I'm not necessarily aiming for greatness; I just want to do something really cool. I'm not looking for praise; I just want to prove myself to the world. I have always been an amazing entrepreneur. I started making money online when I was ten years old. I've dabbled in affiliate marketing, product creation, and many other online businesses with enough success to afford myself nice teenage luxuries like cool electronics and fashionable clothes. I have even managed to build a healthy five figure website development and search engine optimization business. However, I know I'm far from done because I have this innate feeling inside of me that I will build something MONUMENTAL.
"Tola Lesson #1, turn bad experiences into opportunities". In grade ten, I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease after two tough months. I remember going inside an emergency room for the first time in my life. Shockingly, although there was disgusting bile in a container, vomit all over the room and my intestines were
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As long as you keep learning from your setbacks, one day, things will start to click. When things click, it won't stop because success is a compound effect and builds upon itself. I finally got Gumlie up and running in December of 2015. Just ten days after launch, and Gumlie has garnered top thirty rankings in 56 organically ranked keywords all over the world, 18659 unique visitors, 8967 gameplays, 12900 minutes of gameplay, 186 registered users, and 36 daily active users. Gumlie as a gaming platform is gaining momentum and I know the sky is the limit. It feels really good to finally have validation, but I know this is just the first milestone in the journey of my company. Mark my words, 2016 will be Gumlies' breakout year. Gumlie is either going to hit eight-figure monthly visits, hit seven-figure monthly active users, hit nine-figure gameplays or shatter all of those milestones. Keep your eyes peeled for
Poor behaviour: If any of the pupils are not focused due to poor behaviour you need to intervene straightaway. If pupils are able to continue interrupting they will do so. Always praise the good behaviour of pupils who are doing what they need to. As a last resort, if one particular pupil
The more that I think about Kayla's transition to the Surgery Scheduler role, I feel this should be a lateral move in pay. Perhaps at the 90 day review a pay increase would be appropriate. Tracy and I have spoke this morning, and agree a fulltime Surgery Scheduling position is needed, primarily for HQ. This team member will provide the responsibilities of face of surgery, external diagnostic testing referrals and home sleep study set up/pick up. Once Kayla and our newest fulltime Tosa team members are trained, up and running they will also receive cross training on the back of the house responsibilities.
I failed a chemistry class, even with tutoring, meetings with the teachers, and at home tutoring from my roommate who was attending EWU as a Biology/Chemistry major. The disaster of that course, diminished my thinly restored confidence and I fled. I took up an opportunity to become an expat and live in Lebanon. The first summer I was there, I witnessed the war between Palestine and Israel, only a country away. The impact my experiences changed how I viewed privilege and what I had taken for granted back home. I felt ashamed at what I had so readily given up in self-pity and comparatively meager issues. Thus, after teaching English for a year and traveling, the profound realization of how imperative my education was towards helping the world become a better place sank in. I wanted to go farther than I ever had but this time I was going to do it right. My life became an awareness of the worlds pain, its need, and my insuppressible desire to solve it. I moved back to Chewelah after nearly a year and a half in Lebanon, and with a wholly renewed
I strongly believe that every failure is a learning experience that should be taken as a lesson to grow from. I previously attended a 4 year university that became too much for me; attending school full-time, working 35 hours per week while trying to figure out what it is that I really wanted out of this university experience. I ended up failing most of my classes, putting my health at risk drowned by the tremendous amount of stress and just wanted to completely give up. Looking for a fresh start I decided to leave my university, and attend Norwalk Community College. Though this decision created self-doubt in the beginning, it soon came to my realization that it was the best decision I ever made. Immersed in an environment full of positive people, I was able to grow from the experience.
I failed AP English. I had missed the second quarter of the school year, almost completely, due to… technical difficulties. I got discharged from the hospital mid-February, and for the remainder of junior year, the majority of my waking thoughts revolved around passing 11th grade. With motivational speeches coming at me from my parents, friends, and teachers, I began to believe I had a chance of passing the year. I did my best, which apparently was not enough. My teacher had picked up on my tremendous amount of effort, and on the last day of school, bumped my grade up to a low D — just enough to pass. I was not exactly about to put my grade on display or anything, but I passed! Technically. This is not one of the underdog-who-succeeded stories. The real success for me was (look away, it’s cliché) realizing my best was enough. I sound disgusting.
A time in my life when something bad turned out to be good was the middle of eighth grade when i wasn’t do well in my classes. This situation was bad because my grades weren’t good, and I wasnt doing the homework. One day in class , the teacher gave me a note from the office that said the principal wanted to talk to me. When I got to his office he was telling me that my grades were really low and I had to attend the after school program for forty days if I wanted to walk the stage for eighth grade promotion. From that day on I realized how important it was to be doing my homework if I wanted to succeed in school. After like a month my grades started to improve to B’s and it made me so proud of myself. It made me proud because, I was able to
Failure in my own life has taught me so many needed lessons for me to be successful. For example, I have failed many times in school, which has opened up new ways I have learned to succeed. A notable example of this is my first English essay I completed in my sophomore year. I did not do well. After this, I was able to discover
There are many entrepreneurs in this world, or so they say. Many people strive to be successful, great and rich. A lot take risks and many fail; yet few succeed, if you happen to be one of the succeeding then chances are more than likely you’re very rich and successful sitting on a throne of a simple mindless idea that once popped into your head. Take Gary Dahl for example, he created the Pet Rock as funny as it seems in the 1970’s this funky idea had over 1.5 million in sales. He sold these pet rocks at only 3.95$; obviously this man was a rock hard millionaire over a rocking idea.
Another memory of mine is the story of one of my choir concerts. It was chaotic as everyone came into the choir room and every freshman was lost. We all came together and did vocal warmups and despite all the chaos we all came together for an amazing concert that wowed and made us all smile. I learned many lessons that night but the most major one was probably that despite all the chaos, everything will be okay in the end even if it doesn't seem that way in the
I am always on the hunt for the next big thing. As I was growing up, I was exploring different possible ways to make money. I was driven to buy toys and sell them for a slight profit. These characteristics as a kid helped me develop into an intelligent person. I have more experience with selling products and more confidence to confront strangers than an average teenager. In my Entrepreneurship class, I am learning to build up a small business and market my business products. I have teamed up with classmates to take on the task of investing our money in our business. In this class, I have learned to collaborate with peers to get the most return from our
Something bad that turned out to be pretty good in my life is the time I missed out on going to the water park with my cousins. Although I don’t really like going to places teeming with people such as a water park especially, on hot summer day such as that one. I stayed home with my dad and it was boring with a capital “b” but as time went on through that day I suggested he allow me go out with friends to laser tag or the movies. I contacted a few of my friends and they all said they would like to go, we met at Laser Quest and played three long games of laser tag. We got pretty tired, so my friend Noel and I walked to get a pizza from a pizza parlor that was right next to the laser tag building. We all suggested pepperoni but Noel was a vegetarian,
Not like a lesson you are taught in school, but the lessons of love, acceptance, and pride. As well as sharing this experience with my family, what could be better?
At the time I could take positive notes from being dropped even though they traumatized me for the rest of my life. Fast-forward about 9 years, somewhere in Indiana I had gone snowboarding for the first time in my life with my brother and some of his friends. As we walked out of the building going toward the mountain I asked if I would be able to go to the bunny slop. His response was a no I had to learn fast on my feet, so he told me how to turn and stop and I said I understood but I didn’t really. We went on the family slop a couple times before we had to go on the
I remember one incredibly funny day from last year. It was the day I fell through the glass display case at school. Boy, I tell you that sucked so bad. I know for a fact I’ll never live it down. I’m known for being pretty accident prone so it was no surprise to people when they found out I was the one who had left the blood stain in the hallway.
Another turbulent time that taught me through failure was when I tried to arrange a birthday party for my sister. Everything was supposed to be arranged by me, so I went out a bought the invitation cards, party favors, balloons, decorations, food, and a few gifts. I filled out the invitations early and put them in a box to store them until I was ready to send them. Time flew by fast between daily life with my kids and responsibilities, and before I knew it the day of the party was upon me. Quickly that morning I decorated and cooked and prepared everything. As the hour of the party came and went, no one showed up but the birthday girl, whom I had called personally. Later it occurred to me that I hadn’t sent out the invitations! That was why no one had come. I soon learned from that mistake to be more organized and manage my time better when planning events.