Personal Reflective Essay: My Personal Development Plan

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Through my whole life I have learned many things; I have fallen, I have been racially discriminated, and stereo-typed. After many bumps and hurdles, I have never lost hope nor lost drive to become a better person in my personal and professional life. A personal development plan is an essential tool for the improvement of quality life towards personal relations with your family and coworkers. A personal action plan also helps me in the development of basic strategies that evaluates positive/negative life scenarios, and it is resourceful tool for time management. I was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to the United States in 1988; I joined the United States. After serving my country for 20 years, having 3 children and been blessed with an …show more content…
In relation to my first goal, my marriage has gotten better and better as time passes, with my failures in the past relationships have become a better man, husband, and a father. Furthermore, as a result of these past relationships, I have built an inner motivation and drive to stay with my wife and work things out, support her through thick and thin. Communications, listening, exercising, eat healthy, travel, and spending more time together are many of the tools that I will use to make my marriage work and live a longer live along my best friend, my love, my …show more content…
Dedication, consistency, and discipline are many of the values that I will have to implement into my daily life, for me, seeing my children succeed is the ultimate dream and will make my wife and I very proud parents. On the other hand, being debt free, it goes hand in hand with discipline, dedication, and consistent. Applying these same values and principles it will enrich my finances and will control our spending habits. As I look my life through these past years, I have learned many good habits; eating healthy, staying fit and having better communication with my spouse are a many of those habits. However, walking through life can be a very unpredictable journey and during the process I might come across many roadblocks. For example: A death in the family, children making poor choices, and health issues. Many of us cannot handle many of these tragic events, however keeping focus and taking life as it comes, it will make us emotionally stronger. Knowing that there are things in life we don 't have any control over, as a result, we will have to adopt and overcome those types of

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