Don 't Put High Expectations On Yourself

I failed to reach the top of the rock climbing wall on the playground, and as a result, I have strived even harder to reach the peak of success in everything I do. Instead of becoming discouraged and disappointed in myself, I found a way to improve myself for my next challenge. Learning from my mistakes has molded me into an improved person while giving me the motivation to keep pushing forward. Failure has taught me the importance of learning from your errors and trying again, no matter how difficult it may be. Without lessons like these, I would not be the motivated, independent person that I am today. I will continue to fail and try again until I achieve my goal of reaching the

Martin Luther King Jr. said, "You don't have to see the whole staircase in order to take the first step". One might use this quote and say people should not look into the future and be the best but instead they should focus on making progress instead. They might even say that there is no way to be the best at anything because there will always be room for improvement. Also a handful of people might believe that one does not need to find their identity before they become successful because they might believe that it is what you produce which makes you successful and not if one knows who they are internally. Many of the arguments I made for what is required in order to be successful are

Whether it’s volunteering, or school, or when I get a job, I’ll always have those expectations with me. Sometimes it’s hard to meet them, especially because I hate putting in the work to get good grades, to get along with everyone, to be the best me I can be. I also carry disappointment with me. The disappointment goes hand-in-hand with my expectations. I set my the bar high, and I’m not always ready or willing to put in the work that goes with said expectations. So, I carry the successes of the expectations and the disappointments of the failures with me everyday.

Sir Winston Churchill, a British politician from 1800’s says “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” Throughout my few years of living, I have learned that everybody is going to fail at something at least once. It is up to you to take all of your failures and turn them into success. It’s not going to only take one day but everyone is destined to be successful.

I worked just as hard, yet my test results were notably underwhelming in comparison to my ‘top 10’ classmates. What was different about me, I thought every night before I fell asleep. Then I realized, I was alone in my cherishment of extracurricular activities. While my classmates were up late Friday nights studying, I was cheering on the sidelines, exerting myself to pep up the crowd via backflips. When others were reading ahead, I was helping to feed outlying communities. While the ‘top 10’ was still cramming, I was at a Wednesday worship program. I’m committed to giving my complete impetus to everything I take part in, and sometimes, your best isn’t enough for what you want and there is almost nothing you can do about it. This taught me that in order to be truly fulfilled, you need to accept failure as part of your life and learn to move on. Thinking about it, I would not be happier if I quit doing the things I love to study more so that I could be in the ‘top 10’. In fact, I would most definitely be more miserable. Learning to accept failure, I have decided to cultivate my energy into simply giving my all and to welcome whatever rank, or not, I receive with open

Whether we like to believe it goals play an important part in our lives. They keep us on track with what we want to accomplish in life. Some of my biggest goals were made as a child and others where just by surprise. However now I have much different goals set for myself. I have three main goals that can be separated into a personal, professional, and academic area. A personal goal is to become a great runner and roll model. A professional goal of mine is to become a nurse to help others in need and finally, my academic goal is to get a 3.5 GPA and graduate college. All these goals can be accomplished with hard work and dedication just like any other goal in life. We all want to strive for the best and sometimes we need smaller goals to help

    Arguably, setting your goals high is what Bo Jackson was trying to say in his quote, and ultimately achieve greatness.  Setting your goals high is so important, and there are so many reasons on why to do this.  Primarily, setting high goals leads to the possibility for a greater return.  This is because even if one works as hard as possible and miss the ultimate goal it is very possible that he will have had more success than if one only aimed for an easy tasks.  Setting your goals high segues into the second reason, which is that it will generate more momentum to work.  For example if one is to complete a small project in a week they might procrastinate until

You should focus on what you can control, not what you can’t control. For an example in school you can’t control how your teacher grades your project. You can control the effort you put into your project though. Believe you can succeed. If you can’t believe you will do well, you probably won't do as good as you would have if you believed you could succeed.

Failure is all around us, but so is success. Both result from one thing, setting goals. I set goals to achieve a sense of accomplishment when they are completed. From doing my homework every night to getting 100 percent on a test, goals help me focus my time on the activities that I must accomplish. Taking responsibility for your own failures is difficult. My failure makes me wonder what could I have done differently. I was forced to ask myself that question after Cross Country Districts Junior year.

Even if you do fail, thinking positively can help motivate you to keep succeeding and not doubts

With vivid images of failure in my mind, I pushed myself harder than ever before with one goal in mind: to be the best that I could be. Driven not by a fear of failure, but of not being able to make the most out of my life, I was able to achieve both first rate grades and personal pride in my work. Without my resolution to succeed, I would never have stepped outside my comfort zone and gained both the knowledge and experience that accompanies.

The inspirational author of The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, once said, “Experience is what we get when we don’t get what we want.” Not only can one receive experience from not receiving what one wants, but, one can obtain experience from his/her mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, it is a part of learning; one simply needs to allow oneself to pick up from that point on. The motto, “In order to go up, you must go down,” should be followed. This motto should be followed because it improves optimism, it is relevant to many people’s life, and it can be followed by anyone.

If we assume that we all want to do better, and want to get the best out

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”, Winston Churchill once said. As a high school student I would only things that I had to and cross my fingers that I didn’t screw up. But in the long run, I realized it would pay off the keep my head up high and stay persistent.

#6 Embrace your inner child. Remember as a kid and running together with your friend? Occasionally you would fall right? What would you do? You would leap back up, not really think about the fall and go back to running, right? Children have a knack for focusing on the fun and not letting the failures or falls stop them. Do as the song says, "pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again." When you love what you are working on, you won't even offer a failure another