Running head: Application Paper

Application Paper # 3
Carlos Garcia
COMM122
April 13, 2015
Sister Burk

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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power,
intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen
Since I started this class, I had a feeling that this would be one of my favorite classes and
a great opportunity to overcome all my fears and weaknesses in public speaking and in my
interpersonal communication. Then, I promise to myself to apply all these concepts and be more
original, confident, and motivated at the end of the semester. It is been an interesting process at
the college, and this class is one of the last classes I take. I feel amazed with all changes and
improvements that I have made in this class, even being a second language learner, I feel more
confident and able to talk and express my thoughts and ideas clearly. My purpose in this essay is
to reflect about how this class has change many perspectives not only in my communication with
others, but also in other aspects of my life. This class gave me a clear and compact concept of
hope. Every assignment, quiz, and pondering taught me how to get more hope and be a better
me.
I loved taking the strengths assessment and be aware of what my real strengths are. Being
restorative is help others to increase their potential, to raise their faith and to restore the old for
the new. Giving new perspectives to gives me hope for being able to serve as the Lord did and
does. My second strength is positive. I believe being positive is the same as being hopeful, and at
the same time giving hope to people that most need it. Most of the times I am positive indeed,
nevertheless, I feel that I do not trust completely in the Lord and his promises and fear more the
flesh. Even though I feel down in those circumstances, I am willing and able to help others by
telling them my personal experiences and how I have overcome those things. I know that being
positive is not always an easy task, but I know that totally worth for those who surround me.

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I feel really grateful and blessed for having also connectedness as a strength, and actually I knew
that I had that before taking the assessment. I totally agree that I have increase my ability to
connect to people after learning transcendental principles from this strength in this class. I
learned that being able to connect to people, no matter what they think, act or speak it is totally
important to create and built a strong relationship with my fellowman. I apply also this to my
professional field and I feel more confident trying to connect to everybody at work. I also apply
this principle to my home and church, and try to walk a second mile with those who most need it.
Another thing I learned this semester was that as I sincerely connect to others and show my love
and care, I would be able to increase my potential not only as a communicator but also as a child
of God.
Challenges came along with these great discoveries, but those challenges taught me how
to enforce those things that were weak. I felt weak and unable to speak as clearly and accurate as
other people did in my class, and part of that is because I am a ESL student and my principle
weakness is speaking in English in front of people. I saw some opposition such as, some students
distracted or taking care of something else. I felt discouraged, but then I remember my positive
strength and how others could see in me great potential. After couple presentations in front of the
class, I was able to face my fears and catch more attention than at the beginning of the semester.
This is when I apply my hope statement, I was able to make myself. I made the right decision
and ascend through this path of knowledge and skills. And then, I could master all those
weaknesses and errors in me. I hold the key for every scenario in every conversation I hold with
every human being, inside and outside of class. I definitely learned how to manage my emotions
and how control those strong emotions that I was not aware of, but they were affecting
significantly my behavior and image in front of everyone else.

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For me at the beginning was quite difficult to be aware of every emotion according with every
moment. It was in that very moment in the class, when Mrs. Burk taught us about emotional
intelligence and I could not believe how many situations were out of my control, just because I
could not realize that I need to call every emotion by its name and control it, and of course let it
know to the person I am facing the situation. On the other hand, it was amazing how controlling
emotions determine my actions since the very first moment. As I said, I am not very good at
controlling and managing those feelings, especially when injustice and unfairness comes. It is so
hard for me calm down and think before speak. That is why I get in trouble so much. After
analyzing this concept in class, I learned that I just need imperatively to control my emotions in
order to triumph in all crucial conversations and also in the most important relationships.
Finally, the concept that also stunned me was about having the proper skills in order to
maintain things down control in all crucial conversations. Stakes are high, emotions are high too,
for that reason, and there are some conversations that matter much more than others. Some just
can ruin our lives, jobs and also families. The thing that I was totally out of track, because I did
not pay attention to those patterns that changed a whole conversation, making it poor and vague.
For some reason, in those moments I lose my hope, just allowing myself saying things, or
thinking things that are not relevant to a situation like that. After reading all the book, and seeing
the presentations, I started pondering about how many changes I need to do. It seems
overwhelming but it is a one step at the time that will take a while. To be honest, I feel
frustrated by these little details that ruin a lot of times a conversation with someone else. Hope is
not a feeling, it is a process that leads to other marvelous virtuous. Hope is what we must have in
order to endure until the end, and if we are worthy, the Savior will receive us as how really are;
His children with gods potential.