Kiera Carr-Garrity

Deby Jizi
UWRT 1101-076
27 October 2015
Self-Authorship Essay 2 Draft: Who Do I Want To Become?
The PERMA Model stands for the five categories in our lives that bring well-beingwell
being and happiness to all who focus on the five elements. In order they are positive emotion,
engagement, missions, positive relationships, meaning, and accomplishments/ achievement.
In order to continue to be full of positive emotion, I will utilize my top three character
strengths in my everyday life. I will lake up full of gratitudethankful for the gift of each dayof
another day that God has blessed me with. I will express my thankfulness to GodHim and
anyone who enables me to be thankful. I will also exemplify fairness by loving everyone equally
and puttinglaying others before myself. My faith enables me to keep hope knowing that I have a
God-given purpose whichpurpose, which I think is helping others through nursing.
As a nurse, I will engage in interaction with countlessnumerous people each daydaily. I
see God calling me to missions or being a missionary nurse, which will require me to move from
wherever I call home at that time and Engage with an entirely new place. While away from
home, I plan on continuing to be engaged with all of my relationships back home. I am very
close to my family and I will be happiest while engaging in conversation with them daily. One
main thing about engagement, and why I am so big on this element, is that it is essential to enjoy
everyday; if you arent engaged in what you are doing at a given moment, you are, not only not
doing your best but, , but you most likely arent truly enjoying what it is that you are doing.

Currently about all of the relationships in my life are positive. Luckily, most of the
positive relationships are with people whom I spend most of my time with-people at work, my
roommates, and my friends. I dont plan on still working at Chick Fil A five years froorm now,
however, my current positive work experience allows me to know that it is important (and
possible) to build good work relationships. I love my roommates a lot. We all live together and
get along. I am not best friends with them but thats not always the goal when deciding who to
live with. Five years from now, I will either be living alone or with a husband and we will be best
friends. I spend a lot of time with my friends here at school and hopefully I will be living with
them soon.
One thing that really stood out to me when clustering about my meaning in life is that my
cluster started as my Meaning being the center of the cluster but, as I began clustering, God
became the center of it all. This really is how my life is right now and how it will be five years
down the road. I know that God created me and gave me a purpose. As long as I follow Him, He
will lead me where He wants me!