Obstacles Contributing To Positive Life

My family makes a sufficient amount of money to take care of home necessities, but we only make so much money that we consider higher education a luxury. In addition, growing up without my father I have had to overcome many challenges including a lack of confidence and self love. Over time I have overcome these obstacles and I am proud of the young man I am today. I still find that I am my biggest critic, but instead of getting down on myself, I push myself harder to grow. Making mistakes is something I have accepted and have come to understand in order to get closer to my objectives both onstage and off. Everyday is an opportunity to learn, I make the choice challenging myself and grow as a student and as an artist. My background of growing

I have always been very obsessed with body image. When I was young, baseball was my sport. Soon after, I joined the swim team. During these years I’ve never looked the way that pleased me. When the age of fourteen came around, I decided to join the gym with a personal trainer. At this time, being overweight and unhappy. Never did I think the gym would mean so much to me in the future. Just before the age of sixteen, bodybuilding made a drastic impression on me. The art of building a well symmetrical body. Everything about this sport fascinated me because it gave a chance to create a new me.

Throughout everyone's lifetime, one will confront an obstacle. Obstacles can obstruct or hinder one’s process. Most of the time obstacles have a negative a affect on people because of how difficult they can be. Not making a team, loss of a loved one, loss of a job are some examples of common obstacles that occur to many people. Obstacles are barriers that block people from pursuing what they want to do. They are present in every journey of our life, no matter how big or small. The importance of overcoming obstacles is learning new skills, determination and creating new opportunities.

I sought out the help of a personal trainer, who had the body of a God, mind you. The intimidation levels were out of this world. I couldn't get past the perfection I was looking at.

Starting my second semester in Modern I, I was really excited to see what new things I would learn and what new goals I needed to set for myself. I was definitely ready to push myself and work even harder than the semester before. During my second semester I set only two new goals and kept one from first semester. The two goals that I set included, getting stronger in my inversions and watching the alignment of my hip. The goal that I kept from last semester was making sure that I was coming to class alert and ready to work. After second semester mid-term, I started to work a lot on building strength in my arms. During class, Professor Hapke would always come over to me and fix my arms while I was in downward dog. To make sure I was gliding

Regardless of the fact I had no idea what I was doing, I was desperate to just get something done. I did push-ups and sit-ups before I went to sleep every single day, along with jogging on my treadmill in the basement every other day for a whole year. I saved up my allowance, and bought a pull-up bar and a pair of dumbbells. I used all the equipment at my disposal for the duration of that year. My motivation sprung from the fact that I could actually see my progression; I doubled the amount of push-ups and sit-ups I could do, I was able to run at higher speeds, and I could even do one pull-up. I decided to take it to the next step, and signed up for weight training my junior year. This was a class where you follow a strict weight training program in the school’s weight room. Most people signed up to knock off a required gym credit, and fooled around instead of following their plan. I was one of the few people who actually did what they were supposed to, which was lift. I followed my training plan to a T the whole year, and I can say it was the best decision I’ve made in a while. I’ve lost 4% of my body fat while gaining around 20 pounds of muscle ever since my junior year. I am in the best shape of my life as a result. Now in my senior year, I am happily taking the class

Growing up, I was always criticized about the extra weight I carried around with me. The negative remarks got into my head and one day I had enough; around the age of 12 I decided that I wanted to be “normal”. This led me to extreme diets and exercises and within a few months I was getting compliments. Little did I know, that the methods that I used to get rid of my fat, were not healthy approaches. I soon began to develop the opposite problem -- being too skinny -- and again, I was not happy with myself. When I got to high school, I saw all these physically fit athletes and made the conclusion that I had to imitate them if I wanted to look like them. First, I tried out for the soccer team. Every day, I would spend countless hours practicing

To me "success" is when a person overcomes obstacles, in order to achieve their goals, no matter how big or small. Everyone in life has a goal, whether it's to have a great occupation, or to get over a phobia. Once a goal is set, people come up with their own plan in order to complete their goal, where they will reach success. Sometimes people will often give up their on goal during the process of achieving it, due to the overwhelming difficulty of their personal obstacles. With motivation, support, and strength, there's no obstacle that people cannot overcome, these are the three elements to success.

Basically I knew nothing about weight lifting besides how to do a dumbbell curl. I learned to squat more than my body weight, and run a mile without being out of breath immediately. The time I spent in the gym was preposterous, sometimes up to three hours in one day. My routine was mostly weight lifting, and cardio; switching it up every day to work on a different body part until failure. My body would ache every day, but somehow I continued to push myself through the pain. I said goodbye to my social life, and goodbye to lazy nights in bed with wine; and hello to almost every day and night in the

Life is a series of obstacles. As a person who likes to be in control, it is very stressful when I lose my grip on a situation. When I was in middle school, my younger brother was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Out of panic and desperation, I began to look for ways to cure him. As I realized the seriousness of the situation and the futile nature of my activities, I became extremely frustrated. With my family in turmoil and my brother the focus of my parents' attention, I looked for an outlet to quell my nervous energy.

It all began 7th grade year when I was struggling with my weight.I already felt worthless about myself, not to mention getting bullied by people I called my friends. They would body shame me and call me various names that added onto my stress. They would call me things like cow,fat ass, fatty patty etc. I wanted it to stop, but I didn't want to get bullied for being a tattle tail or a sissy. Holding in all the stress and depression caused me to cry to every night before going to sleep. I finally realized that I could change it and transform myself into the “ideal image” that everyone wanted me to be. I worked out daily and begged my mom to enroll me in an actual gym. She took me, and I began to see progress a few weeks later. I finally began to feel good about myself, but they still seen me as fat. I was a little hurt, but after finally coming to my mom about everything that's been going on, she sat me down and taught me about how to love myself .

The day should be Seized Many people in this day and age have interpreted carpe diem in many different ways. Some say carpe diem means seize the day, others will compare carpe diem to the rapper drakes YOLO. At the end of the day, carpe diem means that you do what you want to do and do what feels right to you. In this world humans only have one life and that life should be spent well and not in the shadows hiding.

A madness of words scattered in the air, a single note reverberating against the walls. A simple word on a crumpled piece of paper can mean the world, even if it's unimportant. All the words in our society, help to build up the walls to everyone’s future. Our future is ours, our future is our minds. Our minds help lead, our minds help us decide. All the words and actions of all the people in this world can’t bring anyones mind down. Even if people call them insane, they had to be sane once, right? Even if a mind is set astray from the path, it will always find another. Even if all the paths in the universe are crumbling down, the mind will always find its way, find its way on its quest to conquer life.

Everybody in this world has disadvantages and obstacles throughout life, however those disadvantages and obstacles can be turned into something good. Disadvantages can vary , whether you play sports , or you’re an actor. You can make that disadvantage your determination to prove people wrong, and let them know you can succeed with or without disadvantages.

"This is an amazing article", resilience is considered the opportunity to bounce back from a difficult situation or circumstance. I am sure we all have faced a time such as this , gaining the strength and ability to overcome the obstacle can lead to success in many areas of your life, although it's not easy.