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The hardest habit for me is probable habit # 3 and Habit #7 1/2 combined/ Habit #3says to view problems as challenges. I think that often times I find myself discouraged if I am struggling to do something. Although I know this is an issue it makes me feel like I might not be good enough to accomplish the task I am working on. However, I do know that the best thing for me to do when this happens is to take a minute to calm down. I like to completely leave the task and come back to it later. This both helps me to think about it without having to actually do the activity as well as to think about it in a different way.  Habit #7 1/2 is hard because I want to stay focused on my work even if it would be best to put it aside for a little while. I think that if it was easier for me to relax then I wouldn’t have as much trouble with habit #3. It is finding time to relax or ways to relax that I find the challenge because in the back of my mind is always the thought of I should be doing this or I should be doing that.

The easiest habit for me is habit #4. Habit #4 states that you accept responsibility for your own learning. I have always found it easy to take the blame for my own mistakes whether in learning or in other aspects of my life. I have always thought if I want the credit for the good stuff I do then I will have to take responsibility for the bad as well. I have never so much as complained to a teacher when I got a bad grade. I have always found it kind of stupid, even, when people say they made a bad grade because the teacher didn’t like them. I am really glade I have this as my easy habit. In life as well as learning we have to take responsibility for ourselves.