Improve My Life M: Rewind my Life 1) Think of my past mistakes Didn't spend enought time with family (Why) Worked to much (Why) Didn't eat well (Why) Not enough exercise (Why) Not thinking of people (Why) 2) How to correct those mistakes try to help people (How) visit often some elder people in nursing homes (How) try to be close to family (How) 3) Leave the present better Exercise more (How) Eat better (How) Read more spiritual books (What) ------------------------ Improving My Life by Rewinding My Life Many years ago I had rewound my life and I tried to do the things better or at least I have been trying till today. I tried to improve my life by rewinding it. Thinking about all my past mistake, I worked too much. I don’t want to justify, but I thought at that time I needed money to support my family. I didn’t spend time with my family, maybe it was for my job, traveling, or working 12 hours a day. At least it wasn’t too late to recognize one of my mistakes: money is not everything in the life. The family is much more important. Also I didn’t take care of my self. I didn't eat well. I think it was because of my time away from home. Nor did I do enough exercise. When I was young, I played soccer and volleyball, and I thought it was enough. Not thinking of people was one of my mistakes. Another was not looking around me, not thinking or seeing problems. What a selfish person I was unlike my wife who was a missionary. How have I corrected those mistakes? First I accepted how bad I was and then started to work less and dedicated more time to my family. At least I thought it wasn’t too late. I Tried to help people, at that time my wife was always involved with helping people in many ways. Then I began more support of her mission. Trying to be close to my family is another way. How? I began going out in missionary trips with my family -- trips that I never dreamed I would do with my family. Visiting nursing homes was wonderful; everything we did together was marvelous. How did I leave the present better? First I learned from my mistakes. Then I tried to correct them and apply the corrections to the present. I Exercised more. How? I tried to walk every day at least one mile, walk behind the mower cutting the grass, it is a good exercise too. I wanted to eat better, especially more vegetables, which helped and improve my health. I Read more spiritual books because they helped me in my life, and also if someone crosses in my path, at least I could help them with a counseling word. It is not so difficult to improve our relationship with our family. We only need to look back at our mistakes, accept them, correct them and keep going forward. If you are a workaholic, stop a little bit, and spend more time with your family. You take smaller trips, you can go on vacation, you can do a lot of things that will make everyone happy. Please put in first place, your family and everything will be better. Eating well and exercising is good for your health too. As we can notice, changing our habits can change our lives, also it can transform the relationship with our family . ================================================================ H: Find a Job 1) Improve quality of life Settle down and better family life (How) offer good education to my kids (Why) quiet circumstance (How/Why) 2) Verify my learning achievment from university Apply my technology into real industry (How) Find and correct misunderstanding in technology applying process (How) get feedback for future learning (How) 3) Help me to build up future career Learn industry culture (How/why) familiar with work processes (How) Have opportunity to get promotion (Why/how) ------------------------ Do you know what is on top of my to-do list for the coming year? It is finding a job. I can improve the quality of my life by finding a job. By getting a job in a specific city, I can settle down the whole family in a quiet community in that city. A job means a stable monthly income, which means I can bring my family a better life, while I offer a good education to my kids. Quality of life will be important for my whole family. Working is a good method to verify my learning achievement from university. I can apply my knowledge of technology to real industry. Also, I can find and correct my misunderstandings that I have in applying technlogical processes. And ultimately, I can get feedback to prepare for my future career. All of these wil point to a effective education. Finding a job will allow me to build up my future career. First, I can learn industry culture in a company. Secondly, I can be familiar with the work process. And thirdly, I can have an opportunity to get a promotion in my company. These will help me in my future career. In conclusion, finding a job is the best solution for me to improve my life quality, expand my knowledge, and build up my career. Both my family and I look forward to a wonderfy life. =============================================================== B: Continue Learning New things 1) Teaching at VITA (Where) Learn about students (What) Culture (How) Back grounds (How) their city (How) Learn about English language (What) Rules (What) Workbooks (how) Use google (Where/How) Learn teaching techniques (What) Projector (What) Using visuals (What) Involving students (How) 2) Khan Acadamy (Where) Take academic courses in New areas (Why) History (What) Biolology (What) Review past courses ie Matrix Algebra (Why) work-related ie JavaScript (Why) 3) Web Design (What) Always finding areas lacking knowlwdge (Why) Google for examples (how/where) Tutorials (how/Where) --------------------- Improving My Life From time to time I feel a bit dissatisfied with myself. I think "I need become better." But how? There are thousands of self-improvement books on the shelf of libraries. What I usually settle on is learning something new. There are many ways to learn new things; here are some ways I've found. One place that I have an opportunity to learn new things in various ways is at VITA. I learn from my students; I enjoy finding out about their cultures, their backgrounds and their cities. I also learn about my language by teaching ESL. There so many rules that no one has taught me: grammar, syntax or spelling. I find answers from the workbooks, Google or even my students. I also learn new teaching techniques such as using visuals or involving the students. All of these make me feel a little smarter. Another place I go to learn new things is Khan Academy. I have taken courses in subjects that I never took in school such as history or biology. Perhaps I wasn't interested in them earlier but now I am, or I now find the new information useful. I also can re-take a subject that I didn't do well with when in school or that I've forgotten much of. Khan Academy provides a structured learning environment that make learning fun. A third source of learning is for my work in website design. In programing, there is so much to know that no one can master it all. I learn new programming skills as they become needed. Fortunately there is a wealth of information immediately available on the internet. When I am stumped on some code, I Google it and usually someone has had the same problem and someone else has answered it. And, there are tutorials that can bring me up to speed with a more thorough understanding of that area. I would not be able to do my job as a programmer without what I learn on the internet. These are only a few areas where I learn new things. There are many more roads to learning. We should never stop looking for new things to learn. Life would be pretty dull if we didn't learn new stuff.