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READING EXPERIENCE 3: YOUR PAST DOESN’T DEFINE YOUR FUTURE
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how many blows or hits you receive; what does matter is how you respond to those blows (i.e., being
able to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and continue on). Making a commitment to positively deal
with the negative hits of life can be the difference between destructive and constructive behaviors in
your moments of distress.
Each My Life Vision assignment you will be given in this course is included in the list which follows.
This list represents required submissions; the hope is that once you have started work on your LVP, the
benefits will become obvious enough that you will begin to use it for more than just a way to satisfy a
course requirement. This is YOUR life you’re documenting, after all. Use your LVP as a way to explore
the universe that is you.
Experience My Life Vision Topic Experience My Life Vision Topic
1 Who Am I? 9 Failure, Performance, and Evaluation
2 Things I Want to Learn in My Life 10 Meaningful Reading
3 Processing Life’s Difficulties 11 Seeing Myself through Learning Skills
4 Letting Go of Evaluation 12 Coping Skills
5 My Goals 13 Friends as Mentors
6 Step by Step 14 Expanding My Life Experiences
7 Role Models 15 Likes and Dislikes
8 My Community
Journal Writing
Journal writing is a process by which you write thoughts, ideas,
feelings, experiences, important information, things learned or discovered,
assessments, notes, terms, pictures, and drawings, to name a few. Your LVP is
a kind of journaling assignment with a specific aim and use.
Journal writing gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you have learned, articulate and generalize
concepts, learn from problems or difficulties, and know yourself better. Keeping a journal of this growth
is a powerful tool.
Different types of pages in your journal can be designed to serve different purposes. Consider the following
forms or pages for use in your journal.
Learning Journal entries are for collecting and developing knowledge from discussions, meetings,
and lectures. The prompts support the construction of knowledge so that you can apply this
knowledge to your life.
How I’m Doing is the place to stop and reflect where you are on your growth path. It is also
documentation of the gains you have made and the reasons for the gain. Additionally, records what
you want to focus on in the future and the plans for growth.
Self-Assessment pages are for assessing your performance on a regular basis. Self-assessments allow
you to better understand what you are learning and how much you are growing. A good model for
self-assessments is the SII Method of Assessment which involves looking for Strengths, areas for
Improvement, and Insights.