Mark John Arsulo – BS Civil Engineering

GEC101 – Understanding the Self

Reflection
“I am achieving greatness, I am confident, I am doing anything relevant to me,
I am possessed of an excellent self-esteem, and I am proud of myself today and
always. “

Self-encouragement has always been part of my life, but doing this on a daily
basis is a new thing to me. I can say that, within those past two weeks of doing this self-
affirmation I felt that my life has changed since then. I just love the excitement that I feel
every time when I arise every morning and face another battle in my life smiling. One
thing that I also realized during conducting this activity is the benefits that I gained. I’ve
just felt the powerful impact of these simple words, the way it motivates me to act on
certain things, helps me to concentrate on achieving my goals in life, and gives me
power to change my negative thinking patterns and replace them with positive ones. In
other words, I can say that this simple activity leads me to access a new belief system.

But before anything else, I would also like to share my chosen five self-
affirmation phrases that I have thought about carefully. First of all is the phrase “I am
achieving greatness”, I’ve considered it as one of the most influential and most
motivational in my part because I can relate to the message of this phrase. Since I was
a kid, I’ve always been surrounded by doubt and discouragement. This phrase teaches
me to focus more on my vision and dreams. Next, the quality that I want to gain
especially at this stage of my life is confidence. By having confidence, I can give my
best in doing everything because I believe in myself that nothing is impossible and for
sure I can achieve anything as long as I want it. The only problem that I encounter every
time I want to showcase my confidence is that it will bring misconception for people who
surround me to feel that I am just boosting or being arrogant. Moreover, improving my
self-esteem is also one thing that I would like to take advantage of in this activity. I knew
to myself that having a healthy self-esteem, makes me become assertive in expressing
my needs and opinions. It is also important for my current situation because I am in a
phase of my life seeking or forming a secure and honest relationship. I also wanted to
believe that I can do anything, I want to experience the amazing feeling of gaining an
achievement. But, also with respect to my failures, flaws and shortcomings. Because
the combination of these two opposite events in my life shapes my personality and
identity. That’s why I should be proud of myself today and always be.

Overall, this activity helps me to rethink again in my life. The daily self-
encouragement and self-love that I experience within these two weeks helps me at least
to be more focused and productive in my daily existence. I proudly say that the
difficulties that I experienced recently became the foundation of my better-self right now.
I’m just thankful that this activity has been successful on my part, somehow it minimized
my anxiety and stress in life and opened myself to understand the idea that there is still
room for my improvement.