Personal Narrative: The Five Stages Of Change

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For my plan I decided to use the model Stages of Change. In this model there are 5 stages: Precontemplation, Contemplation, Action Stage, Maintenance, and relapse. Precontemplators are individuals who do not want to change whatsoever. Contemplators are people who knows what their problems are and want to change. Action stage is when they already have a plan and taking responsibility to change for the better. Maintenance is when a person has reached his/her goal and is continuously doing their best to stay there. Relapser are individuals who falls out of their plan and could not follow through. In other words, they back to the precontemplation stage. I feel like this model fitted me best because I can see myself in each stages. Moreover I feel …show more content…
At first I wasn’t sure what to record and so I recorded everything that I did for two days. It felt like it was a lot of writing and I had many problems with remembering to record. I meet with my assign group in which we have similar behavior that we want to change, and I found out that I wasn’t the only one struggling. I am not used to recording my day, or keeping a dairy therefore it was difficult. I even tried recording on my phone since I am usually busy during the day, but it didn’t follow through. I also tried to do all the recording at the end of the day and even set an alarm for it, but then I would forget what had happened, who I met and what situations had I faced. After that I decided to just focus on and record the situations that came upon me that are comparable to my goal and sub-goals. I knew that I had to keep it up until I have a baseline, and so I endure through it for two and a half week when I can see my behavior pattern. I could effortlessly recognized the antecedents associated with my behavior because those are the things I do every day repeatedly. Like I mentioned before at the beginning of the paper, my behavior was so corrupted that it affected my whole family and that I already considered making a

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