James's Notebook

       When I was younger and in school I had a challenge with background noise which would cause me to be overwhelmed and it made me have difficulties with keeping focused on my class work. But the way that I would overcome this issue was by asking for help from my parents and teachers. The way that they would help me was by attending these things called I.E.P meetings or individualized education plan meetings and what those did was discuss my neurological makeup, how they can help me become more successful in school and in learning. The way that they have helped me during my school life was by giving me assignments such as letting me run "errands" for them such as taking walks in the hallways to get something form classroom to classroom or teacher to principal and the way that this would help me is by allowing me to have something else to do which would help me "decompress" or reduce my stress levels. Therefore by allowing me to do these tasks I would be able to o...

           A challenge that I have had to deal with is learning forgiveness this can be challenging for me because when I feel I have been wronged I have a very hard time with moving on from it and letting go of what happened. I deal with with this issue by first acknowledging what happened, Then I will ask myself "is what happened to me back then relevant to me now", by asking this question I take away power from what happened in the past, this helps me with letting go of the negative experience. By looking at it this way I can learn from it and not feel trapped by it using that as an opportunity to learn how to prevent the issue from happening again. then I need to remember that people are mostly just doing their best and that helps me to let go and forgive them