Throughout a person’s life, they are faced with different obstacles and challenges. An obstacle is a barrier that blocks one’s way of progress into achieving one’s goal. Obstacles are challenges where people must learn how to overcome and to suppress it with their own power. One of the obstacles that I have faced with throughout my life is being confident in myself, and to learn how to have good communication skills. By overcoming these obstacles, it has created the wonderful person I am today. My struggles with being confident in myself began when other students have more luxurious items and presented them self with well-put together outfits. I for one have not cared about fashion until I got into middle school. All of the girls in my classroom always had their nails done professionally, while I have never gotten my nails done. They were constantly in the latest style with the new trends and seasons. I began to lose confident in myself for a while when I was in school; therefore, my goal before school was over was to have more confidence in myself, and to learn how to have a thrilling conversation with other students. I believe that my loss in confidence was a barrier for me to become a communicative person I want to be with my peers. The fact that I was not interested in the …show more content…
Therefore, I have joined more clubs and afterschool activities to meet more diverse people rather than seeing the people I see everyday in my classes. By joining more clubs at school it made me realize that there are more people at school that I could and got along with better. When you join a club at school, students who are in interested in that club have the same interest as you. Therefore, having conversations are much easier and interesting. When I started to become more involved with school related activities I found that my confidence when up and making conversation with my peers became
Throughout one's life, they will overcome many obstacles. An obstacle is a thing that stops someone from doing a certain task. There are many obstacles that one can go through but some are losing a family member, getting sick, or just going through a rough patch in life. Every obstacle a person encounters changes them as a person. Some obstacles impact more than others, but they both will affect the person in some shape or form. An obstacle becomes a definite point in someone's life because they can look back at the time when they did not believe they could over it and show themselves how much of a stronger person they have become.
It is just amazing how helpful it just happens to be. However, the fact that I have a tendency to easily fall in anxiety does not make me neither an insecure, nor a self- pitied individual; instead, I do have very high rate of self-confidence and I can say I am generally happy with myself. As a matter of fact, I have been told many times I might be exaggerating on the expectations set on myself, with a slight tendency to narcissism; Nevertheless, I am proud to say my self-confidence has took me where I am today; one example is my experience of how I happened to start college courses faster than it was previewed: It was last year I came to the United States with just a slight Notion of English, thus I was supposed to spend at least one whole year or many more taking ESL classes in order to fit in college level courses, but from the first class
Nowadays, lacking self-confidence is a common human conflict. It can be caused for the society that values better and bigger; it can be hard to overcome people insecurities. Also, many people are afraid of showing their authentic personalities just because of other people, the society stereotypes and expectations. Moreover, a lot of people think about changing other people instead of thinking about how can they make some changes in their lives or make changes about themselves to be better in some different ways. Also, people usually try to be better than others just as a part of a competition instead of trying to be a better person or being better than the person they were before in order to improve their lives.
My struggle with self-confidence started after I lost my father. It was difficult for me to see another replacing image like the relationship I had with him. I had a very hard time in Nigeria and I lacked self-confidence in affronting new challenges. My first approach or look was to see them as a strong obstacle to overcome. Then, my only reliance was my studies and I had to register with the debate club and drama society. Based on what Hardwick (1990) suggested, that one attracts good stuff in life if he/she is able to cram more confidence in heart, I felt it is necessary to dedicate my time in these activities.
Ever since I was in middle school, people always told me that I’m quiet and shy. Having said that, I never felt comfortable communicating with people I didn't know that well. That also includes speaking or presenting in front of a class. According to my family and friends, I’m the complete opposite, because they claim that I’m talkative. Being shy and nervous did affect my schoolwork. I wouldn’t raise my hand in class that often, because I didn’t feel comfortable enough. When I was in 6th grade, my teacher would always call up students to share something they liked about a story they read. When the teacher called out my name, my heart started pounding, my hands were shaking and my mind went completely blank. I was so nervous to the point where I felt like I was going to pass out any moment. That’s when I asked the teacher if I could excuse myself to go to the bathroom. She didn’t mind that request so I tried to calm myself down by washing my face and breathing. After class, my teacher and I discussed my inability to present in front of a class. She was obliging, because she agreed to help me overcome being shy and to help boost my self-confidence. Shyness and nervousness also stopped me from participating in activities and obtaining opportunities. In 10th grade, my Chemistry teacher suggested a film festival, because she was aware that I loved filmmaking. At first, I considered the idea, because I’ve never done anything like it before. Having thought about it, I then realized that I was going to have my movie up on a full screen where
Enrolling in a college is one thing but actually attending classes and finishing college is harder than it seems. Regardless of all of the obstacles that come our way, there are always resources to help you overcome them to succeed. First colleges aren’t cheap and working may not be enough to pay or tuition but you can qualify for financial aid, grants, and loans. Another is organizing your time by having a job that cooperates with your school schedule and also allows you to have study time. Lastly you need to believe in yourself if you don’t you will not succeed.
The obstacles which we must face are not there to hinder our daily life. They are there to provide countless opportunities to obtain greater success. In order to be successful we must look at every obstacle as a new opportunity.
Growing up as a highly competitive dancer, I struggled with my self confidence for many years. I was constantly picking out my flaws and continuously thinking of everything I
This actually gave me a big sense of self-confident which is something good. However, tater on this feeling turned to be arrogance. It gave me a false self esteem that I thought I am distinctive person who can do well in everything and especially school with not much effort. This happened when I was in my first year in the college. At the first course I was so energetic and studied hard and did well in all exams and homework’s results so that I got a grade.
In life, people will always have something to say about you in everything one does in life, either negative or positive, but it’s the moment when you let what is said upon you affect the way you live your life, that when its becomes a problem. I for myself have been victim of so many people saying things about me and letting get into my head, but I had the courage to overcome a lot of obstacles like that. I have struggled with a lot of obstacles in my life some got the better of me while I have been able to overcome most of them. I am writing this essay to give an example of an obstacle which I struggled with for a very long time and I nearly took the best of me, but with time I was able to overcome it.
Overcoming Obstacles Throughout a persons life, they are faced with different obstacles, and different challenges of all different types. My life in particular has been full of ups and downs, especially towards my soccer career. In the novel The Pact, three boys, George, Rameck, and Sam, are faced with many obstacles throughout their lives, where they must learn to overcome and achieve great success on their own will power. Essentially, I did the same thing. My soccer career has been one of my most difficult life challenges, creating the person I am today.
I used to be very shy, and not talk to a lot of people. It was a big part of my personality, and I would only talk to someone when spoken to. Wong explains how I acted very well, “My friends and family probably wouldn 't describe me as shy. But for me, being shy has always been about struggling to connect with people I don 't know. I fear the unfamiliarity of a stranger—how they might judge or reject me. Maybe there 's nothing inherently wrong with being timid, but when I started noticing how it affected my everyday life, I wanted to get it under control.” (para. 3). I started getting more and more talkative as I grew older, but one day I decided to change. I began to come out of my comfort zone. For example, I made myself talk more to people even though I was afraid of what I would say, but I made myself do it anyways. This helped me communicate a lot with people, because they began to respect me more, because I would also watch what I would say to them. I still watch what I say most of the time to people because one of my biggest fears is to offend someone on accident because of something that I said. Making myself talk to people more made me a much more outgoing person, which is a big part of who I
Have you ever been beaten down by your own confidence? It is supposed to help you succeed, but instead, it once made me blinded from the fact that I am not perfect. There is always a chance of failure if I don’t try my best. In fact, I did fail getting into my dream high school.
As a young child I was a non social person, and did not like to participate in anything. I liked to be an individual person, and do things on my own. I was shy and not outgoing like all my other friends were. When I enter a situation for the first time, I have a hard time speaking up until I feel comfortable. As being as shy as I was, my school work was affected a lot because I would not raise my hand to ask questions if I did not understand something, or go to the teacher for help. It was hard to transition from that stage to being more outgoing and talk more with my peers. It was difficult to communicate with others becuase of this as well, i was not able to be the perosn that i really am.
... list all the positive traits you possess, or ask your friends. Self-confidence doesn’t come as easily as cookies or biscuits, finding acceptances and approvals from other people are the easiest way to boosts one’s self-assurance.