...What Is Success In My Opinion Some people may measure success by a large house, a cool car, a boat or maybe even a cottage by the lake (I think I just may have listed the American dream). However, my definition of success doesn’t list any of these. In my opinion, success does not have anything to do with material goods but rather happiness, health and overcoming the struggles and the hard times. One of the ways I measure success is in how happy a person is. Some people may feel the happiest when they are around luxurious items. However, this is not a true measure of success. Happiness for most people including me is a happy and loving family. My family is what will define most of my success. Also, happiness means trying new things and a lifestyle that supports positivity which will make me a happy person. I also consider health a defining factor in success. People feel unsuccessful if they, or someone they love, are not healthy. For instance, can parents feel successful if their child is ill? This is why doctors, nurses, and hospitals are so important. Not only do they allow people to live longer, but they also allow people to feel successful in their life. Finally, success to me also means overcoming the hard times. No one likes hard and rough times filled with tears and pain. Often when I overcome the pain it feels like I have accomplished something it might even be as little as a...
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...What Success Means to Me Being successful can be viewed in many different ways, such as being happy, having a nice house, being rich, being a good mother, or having something to make someone envy you. Many people only look at success in two ways: popularity and money. To me, success means to set a goal for myself, plan the steps to achieve it, carry through with the plan, and finally to achieve my goal. There is no better feeling than when you have finally accomplished your goal that you’ve set for yourself. My first goal is to earn my degree in my chosen profession which is Marine Science. I never really knew what I wanted to do in terms of a career. I knew what hobbies I loved, and so I decided to turn them into something that I would do for the rest of my life. The next objective that I’ve set for myself is to find the perfect job in the career field that I have chosen that is best suited for me. There’s a quote by Confucius that says “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” and that is what my aim is for myself. The last goal that I will accomplish is to travel someplace that I’ve never been before every year. I’ve set a few goals for myself in life, and I plan on accomplishing them all. Now that I know what my goals are in life, I have to start planning the necessary steps to achieve them. For me to accomplish my first goal in life I have to decide which University overseas could help me in earning my degree after I have completed...
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...1. Success is a word that hard to define. Everyone will have a different definition for success such as for a student, the success means to pass all the courses; for a businessman, get a lot of money and signs contracts; for a present; to control the world and people have a better life. For me, to achieve my goal, empower myself, and work hard. Nothing is beautiful in life has been accomplishment without determination and confidence. 2. I am from Egypt; the country that has a great culture and intelligent scientists. I came to the united states in November 12, 2014. In fact, since I came to Jersey City, I went through many challenges in my life. For example, as a freshman student in high school, I was not speaking English at all, I had been...
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...academic success. Being self-motivated is the force that drives me to do things. It makes me hold myself accountable for academic success and personal success. Being self-motivated pushes me to achieve my academic goals and pushes me to finish a difficult task. It will help me be sharp and not be influenced by the wrong people, and to be open to positive learning. I will set higher goals than normal people because I am self-motivated. Being self-motivated it will give me the ability to do what needs to be done, without the power or influence from other people. It will give me the strength to complete a task, even when challenging without giving up or someone to encourage me. I will motivate myself not to give up on my academic success, and I will graduate from college. I always told myself that I wanted to go back to school and get a diploma, but I never motivated myself to go back to college. I was always working and taking care of my family, so I always found an excuse not to go back to school. Now that I motivated myself to go back to college, I will not look back and receive my diploma. Self-motivation will be an important factor in my academic success. Having time management is the key to having academic success. Without managing my time due to personal, and work life I cannot be successful in bettering my education. Time management will give me the ability to plan and control how I spend the hours in my day to effectively accomplish my goals. It will make me plan for...
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...Macy Koon Dr. Thompson COLS 1001 11 December 2015 What is Success in College What does it take to succeed in college? When I think of success I think of achieving something that I have desired, planned or attempted. A successful college experience for me would be developing important study skills such as how I can study, what I can do in and out of the classroom, and how I can manage my time. It is often claimed that the most successful college students attain success because they are only smart and study hard. Success in college for me goes beyond intelligence and hard work. It depends on my motivation and developing good study habits. My motivation is the reason I am at college. No one motivated me but myself. In the book What the Best College Students Do, Ken Bain talks about how making straight A’s is nice. I agree with him. He also says that straight A’s hardly guarantee a happy or productive life. In order to succeed it takes a personal sense of purpose. To have success we need to make good decisions and have self-confidence. In order to be a successful student I need to be a risk taker and make connections. Rather than chasing success, I have to achieve it. Bain details that there are three types of learners: surface, who do as little as possible to get by; strategic, who aim for top grades rather than true understanding; and deep learners, who leave college with a real, rich education. In high school I was a surface learner. I did not always apply myself like...
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...Education “Education is a key to success.” It gives us knowledge of the world around us, while opening doors to brilliant career opportunities. Education builds confidence to make decisions, to face life, and to accept successes and failures. The best way to reach career success is to map out a strategy and set goals. Education can be a source that could lead someone for a better future. Having seventeen or eighteen years of waking up early in the morning, doing home works and projects and staying late at night to study for exams is not an easy task to do. But, for you, what is success? For some, success is the accomplishment of the goal aimed by a person. But for me, success means that it is one way of proving to others that I have determination and patience with what I am doing. Also, it is telling to others that I am willing to do everything just to reach my goals. And how come education becomes the key to success? In today’s modern and competitive society, we cannot deny the fact that we must equip ourselves with plenty of knowledge, thoughts or ideas and skills in order for us to enhance God’s given talents for us. Also, through education, we can learn more and improve ourselves in whatever field we do have. Professionals like pharmacists, doctors, engineers and lawyers surely gave importance to their education. With proper training and knowledge, it is possible for them to perform their best in their careers and to be successful in their field of area. The characters and...
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...What is success? Is it the process of doing a task and receiving a positive result acceptable amongst the community, or is it simply achieving ones own personal goals? Success to me can mean many things. Although I am successful in school, that does not necessarily mean I will lead a successful life. Success to me is setting personal goals, and following through with them. Whether you achieve your desired result or not, you have succeeded just by trying. Everyone’s vision of success differs. Success takes many different definitions. People have different interpretations of what success really means. For me is as simple as: living well and laughing often. The idea of living well is a very broad statement. Living well, in my opinion is getting success in personal, social and professional life. If I can achieve all of these three levels of success, I believe that I have lived well. Personal success for me is being able enjoy little things that life has to offer. For instance; understanding and appreciating diversity. To have someone to love and treasure, to meet the right person, fall in love, and get marry. To feel that I’m able to love my child and pass on wisdom to him .Feeling that someone loves me, is something that makes me completely happy and successful. Because I believe that without love, life is not thoroughly complete, thus never truly achieve success. I believe that, by being mentally and physically healthy, I have achieved personal success. When I get...
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...Standing on my own Success is characterized by anything that yields a sensation of satisfaction, after accomplishing a goal, in any aspect. People are always trying to succeed. Success is an enticing challenge for anyone to prove their capability of getting what they want and also to be acknowledged. People want success to look for an improvement in their quality of life. If this is not the reason, then why else does the compelling need for feat exist? Just like everyone else, I have a dream for success. For my future I want to see myself fruitful in pursuing what I desire to do – dermatology. However, being successful to me isn’t about fulfilling selfish desires, it also entails helping others. As a future doctor, I yearn to be adept of sharing my knowledge with people that need it. In order for me to get to that level, I must endure strong adversity from a superior educational environment and achieve outstanding grades. I must also be able to stand up on my own feet and be independent, which has been a struggle for me ever since I was young. Growing up, I always had to fight for everything I wanted or believed in. I felt in any situation that I was the odd one out. I felt different, and that everyone else was a team that was out to get me. Since I was young I have always been a very timid, quiet child. However, I was very compassionate towards others and was that one friend who was always there to help. My parents and friends would often tell me to “have a spine” and to stand...
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...Philosophy of Success With every success story there will always be struggles and obstacles to get to the place we call “success”. Becoming successful is hard work and does not happen overnight. In order to achieve success you must always have a strict plan and goal to achieve your goals. Everyone has their own strategy to achieve success and I am no different. I am very methodical when it comes to figuring things out, I must always have a plan, especially when it comes to something important to me. First I start by making a lists of steps to concur my goal, what I like to call my achievement list, second I Organize my list into a visual representation, and lastly I work on myself and mold myself into a better person mentally and physically to not only achieve my goal of success, but to preserve and maintain it, so I do not lose what I tried so hard to get. With these three main success strategies I not only will reach my goals but I will do it with flying colors. When tackling a big goal or something I want to succeed in, what I first do, is think it out and create a very detailed and strong step by step plan to affectively obtain it. When I first got hired working at BJ’s I wanted to start as waiter right off the bat, but being brand new to the restaurant business I had no experience so I had to start at the lowest level position, Busser. Now knowing what I wanted and what to expect to get to that point is what I needed to know so, I devised my “Achievement List”. This list...
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...Running head: ACADEMIC SUCCESS 1 Academic Success Jose Cruz University of Phoenix ACADEMIC SUCCESS 2 Academic Success Jose Cruz Academic success What does being successful mean? Being successful might mean making tons of money, owning a bunch cars and property, being famous, but to me being successful means achieving the goals I set for myself, whether that be being financially stable, earning my bachelors’ degree and pursuing my educational goals and finally being able to start a family of my own when I am financially and professionally stable. Life goals academic goals, one thing for sure is that only persistence and hard work will get you to where you want to be. Setting goals is a great way to reach your dreams as well as your educational success. Proper time management and a step by step process is a good place to start when trying to kick start your path to becoming a success. My primary educational goal is to actually finish college successfully and gain my Bachelor’s degree. One reason why this is an important goal for me is because I would be the first person in my family to have a college degree, let alone be the first to graduate, I have few other family members who attended college but have failed, which is one of the reasons why I decided to go to school after being out of high school for so long. Seeing that so many have failed before me I was afraid I would fail as well but it is of great importance for me to succeed not only just gaining my...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success John Smith GEN/200 October 22, 2012 Andrea Anderson Personal Responsibility and College Success Personal responsibility is defined as having accountability for the actions that are made in everyday life. All actions have consequences and an individual needs to be comfortable with every decision that they make. A proper understanding of responsibility is a valuable tool when trying to achieve goals as a student. Each student needs to be personally responsible for their own success in a college setting. A student needs to show determination even though it may become easy to look for ways to not be accountable. The first step in understanding personal responsibility is knowing what you want to achieve and how you are going to get there. Many students view higher education as a necessary step in becoming successful in life. Student personal responsibility involves certain prescribed behaviors that lead to academic success and also influences self-evaluation (Singg 2001). Most new students see college as a way to better their lives yet lack the knowledge of what it takes to achieve academic success. This lack of understanding can often lead to failure. My inability to understand and adapt to these qualities led to me dropping out of school. My better understanding of personal responsibility was crucial when deciding to go back to school. The first step is to...
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...personal goals in life. Success is responsibility and responsibility is personal social management. Personal responsibility is the capability to take the initiative to follow necessary steps to insure personal goals and in life in general. Success is responsibility and responsibility is personal social management. Success by my own definition is consciously taking the initiative to excel in every goal I pursue. I see responsibility as social management related to how I perceive and treat others. Personal responsibility is a well-adjusted outlook of actions needed as I work and plan to achieve my own personal goals. My personal actions and interactions towards peers, family, friends and coworkers determine my liability towards others, and how their inner perceptions and attitudes toward me might correlate our ability to assist each other's achievements and goals. My having an objective consideration and adequate understanding the needs goals of others and how my peers can creatively use our unique differences to successfully complete any job, task or goal we as a group pursue. Taking personal responsibility for success in college My position is that taking personal responsibility in all aspects of my task and assignments can lead to positive resourcefulness for me and all those I encounter in life and can lead to success in achievement of everyone involved. By relying too much on the actions of others can result in failed accountability for me which am a large factor...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success Jennifer James Gen/200 07/20/2014 Heather Coldani Personal Responsibility and College Success Personal responsibility can have many definitions because each individual views personal responsibility differently. I believe that personal responsibility is the ability of each individual to maturely respond to the various challenges and circumstances of life. The challenges I face in my life are work, school and my personal life. Without personal responsibility I would not be able to balance between them. While not everyone believe you need to have personal responsibility to succeed, I believe that having personal responsibility is the key to success in college and in life because it is our capability to handle all of life’s challenges and accepting responsibility for our actions. Life brings each one of us so many challenges and it is hard to balance all of them together without getting stressed. Personal responsibility is needed in order to balance all of these challenges. I never thought I would be capable of working fulltime and going to school but I took action by putting my personal responsibility to use. It was hard for me to accept responsibility at first because I have never been a responsible person but I realized without it college success would be impossible. Failure to accept responsibility for the things in my life that made me unhappy would have led to me making excuses with no progress toward the goals in my life...
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...Lynn Breedlove ENG 1101 4 October 2013 Success In this nation we have a concept called the “American Dream” that everyone strives for. It suggests that if you work hard, you can eventually earn a lot of money and do as you wish. Everyone typically wants to purchase an extravagant house, luxurious cars, designer clothes, and a high paying job that will make them financially stable. These kinds of people measure success on his or her material possessions and there monetary value. True success has nothing to do with material possessions, but comes from a deeper place that is much more substantial than money. When I was younger my father and I would take long rides on his truck every weekend. On these long drives we traveled from state to state and would have many in-depth conversations on success. One time in particular, I remember we were driving along the highway and I saw a 2003 Cadillac Escalade. When I was younger this was my favorite vehicle and I told my Father when I got older I was going to purchase one. My father told me that in order for me to purchase one of them when I got older I would have to be successful. So, I asked, “What does that mean?” He replied with, “You have to go to college and work hard and get a good job.” Looking back at the conversation, my father related success with money as many people do. I thought it was funny that his idea of success did not correlate with my thought of the word. I always thought success had to do with how you thought of yourself...
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...Alston What exactly is personal responsibility? I believe that personal responsibility is to make sure my priorities and assignments will be complete on time and turned in before the due date. Even though I have a son, I may not have much time to do assignments or studying, learning as much as I can is what is important to me so I would be able to find a job for my family. Using personal responsibility in education helps me by making sure everything will be complete and on time and I look through my materials for that week. I want to make sure I provide the best for my family with the education I am receiving. Going back to school is a huge responsibility because I believe and want a better job so I will be able to provide a better life. I also want to make sure that I still will be able to enjoy my life by hanging out with friends and make the best for my family, besides working all the time after I complete my bachelor’s degree. Making sure I am going to be successful in college is making sure I have the willingness to learn and have an appetite for knowledge. Once I have the willingness to learn everything in college it will become easy for me to want to learn more. Going to college is taking responsibility to want to succeed and wanting to find a better job for my family. Success at anything whether it is school or work takes practice and work. If I commit to becoming successful in college I will eventually achieve it. In this article they asked a question, “What can you...
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