Perserverance-Reflective Essay

Every person on this earth experiences pain. There are no exceptions, no anomalies. The fact that we endure pain, does not mean that all we ever experience will be pain. Lance Armstrong once said, “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” From this, we can take that if we persevere, pain will eventually end, but if we surrender to that pain, we will suffer the effects for much longer than we would have had we pushed through the struggle. There are three main places where we can see success through perseverance: in our careers, emotions, and education. In all of these subjects, true success is achieved with plenty of perseverance. All of these are opportunities to connect with Lance Armstrong’s motivational statement regarding perseverance. If we take this and learn from it, we are likely to experience success in our own lives.

Rudy’s best friend was the only one who believed he could. Though Rudy’s grades were not great in high school; he worked hard to get decent grades in college. Rudy was given the opportunity to attend a community college to earn better grades that would get him into Notre Dame. Rudy studied endlessly to get B’s and A’s in his classes. The road to reaching my goal is a difficult one. To develop a story will be a long, difficult process and I will struggle with scenes and character development. My goal will be difficult to achieve, but I will never stop working hard to achieve my

Similarly, in “Two Years Are Better than Four”, Liz Addison argues that Community College is a good option for those who are not prepared for college or are unable to pay for a traditional 4-year degree. “Community college welcome people who comes from different background” (Addison). Because how much affordable Community college is in comparison to a traditional 4-year college. Community College gives hope to those who parents are blue-collar workers trying to give a better future to their children or those like my stepmother, who cannot obtain a four-year degree from medical school because of how much it costs. However, she can look for

I believe that when you persevere you can accomplish countless things. When someone says perseverance, I believe that people automatically think about working hard and getting rewards after. While working hard is a big part in it, there is more to it. I am going to share a couple of stories that will hopefully change your mind about perseverance.

The tenet perseverance applies to my own life out of taekwondo and my taekwondo journey to get my black belt in multiple ways. This tenet helps me in my life and in my journey by helping me to never give up and reach higher goals in life.

Introduction: It seemed so far away, and all of a sudden I had to make the decision. A decision that would change the rest of my life. From the time I was little I knew I wanted to go to college, and here I am. I have always had the desire to continue my education and gain many experiences after I graduated from high school. I didn’t ever thing twice about continuing my education

The saying, “Do not give up,” makes up a huge part of who I am. Constantly, in my day-to-day life, there is a challenge that I must face and conquer. Whether it be family, friends, soccer, or school, I have always had to persevere through the challenges that these things, and many more bring my way. In this case, perseverance is a giant part of my identity, and who I am. When something challenges me, I do not turn away, but instead I face it.

This is a reflective essay concerning my READ 3423.01 with Dr. Reid in the fall of 2016. As I wrap up my first semester at Texas Women’s University I am awed and thankful. I am the first person in my family to attend University. Some find this surprising because I do come from a family that has done well professionally, but that was due to grit and personalities. The fact is, I was never even spoken to about attending college while I was growing up. I believe this is because no one before me had this experience to share or encourage. The truth is I tried my hardest to not be at school from middle school on, I just wasn’t engaged in the process. Of course, there were a few teachers I connected with, like the business and history teachers, but I hated the rules and structure of the environment. I amazedly graduated with my high school class, as my friends went away to Universities I took some classes at the community college. What I found was that when I got to pick my classes I flourished. Even the classes that others said were too hard to take during summer quarter, I excelled in those as well. As life unfolded I got married, moved out of state and had two daughters. When it was time for my daughters to attend school I was pretty apprehensive about the idea of it. I opened a preschool in a mother-in-law apartment we had on our property and decided they could learn there in a small community. That preschool led to homeschooling, and large educational co-ops. I lived in a

Due to the continuing increase of living it’s nearly impossible to be able to live alone. Since the demand of a higher education for better paying jobs is at an all time high trying to juggle a full-time job and returning to college is more than difficult at times. Frank, a full-time employee decided that he’d better himself by returning to college. Never considering that times have changed, he still continued to work and go to school. He stretched himself to the max; he worked late hours and then stayed up doing homework until the early morning only to have to get up and return to class to repeat the long days over. Several weeks passed, he realized that he was never going to be able to get ahead to matter how hard to tried. He was very aware that if he stopped taking classes his chances of being something in the world were even slimmer than if he continued and somehow managed to do both. Frank decided that no matter how tough these next few months were going to be he wasn’t going to let it stop him from meeting his goals.

College life became a nightmare for me when I secured a part-time job along with my classes. There were some few breaches, but that never stopped me from advancing into the future. I never gave up, but rather challenged myself to overcome all those barriers. I chose my classes in a way that my job won’t interfere with them. “Of

Perseverance is if your knocked down that you will always get back up and keep moving forward. If you fail at something, you have to keep striving for your goal and if you keep persevering you will reach it. "I've failed over and over again in my life and that's why I succeeded" (Michael Jordan). Failure doesn't stop you from reaching your goal it helps you know what not to Do next time. When I got a concussion it was really hard for me because I couldn't play any sports or do anything athletic for about 4 months. I didn't wait to be cleared and still played sports at school and that's why I think it took so long to recover. When I was finally cleared to do play sports again, I was not as fit as I was before I got the concussion because I didn't do much running. I needed to get my fitness level back for soccer so I wouldn't get tired in games or practice. When my team would go on runs it was really hard for me to keep up with everybody and my team does a timed run and I could never pass it

Cognitive schemas will store information to describe a pattern of thought or behavior. Anderson, Lepper, and Ross (1980) explained that belief perseverance is a prime function of the causal, explanatory scripts or cognitive schemas that people create to make sense of a social situation. Although, these scripts are hard to convert once they are created mainly because they are independent of the data they were derived from and they will continue to be obtainable, but never revised. This illustrates why it is a challenge to change a person’s belief, mainly because he or she has a deeply rooted schema to help comprehend a social circumstance. Once belief perseverance takes over, it is like entering the point of no return. There is no use if someone attempts to correct their beliefs, they are fixated on their convictions. The conversation would have been in vain considering the person already shows signs of not

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” My concept is perseverance. The definition perseverance from the Webster dictionary- “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.” Synonyms for perseverance are, “tenacity” and “determination”. Antonyms for perseverance are, “apathy” and “cowardice”. A person needs to persevere so that they can reach their goals and succeed in life and live how they want to live. Perseverance looks like, someone wanting a promotion. So they work harder and harder to impress their superiors so that hopefully they give them a promotion. Perseverance does not look like, wanting a promotion, but not working hard to impress your

Each day is a challenge for some of us. Some of you struggle to get up each morning and make it to school. But you find it within yourself to do because the hope of a better tomorrow compels you to do so. It is not easy to explain to teachers or other students that there was no one to wake you up and see that you were ready for school. The moment you leave your house and step on the bus, you are one step closer to realizing your dream, to fulfilling your purpose. That is what perseverance is. It is the finding the strength to do the impossible because you know that all things are possible. It is understanding that your tomorrow has great possibilities because of the steps you take today. I had a neighbor whose parents were divorced, but it seems like both parents divorced her. Her mother had custody, but she was seldom around. My friend raised herself. She gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "putting yourself through school", but she was in middle school. However, she had a dream of something better and it was evident that it required self-motivation and determination.

For many, after graduating high school the next big step is college. I never asked myself why or if I even wanted to. Yet, since I was not yet ready to join the work force, and didn’t want to disappoint my parents, I simply followed the path that I was supposed to take. For a while I had no direction, but through the loss of my high school English teacher and my dream of making my family proud, I discovered that college was the place I wanted and needed to be.