Reflective Essay On Leisure Activities

Having the opportunity and the courage to experience satisfying leisure activities is essential in our lives. Every single human has a unique personality that can explain why they behave in a certain way and what are the underlying causes of their choice of activities in their leisure time. However, the specific reasons of why we choose certain leisure activities can be better understood by uncovering our personal leisure motivations. The Leisure Motivations Assessment described my personal motivations to participate in specific leisure activities that contribute to my life satisfaction and happiness. At the same time, after participating in the rope course experience I was able to re take this assessment to compare and contrast my post-assessment …show more content…
According to my results form the first time I took the leisure motivation assessment, being competitive was one of the least important motivation for my leisure choices. However, after experiencing the rope course, I realized that competing was a motivation to engage in some of these challenges. I was trying to do better than some of my classmates. I was happy when they were able to accomplish their challenges, but at the same time I did not want to stay behind, so I kept telling my self that I could do it too. Another leisure motivation that I was not aware of is gain other’s respect. Every time I did well in a challenge my classmates congratulated me; I felt like they respected me for trying hard, and doing a good job. My pre-results from the assessment showed that gain other’s respects were not important at all, but my post resulted showed it as somewhat …show more content…
Satisfying leisure experiences are important during our live time to feel happy and gratify. According to the Leisure Motivations Assessment some of my main leisure motivation are: -------------------. Moreover, I was able to compare and contrast my pro-assessment results with my pre-experience expectations. I was able to recognize that my post assessment result support some of my pre-experiences expectations. For example, motivation. On the other hand, I also found some significant differences of specific motivation. Such as, --------. Overall, the rope course experience was very rewarding and I learn that in the future I will continue experience new adventures in order to learn about myself. On the top of that, I learned that I could accomplish anything in life if I try my best. Furthermore, the rope course is a great experience for our personal development. I will highly recommend the rope course to other supervisors. Then again, the supervisor must take in consideration the cost and time that implies to do the rope