Journal # 5

In this activity, you will create a personal affirmation. If you repeat your affirmation often, it will help you make choices that will strengthen the personal qualities needed to achieve your goals and dreams.

1. Write a one-sentence statement of one of your most motivating goals or dreams in your role as a student.
2. Write a long list of personal qualities that would help you achieve this educational goal or dream. Use adjectives such as persistent, intelligent, hard-working, loving, articulate, organized, friendly, confident, relaxed, and so on. Write as many qualities as possible.

3.Circle the three qualities on your list that seem the most essential for you to achieve your goal or dream as a student (the one you identified in Step 1).

4. Write three versions of your personal affirmation. Do this by filling in the blanks in sentence formats A, B, and C below. Fill the blanks with the three personal qualities you circled in Step 3 above. NOTE: Use the same three personal qualities in each of the three formats.

Format A: I am a,,man/woman.

Example: I am a strong, intelligent, persistent woman.

Format B: I am a,,man/woman,ing.

Example: I am a strong, intelligent, persistent woman, creating my dreams.

Format C: I am a,,man/woman, and I.

Example: I am a strong, intelligent, persistent woman, and I love life.

Dont copy the examples; create your own unique affirmation.

5. Write three paragraphsone for each of the three qualities in your affirmation. In each of these paragraphs, write about a specific experience when you displayed your desired quality. For example, if one of your desired qualities is persistence, tell a story about a time in your life when you were persistent (even a little bit!). Write the story like a scene from a book, with enough specific details that readers will feel as though they are seeing what you experienced. Your paragraph might begin: The first quality from my affirmation is. A specific experience in my life when I demonstrated that quality was.