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How do or will expectations, division of household labor, and costs of raising a child play into your future decisions? How could these future decisions affect your well-being? What can you do to maintain or enhance your well-being after this project is complete?

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How do or will expectations, division of household labor, and costs of raising a child play into your future decisions? How could these future decisions affect your well-being? What can you do to maintain or enhance your well-being after this project is complete?

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After working in this class on the division of household labor, the costs of raising a child and even the personality test, I changed my perception about my expectations. At first, I did not know how substantial these components are in my life and how they could affect it. Therefore, beginning with household labor, I expect my husband to share with me the responsibilities; What I mean by sharing is making efforts as much as I do and being engaged and understanding. For instance, we make a weekly to-do list of chores. We split the tasks according to our schedules. If I finish work late one day and the house is a mess, he cleans it. But If he is having a bad week and not in the mood, I will do it with pleasure. Cooking will be on me because I am passionate about it. Long story short, we split all the tasks evenly.

After calculating the cost of raising a child according to the standards, I have put, I recognized that it is a huge responsibility, and I decided to have a child only when I become entirely financially stable. Stable for me is the ability to provide my child with a healthy and spoiled childhood and be able to pay for their education until their Graduate level (Master's) because I do want them to live happily and feel secure in a world full of struggles. If I do not attain financial stability, I prefer not to give birth to a child.

Concerning my well-being, I will lead a stable and happy life in the perfect scenario of the expectations and decisions I conceived. But If I end up with an uncooperative Husband who shows me a different behavior after a while and does not maintain his promises, I would rather leave him than deal with his toxicity. Also, I want to do my best to achieve financial stability, so I can have a child because I am sure it will bring colors and joy to my life.

This project was extremely beneficial for me. Planning SMART goals and tracking them gave me a clear and profound vision of what I want, how I feel, and how I act to achieve them. I never thought writing down what I wanted and keeping track would significantly change my perception and behavior. I felt like I was constantly challenging nobody but myself. It was me vs. me, which made me realize how small changes and consistency can enormously improve my well-being and make me feel good about myself.

To maintain my well-being after this project, I will keep setting SMART goals for myself and tracking my evolution since it was effective. In this way, I will stay committed and motivated.

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Since I started training on September 28, I have been going on a regular basis,  3 to 4 times a week. Going to the gym in the morning made me more energetic and helped me enhance my mood throughout the day. In a busy week, I managed to go 2 times.

Strengths: Discipline and perseverance; I used the 5 seconds rule, "If you have the instinct to act on a goal, you must physically move within 5 seconds, or your brain will kill it," which helped me stop procrastinating and delaying my training.

Barriers: Lack of energy on some days and the gym closure during Thanksgiving break for 4 days.

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The efforts I put into the Music Class paid off. As the semester is coming to an end, and with it, my last sessions of this course, I am happy with my grades and the learning outcomes. Though it was stressful to struggle initially and unrelated to my Business Major, I learned a lot about Music.

Strength: Discipline is the basic building block of anything we want to achieve.

Barriers: Anxiety and stressing out.

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I am still successful with this goal since day 1.

Strengths: My family is my priority, so calling them daily became a part of my routine, and it actually makes me feel good.

Barriers: The jet lag became even worse, like 10 hours difference.

Having a daily conversation with my family is some days helping and other days overwhelming, especially when I remember that I cannot be with them or even plan to see them soon.

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I am still thriving in this goal; we have weekly meetings, and I managed to be present in all of them except when I got sick one day. Our last session for this semester is next week so I can say I made till the end.

Strengths: I am passionate about Marketing, and I stay committed.

Barriers: I did not face any obstacles and plan to continue with this Club next Semester as well.

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As mentioned before, I started on October 3 by meditating 1 to 2 times a week. Eventually, I increased the frequency of meditations to almost every day. I am surprised by myself, but I figured that it is extremely helping me reduce my anxiety and stress levels.

Strengths: Constantly reminding myself how good meditation makes me feel.

Barriers: Getting a phone call in the middle of a deep meditation session.

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My color is green; I think it is affecting my well-being mostly negatively; I focus excessively on my goals, to the point of being so hard on myself, trying to make everything perfect, which is time-consuming and stressful. However, I feel released whenever my work pays off.

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How do stress and perception of stress affect your well-being?

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How do stress and perception of stress affect your well-being?

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Active: Stress is not always bad, and I guess training even helped me improve my wellbeing.

Learn: The Music class makes me stressed even though It is not too bad, and I am not supposed to worry too much about it, but I cannot help it.
Connect: This club is helping me get out of my comfort zone, speak loudly, Network with others and challenge myself, and I think even if I feel stressed sometimes, it is the good kind of stress that makes me engaged and seeking improvements, so I feel good about myself.
Giving: Having a daily conversation with my family is some days helping and other days overwhelming, yet overall this is not stressing me or significantly affecting my wellbeing.
Mindfulness: I believe meditation is one of the most effective activities that are helping me manage my stress and improve my daily wellbeing.

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My result is an avoiding turtle; so when it comes to my well-being, I believe this behavior may affect my social relationships but saves me energy. It may also be a defense mechanism that I am doing and may lead me to denial of serious conflicts because avoiding them is the easy way for me. However, it really does depend on the person, if I care too much about someone and do not want to lose him/her, I will sit with him/her and bring up the conflict and discuss it wisely and honestly, trying to understand their perspective and behavior, and express myself also, so that we can resolve it; I believe communication is the key. But in another context, I prefer to save my energy for more important things than arguing and dealing with people; I prefer walking away and ignoring them.

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My score is 10: Green light. I believe having a healthy relationship is very important because it is a significant factor affecting a person's well-being. Having a partner is an engagement because he takes place in your routine, activities, thoughts, and personal space. I think opening up to someone and letting them enter your comfort zone is a big thing because it may affect your mental health both ways; it brightens your life if it is healthy and damages it if it is toxic. So for now, it is giving me some sort of stability and comfort.

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I think I can perfectly relate to the seven principles, and maybe working more on keeping those principles as a reference will let me keep a stable relationship and not deviate into a toxic one that would harm my well-being.

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I try to be pragmatic and realistic, which helps me be practical in my discussions and acts with people, but sometimes I am very impulsive and cannot deal with it. So I guess working on this point will help me control my state of mind and reactions to critical situations in order to improve my well-being.

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If your score is under 41 for a prolonged period of time, you may want to make an appointment with a counselor in the counseling center to discuss things.

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Specific: Since we have a gym at ESU, I want to return to lifting weights regularly and stick to it because being in shape is very important for my mental health.

Measurable: I will go to the gym at least 3 days per week.

Achievable: I have the time to go to the gym after classes.

Relevant: I decided to no longer put my mental health in the back, and including the gym in my routine will eventually help me have a healthy relationship with my body and mind.

Time-bound: I am willing to start on September 5 and implement it in my routine, hopefully lifelong.

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Specific: Since I am very interested in Marketing, I want to join a Marketing club at ESU to deepen my knowledge in this field and discover Marketing on a practical level, not only on a theoretical one.

Measurable: I will commit to all the meetings and work I have to do.
Achievable: I have the excitement and time to enroll in this club.

Relevant: I traveled all this distance to study abroad, so I am willing to build a professional Network and chase opportunities that will shape my future career.

Time-bound: I will start on September 8, the date of the club meeting, and end the activity when I get the scope of experience I joined for.

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Specific: I want to get an A in my Music Class because I have no background in Music vocabulary, and I drowned myself in a class full of Music Major students. I feel so backward, but I will not withdraw from this class, focus more on it, and prove to myself that I am up for this challenge.

Measurable: I will put some extra effort and time into reading and getting used to this class's vocabulary.

Achievable: If I organize my schedule well, I will have the necessary time to focus on this course.

Relevant: This is the most appropriate time to start working on it instead of stressing about it.

Time-bound: I will start learning the concepts of my Music Class from scratch. I will begin on September 5 till the end of the semester.

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Specific: Listen more to my body, emotions, and thoughts, both good and bad ones, by meditating and taking a break when I feel the need to do it, so I can improve my mental health.

Measurable: I will meditate whenever I have the time to do so and implement this habit every morning on Weekends.

Achievable: We have 24 hours daily, so 10 to 15 minutes of meditation is feasible. I will remember why I started when I feel that I am not doing it without any reason.

Relevant: Our mind is a powerful weapon that I want to use for my well-being, not against it.

Time-bound: I will start working on this goal all semester; I will begin immediately and try to make it a lifelong habit.

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Specific: I want to make more time to talk with my friends and family back in my home country because I do care about them.

Measurable: I will call my family at least every second day and my friends once a week.

Achievable: The jet lag is 9 hours, so I will create a group chat for my family and another one for my friends, so I can keep in touch with them with texts when we cannot call each other.

Relevant: Hearing from my family and friends is very important for my well-being; They are my comfort zone.

Time-bound: I will start immediately and keep this activity as long as I am away from them.

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Active: the barrier is I may not be able to walk on rainy days, and the challenge is I am afraid of procrastinating and canceling my gym sessions when I feel tired or have low energy.

Connect: There are no barriers; the only challenge is managing my time effectively.

Learn: No barrier, and the challenge is I may be overwhelmed at the beginning because I do not know anything about music, and I constantly put pressure on myself.

Mindfulness: I believe procrastination is the only thing that can keep me away from doing that.

Giving: Jet lag may be a barrier.

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Active: I am totally aware of the challenges I may face, and I will stay committed by visualizing myself achieving my goal and reminding myself how important this challenge is for me; I know it is going to help me reach my final objective

Connect: I know that I have good knowledge about Marketing, and whenever I want something and put my mind to it, I end up achieving it, so organizing my time effectively and efficiently will be my number one priority.

Learn: I am a persevering person who loves challenges, so I will remind myself about way more difficult challenges I have been through in my life and succeeded in overcoming them.

Mindfulness: I have high emotional intelligence.

Giving: I am strong and Independent, and I will make sure to send text messages and remind them that I am here for them.

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I will work on my goals all together, on a monthly basis, and I will start Sunday September 4, until October 4 and keep track of my progress throughout the semester.