Self Regulation and Socialization

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1. In a 1-page paper, discuss five ways you use self-regulation in your life. How are your goals and ambitions related to these?
First, I use self-regulation for my vision, aspirations and dreams. These are part of self-regulation. By vision, I mean it is how I see my world working. It is my mental picture of how I would like the world to operate in the future. My vision is specific, I see myself as a therapist, working to help those with emotional and psycholgoical problems. My aspirations or dreams are pieces of the vision. For example, I have a aspiration for personal freedom. Another dream and aspiration is of being debt-free and retired at a young age. Another dream is to some day have my children's education completely paid for from savings. However, in order for the dreams or aspirations to become reality, I had to translate them into specific goals.
I use self-regulation to set specific goals, a way to realize by dreams, passions and aspirations. Goal setting is part of self-regulation. I set career and educational goals (i.e., go to school, get my Master's degree in Counselling, write my EPPP in order to be registerd as a psychologist). I also set more personal ego type goals (i.e., I am going to buy a new car, to buy nice clothing, to go on one major holiday a year, etc.). Sometimes, my goals are competing, and I need to decide (using self-regulation) which one is more important, as some are more likely to lead to success than others.
I use self-regulation for "imagery". I see or imagine myself accomplishing my goals, being successful (i.e., sitting in my office, with a client). I use self-regulation in positive thinking exercises (i.e., mental rehearsals, I am going to be successful in accomplishing my goals, I am going to be debt free, I am going to work hard and be diligent in my work ethics, etc.) as a way of encouraging myself to move toward my visions, dreams, aspirations through actively pursuing my goals. I imagine what I want my life to be like, what ...