Introduction

 

After High School I plan on joining the military. I want to become an infantryman in the U.S. Army. If I like doing that as a job enough I will try and become a Ranger or possibly even a Green Beret. I have not decided on whether or not I want to enlist or go to college to try and go to officer candidate school. But my goal is to excel at whatever it is that I’m doing. I want to be an elite soldier.

 

I decided to take this career path because being a soldier has always appealed to me. Having family that served in the military may influenced that in me. I want to give to a country that has given so much to me.

 

Physical Wellness

 

Physical wellness is being physically fit and healthy. We use this wellness everyday in life. It is something that should never be neglected but it often times is by people. I am someone who needs to have a strong Physical Wellness because I will be fighting for our country. This wellness is one of the more important ones to me. Although the other wellness can be just as important when being a soldier. On top of being a physically strong soldier, I feel that as a man it’s just important to be strong. Often times you will be looked at as the defender of the family. Or sometimes other men will challenge your strength and you will need to be able to defend yourself. People who are physically strong should not abuse their strength by using violence.

 

I plan on trying to be fit for the rest of my life. My personality has been changed so much due to the confidence boost from working out. And plus it’s just been completely more beneficial for me mentally as well. I feel like my mind is sharper because of it. I’m proud of how much I have accomplished and how far I have come. I also consider the possibility of me becoming a fitness trainer because I love to help people improve themselves. I just want to make a difference in people’s lives. I want to be able to prove to myself that I am strong and that I have grown from my past experiences as a child lacking in physical strength.

 

Intellectual Wellness

 

Intellectual Wellness means having a healthy mindset. It means being positive as possible and never accepting defeat. You believe in yourself. This is the second most important wellness to me because like physical wellness, intellectual wellness is important while fighting speaking in terms of the career path I’m choosing of course. You have to be smart on the battlefield. All my life I have strived for academic proficiency. I feel that this has helped intellectual wellness become one of my strong suits. I just don’t want to accept the fact that I am not smart so I’m constantly trying to prove to myself that I am intelligent and not an idiot. Perhaps that’s something that I should try and not do to myself as I don’t think that it is very healthy.

 

There was a time in my highschool career where I was always getting average grades. This was because I was too distracted by things that had nothing to deal with school. I’ve moved on from that. That mindset will not get you anywhere in life. I want to be something other than average. That’s essentially my only drive for excellence I suppose. Or perhaps it was the mistakes in my past that are driving me forward. I would hope to be able to use this wellness to get me a job that requires you to be very intelligent. Also those jobs seem to be pretty good when it comes to pay but hey that’s just a side benefit.

Spiritual Wellness

 

Spiritual Wellness means using personal values and beliefs in everyday life making sure you that you include them in your everyday life. I use this wellness a lot by trying to be the best person I can be everyday. I try to do my best to help my friends in need of advice or emotional support. I try to show them that I care by listening to their problems and helping them to solve it. Often times I find that people find that they can trust with their personal issues that they don’t normally tell me. This makes me feel good because they are right to trust me with that information. I feel it makes my relationship with that person stronger.

 

I also just genuinely care about people. Albeit, I show that I care through tough love sometimes. But it is truly because I care. I don’t want to see people fail. I want people to feel the mental reward from doing something good. I feel good when I was able to help someone and change their minds for the better. I try to be a person that only speaks the truth. Sometimes, what I perceive as the truth is the hard truth or maybe it’s the misconceived truth. Being truthful and honest with people earns their respect towards you more. I plan on being consistent with this way of life because I want it to define me. I want to be a helpful and honest person. I want to strive to be the best person that I can be.

 

Financial Wellness

 

Financial wellness is a common theme in my life because we use money. In my future I plan on being well off in life. I want to be able to support myself and my partner and children. I would like to have two kids and raise them the way my parents raised me. I want to be able to be financially stable enough to make their lives good. I really appreciate my parents for working as hard as they do, I don’t take the life that I have for granted. I am truly thankful. My parents being the normal parents that they are, want grandchildren and I intend on making sure that happens for them. For my budget plan, I plan on having a job so I will be able to pay for a car or maybe even move out to be roommates with a friend. Then I’ll use the rest of that money to take care of any living expenses. While I’m in school, I’ll probably just be working a minimum wage job and focusing on school. When I finish school I want to try and use my degrees to get a decent job.

 

My plan is to find out a job that  I will enjoy doing and earns me a lot of money. So that way, I will be doing my duty of providing for my family and at the same time I am doing something that I like. I don’t feel that I have to be rich to have a good life, but I want to make sure that my kids feel like they aren’t living in poverty and they are able to have nice things. I just hope they don’t turn out to be really spoiled. Currently my financial habits could be better, but I am doing my best to save money so I can invest into things later in my life. I’d like to be able to have my own house and a dodge challenger. Although, I don’t believe that living a materialistic life is going to guarantee my happiness.

 

Social Wellness

 

To achieve social wellness one must feel that they socialize with other people at a healthy amount. I used to be someone who didn’t socialize with others enough. I was basically a hermit who always hung out in their room all day. I wouldn’t even come down out of my room during family events. The problem was so bad I had become depressed because of it. I felt like I just didn’t get out enough and I didn’t talk to people enough. I knew I had a serious problem. One day I decided that I wanted to change. I didn’t want to continue living like that, it just doesn’t seem bery healthy to me. So I decided to make some new friends.

 

I made new friends and I began to regain my happiness. I felt better all around. I felt more motivated to do things. I made new friends that I always hang out with. I found out some of those friends weren’t actually my friends at all. It’s ok though, I know now who my real friends are and I shouldn’t bother making new friends because the one’s that I have now will always be there for me and have my back. I also won’t let these experiences get in the way of making new friends. I have to be fair to the people that haven’t done anything to me yet. In the future I’ll just remember to give people an outlet to do any damage to me emotional or physical.

 

Environmental Wellness

 

Environmental Wellness is something that you achieve through taking care of your surroundings. I try to do my best of taking care of my environment by cleaning up my trash and my messes I make. It irritates me when I see people make a mess and not clean it up. Especially here at Vista High School. I hate hearing about when people say this school is dirty and ghetto, yet the contribute to the issue by leaving their trash behind and not caring about the environment. Albeit, I’m not going around picking up everyone’s trash but I at least throw my trash away and make an effort to not litter? I’d hope that if anyone sees someone else throwing their garbage on the ground, or leaving it behind, that they tell that person to pick up their trash and throw it away.

 

It also bothers me when I see trash in the city that I live in. To me, that’s basically like going home and taking trash out from your garbage can and dumping it on your floor. If you ever litter, make sure you stop to pick it up, because the city you live in is your home, wouldn’t you want it to be beautiful? But enough ranting, I plan on achieving environmental wellness through the practice of cleaning up my house, my room, and maybe occasionally picking up trash off the street. I want the places that I live in to be beautiful and a pleasure to live in. To help try and achieve environmental wellness I plan on doing a beach clean-up to try and give back to the community. My resume.

 

Vocational Wellness

 

Vocational wellness means to obtain a state of healthy relationships with friends or a professional environment.  Vocational wellness is important because the relationships you have with your peers and your superiors is very important. I know that from experience that it’s bad to have a negative relationship with these people because you won’t be able to escape from them. You are trapped and forced to interact with them. You might as well be stuck in a cage with that person. So what I usually do is try to solve that issue with that person. Unfortunately, that of course doesn’t always go according to plan. Sometimes my friends turn into my enemies.

I’ve learned that the best way to try and counteract them is to just do your best to ignore them. At the end of the day, some of the people still try and talk to you. I tell them not to talk to me and do my best to ignore them but it feels weird when they just stare at you and try to make eye contact with you. Some of these people even get me angry to use violence but luckily I’ve been able to control myself enough so that I haven’t done anything. I do my best to put distance between me and the other person and avoid trouble. Some people just want to see your life in shambles. For me personally, I don’t care what you are doing in your life I just don’t want to be included in it.

 

For my career path, I’d like to be a counselor or a psychologist. What they do is talk to people about their problems and helps them solve them through psychological healing. To become a psychologist you will need to go to medical school and earn a doctor’s degree. It costs a total of $60,900 to be one. In this job field you specialize in social work. I got some information from this website: Link. My backup plan is to just join the military and maybe turn it into a career if I want to.

My Graduation Speech

School is something that I hate with a passion, yet I also love it with a passion. There is many things about it that make you not like it and there’s many things that will make you like it. For me personally, one event that I have grown from specifically is when I had learned that I am my own person. From the start of highschool, I had been a very reserved person, and just barely this year I started to open up. I decided that I didn’t want to be like that anymore so I grew from that. I’ve learned all throughout highschool that it’s very important that you are true to yourself. There’s no point in trying to attract a crowd of people by being something that you’re not. I’ve learned that multiple times the hard way. With that said, I’d like to personally thank each of the PLA teachers. I’ve seen that all of the PLA teachers work very hard for the students and they actually care about the students. I just want you all to know that I appreciate how hard you guys work for us and for you actually putting effort into teaching us. I would encourage all my classmates to recognize that in the teachers and thank them to. The PLA teachers here are one of the reasons I actually like to come to school. They don’t make me feel like they don’t care and they actually work with you to solve issues. I hope that whatever any of my fellow classmates are doing, that you excel at it. Don’t settle for an ok job whatever it might be, do what you love and be good at it.

For my health fair project, I decided to do mine on strength training. The reason I chose strength training is because I am a strength trainer. So I figured if I’m already passionate about it, it will be easy to write about. And I was right. What I did to demonstrate my knowledge of strength training is I first did a research paper. I wrote about what strength training means and how to do it. I wrote about what it takes to be a strength trainer. Anyone can be a strength trainer in truth though. After I finished my research paper I created a brochure. It was supposed to imitate a travel brochure.

My travel brochure contained compacted information about strength training. I created in under 20 minutes in a google document. After I was finished with the prototype I reviewed it and then turned it into my teacher to have her review it. She claimed that it was good and I didn’t really have to change it up at all. I decided to add a few more bits of information to it before I had my brochures printed out. The finished product came out pretty nice. After I got done with my brochure I then began work on my display.

I made my display in around 2 hours. It was obviously about strength training. It was almost like a bigger version of the brochure just with more graphics and in a bigger size. I am pleased with the result of my display. I spent a lot of time drawing the graphics on it and creating the title. Although, I wish my calligraphy skills were better so that way when you read my hand writing it was a bit neater and more aesthetically pleasing. This is often times the reason I prefer to type rather than write.