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Final Speech Assignment In the Final Speech you will share with the audience what you have learned about yourself, mindfulness and communication through working with your unproductive habit. The objective is the main thing you learned in this process or your biggest takeaway from this class. Begin working on modifying your unproductive habit. If you wait, you will not have anything to report on for your final speech! In the speech, please address (in any order): In your own words, what is the experience of mindfulness? What does it look like and feel like to you? Give specific examples. Has it changed from what you thought it was before this class? What is your unproductive habit? What made you choose this habit to work on? What problems was it causing for you or others? What is the ideal outcome of changing this habit? What mindfulness ability (or abilities) did you use to work on it? What worked? What didn’t work? Where are you now with this habit? Did you discover what has been triggering this habit? For example; stress, difficult conversations or negative self-talk? Were you able to become aware of the impulse before the acting on the habit? If so, were you able to open up to choosing other responses? How did the assignments, readings and/or topics in this course help you develop more awareness about this habit? What concepts or skills stand out for you? What would you like to keep developing or exploring? Include any relevant material from your application journals, awareness notebooks and Pearman’s EI (emotional intelligence) To-Do’s list. Grading You will be graded using the following criteria: Grabbed attention: (5 pts) Speech objective is cued and clearly stated: (15 pts) Include details the support the speech objective and emphasize the main points: (15 pts) If you use a visual aid (extra points) Cue your conclusion and summarize your main points: (10 pts) Conclusion left lasting impression (5 pts) Expression and delivery (50 pts) MY MINDFULNESS HABIT/CHALLENGE/MINDFULNESS ABILITY Habit- Being judgmental Challenge- closing people off or judging people to quickly Mindfulness- nonjudgmental ASSIGNMENT TO HELP WITH WRITING: Group project: Judgment is something everyone has but isn’t always a good thing to express. You can judge someone or something without saying it aloud so it is easy to do without realizing what you have done. For example if you are walking down the street and you see someone outside the “social norm” most people would be quick to judge without introducing themselves or first getting to know them. It is important to overcome this challenge because it will affect your social life in a bad way. After conducting interviews I have gathered that The main problem that arises is that if you don’t overcome the habit of being judgemental you will lose friends and people will close you off more because you have done the same In the article “How your brain falls for the wrong ideas” by Amishi Jha it states “We selectively pay attention to information confirming our already held views, becoming increasingly blind to disconfirming or contrary information. This makes us more entrenched in our views and breeds divisiveness.” . Our brain helps confirm our biases because we basically only listen to what we want to hear. Using mindfulness and its abilities is a great way to stop being judgemental. The mindfulness ability that best suits this habit is having no expectations. If you have no expectations about someone or something then there really isn’t anything to judge them on. This would prevent you from either getting closed off or closing yourself off to new people. This mindfulness ability will also help you make friends because you wouldn’t already have expectations.
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