Write a 13 pages paper on personal, academic, and career effectiveness. Taking up a business course at the university is just one step towards my dream.&nbsp. Further honing my skills and potentia

Write a 13 pages paper on personal, academic, and career effectiveness. Taking up a business course at the university is just one step towards my dream.&nbsp. Further honing my skills and potentials with a Masters degree in Business Administration will surely take me to where I want in my career life.&nbsp.

Doing this exercise in Personal and Career Effectiveness has made me learn so many things about myself, as a lot of reflection and introspection are entailed.&nbsp. I am still young. I know, many habits have been formed already in me, but I am a firm believer that everyone can change or adapt to changes around them.&nbsp. I would like to believe that I am still malleable.&nbsp. I am still a work in progress, searching for the best way to grow and be the person I have always wanted to be.&nbsp. The tests I have taken have been sounding boards of my personality and seeing the results revealed a lot about who I am.&nbsp.

To dive into a successful career, many factors are considered.&nbsp. One is managing time effectively.&nbsp. I have been put in situations when multi-tasking was necessary and sometimes I lose my focus on one thing or the other.&nbsp. Apart from school work, I have to spend time with my family no matter the distance, and of course, maintain a social life. I believe establishing a network of friends from various circles will be beneficial for me not only for my personal growth but for my professional contacts as well.

Handout 7 indicates how I manage my time. I learned that I let important tasks slip because I waste so much time on more trivial things.&nbsp. In answering the handout, I resolved to do the following things to better manage my time: to be more focused, to set priorities and to set my goals and objectives for every week.&nbsp. I know that it is more manageable to get myself week per week rather than plan a whole set of goals for a longer period of time.

Stress is another factor I have to contend.&nbsp. Handout 8 made me realize just how stressed I really was! Generally, stress is what one feels when the demands on his life exceed his ability to meet those demands. The stressor may be external, such as pressing deadlines, or, it may be an internal stressor such as a feeling of inadequacy to handle the tasks or loss of self-confidence. &nbsp.So far, my stressors have been the heavy load of assignments and exams for school, my anxiety for getting good grades, and maintaining good relationships with my family and friends.&nbsp. I learn how to cope with the various stressors and turn them into motivators so I could cope with the struggles of studying in a foreign country.&nbsp. Coping is expected to be consistent with a determination of whether anything can be done to change the situation. For example, problem-focused coping is expected to be used in situations appraised as unchangeable. Ultimately, the individual's choice of a coping mechanism is determined by his perceptions of personal control over the stressful situation. Personal control `reflects an individuals' beliefs, at a given point in time, in his or her ability to effect change in the desired direction on the environment'. Coping outcomes at least partially depend on the goodness of between appraisal and coping.