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Education is important to any individual who has dreams and desires of being more than who they are, or meant to be. Realizing the problem and understanding my situation, wasn't the change that was needed. In order to avoid distractions and commit myself entirely to my goals/dreams, I need to be more organized in every aspect of my life, whether its work, school and even my life outside those areas. There were many obstacles that I had in the past, these concerns that affect my learning and my desire to grow mentally and emotionally are procrastination, avoidable distraction in my life, a full commitment, and my organization skills.

For starters, I never really took things seriously, whether it’s a project, essays, or other long term assignments, procrastination is where I struggled the most. Regardless of the fact these heavily graded assignment equaled half my grade, only a poor last minute excuse was all I could give my patient yet frustrated teachers. I could never truly complete most of the work assigned to me and the assignments I was able to finish was graded so low my teacher actually though she made a mistake.
In the end procrastinating seemed inescapable, the more problems I made for myself to any work I was given I would put it off till the last possible second from the due date. The work I would land in would be incomplete and rushed but getting it done saved me grade from staying average close to below average. No counselor had to be involved I made sure to give just enough effort and work to pass. The first 2 years of high school should've been the wakeup call, failing a class freshman year was a first for me. The end result was a long lecture from my dad, and not to mention a school counselor assumed I...

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...zation focus and procrastination are issue but I realize now that my overall problems is moving past all I say I will change my work ethic but nothing really changes I do it just to get it done so it won't come back and hit me in the face, instead it does a downward 180 and bites me in the rear.

Knowing, or realizing that I needed to make a change not just deciding to but taking necessary steps to achieve it. My number 1 problem would be my distracted mind watching TV playing video games, or going out with my friends took precedence over my school work. Whenever I got the chance I would drop everything I was doing. A long term project, homework or even take home quizzes... from the beginning my priorities were misconstrued, doing my absolute best to just get by worked. But the only thing I really succeeded in was flying under the radar, and making matters worse.

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