Why I Pursue My Accomplishments

My greatest personal achievement was escaping the negative circumstances that I grew around during my childhood. Within my poverty-ridden neighborhood was an abundance of street gangs and at a young age, I had fallen in with a group of gang members. I was headed towards a path of delinquency but was fortunate enough to have a realization that allowed for me to distance myself from gang-life and instead center myself

An accomplishment that set my life forward and taught me multiple traits and allowed my character to develop would have to be when I set out, got a job, and saved up enough money to buy my first car. It was a summer I'll always remember. After my sophomore year of high school I set out during the summer and got a job at Glidden Fence Company. I was nervous not working at all previous to working at Glidden and started wondering whether I had gotten too far ahead of myself. I was assigned to a three man crew and started my career as a fence builder, the crew leader was super nice to me and guided me in every step as I began to learn how to do it myself. So long story short I threw myself into a foreign environment unaware of what the

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

This award would support me a lot because I really care about my success at CSU, but I also really value my education. I feel because of where I come from, which is a small community of Latinos/Hispanic and African American that education is one thing that I want strive for. In my community, not a lot of students pursue education after high school, but I never thought I don’t want to go either. Education was always on my mind, and CSU was my goal because it had my specific major which is Apparel and Merchandising. It was a school that was high on tuition but never wanted to let go of the goal I had. Most of my financial aid is being paid off by loans, and it has been very difficult for me and especially my family. I have struggled a lot with money in the past, and this award could help me in my pursuit of an education.

My most significant personal achievement would have to be participating in the Kansas University Medical Center (KUMC) Summer Camp. This camp took place in the summer of 2016 and it was 7 weeks. I loved this camp and I was filled with so much knowledge. I got special insight on how some of the careers in the medicine field consist of such as radiologists, nurses, family physicians, and pediatricians. It was very a meaningful experience that I will never forget and I am proud of myself for being able to partake in the meaningful experience. Due to this program, I had become even more intrigued in the idea that a career in medicine was fit for me.

In life, most often people are humble and would state that they have never really accomplished anything before in their lives. Most often people do not like to boast about their accomplishments. Personally for myself I feel that my biggest accomplishment in life would have to be becoming the student body president. I never would have seen myself being in the position that I am today in the past.

My most significant accomplishment would have to be maintaining who I am, and keeping my grades up through the tests of life. Even though it is a broad topic, seeing as there are so many things that life throws at each of us, it really is a big deal to me. Staying true to myself through everything is one of my biggest goals in life, and I am happy to say that I have managed to do that so far. One thing I have learned through all of this is that it takes a lot to really become who you want to be, and you have to be very understanding of what makes others the way they are.

Over the course of my career I have had the opportunity to work for dozens of leaders that aided me in the development of my leadership style. As one would easily recognize not all leaders had a constructive impact on my career but rather provided leadership traits to avoid. One person that I have learned a considerable amount from is my father. My father instilled in me the fact that I need to work hard, complete the task at hand, dedicate time to the betterment of my people, and myself and have fun while doing all of this. Another person that introduced considerable leadership influence on me are my grandfathers. My grandfathers lived very different lives; one was a businessman, while the other was a US Army post-WWII veteran, yet they had a uniformed message. That message was continuously grow, be aggressive in studies and work, stay active, and finish what you started. Two additional influencers of leadership are CDR Michael Fredie and MCPO Darrick Dewitt. CDR Fredie is a natural leader, and lives the quote made famous by Theodore Roosevelt, “Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”. He has the uncanny ability to influence others to work harder through passion and inspiration. Whereas MCPO Dewitt is an authoritative figure that demands respect and continuously inspires his workforce to better themselves in pursuit of bettering the unit, rating, and service.

Knowing what I excel at has given me the ambition to rise to the challenge of earning a college degree. I have attempted on line school seven years ago and I had to make the difficult decision to withdraw from school when my family and financial obligations became overwhelming. I look back on that experience and have been able to analyze myself and now know what was lacking in my life at that time. I was not close with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I was attempting to control all the angles of my life alone instead of allowing the Lord to help me. In the midst of my struggle for control I was unsure of my own strengths, passions, and abilities. Since that time I have been working in the human services field as the assistant director of a local adolescent girls group home. Working with at risk

An accomplishment to me was getting on the varsity football team. I decide to play football towards the end of summer practice so I had to work hard to get on varsity. I was really out of shape compared to everyone else. I was put in the JV locker room so I knew i had to work very hard to get go varsity. The day everyone was getting there pads coach told me I was going to be in the JV locker room since I came late. Coach wanted me to go for varsity center It’s not what I wanted to play. He said i was in a fight for that spot.So i moved my stuff into the varsity locker. The next following a boy on JV got mad that I was on Varsity and called his mom so I had to go back in the JV locker. For the next 3 weeks I worked really hard on learning

It is the right time for me. You know, that burning desire in your heart that won't go away. Due to circumstances I could not complete a degree in my early years. When I started having kids, I decided to put everything on hold to give them my undivided attention and to groom them up for success. I loved every minute of it and won't change a thing about it. During that time about fourteen years in total I worked mostly part-time as an internet marketer from home

My scholarship allowed me to be awarded with an on campus job. Due to my dual-enrollment credit hours and my ACT score, I was given the opportunity to become an athletic study hall worker. I served as a mentor and personal tutor for the incoming freshmen athletes of the university and supervised their academic study hours. All of the athletes were required to attend study hall 8 hours a week. Just like my first class of freshmen athletes, I was also new to the university. This experience was very beneficial for me in that I was given a very important duty at such a young age. I had to learn to keep control of my students as well as ensure a conductive, comfortable learning

Have you ever wanted to accomplish something? Well it’s good to have something in you life you would like to accomplish, like a job or a career! My accomplishment is to become a Model like Alissa Violet

My most meaningful accomplishment has been beginning to take care of myself holistically. As someone who is an introvert, I grew up spending a lot of time by myself. I was painfully shy when I was a child and making friends was not easy. As I grew older however, I began to feel the consequences of not having established meaningful relationships with my peers. Junior high was especially difficult because of the very exclusionary social environment. Cliques were all the rage and if you didn’t belong in one, people weren’t very receptive towards you. This affected my self-esteem substantially, and I settled for any friends I could find. As it turns out, these “friends” were not really friends. They were not supportive and liked to drag each other

Reading The Goal will certainly impact my perspective as a supervisor or manager in my future career. Although I am unsure as to the type of company I will eventually work for, I will be able to implement several of the concepts I learned in the book. First of all, I will know how to go about eliminating or reducing bottlenecks. Secondly, I will focus on the performance measurements that matter most when working toward the goal of making money. Lastly, I will work toward building a strong team to work with in finding solutions to system or production issues.