only have a lot of it but it changes my mood completely.I also want to have more patience because of my two younger siblings.I also believes that if I have patience I will do better in school.Normally what happens is that I don’t memorize something quickly and give up on that one thing.What I am planning to do to help me with my patience is breathe, count to 10, and learn how to laugh things off. Taking deep breath will reduce stress. I mostly become inpatient when I am stressed.
The next virtue I want to get better at is having determination. I use to be a very determined person until I thought things were getting to hard.In general I am a pretty determined person but when it comes to school all that determination goes down hill.In school when I do not understand something or when I am tired I cannot comprehend anything my brain just blocks which causes me to lose my determination.Then I started losing my determination in gymnastics so I wasted a lot of time and started gaining a lot of weight.Several years of gymnastics went to waste. I really want to do good in high school which is why I want to increase my determination.What I am planning to do in order to have more determination is avoid getting distracted from my goals and work towards my goals nonstop.
The last virtue I want to work on is having better focus.Focus is a very important virtue to have in order to succeed in life.If you are doing homework or studying and not focusing you will not learn or improve at all.I normally do homework with music and it doesn’t allow me to focus. Another thing that doesn’t allow me to focus is how easily I get distracted.Last thing that makes me have a lack of focus is a lot of noise.When there is a lot of noise around me I cannot focus.Things that I will do to improve are Not listen to music while I do homework, wear headphone when there is a lot of noise to exit out the noise and avoid as many distractions as possible.
Hi Maria!
ReplyDeleteI have experienced the disadvantages of working in a loud environment. I highly recommend listening to white noise while you do your work. It’s helped me a lot when I need to focus on one thing, and I think that it might help you. It seems to me that the reason that you give up is because you feel like you haven’t done anything in all the time you’ve been spending working on an assignment. To combat this, I think that by setting up small goals within a larger, more general goal, you can stay motivated and feel more accomplished, thus decreasing the reasons you have for giving up. As far as patience goes, I think that by trying to distance yourself from the situation that is bothering, you can be beneficial for staying calm and being able to wait for longer periods of time. I hope that you find this helpful!