A Synthesis Essay On Overcoming Obstacles

Life is full of obstacles and everyone goes through different problems. There are two possible outcomes to every problem: one is success and the other is failure. Often times, people face failure and just give up on that challenge. Others use that failure and work hard to reach success. As for me, I did face failure but that did not stop me from climbing over obstacles and persevering in the face of challenge and adversity.

Every living being who walks the face of the earth will experience some form of adversity. It doesn’t matter who you are, adversity will find you at some point. The way someone responds shows what their true character is. That moment for me came during spring ball of my junior year when I tore my Labrum. The Labrum is in the shoulder and I had torn mine in the front and back side. With the season fast approaching, I had to decide whether to get the surgery now and forgo my junior year or wait till after the season to get the surgery. It was a no-brainer in my mind and I played my junior year with the injury. The worst part of my injury was just beginning because the second week after our season had ended I had my surgery.

How do people overcome obstacles? One alternative that people can use to defeat, or overcome their challenges is to adjust anything that needs to be improved. Most people cope, struggle, with their obstacles throughout their life. But these people are different.

The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

Our ability to overcome obstacles that arise in our lives is paramount to our survival within our existence while here on earth. The article “Where There is a Will, There is a Way” by Anne Harrington that we read this week gives a lot of good information to the reader but also the reader will notice that many of these elements are automatically incorporated when a person is in the process of overcoming an obstacle.

While the students Putnam describes come from a variety of classes, races, and levels of parental involvement, they all had a solid chance to scale the social ladder. One reason that most, if not all, students achieved some level of upward mobility was that they possessed a strong work ethic. For example, on page ten Putnam describes Libby, the daughter of a poorer working-class family with nine siblings. “Academically, Libby’s parents set high expectations for their children, and Libby lived up to them: she was an honors student in the college-prep track.” After high school, Libby served as a strong force in the town’s political system. Her slight increase in social wellbeing was heavily rooted in the fact that she was a hard worker. Another

As a child, I dreamed of becoming a nurse. However, my strong repugnance of blood and needles made a nursing career highly implausible. I had never set any logical career goals. Even if I had, the pursuit of any goal would have had to be put on hold, as I became pregnant at the age of seventeen. When my children were still very young, I thought about pursuing a teaching career and decided to enroll in college; however, my college days were short lived, as I was a single mother of three sons. My middle son faced learning challenges and I felt the need (and desire) to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom and focus on the needs of my children. When they got a little bit older and started

How can individuals overcome obstacles in their life? Like in the article “Where there’s a will, there is a way” they can overcome their obstacles with resilience. Resilience is a person’s response to a situation that helped them get through it in a positive way. The person can use the tough experience, and use it to reflect other aspects in their life in positively. When using resilience we can understand how to use it with the seven key elements (Harrington, 2012).

What is life? Life consists of experiences, challenges, and achievements; all of which are building blocks that essentially create ones path to success. In one’s lifetime they can experience tough and difficult challenges. Sometimes these challenges become unbearable, especially when the odds are against you. However, going against all odds is something everyone is capable of doing, and to overcome these challenges everyone needs to have a “never quit” attitude in life. If we develop it, we'll overcome quite a bit.

People are faced with obstacles on a daily basis, but it is how a person deals with the obstacle that really reveals their true character. I personally believe that obstacles are present in order to demonstrate how much one really desires to achieve a particular goal. While growing up, I was a stereotypical awkward “pre-teen” that grew too fast for his age: I was not fast enough for basketball, not coordinated enough for baseball, and definitely not nimble enough for soccer. It was here in middle school when I was faced with obstacles, but it is how I dealt with these obstacles that taught me many lessons and turned me into the person I am today.

Overcoming an obstacle is a process in which we, as humans, encounter every day. Obstacles come in every shape and form throughout life, with many different levels of difficulty. In my own opinion we can only grow and become more efficient at what we do by meeting and overcoming obstacles. Growing in my personal and professional life is a very important to me and I intend on becoming better in life in all my performances. My plan of action is to be pro-active when utilizing resilience in everyday functions.

Prior start to exercise, yoga, meditation or eating healthy and clean, I thought about the barriers and challenges that may limit my ability to initiate these actions. In addition, it is important to know the challenges and barriers because it will enable me to understand how I am going to achieve my goal and work hard for it. One of the challenge is to find the time and effort to initiate the action. Physical activity and yoga exercise for instance, for me I enjoy working in group, but I did not have the resources or time to join the gym (no transportation, course-work load, and working on my research). Thus, I decided to sign up for an online personal trainer and the trainer assisted me to incorporate physical activity, meditation and yoga

We all have encountered many obstacles in life, but to look back and comprehend the way I have handled them I can certainly mention two of my strengths. Persistence alongside determination has allowed me to achieve my life goals, projects and have driven me to where I am today. Even though it has seemed beyond the bounds of possibilities, my strong hearted person and ambition has made expand when I am challenged, and this is what I seek in life, to confront and persevere new challenges and grow as a professional and human being.

Ever since we were little kids, we used to wish to be like our parents, no school, no stress, just work to do and live freely. However, we weren’t able to see the challenges that we will encounter while growing up. Growing up, I realized that everyone will go through some obstacles. Now, I can say a little about obstacles. I believe obstacles that occur in one’s life path makes people a better version of their selves.

We are the humans in a country, a country in the world, a world in a solar system, solar system that’s on a galaxy, a galaxy that’s on a universe. And yet we are told to feel special, to be different. The truth is we are not different. There will always be an individual like us out there, either we accept to believe it or not. My purpose here is not to convince you that I am unique, I am not. I am fine knowing that. But better, I am here to prove that I know our society’s reality. I know that success is a hard-working process and it takes immense of dedication such as inspiration with in one its self. I do not expect to have opportunities handed to me, but rather be expected to fight for my opportunity. Super heroes, main characters, side