Sullivan University Goals

“Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” Stated by George S. Patton, a senior officer of the United States Army, trying to explain that if you try to achieve difficult goals and complete them, you will feel success and feel good about yourself. You will feel that because you knew that you have put in the work to complete that and you have felt better than you ever felt before. Challenges are always needed because they help you gain confidence, grow, learn, and excel in whatever you are doing. They are needed because when you excel, you want to do more challenging things because you want to feel that success again. This means that when you have tough goals and complete it, you will feel success and grow as an individual and want to challenge yourself even more.

Throughout the past couple of months my fellow peers and I have been studying the topic ‘challenge’ and how it affects our lives and people around us. In our everyday lives we are confronting challenges, some are as small as walking up a few steps, and some are larger and more challenging that could be life or death circumstances.

There are many people who went through challenges like these three people who have been through a lot like Ernesto Galarza, Farah Ahmedi, and Annie Johnson. These three people have been through a lot of challenges. The challenge that Ernesto had faced was that had gone to a new school and had to learn english and Farah Ahmedi had to cross the Pakistan border then Annie Johnson had to raise her own children by herself. However, all three shared an ability to accomplish to overcome their challenges to accomplish their goals.

Growing up, I have been an individual who has pushed myself beyond the minimum requirements in order to succeed. In high school I excelled in both academics and athletics. I graduated in the top 10% of my class and lettered in hockey and tennis my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I worked hard and put in extra time in order to set myself apart from others. Succeeding in both school and athletics made me a responsible, reliable, and an organized individual. These experiences made me a versatile individual and have given me a work ethic that has benefited me with my academics in college and with my work and volunteer experiences.

Many challenges hold us back but when we overcome them, we are left with a greater prize which is making ourselves a better

As much as I wished to live through uninterrupted success, I’ve come to accept with a much more open mind that the best way to face challenges is to do so with

A lot of people set a challenge to improve. By setting a challenge, individuals work hard, asking for help and advice from experienced advisors. Challenges motivate people and keep them working hard. The most significant challenge I have faced was getting a full scholarship into the private school, American Heritage High School in Plantation. This challenge was crucial for me because I came to United States in the middle of sixth grade. I went to Falcon Cove Middle School, and the school placed me in regular classes within the ESOL program. The ESOL program is a program designed for foreign students who do not speak English well. I got out of the program once I passed the placement test to the Cambridge program. In middle school, I won a variety

My mother once said , “Without struggle there is no progress.” I have to say I agree. You have to go through obstacles , such as struggles, to get to your goal. My goal is to travel the world , through this future journey one will have to overcome difficult situations. Much like the Greek hero Odysseus, one will have to face challenges to be successful , in my journey to travel the world there are obstacles I will have to overcome like; money to obtain transportation, separation from family, and illness of families or friends.

I have excelled at every subject, achieving various honors throughout my years at Bellefonte. I have challenged myself greatly by taking various engineering classes at the high school, so that I can see what is to come in my future. These courses are designed to push students outside of the normal classroom routine, making me focus on real world applications of the material. In these courses, and all of my schoolwork I strive for perfection, pushing myself to my limits to achieve it. When faced with challenges I strive to overcome them in any means necessary. I strive to have challenges in my schoolwork, so that I can push myself to solve them. I do not back away from any challenge, rather I seek for them to show myself, and others what is

in high school some challenges did approach me, I did not let myself down and I was determined

Just like what Suzie Cameron said,‘’If you don’t do something in life, nothing happens.’’ Especially if there’s a challenge that needs to be faced. To me, I believe that overcoming a challenge gives a sense of accomplishment. You can overcome anything if you think through it first. An example of this is James Cameron, the director of Avatar and Titanic, (and his crew) designed, built, and made a dive into the deepest parts of the ocean. It took them months to build the submarine, called the Deep Sea Challenger. After finishing the sub and were preparing for a test dive, when two members of their team died of a plane crash. This accident could’ve stopped them from reaching their target, but they went ahead because they believed that Andrew

I agree with Duke Ellington when he said “A problem is a chance to do your best.” In other words to me it is saying, when you are faced with something difficult you can, and will

(Challenges) For my competition, we were required to have a three-person team. Four days before going to the National Conference, both of my teammates dropped out, which forced me to find new replacements. This also meant I had to do all the work from creating the booth, the speech, and anything else necessary for our competition. Luckily, I found two people, who were completely committed. Though I make doing all of the work to prepare for this competition seems like a negative consequence, I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Furthermore, when creating the materials for my competition a terrible storm hit my hometown knocking out the power for almost a week. This meant I had to create everything offline and in the dark. Also, when we arrived at the competition, we realized we were the only competitor that did not have a career academy connection. We thought that this would be a disadvantage but instead gave us a leading edge because we were open to all schools, instead of only career-technical programs.

Challenges are the structure of self-development, so people could to develop critical-thinking skills to overcome those challenges. For example, workers are constantly encountering new set of challenges. The challenges help workers to gain more knowledge of their career and will prepare them for future challenges. According to a journal written by Doody discussed on jumping out of comfort zone in a medical field, “issues pertaining to patient safety and operative outcome targets may restrict the amount of autonomy that a trainee may be given to move from his or her comfort zone to the learning zone” (Doody). This prepares workers to encounter challenges, and how they will handle the situation either on their own or help from others. By doing so medical trainees will be able to adjust to their jobs on a medical field. It can help them learn and develop new tactics dealing with the situation because “advanced learners who require more complex, unpredictable challenges with higher stakes to maximize their learning” (Doody). People who are set in complex challenges will be able to handle the situation, which it can increase their ability to handle similar challenges they will encounter in the future. Comfort zones limits people from handling challenges, but enforcing challenges within their work can help them overcome the comfort zone. Challenges are necessary for people

Throughout my life, I have faced many challenges and obstacles that stood in my way. No matter the magnitude or even if there seemed to be no way possible, I always try and find a way. Every challenge that I have faced always required my maximum effort and was followed by success or failure, but this one is different. This is a challenge that I would have never in my life saw coming, this was a challenge where there was no succeeding or failing, but overall it made me a completely different person.