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You Will Never See Me Fail “Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.” said Simon Sinek. In life people only want to see what you can’t do. Basically everyone wants to see you fail, but if you’re a strong person you prove to them that you can make anything possible. I learned from my mistake that your own family isn’t your real support. I chose the wrong path when I started college, I chose the wrong people and I chose the wrong state of mind to start school. This brought my life to failure, were no one believed in me. Motivation, being successful, and not giving up are ways that identifies my personal
decision to help me become a better person. Some people choose the wrong people to hang around with. I started school the moment I finished high school with a positive attitude. I attended Miami Dade College just too finish my AA. Along that path I started hanging out with people that were directing me into a wrong path. Were school for me was a joke. I stopped attending classes, I started skipping school and I would act like I would be going to school but I would be with my friends or somewhere else. I finished my fall semester, and I started my spring but in the middle of the term I dropped out. I felt as though school wasn’t my fit. In my mind I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do but I was a huge procrastinator, so I really didn’t care at that time. My family saw me as someone real different. They didn’t look at me the same anymore. I was alone at times. No one believed in me, no one thought I couldn’t do anything or become someone. Everyone saw me as a failure. Therefore, this caused a lot of depression for me personally and mentally. I started to see myself as nothing. It was the worst feeling ever. It took certain people to sit me down and actually give me a motivational speech. It wasn’t my closest relatives. It was actually some of my teachers, some of my friends, or just random people I barely even knew. It was a feeling that I never felt. Not having support from my family accumulated so much hatred. One day, it took my love one to actually sit me down and talk to me. He questioned me “Do you want to be someone?” “Do you think, not being successful will bring money in your pocket?’ or “Do you think your life would be amazing without a career?” All these questions made me wonder. I sat there and really thought about it. I told myself this isn’t who I want to be, I am way better than that. A couple weeks later, I went to my school and registered myself for summer and fall semester. I decided to go back to school, that was my personal decision. I am not only proving everyone else but I am proving myself wrong, that I can do it. Everything in life is possible, nothing is impossible. People can make mistakes or people can choose wrong decisions but not everyone is perfect. I didn’t let anyone bring me down. I didn’t even give up in life; I became a stronger woman and went for what I wanted. I didn’t pay attention what was wrong from right; I went with what my heart told me to go with. People make different decisions in life daily. Going back to school is the best thing that could ever happen to me. This year I made a quote and it was “I’m coming for everything they said I couldn’t have.”
Adversity enhances ones’ positive characteristics due to the provision of an ideal environment for establishing integrity and developing a mature mindset. This conclusion is valid because people tend to learn from their mistakes, thus gain a broader perspective on life.
There are several qualities to have to be successful in college. These qualities can range from attending class to going above and beyond what’s expected. Success comes from the journey taken or the path chosen. Success also comes from being prepared. As a student, I must step up to the challenge and find the path to success along the way. Several ways I define success is to uphold academic integrity, have the ability to prioritize, and to motivate myself to stay on top of what needs to be accomplished.
Summer vacation, and school ends for about three months, and then you have as much fun as you can, then back to school… right? Well I had to go to summer school, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Everything was going fine, I had a job after summer school, and that was going fine as well. They say that summer is supposed to be fun and exciting, and it usually is for me and my family. However in July my father started coughing up blood. My father usually doesn’t make it his top priority to go to the doctors, so he waited about four weeks until he really didn’t feel good.
I have watched countless opportunities slip through my fingers like grains of sand, I never had the courage to close my fist and clutch because not only did I restrict myself from the ability to fail but I refused myself the ability to try. The failure isn’t trying something and it not working out. The failure is not trying at all because everything that didn’t work out for me, in a way of its own, worked out for me. Failure and the lessons learned from these experiences effects most of us in one way or another. For me, this horrific catastrophe benefitted me by overcoming my foe, shyness.
I will never forget my first season of competitive golf, averaging in the upper ninety’s and by the end of this season I was averaging in the low ninety's which qualified me for the first round of the post season. This event was the Mid-Penn championship, held at Armitage golf course.
In most cases, failure means not finding success and just giving up. I believe that you need fail before you find success. Mickey Rooney once said, "You always pass failure on your way to success." Failure in the end will lead to success.
I’ve been in a lot of situations where i’ve wanted to give up on countless things I have done in the past. Like sports, clubs, and activities. It wasn’t until my mom talked to me about never giving up on anything in life that I wasn’t born a quitter that I have to finish what i’ve started. No matter what kind of situation I was in and I either wanted to give up or stick through it all my mom was there throughout everything i’ve gone through and that played a huge factor in my life.
I’m a girl that changed her whole life around to feel better about who I am. Changing the perspective of situations and circumstances to positive makes life much more enjoyable and easier to cope with. Taking the bad things that come to you in life and giving up is just a waste. I have learned that fighting back during hard times shows how strong you really are. Never giving up is the key to success and hard work pays off in the long run.
Once upon a time, I sucked at school my lowest grade was 2% and I thought I would be living in a trailer house when I grew up. But that all changed, I realized that I control my life and I'm capable of a lot more than I could even dream of. What I am today or tomorrow is all on me and I'm responsible for all this. I realized that I could be anything in life, it might be hard, but I could make it. I could be an astronaut or a businessman making millions of dollars. And I decided I was never going to quit no matter how hard it was or how hard it would get. And if I wanted something I would get it and I would die before I quit on it.
There have been tons of things that I have learned and been taught in my life, by a number of people such as family, teachers, or even friends on occasion. The things they taught me vary from math and other related subjects to just some truly simple yet meaningful life lessons. However, there is nothing quite as unique, quite as special as a person teaching themselves a life lesson. It really is an amazing accomplishment for a person to teach themselves something. It is not quite as simple as another person teaching them something because it is not just the transferring of information from one person to another. The person instead has to start from scratch and process the information they have in their mind in order to come up with a new thought
People usually afraid of failure because they tried to do something and failed, or took a risk and it didn’t pay off, or made a decision and it turned out to be the wrong one. That fear of failure create the stress and anxiety when people want to do something hard or try something new. Just because you tried something two or three time and failing does not mean the entire idea is a mistake. Do you expect to get a Blackjack on every game that you played? That would be an impossible thing to do. There is no success that comes without failure, where failure is experiences and lessons that help you to perfect your works. People should overcome their fear of failure and use failure as a tool to work toward their success because failing is so important
My failure started in elementary when I was diagnosed with symptoms of ADHD/ADD. In first grade I had problems reading; I could never stay focus, I had trouble following directions, and listening to my teacher during lessons and not to mention having behavioral problems. I felt as if what I read made no sense and bored me at times. I knew how to pronounce words and I also knew my sight words but I battled with comprehending what the sentences were saying.
Ever since I was little I’ve been what you would call a “high achieving” kid. I did well in school, I did well in sports and I did well in my community. I was always the first one to class, and the last one to leave the field. I was the kid that all my friends’ parents compared their children to. I was the kid with a room full of trophies and awards. In my mind, the worst possible thing I could do was disappoint the people around me. In elementary school I was involved in every club imaginable. I was in the band, I played in the orchestra, I sang solos for chorus, I was in the math club, I was president of student council, I played travel soccer, I was involved in every activity possible, and I excelled in all of them. This
A moment of failure from my tenth grade year made me work harder and be successful. I failed an important test that took my grade down to an E, and I was not proud of it. It was a math exam that I took in Honors Algebra 2. I did not take it seriously, and I got a low number of points. There was a lot of difficult questions and I did not manage my time doing them.
Everybody has something they will regret. It might be one mistake or multiple regrets, but they most learn from those mistakes. Either they over come them or they live in regret with those mistakes, and they might wise that they never had done that particular thing. I have a mistake that i have learned from and i would like to tell you about that mistake, and tell you how I've learned from it.