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when I was younger I broke my finger playing football. I didn't think much about it all I could think about is wearing the cast forever. a challenge I noticed early on was I couldn't write anything down due to the way they wrapped my hand up. it was hard for me to also do other normal things like playing games and sleeping because I had to keep my arm propped up. As time went on I learned to use my hand the best I could with and I could do things on my own normally besides writing. In school the teachers had to help me write which was embarrassing for me but I overcame it when it was time to get the waterproof cast and not have my hand wrapped up anymore.

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challenge- leaving my moms and choosing not to live with her anymore.

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I want to do a story on my fear of heights

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Kindness- being kind to yourself is needed when your having a bad day. I was having a bad day and didn't like the way I looked so i just told myself I was beautiful. it helped my mood all together and made me feel good about myself.

Challenge- I struggled with social anxiety, I always thought people were going to judge me for the things I did or said. I realized that not everyone cares about what I do and aren't watching my every move, some people will judge no matter what you do so just be yourself no matter what anyone says about you.

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Fear- death

When will I die? When you die no one will know or ever know what happens to you when it's all over. Is there nothing or a place that no one can imagine? I personally didn't think about life after death till a year ago. So I did research on death because I was scared that if I died that all I did in my life was for no reason. But what I found is that everybody around the world believes in their own god or after life which made me more confident that nobody will know so why care.

Goal- being a mechanic

When I get out of high school I want to be able to get a job as a mechanic. I hope i'm going to get a apprenticeship my senior year. I also want to learn the insides of transmissions.

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challenge:

Changing schools is scary in general but i switched schools my soft more year so every one in my grade has already found their groups and already knows the school. I also had to take freshman classes because my old school flipped classes so not only did I not know anyone I was in different classes then people in my grade. it was really scary at first but then I made a couple friends and it all started to get easier.

Challenge:

Quitting dance is one of the hardest things I have done. I had done dance for 11 years and it was my whole life outside of school. but then I got hurt and I had to quit to not get hurt more.

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goal~ I've always wanted to play the piano but I could never afford one because my parents said if I want it, I have to pay for it. I decided I wanna learn no matter how, so I downloaded a piano app on my iPad and learned a few songs. eventually I got a real piano and started playing on it.

kindness~ I was outside when my neighbor was trying to clean her pool, I asked her if she needed help and she said no but I asked again to make sure and she said I could. so I helped her clean her pool. she gave me a Hershey bar in return.

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my number one goal since i was a wee lad was to buy my very own play station 5 because playing games is my favorit hobby, so I got a job before summer started and saved enough to buy it with my own money.

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Goal: I've wanted my licences before I was even allowed to get my temps because I wanted to go anywhere i really wanted whenever I wanted, so I rushed to get them as soon as I could get my temps I got them that day and then we scheduled the driving school and I got that done asap, as soon as I got done with the school we scheduled my in-cars, After that I got my drivers test finally and passed.

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kindness: i try to give my younger friends or siblings advice because i know how it feels to be unsure and curious and even nervous so i try my best to help because i've been in their shoes.

goal: i wanted to get almost all straight A's and B"s last year and i accomplished it.

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One of my personal goals was to catch my first fish, so my brother and dad started fishing. I figured I would try to learn to fish with them because I've never caught a fish before. I spent days and hours with no fish after about a week of trying. I caught my first fish, but then after that, I wanted to catch a bigger one, so after quite a bit of time, I caught a 12-pound bass.

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Challenge: I struggled with being able to speak in public or in front of other people in school and would just ask if i could sit it out and not have to go in front of all my classmates, i got over the fear mainly by working in a public place and having to take peoples orders and helping them when they have questions.

Kindness: I was sitting in the car with my brother and we were driving to kroger and sawa homeless man with a dog, my brother went in and got the man a sandwich and the dog some dog food

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running a 400 in under a minute: running a 400 alone is hard most people wouldn't like running the 400 meter and I was forced to run it while I was injured. I was running a 1:04 while being injured during the season and once I was over the injury I would put the work into the 400 meter dash. I ran it in under a minute after the injury with a time of 58 seconds now. Saving money: I would mow my uncles grass and do things for money and would always spend the money on things I didn't need but wanted them. I would also spend it on food but would also have food at my house. so I started saving for air pods which were 67$ and bought them but them someone stole them.

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goal:graduate so i can go to college and get my medical degree

Fear: snakes

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Goals: Getting into multimedia. I knew about Multimeda since i was a freshman and i knew since i had a junior friend who went into multimedia i thought i could also strive to get that achievement aswell and once i got into i was beyond joyed.

Fear: I have had a fear of failure from a young age and now that im a junior ive grown to overcome such fear. my significant other had helped and had me grow out of such fear.

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Fear: When I was little I was really scared of heights, in my area there used to be hot air balloons and one came down the wrong way it wasn't to high up but since then I was scared of heights. Then I went to kings island one time then I realized as long as I'm safe there's nothing to be afraid of.

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Fear: being away from my mom when staying at other peoples houses. I would try to stay places and then when it came time to go to bed I would cry and ask to go home. until one night, my mom made me stay at my aunt Shannon's house no matter how upset I was and how much I cried. ever since then I haven't been scared to stay the night at places .

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challenge-I was afraid of working but I really wanted my own money so my friend tried to get me to work with her so I finally filled out a application and my bestfriend trained me and then I got my first pay check and I was so proud of myself and then finally I was doing well working and I'm still improving but now I love working

Overcoming fears-I used to have a fear about what people think about me and how I looked and I was always told to not care but I always still cared and then I finally realized I am perfect in my eyes and I don't need to change for other people and just be myself so I finally realized I don't care what people think about me and I'm just being myself

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Challenge: Social anxiety, my social anxiety as a kid was very bad. I could barely make friends or talk to anyone. I was put on meds when I was 12 and it slowly started getting better. When I got my first job it got even more better because that's a part of the job.

Goal: I used to love solving rubix cubes all different types. I started doing it faster and faster. I bought faster cubes and used better techniques to solve faster. I was timing myself and I got 30 seconds and reached my goal.

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1. challenges: I was 13 when i left California with my family. We packed a giant cargo trailer all by ourselves. Me and my brother were home schooled because of covid, so we were able to help our parents move.

2. Challenges: I was 15 years old when my dad first brought up the idea of putting my malamute mix down. I remember it became more consistent day by day. Him and my brothers always said he was getting to old and rough. His name was Frosty, and he was 10 years old when he had him put down.

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Kindness:

I was working at the front register at my job as usual, and this little old lady asked me if she came up to get the food or if we would take it to the tables. It was hard to tell her no in the moment so I just did it, and she was so grateful she insisted to tip me.

Goal:

I got my motorcycle license this summer after playing it off for months because I was given the ultimatum of either go take the test or not ride the bike, and the ending of the season coming soon pushed me to go get it.

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Goal 1: Saving money, I met that goal by saving up for car insurance every month.

Goal 2: Getting my work done. instead of talking i put my work first.

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Goal: Improving my art, something I've wanted to get better at for my whole life and something I've tried hard to complete.

Fear: Heights, I hated heights and I still dislike them but I've been way better with them for the past few years.

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Challenge/Goal- I kept procrastinating on a song I wanted to make and finally made it

Fear- I used to be terrified of horror movies until I started to make fun of them

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Fear: puppies

Ten months ago, my aunt gave me a puppy. He's a very cute Shih Tzu. When she gave him to me, he was six months old. He was very small, and technically, it was my first time taking care of a puppy. The truth is, I was afraid of dogs, but since he was so small, he was the exception. Now that he's almost a year old with me, I can say that, thanks to him, I'm no longer afraid of puppies.

Kindness: Help my friend learn Algebra.

-Maths always seemed difficult to me and in my first year I had to study Algebra with a friend, she didn't understand anything and that was a big problem so every afternoon I explained Maths to her and she managed to pass the class with a good grade, from that experience I learned that sometimes it's not that things are difficult, it's that you don't give them enough time and attention, and that there are times when you have to look at things from another angle to understand them, not everything is black or white.

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challenge: procrastinating is a very big struggle of mine and it effects my grades at school. I've set a time aside so that I dont push away my assignments for the last second.

kindness: I volunteer at a nursing home and its nice. I get to know more people and I get to help them weather its just someone to talk to or helping keep them active.

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Goal- Varsity Field Hockey

I learned about this sport that would get me closer to the softball coaches and keep me in shape for the season. I started to pick it up little by little and really apply myself I wanted to be great. I busted my butt and ran my heart out until I was eventually pulled up to varsity by the end of my first season.

Fear- sleeping at houses without my mom

when I was little an intruder had broken into our house for months without us knowing, and I would never feel unsafe and I would sleep in my own bed . once he was found inside our house I could leave my moms bed I couldn't sleep without her I didn't feel safe anymore, I'd try sleepovers but always ended up calling her for her to come get me because I could sleep, with age I figured out tactics to call down and eventually was able to sleep alone again.

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One of my personal goals was getting closer to God how I made this goal is I started waking up in the morning praying and when I go to sleep reading the bible in praying I decided to want to get closer with God because I recently was making a lot of bad decisions for my self and I was influenced a lot so distanced myself and got closer to God and tried to stay away from the sin that I was continuously committing but now that I'm closer to God I feel really good and a lot more happy.

One of my challenges that I had was my mindset it was really bad during my sport seasons and I was not willing to do anything not put in the work or nothing but I got over by having someone there to motivate me to push myself not only in sports but academically as well my parents help me a lot boosting me to do more every single day and it really helps and as they do that I see improvement of my mindset every single day.

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1. Goal I met: I met my goal by getting a job because I want to have money to spend and get a car. I have gotten more comfortable there and like it a lot more.

2. Overcoming a fear: My fear was public speaking because I felt like people were going to judge me or I would mess up. But now I feel comfortable going up in crowds because I know everyone is just worried about themselves.

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1. Grades

Goal - I found that I was failing classes. Throughout the year I struggled with my grades due to getting sick often and missing work. Last year 3rd Quarter I reached my goal and got straight A´s.

2. Saving a Kitten

Kindness - On October 13th 2024 we found a Calico Kitten starved and weak under my families truck and we were able to get her to come over and my family and I nursed her back to health. This helped her in the long run now being a healthy happy bundle of joy.

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Goal-One of my goals was to get my licence and or my temps and learning how to drive before the end of my junior year.

challenge- I really want to get good with my sleep schedule so I can be more productive at school and outside of school, summertime really messed up my schedule and when I have a bad sleep schedule during school and it makes things harder and its also harder to fix it.

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Goal: An everyday goal i go to reach for is becoming a better person thru Christ and jst in general, its a everyday goal for like the rest of my life because everyday or week i can find something that needs correction or working on. Then i can go to show others what i did to help myself and or what god has done to push me forward n life.

kindness: i think one of the biggest parts of kindness that i give out is listening and understanding. those are some of the biggest things you could do for someone when they are talking. i also jst think giving advice to people and letting them know someone understands or wants to hear you is one of the best feelings, especially when u need it the most!!

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Challenge 1 - sleep has always been a struggle for me. I have tried multiple things to help me to sleep, but recently i have started putting my phone down and it has helped with my sleep and over all mood.

Goal - Learning something new was always scary to me, I figured out how to do my nails and after doing it for so long now it is a hobbie of mine instead of a goal.

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1. Challenge: Joining marching band, toward the end of 8th grade I was faced with an option to join marching band. Then, I decided to do a pros and cons list of joining. Finally, after a lot of deciding I choose to Join.

2. Goal: Getting better at drums, during my freshman year I realized a lot of my classmates were a lot better to the drums than me. Then, I started to practice them more and more to get better and better. Finally, I realized I met my goal when I could play a lot harder pieces so much easier.

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kindness: back in 2016 I adopted a dog that was just a puppy and we named him after Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliot.

challenge: back in 2019 I found out that I had ADHD and had to take medicine until I was able to control it.

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1. set backs in my art - I started doing comics in, like, 2023, I think. I started with a story named 'NEMESIS' and messed around with that for awhile, about 2 years. Went through a bunch of revisions and rewrites and story changes and other nonsense. I eventually got bored with that and moved onto something I just called 'Heaven Black' around Christmas time last year. I created a full chapter and then dropped it and threw it in my vault and decided to change the world and general vibe of the story. Bought some fancy brushes and then used them a few times for a new chapter and then scrapped the chapter I was working on with the brushes. Now I'm working on what I plan to be THE chapter 1 of my story. God willing, anyways.

2. getting 'good' at calligraphy - Around Thanksgiving last year I was reading so, so much manga and I was like, "I should buy the stuff they use to draw. That's probably a good idea." And then a few weeks later I bought a bunch of calligraphy holders, nibs, ink, and comic paper. Spent about a month trying to figure out how to get good results with the G-pen nib. I dropped the mapping and spoon nibs I had ordered, though I recently switched to the spoon model nibs because I figured out the ink I had been using was the reason they wouldn't work.

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Goals-Getting my driver license was one of my goals because I wanted to be able to go to places and I like driving so now I can drive anywhere .

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Goals-Getting my driver license was one of my goals because I wanted to be able to go to places and I like driving so now I can drive anywhere .

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Kindness-I like to always give any of my friends advice no matter what the situation is for them

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1. Kindness: Last year, I noticed that you could become a GFF to help freshmen get used to the building by touring them around, answering questions, and getting them used to their schedules. I decided to do that myself by filling out the form. I was selected later on, so then I attended on the days that they needed me and overall got to help a handful of freshmen despite my lack of experience. In the end, many people got to learn their schedule, see the school in all of it's glory, and get memorable t-shirts. Plus, I got a thank you letter. I do not regret what I have done.

2. Personal Goal: As a personal goal, I have decided to challenge myself to get to 3.5 GPA or higher. I knew that even though I was a procrastinator (and also somehow an overachiever), I would have to focus and prioritize my work while asking questions to keep my mind focused on the simpler solutions rather than the complicated ones. This worked out for me since I finished my school year with all As! It was a massive improvement from my 1st quarter, which was definitely not the best.

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Challenge/Moving

Moving is a big change. At least for me it was a big fear of mine. I lived in Roseville Ohio, a small town right outside of Zanesville for my entire life. I went to the Franklin Local School District for my entire time in school. So moving away from everything I knew was obviously going to be tough for me. But I was sure that moving was going to be the best option for me. I expected to never be able to settle down in the new house but now it's just become the new normal.

Goal/Playing the guitar

Almost two years ago I wanted to play the guitar. Unfortunately at the time my family lacked the funds to invest in an expensive hobby like that. One day after a long five months, while visiting my dad he handed me a guitar bag and told me that he had got me one. I was so excited as I had previously just given up on the dream I had. Slowly I got better at the guitar, and now I have two more guitars now. Two electric guitars and one acoustic. I play everyday for multiple hours. I've improved and gotten so much better than I was when I first started.

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challenges: one of my goals was to get good at driving and at first I was bad at driving and I almost hit other cars and then for a while my mom wouldn't let me drive and then my grandma still had trust in me and then I started it getting good and eventually I did very good and now here soon I am getting my license and starting to drive by myself

goals: one of my big goals were to start working and I was nervous because of meeting the new people and scare that like I would mess up and they would get mad but I started working and started getting good at my job and now I feel confident as ever and Im pretty decent I'm my job now.

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Challenge- moving from michgan to ohio.

Back in 2017 i was in thrid grade at a arts academeny in detriot when i got pulled out of class and being told i was moving. I hated the fact i had to move and leave everyone behind. i got over it by meeting new people who werent so bad.

Kindness- doing comunity service.

Last year i did a two weeks of comunity service at a food pantry with my younger cousin.

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Challenge: I was always either upset with my partner or we already broke up before a month came around, until i learned how to take others peoples opinions about me as something to work on rather than something that im getting insulted on, now i have healthy relationship that has lasted over 6 months.

Challenge: I was very young when i was diagnosed with ADHD, i used to never sit still or id never be on task, drawing and doodling, but i learned how to efficiently work and do something i wanna do while still doing my work like in supposed to.

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Goal- I wanna get good grades and try to get most of my honors so i can have some free time next year and have a good senior and junior year.

kindness- Im always there for people who need it even if im not okay or having a bad day.

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Kindness: I am apart of First Priority music, people getting to know Jesus through me:)

Goal: Playing guitar, my family is very music oriented. I picked up my moms old guitar, two years later and I don't go a day without playing!

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Goal I met: I wake up early to hit the gym and I've been eating very well with my buddy Landon

Kindness: My friend was going through personal life problems and I talked to him and explained how it'll get better

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Recovering from a broken ankle- I had first moved to Lancaster back in 2021 and was having a good year being home-schooled for the first half of my 7th grade school year. I had talked to someone near in the neighborhood,When i started going to school (in-person) i had invited my new friend to my house to play games and kick the soccer-ball. We went outside to kick the ball and had my ankle turn the wrong way while running and it had snapped my [Tibia]. Then took 2 months to heal to the point to wear a fracture boot.

Hurricane experience- Back in 2016 Hurricane Matthew had grown up to a category 5, it had hit the mainland fairly quick. Then in a few days we were in the eye of the storm,while it was leaving it threw tree branches threw our roof. In the meantime i was watching Stanger things and playing monopoly with my family . It took weeks for power and wifi to turn back on

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Challenge 1: When I got kicked out my dads house, I was scared of what I was gonna do with my life, normally I would've went to go live with my mom in Cleveland but I didn't want to, so my stepsister offered me to come live with her, it was weird being with people that actually wanted me there, I remember the first week I was there her husband gad gotten me more clothes in just a day than my dad had gotten me in a year. It was very hard to adjust to there routine to, they had a baby sometimes I would have to help them with her which I was not very familiar with. other than that I would say the move was a good one.

Challenge 2: Throughout my school life I've had a great deal of anxiety, due to my clothes, body and mental. I spoke to no one and hated going to school, everyday I felt constantly constipated and always felt terrible. fast forward to when I was 15 I started doing online school, for 2 years I did online school and then went I finally when I went to this school my social battery was kinda dead so I really didn't have anxiety anymore.

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kindness : I adopted a Scottish fold cat (this breed often has health problems and needs special care)the owner wanted to throw it away because she couldn't handle the treatment , so I asked her to adopt it and she agreed I took care of it treatment and he is doing better now he is 3 years old I took him when he was 8 months old

Goals: my goal was to join the soccer team(and I did), in my country I used to play but it was mostly for fun, not very serious at my first practice it was a little hard because of the sun but I really liked the girls now my goal is to improve my skills and play better

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Overcoming tough decisions: At the end of sophomore year I had to decide what Career Tech I wanted to participate in. It was a tough decision considering that I would get licenses in that career. But after deep consideration, I chose cosmetology.

Kindness: When my friend was feeling depressed I went out to a bunch of stores and bought her a bunch of self care products and snacks. I then surprised her with it and it improved her mood and made her smile.

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1. Learning a new language,Challenge: Learning a new language was difficult. I couldn't understand anyone or talk to anyone when i moved to Costa Rica. Eventually after time of listening to people talk in Spanish I learned in like 6 months.

2. Helped a baby bird that fell, Kindness: I helped a baby bird that fell out of a tree. I took care of it until it flew away.

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Goal: I committed to a relationship that I valued heavily, my goal since that moment has been putting my all into it. Two years later I find my self still achieving this goal of commitment and success.

Challenges: Around four years ago to now, I found myself feeling worse mentally as every day went by. It was very confusing to me and the biggest challenge for this time was reaching out for help. I got into therapy and then ended it because it wasn't helping, I found different ways to feel better and halfway overcame it.

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1. Personal Goal: Having a better Relationship with myself. As I got older I started to realize more and understand more so my dad helped me through it. I started to do more activities to help me like sports. I started to hangout with my friends more and school helped me with it too.

2. Overcoming a fear: starting to realize as I get older, I'm gonna see more deaths happen. Grandparents getting near that time now. either distract myself to not think much about it and already going through deaths so I kinda get used to it even tho its hard to.

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Metting a personal goal-when I was younger my mother didn't except me because I was from a bad relationship so my uncle offered to take me in for a couple of weeks. when I moved in with my uncle I realized I wanted to stay there for the rest of my childhood so we contacted my mother and she perfectly ok with it.

over coming fear- I used to be scared of being alone and left behind. I had to go to counseling for a few months but end up knowing I was worth being around

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Personal goal: I wanted to stay active because of my depression so I started going to the gym. Its been 2 years since I've started going and Id have to say that it definitely has helped me throughout my mental problems.

Kindness: My friend has had problems being confident in himself and he has asked me what he should do to help him be more confident and I suggested the gym because it has helped me and he came to the gym with me.

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Moving throughout multiple states and cities within a very small span. At first it was a huge change then I finally settled down and it got much more comfortable.

Finding a way to live with half blindness. We realized that problem when I was really young we missed the window for a surgery to help it. I am legally blind in it but due to getting adapted to it I can rely on my right eye to technically see out of it

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CHALLENGE-Moving from a semi-truck to a house.

For three years, I lived on a semi-truck with my biological mom and over time I had become even more withdrawn than I was in middle school.

CHALLENGE-Heights.

Heights were always a fear of mine, but over time and a few high rides at universal-the fear quickly disappeared and now heights aren't an issue.

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Fear/I was afraid of public speaking and dreaded it everytime because I didnt want to stutter or make a fool of myself but it doesn't matter as long as I try

Goal/ My goal was to get into systems and earn more about manufacturing and welding so I took Manufacturing basics and welding technologies and I got in.

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Kindness: Adopting a dog from a family that was not able to take care of him. He wasn't taken care of by the owners because they were to busy and the daughter of the mom and dad was moved out and wasn't able to keep the dog so they gave the dog to us so we could take care of him, later that year they tried to come back and say the daughter was moving back in to the sellers house and needed the dog back because the daughter missed her but we declined because they did not take care of the dog as good as we did.

Challenge: Wipe day with no teammates can really be a challenge, being a solo lone wolf can be tough with all the big groups of people around trying to loot monuments and farming roads, that's why I would live next to the ocean in the jungle to survive and thrive in the jungle.

Vincent

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Overcoming a fear: I used to be afraid of failure. Now I know that everything that I need to do to succeed must come with failure. So it is a part of life

Goals I met: Starting varsity on the football team.

Spending money for my friends: Ill always make sure my friends get whatever they need. If they need a couple bucks for something, food. Anything I can help with I will.

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How I overcame my fear of driving: I found my fear when I first drove on 33 when I got my temps the first day. The way I dealt with it was driving on 33 and multiple other highways to practice and get used to it. The way I over came my fear was getting my license and driving during rush hour, also learning a lot more about driving and how to do it.

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Challenge: NOT BEING ABLE TO COOK.

Before school started and during the summer, I didn't know how to cook. Not even mac and cheese. But now i'm taking Culinary Arts as my career tech.

Kindness: VOLUNTEERING AT MY CHURCH.

During the summer, my church had asked to help them with vacation bible school. and I had helped a bunch of kids in different age groups. I gave them snacks and drinks

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goal I have two jobs I work at gypsy Joe's and I wrap cars its not a full time job I like it and working out my goal is to gain weight and to gain muscle

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goal I met: I got 2 jobs how I met this goal was working hard to met the requirements that were needed for the jobs that I have which is gypsy Joe's and wrapping cars these are just part time jobs for my teenage years waiting till I can get my realtors license. and working out is another one of my goals and that to gain weight and muscle for the purpose of being healthier and to stay in shape.

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Goals I Met: Getting a 3.0+ GPA throughout a whole school-year, I've always wanted to get a 3.0 GPA or higher to fulfill myself and impress my family. The way I did it was really locking down on all of my work and making sure I have no missing work also getting all of my work done before the due date. When I met my goal of making the 3.0+ GPA I felt amazing about myself and I got what I worked for.

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Fear I overcame- public pools I was scared of public pools because people pee in them but I have now over came then realizing that they clean the pools

Goals- I have wanted to get closer with God and I have by reading the bible and going to church and praying

kindness- a woman was at a gas station paying for her stuff in change but she didn't have enough so I payed for her stuff

challenges I have won- wrestling I wanted to be on the varsity team so I trained every day to get there and I did it

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1. Personal Goal: I may share more info about training for a 5k. I first fell in love with running, so I made a goal to a run 5k. Then, I trained for the 5k with my running buddy; we had a strict schedule and ran for a few months even through small injuries. Lastly, I actually ran the 5k, and I was proud of my time. I learned that hard work and discipline pay off.

2. Overcoming a fear. I used to be afraid of public speaking, and I had to take a public speaking class in college. First, I had to work though the fear and make plan; I learned some tips to help make public speaking easier since I did sign up for this class, but I knew I was so nervous. Then, I practiced in front of a camera and then a few of my friends. Last, I actually conquered my fear completely by giving two speeches in front of my speech class. I learned that it is important to face our fears. You do not know what you can overcome if you do not try.

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Overcoming a Fear: I used to be afraid of failure, when I was younger I was terrified of failing but I feel as if the older I got the more I realized that its okay to fail and that failure is just something that is apart of life so I just taught myself how to cope with failing.

Achieving a Goal: About a year ago I decided that I wanted to be able to cook for myself. I was always interested in cooking and I wanted to be good at it. So I started to learn to cook by getting help from my parents or following recipes and so far after a year of practicing and learning I feel as if I've become a solid cook.

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Challenge:

The friend's I used to have weren't good for me at all in the way they were bad influences, so I had decided I needed new friends to make better choices,so I decided I hang around better people who make better decisions.

Fear:A fear I used to have when I was younger was snakes, but I had recently overcame that when my friend went to go buy a snake from a pet shop and I started liking them more.

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CHALLENGE/ A year ago I made the decision to come to the United States for a year. At first I had doubts but I decided to do it, and I had to leave my family and friends. I arrived last month, and when I landed I didn't understand anything, but over time i understand more and improve.

GOAL/  Become champion with my soccer team in Argentina.

My motivation to achieve this goal was my classmates to the team, my friends and my father. To achieve this, we trainer twice as hard with more intensely.

At the end of the year we managed to win the championship.