Becoming a Role Model

So this week in class we looked at becoming a role model. I'd like to thank Rachel and Amy for doing such a great job. The question at the beginning of class got us to think about who was one of our role models and what common values do they have that make us feel that way. I believe that my parents were my role models as I was growing up. They were always very responsible accepting the situations that life threw at them. They never tried to blame something else for something or came up with excuses not to do something, they always took responsibility. My dad was also a man of positive thinking. He could somehow take the worst of a situation and turn it into something positive along the way by using his humor.
The activity that Amy and Rachel came up with was a very good one. They put three of the values on the board in the chapter and first we chose which one was our strength and then later which was our weakness. My strengths that I could remember were adaptability, creativity, and gratitude. When discussing adaptability with the others, we all sort of centered around how we could adapt to different situations during the day. If something came up during the day, we could easily adjust and bounce back. I myself, thought that I can adapt to newer environments along with newer ideas when given time. I think that being creative is also one of my strong points. I feel like I am someone who is trying to discover new ways or ideas of doing something. I try to never do something repetitive time after time. Doing the same thing day after day really bothers me for some reason so trying to come up with new and exiting alternatives is a good way to deal with it. My other strength was also gratitude. I try to take nothing for granite in my life. I'm always given new opportunities that others may not be as fortunate to be given. If you start taking things for granite in your life, you may lose something important to you in the blink of an eye without knowing.
We also discussed some of the values that we see weakness in. The two that I remember were focus and responsibility. I seem to have trouble focusing on one thing at one time. I usually am so focused on many different things at one time it makes it hard for me to pay most of my attention to some of the more important issues. I think I can make this a strong point of mine if I just slow down and really think about one issue instead of my mind racing from point to point. My other weakness was responsibility. I'm not totally irresponsible, it just seems like I make excuses for the small things that are going on. I try to make little excuses for not doing something that I probably should have. I like to thank Amy and Rachel for doing such a great job again, they lead the class very well with their activity. It really had me thinking about all the different values that attribute to a being a good peer mentor.