My Life Philosophy Paper & Life Trajectory Table
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| POSITIVE LIFE EVENTS | Born | Started kindergarten & discovered I loved to read | First communion | Wrote my first play | Participated in church summer camp - first time away from home | First fell in love | First sexual encounter | High school exchange experience in Spain | Graduated from high school with high GPA | Accepted into the college that was my first choice | Started college & earned 4.0 first semester | Now | |||||||||||
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | Mar-05 | Jul-05 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | May-14 | May-14 | Sep-14 | 2015 | |
| NEGATIVE LIFE EVENTS | Fell out of crib; head injury | Grandfather died | Grandmother died | Injured in car wreck | My first love broke up with me | ||||||||||||||||||
| INSTRUCTIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. On the yellow line, put the year the event occurred. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. If there is more than one event in a year, insert a column at the appropriate point. Then list the month and year in the yellow box as noted in the example above for year 2005 (i.e., March 2005 is expressed as Mar-05). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Place a minimum of five POSITIVE life events above the yellow line. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Place a minimum of five NEGATIVE life events below the yellow line. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Column size will adjust automatically as you write. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. There is no page limit. |
&"-,Bold"&14Example with Instructions MY LIFE TRAJECTORY (at this point in time) Your Name &"-,Regular"Developmental Psychology Spring 2015