This week in class we discussed emotional intelligence at work, at home and at school. We also talked about creating "flow" in our lives. Please answer the following questions based on what you have learned this week.
- Write about a specific past event when you experienced flow in any part of your life.
- Describe your perfect work of the future, the kind that you believe will create the most flow in your life.
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Flow is described as a time where you feel a sense of happiness. I can described many times where I can myself creating flow. One paticular time where I felt flow is pretty recent. Math was never my strong point in schooling but this past year I feel more confident with my work resulting in good grades and happiness.
I believe that my future work will envlove enviromental studies. Hopefully this field of study will challenge me and keep me interested at the same time. Working with the environment will not bore me but instead keep me happy or "flowing".
Write about a specific past event when you experienced flow in any part of your life.
There are so many events in my life when I experienced flow.
For example when I passed my second ski instructor exam, what made me really happy, because now I am able to work with better skiers, and get also a little bit more money. Another one is when I got an A in my last math test, I got really excited and happy, because I knew my dad would be proud of me.
The next event, that is going to describe the most flow in my life is going to be at home. I am already really excited and can´t wait to see my family and friends! I haven´t seen them since 4 month now, and it´s going to be a big flow for me to see them.
Elisabeth Mucke
If flow is being happy with yourself and your life, or any specific moment. That would be for me when, I went to Europe with my mom and my sister this year. I have always loved art, and seeing it with your bare eyes is an amazing feeling. There is nothing you can study before going to Europe you just have to know the history in this case art, from the course of your lifetime. I felt like a teacher passing my knowledge. That made me feel happy, being there with them.
I have always wanted to be a photographer, since I was little, the first time that I remember seeing the JC Penny Catalog I didn't browse at the toys, I browsed at the cameras and I picked one!
Working in that field would my most flow in my life, because I would be more than happy with myself and my life.
Right now my life is flowing very smoothly! Im doing great in all my classes, Im experiencing something completely new and loving it, my family is really pound of me, and my relationship is great! I would have to say that currently my life is flowing very well.
When I graduate I plain on becoming a real state agent and maybe teaching art class to little kids on the side. I want to get married and have about 3 or more kids and just be the best mother I can be. When it comes to my work I want to be the best real state agent so I can provide a good life for my family. I also want to inspire little artist to follow there dreams and help them improve their art skills. If all my goals get completed then I believe my life will flow very well.
Anna Ogden
One time that I experienced flow recently was about a month ago when I went home for the weekend and had a bunch of my friends over for dinner, I cooked some super dank steaks (bacon wrapped steak to be precise) and we ate and told jokes, during this time I felt amazing because not only was I making people happy through the food but I was also feeling goo because I was making them laugh.
The perfect job for me is teaching outward bound courses, I know this because it is a different mentality when you are in the woods, it’s about laughing and being responsible while teaching and being a leader, I know that this is the job for me because anytime that I take friends on a outdoor adventure I feel as if I am one with myself and the world.
1. Write about a specific past event when you experienced flow in any part of your life.
2. Describe your perfect work of the future, the kind that you believe will create the most flow in your life.
A time when I have felt flow was on an epic powder day last year. It was a day in early January I believe and it had been dumping. So I ditched school and had an amazing day. It was a Wednesday or something so the mountain wasn't too crowded. I had been going all over finding epic powder and just going with the flow and it was a euphoric experience. Then around 2 I went out of bounds on pony and found some epic powder then rode down to the bottom and got in bounds and there was a whole run that was on the map but was totally untracked! it was amazing and me and my friend named it the run of ecstasy.
I hope my future work will have something to do with epic powder days or just snowboarding in general. Being an instructor would allow that, but I wouldnt want to deal with annoying little kids. But ultimatley I want to be a director or producer for legit snowboard companies so I would be able to ride epic places like Alaska or anywhere really. I would totally be with the flow because I love snowboarding and making snowboard movies, so it would be sick nasty!! Word!
Tony V.
I guess a time when I experienced flow would be about two months ago. In Intepersonal Communications, we had to creatively write something about concepts we had to learn. So I decided to write a mini screenplay just eleven pages long. i was kind of nervous, because i never wrote one before. but it just came naturally. i told a story of a high school kid who had commited suicide and his mom telling the kids' best friend about her sons' past.
it was a great experience and was quite easy to write. when i read it in class, people really seemed to like it and connect with it, asking for more, "what happens next?". All through the writing process I was happy to truly create a story that I hope one day to finish.
I am going to aim to take many English, writing, and journalism courses over the next couple years. My dream is to get an english degree, be a writer or editor of a magazine. finding joy in continuing to write will no doubt propel me to greater successes.
1. Write about a specific past event when you experienced flow in any part of your life.
The best one that I can think of is when I play guitar. Each day I get a little better and its fun to think about how limited my skill was when I first picked it up. It's been over two years and I can play stuff thats so ridiculously fast! I can create new music everyday and I continue to challenge myself to get better. What I mean by this is that, I get this sense of "flow" everytime I play the guitar. I appreciate how well I play now because of all the time I dedicated to it. Its such a great feeling of accomplishment that sometimes I just want to go downtown and start playing! Its me being a show off but I don't care!
2. Describe your perfect work of the future, the kind that you believe will create the most flow in your life.
I think that my future work is going directly towards me becoming a teacher. I Love teaching so much and I want to be able to be that one teacher that everyone likes. I find a great deal of accmoplishment when I can teach something new to someone else. Take my guitar for example, I have alot of friends who ask for some tips or new skills and I'm totally willing to teach it to them. It makes me feel great when they get it down and they're able to quickly figure it out.
My life has been full of times where i have had times and flow and times when there has been no flow at all. However those times of flow make life worth living. The time when I had the most flow in my life was last summer. I was excited for college, I was done with highsschool and I could just relax and have fun. I had an amazing boyfriend at the time and we did everthing together. From going fishing to going to an amusment park. We even worked at the same place. At that point in time my relationship with my parents was really good and my brother was back home for the summer and having my family together like that again made me really happy. It felt like the good old days before my brother moved out and when the family would do everything together.
I would love to be a clothing designer. Particularly outerwear. Like jackets and snowpants and other stuff like that. I think it would create more flow in my life because i love design and i love the snow and it would combine both of those into something that i am passionate about. I would love to start my own company one day also. If i was able to accomplish that then i know i would be so proud of myself and i would feel like i actually accomplished something in my life.
Stephanie Ramstetter
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