Success
Living on my own, attending college, making the dean’s list and buying my first car have all attributed to my own personal success. Success does not come easy it takes hard work and dedication. Through many obstacles I have worked hard to make sure that I am succeeding and will continue to succeed.
Living on my own has not been easy but with dedication and hard work I have managed. I moved out of my parents’ home in March 2015 and it was probably one of the hardest things I have done. I was at first very excited about moving out and being on my own. Growing up with strict parents I was excited to be able to do what I wanted and make choices on my own. My excitement of living on my own was soon short lived because of my roommate, I realized
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If you were to have asked me my senior year in high school what were my plans after graduation, I would have told you in detail what my plans were. I was planning on attending college starting my own daycare and settling down. Well things didn’t go as planned in fact they took a whole different path. After graduating high school, I was planning on attending college but because of personal and financial issues I was not able to. I decided that I was going to take two years off and work and then attend college. After working two full time jobs for two years I was finally ready to go back to school. My parents never attended college so this was all new to us. Finding the right program learning how to sign up for classes was all very new. Although it was tough getting started I was finally all signed up for classes. With working so much I did not feel the need to apply for financial aid I was just going to pay it myself. Although at times it is stressful to make the payments I have managed to pay them working part time during the school year and full time during the summer. I am now on my fourth semester here and can happily say that I have paid for every semester with my own hard work. I am graduating in May with my diploma in Early Childhood and will return in the fall to complete my AA to graduate in December and couldn’t be happier with where I am. Although my plans aren’t what I thought they …show more content…
Every teenager dreams of getting a car when they turn sixteen, well for me that was a little different. My parents weren’t able to give me a car for my sixteenth birthday at first it made me mad but I knew if I couldn’t have one at the time there was a good reason for it. I rode the bus through all four years in high school. Once I had graduated though I needed a care to be able to get to and from work. My parents decided to buy a new car and lend me their old one, a 2001 venture, I must admit I did not like driving that minivan It made me feel old and it was also super old! I knew I couldn’t drive that van forever nor did I want to. I worked two jobs and made it my goal to get myself a new car. I didn’t spend any of my money on useless things and saved as much as I could. By the end of my first year working two full time jobs I finally had enough money to start looking at cars. I knew cars would be expensive so I was mentally preparing myself to make monthly payments. As my dad and I looked for cars I fell in love with a jeep but it was way over what I wanted to spend so we kept looking. I ended up finding the perfect car a Pontiac G6, it was the perfect car for me! The best part was that I had saved enough money to make the payment in full and not have to worry about car payments. On April 9th which happened to fall on my birthday bought myself my very first
Generally speaking, success isn’t just about what you accomplish in life, it’s how you accomplished it and the impact you
I firmly believe that success is attributed to the amount of of work dedicated. My parents have demonstrated to me that through hard work, dedication, and of tenacity everything is possible. Both of them have come from a place where opportunities are not available and the same cycle continues from generation to generation. Hearing the stories of them waking up at sun rise to go feed the farm animals in the poor rural town of La Presa, Michucan, Mexico has made me understand the struggles that they have overcome to be where they are today. Migrating to the United Sates of American in the 80's was a definite challenge that ended up sprouting new opportunities for their child. I have been instilled that same believe system and am happy to be a
What is the source of your success? My own definition of success is about overcoming my obstacles and hardships. If I can’t overcome the obstacles and hardships along the way, then I will try again so that I am more prepared and have the right knowledge. I want to meet obstacles and hardships because I want to feel the pleasure of success when I overcome them. In order for me to overcome and embrace hardships, I need to find the missing link, have the right knowledge, and practice effective time management.
“Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” (Michelle Obama). From this quote we should learn that your success is up to you. You determine how successful you are not anyone else. This means you need to work hard in order to have a successful life and be a successful person. You and only you determine your
Success means to live a life in alignment with what brings us real joy. In my case, “success-joy” comes in many guises. At times, in being persistent with my current dreams, others, investing time and energy in what makes my life shine, and that is, without a doubt, when my life is at service of humanity and when I cultivate happy and healthy close relationships. I tend to define success as a state of being, a constant process of unfolding rather than a place to arrive. It is the journey of getting to know ourselves, in order to fully occupy every aspect of what we are; a forever changing aspiration, a state of being in which we realize that life’s greatest rewards spring from our capacity to relate to adversity in innovative ways. I have also discovered that real success shows up again when we debunk and deconstruct every single stereotype and assumption we have about ourselves. In this way, we feel capable to challenge what is commonly accepted as wisdom and then we have the opportunity to change and integrate our values with greater ones. There is an enormous joy when we feel free to play with the possible new scenarios that our imagination and creativity compelled us to try. A successful state of being is alert and grounded within us with the certainty, that the choices we embark on are in resonance with what we consider is the truth of what we are in that precise
Success is all around us. As we look around, we see new technology advancements, new businesses being constructed, and personal goals being met. The world is constantly growing when success is achieved. There are countless, distinctive stories that end with a successful outcome and originated from various beginnings. Some of which we see within our own walls. Yes, we constantly look at the final product, but have we ever wondered how that success came to be? It is often not luck that brings success, it's the ambition.
Personal success is also a big part of living well. 'There is only one success . . . to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.'; This quote by Christopher Morley describes what is really meant by personal success. Personal success has to do with being happy. One can only be truly happy if they are happy and secure with themselves. Personal success is about being yourself and not being afraid to do so. It is about not letting others dictate your life or make you feel that you have to change who you are.
In current times, success seems to determine everything about an individual. One of the main reasons people go to school is to grow up and become successful. Success is the reason anyone does anything. Whether it be a small or large-scale success does not matter. A person might make a sandwich to succeed in fighting off hunger, or a basketball team might take time to watch more film and spend time together as a team to succeed in winning a championship. Either way success motivates people. The question that goes with it is, was I successful? If one says yes, then they ask why? The answer almost always includes some amount of preparation. Because a success without prior preparation is uncommon. No matter what, we humans strive
There are several different types success, personal success is to be able to enjoy life in a way that person decides, and to not let others choose how they live their life. This quote by Christopher Morley describes what is really meant by personal success. Personal success has to do with being happy with one’s self. One can only be truly happy if they are happy and secure with themselves. Personal success is a quality that a person has when they are happy with who they are and is not being afraid of what others think of them. It is about not letting others dictate the way others chooses to life or make someone feel that they have to change what they are as a person. It is about gaining self-confidence and maintaining it. It is about being able to draw strength, and not needing affirmation from anyone. It is about being able to stay happy, even on the days when the phone doesn 't ring. Personal success is also about others setting goals for themselves and reaching them through hard work, dedication and sacrifice. Achieving personal success is the only way to achieve real happiness and peace with you. Personal success is when someone is liking and accepting who they are. This is the most important level of success. Without this kind of success and self-acceptance it would be hard to succeed in other aspects of
Success is within the mind of the individual. A large portion of ones life is spent working to become successful. People are told throughout childhood to work hard so they can grow up and make lots of money. But success takes many different forms. Different people have different interpretations of what success means to them. For some, success is measured by social status and wealth; for others success is determined only by the amount of happiness one feels.
Educational Goals: Education is extremely important part of my past, present, and future goals. I currently hold an Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design Media. I have found that an A.A.S Degree does not go as far al I originally intended in the Rochester, MN area and furthering my education will be a necessity for my future career goals. Over the past 2 years I have been working on my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the Minnesota School of Business Rochester campus. I am currently a senior with 3 quarters left before a spring graduation. After a June graduation, I plan on taking a summer quarter break. After summer break I will either continue on at MSB for my Masters in Business Administration with a Minor in Marketing or transferring the University of Minnesota for my Masters in Adult Education. After my Masters Degree is complete I will decide at that time if I wish to continue on and achieve my Ph.D.
For a few of us, success is being a stay-at-home housewife, successfully bringing up your youngsters. For others, success might be instructing or directing. To others, success might be characterized by the measure of instruction you accomplished. You may feel that you need to get your doctorate degree, in light of the fact that every other person in your family has done likewise. Nobody can figure out what success is to you, yet you. There are excessively a large number of us living miserable lives, since we are effectively accomplishing brief comment another person happiness, which implies that you are unsuccessful to
Personal success for me is being able enjoy little things that life has to offer. For instance; understanding and appreciating diversity. To have someone to love and treasure, to meet the right person, fall in love, and get marry. To feel that I’m able to love my child and pass on wisdom to him .Feeling that someone loves me, is something that makes me completely happy and successful. Because I believe that without love, life is not thoroughly complete, thus never truly achieve success. I believe that, by being mentally and physically healthy, I have achieved personal success. When I get home to see my loving husband, my loved child, and then I’m able to sit down, relax and appreciate life, then I’m successful in my own right.
Being in my Personal Development class there has been many success strategies from our On Course textbook. These strategies will be carried on in my life as a guide to my very own personal philosophy of success. After careful consideration the four most appropriate On Course success strategies that will be best of use to achieve success will be to discover self-motivation, master self-management, adopt lifelong learning, and accept personal responsibility. Success is everything you make it out to be, it is accomplishments of your own set of goals and dreams you wish to achieve.
Even though the definition of “success” has a very nuanced meaning depending on its culture and context, highly successful people typically exhibit the same universal characteristics. For despite common belief, successful people are not affiliated with some exclusive club and it has to do more with attitude than superior I.Q intelligence. Therefore, many people have the ability to learn about how they can be successful and do better than they are now. Due to having the privilege of interacting with successful people on a daily basis, I gradually coined my own theory of success. In addition, interviewing successful college students for the basis of the EPE course project has managed to further support and strengthen my theory. Yet rather than just being applied to an academic setting like a college or school, theses theories can be slightly modified to be applied in other aspects of life as well. It should be worth emphasizing that exhibiting some of these traits are likely good indicators of being a successful person, however there are a lot more not mentioned. For due to their vast variety, it would be extremely difficult to talk about each of them individually. As a result, I have taken the liberty of grouping them into broader categories and have listed them in no particular order.