Growing Up For Failure

One of my proudest achievements is joining the Varsity Tennis team. A lot of people told me that learning to play tennis at an advanced level within a year was impossible, but I payed them no heed and went to the park every day to practice. It was a rigorous year of tennis, but the key to success for me was with stubborn determination. I got blisters, callouses, and a couple of injuries, but all of my hard work paid off when I saw my name on the list.

An achievement is a thing done successfully, typically done by effort, courage, or skill. Every individual has their fair share of achievements accomplished. Accomplishing these achievements help our self-esteem and help us grow mentally. The last time I accomplished something great was when I received the Top Scholar award in the fifth grade. It was a very intense year. The Top Scholar award is a very prestigious award that is given to the person who worked the hardest throughout the year. There were many times where I just wanted to give up and just settle for second place. However, my mother, family, teacher and friends kept urging me to never give up. At the end of the year, I was awarded the Top Scholar award for my class. I felt like I had truly accomplished something great. The Top Scholar award was the greatest achievement I’ve received because the award taught me to never give up, reflected my potential, and helped me develop great skills.

My most meaningful accomplishment is finding my inner leader and learning to believe in myself. For many years I was extremely shy and I let this deter me from enjoying activities outside my comfort zone. Growing up I never really believed enough in myself to find my leadership abilities. It was not until early in my college career that I began to truly see my potential. My freshman year of college I began to open myself up to the possibilities around me by joining clubs on campus and making connections with those around me. The one organization that truly changed my outlook forever was Phi Beta Chi National Sorority. Within my sisterhood I began to open up and see myself as the leader I knew I could be. Once I had this new found outlook I

An accomplishment I am proud of relates to my first year in high school football. The school I went to I started off not knowing nobody besides a few people. My first day of practice I was not this big guy or had this football player image that everyone imagined, so everyone looked over me as just another bench player. Walking into our first meeting I saw a guy standing there and he looked like a senior with arms as big as thors. The first thought that came to my mind was looks like im not starting this year. As practices went on both players and coaches saw my talent and knew I had something to give to the team so the head coach made me a head captain, which only two people could have those spots, of the team and gave me a starting spot. Everyones

The accomplishment that I think that sparked the most realization in me is the Atlas program I was accepted into last year. Atlas means Adirondack Teen Leadership and Services. With Atlas it made me learn team building skills and how to work with people I didn´t know. Atlas also made me realize how much I like helping people. When we did our community service project at the nursing home I loved it so much because we were helping by earning money to buy christmas gifts for all the residents, we wrapped the present and baked cookies for all the staff. It was so much fun just to help the nursing home because most people just ignore the people. Atlas pushed me out of my comfort zone it made me learn more leadership skills and not to be as shy as

Achievement is a very important thing for many reasons. Our achievements are what define us and give us purpose. Achievement helps determine just how far we are willing to go to achieve goals and to make ourselves successful. I have worked for many achievements, in my lifetime, and I have many things that I am proud of. However, out of all of my achievements, I would say that my greatest achievement, was earning the rank of Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.

The greatest accomplishment to date would be me deciding to come back to college to continue to finish up my degree as a medical assistant. I had started back in 2014 and for economic and personal reasons was not able to continue my dream in becoming a medical assistant. Along my journey I had encounter many obstacles, but I decided that these obstacles would no longer interfere with me pursuing my career. My mindset had changed I was tired of living in a world that constantly wanted to make me into something other than myself. I know that I still have a long way to pursue my career but where I am now is more than an accomplishment to me. Not only because I’m attending college again but because I learned to take day by day and I learned that

I believe my greatest accomplishment to date has definitely been being accepted into my number one school, Tuskegee University, despite my fears that I would be rejected based on my nontraditional schooling background. It had been a dream of mine since I visited the campus when I was little, a dream that only became stronger as I heard stories about the school from my parents. I had been confident that I would be accepted, but as I grew older and begun to compare my schooling to that of my peers - who attended public school - I began to think that such a dream would not come to fruition. Yes, I could proudly say that I had taken several college courses and I had documents ready to prove that I had learned something if requested, but that didn’t

What is a big accomplishment in your life? Making it to the Superbowl with my football team. My team worked really hard to get that far. Unfortunately, we ended up losing the Superbowl. Even though they didn’t win the big game, it still meant a lot to me because

My greatest success is graduating high school and becoming a volunteer in the Cullman County Rescue Squad. I see graduating as a success because I came from a family where most had dropped out. I was one of the first grandchildren on my dad's side to graduate. My grandparent's were one of my many reasons to keep on pushing. They always wanted to see their grandchildren succeed in life. Volunteering is another success to me because I come from a family where there was many hours spent volunteering their time. I see this as a calling in life where I have had the pleasure of knowing that I have helped someone in my community that needed me in a time of need. As long in life that I helped just one person I will count that

In our lifetime, we are always going to encounter with some type of obstacle. However, it is our choice the way we want to face it. These disadvantages can turn out to be something positive that can prevent us from failure and can help us overcome other problems we could have in the future.

There have been many achievements that I have had that made me feel great. Some made me feel better than others. One of my personal best achievements would have to be me buying my own truck.

The achievement I am most proud of is participating in NASA's Space Settlement Contest in 2013. I was the leader of a group of seven people and the project spread throughout six months. We started by being very enthusiastic and having a lot of ideas. However, after the first few weeks problems and stress started to appear. What made me proud is that, despite our differences, we managed to collaborate and deal with the challenges of the project. There were moments when we thought we will not meet the deadline or we will give up, because participating in the contest was optional. However, we persevered, we supported each other and we managed to overcome the problems that came our way. I was the proudest of me and my team when we submitted the

Traditionally, failure is seen as a negative concept and is defined as lacking success. I, on the other hand, try to put a positive spin on everything in life. I see failure as an obstacle that is experienced by all, but it does not define an individual. Failure in essence will force an individual to be more receptive to their surroundings and actions and also will force an individual to mature. Looking back on my childhood years I can now pinpoint the areas where I failed and I can confidently say that I have grown and prospered due to those failures. The three major failures I have experienced were my attention deficit issues which affected my ability to succeed in school, my anti-social habit that I let consume my early years, and my

“How did you overcome your failures in life?” was a question I was asked. I made plenty of mistakes in life but one thing I can say is I learned from my mistakes and I am trying my best now not to make the same mistakes I have made. I have been in different experiences that caused me to learn from my mistakes. Some experiences I’ve been in is dealing with is my ex-boyfriend who wasn’t treating me nice , friends and family walk over me, and how I wasn’t trusting God when I needed to be trusting him. I didn’t have no choice but to learn from these mistakes and get myself together. While dealing with these mistakes I had to lift my head up through the pain and decided to do better. I felt if I didn’t learn from my mistakes then I would be a failure in life and it will bring me down in depression.