Effective Group Reflection

In starting off this week’s journal entry and as it relates to my effectiveness as a group participant, I would, similarly to last week’s session say this week’s session to be a good illustrator of effective group participation, yes. In contrast, however, I would say this session to be one of my best demonstrations of effective group participation.
In an effort to explain the above as well as get into the activities of this week’s session, this week’s opener asked of one to reflect on what has kept them going, kept them motivated when they reflect on their successful completion of the past semester that has upgraded them to the current semester and then now being in the second month of the second semester what has kept that “engine” going. …show more content…
Something along those lines was first said by Havi (if I spelled the name correctly), after which, many others echoed similar statements. A second motivation included the fact that the student themself is paying for school and thus, with it being their money, they don’t want their money to go to waste. I remember this being something Shalomi (unsure spelling) shared. Third being, wanting to just do better for oneself, meaning, to get a better education and/or further ones education for the sole reason of this being something the individual wants for themselves. Similarly, comes the response of furthering education in the hopes of obtaining greater prestige and/or benefits and pay.
My motivation/strategy in “chugging along” is not something isolated just to school. To explain, I shared that it is more of a mindset that I have in everything that I do and that is, “I’m going to give everything 110 percent, and whatever happens, happens, but knowing that I gave it my all, that I gave it my best where things were in my control, I can live with that.” Additionally, working as I do simply because I know that tasks such as assignments are important to school and as such need to get done and so, “let’s do