My Jungian Reflective Essay

People oriented, creative, and highly optimistic: the Jungian definition of my personality describes me rather well. I have not always been so extroverted but I have always been creative and optimistic. Throughout this unit I have been reminded of how I have changed over the last few years, how I have grown it to a person that I didn’t necessarily intend to be but am happy with. I think this makes me unique. Not that I have changed my mind a lot but that I have strategically altered my path in a certain direction in order to find happiness in all aspects of my life. I hope, like many others to make a decent living and provide for my family but I mainly want to make a difference in the world somehow.
Thus far in the class I have learned a lot about myself in my undergraduate class I would have never dreamt that I would pursue an MBA or aspire to be a manager of any kind. I …show more content…
I truly am an optimistic person, I trust in those around me and always believe the best in people. I have failed many times and still thought that I could do it. For example, I have tried over the years to lose weight. Exercise, eating healthy, bad diets, cleanses, wraps, pills, fitness tapes, the list goes on and on. I have lost and gained a lot of the last couple of years. However as each pound goes back I find that and more and more optimistic about the end result. I had to realize that for me losing weight is a mindset it’s not a diet. It’s just eating healthier and choosing a lifestyle that I enjoy that makes me healthy. I have chosen to get up earlier and walk the dog. I have chosen to cut out certain foods and just as cooking and being a manager are similar being healthy and being a manger are a lot alike. It is a choice we have to make to be optimistic in the face of something we are failing at. We must always pick ourselves back up and run forward in the face of whatever it is that needs