Writing Assignment 2

Chapter 3: Optimism and Reality

1.When I was a high school student, I often said "I can do it" to myself three times in my heart before exams started. It was like a self suggestion. Taking exams is not a big adversity, but I tended to be so nervous before exams, so that kind of self-talk was needed. By that, I could calm myself down.

2.When I was in a desparate situation where I couldn't see my goal any more, I always said to me that "If this is the lowest, what will happen from now on is just climbing up". And, things often went well. I'm not so resilient that I often depressed with losing my goals (for example, "Even though tommorow is the exam day, I have understood almost nothing on the text!" lol). However, I need to get confidence again to achieve my goal. So, this way of thinking ("There are no worse situations than now")really helps me.

Writng Assignment 1

Hi!

Chapter 1 "Vision and Quick Victories"

Our section of freshman year is going to set up a shop at ICU festval in coming October. And I'm a leader of that shop,so I'm gonna write about it with considering our section as an organization, and me as a leader. I'm sorry that this topic is too near from now...

Long-term goals
Of course, our goal is to succeed in the festival. It's very nice to earn as much profit as possible to have a gorgeus party after the festival, but our primal goal is to enjoy the time with our reunioning section mates.

Each of my section mates has different characteristic, and consequentlly, different opinion. So sometimes it might be difficult to harmonize their opinions. As a leader, I feel the ability to bring them together with listening each opinion is especially required. Also, we'll be very busy on those days of festival, so it might make us irretated. Therefore, it is needed to be calm especially in the busiest time. These two behaviors are essential to achieve the long-term goals.

Short-term goals
Because the long-term goals can be achieved within about 1 month, my short-term goals become really short ones. To creat a momentum for achieving the long ones, I need to succeed in each process untill the festival. For example, it is required to submit many documents to the executive committee, to negotiate with shops for procuring materials, and to decorate the exterior of our shop.

While we deal with such tasks, it will be a good "engaging distractions" to chat with each other by having dinner without talking about those tasks. Even when we have some kind of conflicts between members because of the difference of opinions, having dinner will alleviate it.

Now, I'm trying hard to achieve short-term goals to get near to the long-term goals!