Hardness

How Parents Can Handle Their Swimmer’s Failures and Mistakes I remember every detail of the first time I ever really failed. I was 15. It was the Ohio High School State Swimming Championship and I was seeded first in the state in the 50 freestyle as a sophomore. By a lot. At one point during that season, I had the fastest high school split in the country. It was in the bank and practically a sure thing. I would win and earn my first state title as well as have a concrete shot at breaking the state

Odysseus’ journey was filled with a multitude of hardships and decisions. He had to make a lot of tough choices and did end up losing all of his crew by the end of his journey, but he made it home through all the trouble. He couldn’t control what happened even though he tried his best to prevent those terrible things from happening to his crew members. Though he had good times, he still missed out things happening at his one true home. That’s kind of how life is though. You go through hard days and

Ella Wright was “the single biggest factor that shaped his life,” the life of Richard Wright that is. Ella Wright was an extremely strict and firm mother. She was left by her husband (Richard father) to raise Richard and his little brother all alone, but just like other women who husband leave them for another women, Ella Wright slowly started to lose herself. Not only did the abandonment from Richard father effect Mrs. Wright but it also took an extreme toll on young Richard though he do not speak

The Importance of Setting Goals Setting goals is the most important thing you can do in your life. Without goal's you are going to have no direction, no ambition to be successful, no drive to stay in school, and trouble finding a career that will provide for you. Without these three things, achieving your goals is going to be one of the toughest tasks in the years to come. When setting direction to success you must make good choices on the path you are going to choose. The wrong path will put you

Obviously, I could have written this essay about any of the people in my life, but I picked the one person I have spent my whole life with, Abi. Yes, yes, I know what a kiss up to her sister, but I want to tell you about the wild spirited Abi, or as my mom says, “The annoying one”. Being her sister, she has showed and still shows me almost everything that I shouldn’t do. Some things she does can just make you laugh so hard your stomach hurts or comfort you until you feel better. At first glance

Learning something new can be scary. One of the hardest things I had to deal with, was losing my biggest motivator. It didn’t take me a lot to be motivated, but having my aunt and seeing how successful she was made me want to do better. Coping with my aunt’s death caused me to lose hope for a while. I figured if it happened to someone as smart and head strong like my aunt, it could easily happen to me. So, I had to learn how to motivate myself to keep going after I lost her. Success is a big part

I want to share some of my experiences that my Dad and I have shared together. He has taught me that I can overcome anything that comes my way. He has helped me to become truthful. These experiences have shown me that lying gets you nowhere in life. Also has helped me to be on time and arrive at least 20 or 30 minutes early. One of the other ones were that hard work pays off in the end because without hard work we would not be as happy as we are now. One of the experiences was my Dad and me riding

Over the years I have had the opportunity to coach many players and one thing I can tell you without reservation is the best players were all mentally tough. It's a hard concept to explain until you see it, but it's obvious when you see a player that has it. To clarify my point, not all of the best athletes have it. No every big league player is mentally tough and there are plenty that never make it to the big leagues that have great mental toughness. It's not about ability, I've coached many

“Don't Take the Girl” Analysis Tim McGraw is a well known country singer and songwriter. The song I have chosen is a love song called ¨Don't Take the Girl¨.  This song is about a boy named Johnny and his journey with the love of his life. In the beginning of the song Johnny's father is taking him fishing, but a little girl wants to tag along. Johnny begins to beg his father to not let the girl go fishing. As the song goes on the relationship between the boy and girl progress from a friendship into

Captain America once said, “ When the [...] whole world [or disease in this case] tells you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole world, ‘No you move.’(Ninja1)” Kathleen Baker has had to struggle to reach her goals and dreams. While doing so, she accomplished something only few can accomplish. Kathleen Baker has achieved many things, struggled with a deadly disease, and still made it to the Olympics. Kathleen has achieved so much at such an