Personal Events In My Life

Lifeline

In the process of completing this lifeline exercise, I experienced a wide range of emotions that corresponded to what I consider to be important impactful events in my life. As I progressed through my lifeline, the primary emotion I felt was contentment. I feel that I’ve lived a rich life thus far and am a very optimistic person, so a sense of satisfaction is my overall feeling. I certainly felt emotional highs and lows while doing this activity as well. I developed some feelings of despair when mulling over some darker periods, such as a period of financial distress. Perhaps the lowest point was in recalling the sudden death of a very close loved one that resulted in a feeling of painful anguish. The emotional highpoints came from

However, there are a couple of realistic changes that I would like to make in the way I spend my time. First, I would like to decrease the amount of time spent socially networking and reallocate between exercising and increasing the quality of my time at home. Along this line, I would like to reduce the time spent on entertainment. Although not too excessive, lessening the number of hours per week watching movies would not be very painful and these could be put to better use in other areas. In assessing if my time is spent adequately in support of my values; I believe that is not the case at present. The time demands of my career have been steadily increasing for over a year. This has become somewhat detrimental to my values by diminishing the time available to seek out opportunities for personal development. It is also physically affecting my overall happiness to some extent because of fatigue. On the other hand, the time commitment required of school is very supportive of my intellectual value and I plan to continue on with this in other spheres after graduation. Overall, my feeling is that my time is spent fairly well in regards to the values I deem important and this will improve once my workload