MBTI

I have not ever heard of the MBTI test before Hixson. When I took the test this summer I could not simply fathom that an test online could pinpoint my personality type. It turns out that the test was pretty accurate.

My four letters were ISFP, which stands for introversion, sensing, feeling, and perceiving. I learned that although my personality seems to fall into these categories, on the preference clarity index, I was in the slight or moderate spectrum for all of my categories. So, I could go either way on my categories.

If asked in high school if I was an introversion or extraversion, I would have most likely picked extraversion because I was friends with most my peers and I usually would say things before I thought about them. Now that I am in college I do not say much in class and I usually think before I talk. I recall my freshman year of high school to be the same way.

My results conclude that I hold my values high, I am reserved, and I live in the moment. I have not thought of myself having those personality traits but the more I think about it the more I find the traits stated to be true. I am not quite sure how these traits will help me with my goals, but hey they helped my get this far!

Goals and Bucket list

Goals, to me, are the serious ideas one wants to set for his or her own life. A person sets a goal to attempt to achieve something. On the other spectrum is a bucket list, which are things one wants to do for a source of entertainment. This blog is all about my goals and bucket list.

I really do not have very many goals set for myself as of right now. My biggest goal would be to graduate college with a grade point average of at least 3.50. I would also like to stick to my major. After graduating from Iowa State I plan on attending medical school, maybe a school in the south. I am not quit sure if I want to be a general physician or a pediatrician yet, I figure that there is plenty of time left to figure it out.

To balance out my life I also have fun things planned in my bucket list. I would love to travel to Ireland someday. My great grandparents came from Ireland and I always thought it would be neat to go see where they came from. Living in Tennessee by the Smoky Mountains has also been on my bucket list for quit sometime now. I love the history and appearance of the Smoky Mountains. I have gone white water rafting once and I loved it, so a road trip to different states to white water raft is high on my bucket list.

I have a lot of things goals and activities that I want to accomplish. I feel that the best part of goals and activities on a bucket list is the journey along the way of achieving them. I'm going to work hard to make sure I can check of all of my goals and bucket list!  

Be The Best

When asking someone to tell a time he or she was at his or her best, one could bring up a variety of different stories. Some people feel they were at their best during a game and others may say it was on a test or academic event. I was at my best when I worked at Little Flower Haven Nursing Home.

I have been working at the nursing home for five years. I know that seems like a broad spectrum of time but I will explain. The past year I had been working as a Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.), in that time I had always tried to be at my best. 

I tried my hardest every day at work to be the best I could be and most days I feel I accomplished that. I had to be at my best because not only was I working for myself but I was also there to help and protect the residents. Each evening eighteen residents depended on me to help them get ready for bed and to actually help them into bed. Some residents required more help than others. I had to be on time and respectful with each person. I acquired the virtue of patience throughout my experience at work. I really enjoyed what I was doing and helping the residents felt natural to me. 

 I really cared about my residents. The residents would tell me how much they cared for me also and how good of job I was I dong. I would dismiss the praise because I thought every C.N.A. had my work ethic. Through time I found out that I tried to spend time with my residents and help them feel comfortable a little more than some other the other workers. I finally started accepting the praise because the residents helped me realize that I am at my best when I am helping others.