Reflection Paper On Action Planning

Final Assessment This semester I was able to participate in action planning. I was not quite sure what to expect when I started out, but throughout the semester I learned a lot about myself. I learned how to make a goal that was actually attainable. I also learned what was too much for me to accomplish, as well as how to push myself to work for my goals. Finding that balance was the most important part of action planning. My goal this semester was to learn to cope with my stress. Through action planning I was able to take baby steps to achieve this goal. Learning to cope with stress is a lifetime battle, but I definitely feel like I understand how to deal with my stress better now than I used to. Throughout the semester I learned what worked …show more content…
Some of the things that actually did end up affecting my action planning was my roommates, my friends, and my family. My roommates affected me in actually a couple of ways, both positively and negatively. They helped me because they encouraged me to do my action planning when I was discouraged. Also, when I would come home stressed from something they would remove me from whatever was stressing me out and do something with me that would get my mind off of it. Some of the negative effects were that sometimes my roommates would talk me into doing things with them instead of doing the things that I needed to, which in turn would stress me out. Also, sometimes my roommates and I would have disagreements that would cause some stress to build in our apartment. My friends and family helped with my action planning because they would talk to me and help me know how to be less stressed. It helped to just get to talk to people that I love about what was stressing me out. In the future I definitely think that I will employ my action planning skills that I obtained from doing this. This is because I loved the idea of setting small goals each weak to help reach a long term goal. I love that because sometimes when I set a goal I just focus on my long term goal, but I push off achieving it because I am not quite sure how to get there. Action planning showed me that if you set small goals