Topic 5: Personal Goals
Directions:
In a comment, respond to the prompt below in 300+ typed words. Also be
sure to respond to a classmate's comment so that we can keep our
classroom conversation going.
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." -Michael Jordan (professional basketball player)
Share a time when you asked more of yourself than you thought you could do. What drove you to fulfill your personal goal, and what steps did you take to fulfill it? What was the result?
Be
sure to answer all parts of the question fully. Your comment/response
to my prompt should be 300+ words. Your comment/response to a friend
should be 50+ words. Your blog entries must be completed by 11:59 pm on December 16, 2012.
there was a time when i asked more of myself and that was in 8th grade when i was completely failing everything, i know i had to get my grades up so i had to push myself to make up all the work, i stayed after school. brought home every missing assignment i sat down for hours and hours doing my work and eventually i finished it all and was passing every class with a high grade . what drove me to fulfill ,this goal was my mom she wanted to see me pass and not get left back. she helped me with absolute everything and stayed up all hours of the night working on it with me. some of the personal goals and steps i took to fulfill it was staying up everything night late just to get everything done. i didnt go out as much or text as much either. in the end i ended up passing and got to be with all my friends in highschool.
ReplyDeleteJess, Im glad you used this to write about. We had the same problems. I remember when you were dealing with this. Im glad that you realized what was the right thing to do and that you got back on track. I am happy that you didnt give up and that you strive to do your best. You wrote this well. It may get hard but as long as you focus and do your work you will succeed! I know you can because I watched you do this last year! Keep up the good work Jess!
DeleteA time when I had asked more of myself was when I realized I was failing three of my classes. I had to do a lot to bring all my grades up so that I could pass. I told myself every day that I needed to get higher than an 80 to be happy. I really thought that I would never succeed this goal. Surprisingly I was able to in a short amount of time. I was so proud of myself. Not only myself but my family was happy that I went from failing three classes to passing all six. I am not good when it comes to doing well in class, but all my parents ask from me is that I get good grades. There were many steps I had to take to achieve this goal though. The first step in achieving this was to set my mind to school and not worry about other things. The next step to this was to apply myself more. Before I applied myself to school I didn’t really find interest in school. After that I started to do my work more. The fourth step to the top of my goal was to start staying after if I don’t understand things. Last but not least I started to study a lot more for test and quizzes. After I did all this I noticed a big difference in my grades. They may not be straight A’s and B’s but I pass now. It is such a big relief if you just try and do what you’re supposed to. At the end of the year or marking period you will realize everything that you did and all your hard work to get there will pay off. It may have taken me a bit but I managed.
ReplyDeleteAlexis I had the same experience. In 7th I was failing social studies. Mr.V told me that it is stupid to fail. I took that info in and buckled down and studied. Stayed up late making sure I did 110% I knew that I could always do more and a week later I was passing with a 85.
DeleteIn my life I haven’t been through many troubles. I barley have asked for the power to do more. But, there was a time during football over the summer. It was one of the hottest days of practice. Wednesday, so we had to stay an extra hour because we did extra stuff. I was ok with it because I have been doing it for 2 months. Towards the end this practice I wasn’t feeling that good. I guess I didn’t eat breakfast and I guess that started kicking in. So I ignored it because and our coach said we were going to run hills soon. I was not happy at all. With the way I feel and what we are about do, I was not a happy camper. 5 minutes later coach told everyone to line up. Soon enough the skills were darting up the hill. Then us lineman were up. As I was running I knew I could not do it. I started slowing down and people started passing me. At that same moment I heard a voice telling me to keep going. Then and there I started speeding up. I wasn’t in last I kept my pace and I was doing so good. I didn’t beat the faster people but I didn't come in last. I learned to push myself. They say “pain is weakness leaving the body” so I used that to push me. Soon enough that sick feeling in my stomach was going away. Every time we went up and back I felt better. After like 25 minutes of hills we were done. I was tired and weak but knew inside I did it. Victory was within me. Soon after we did hills and I did the same thing and got the same outcome. From this day i learned that I can ask myself for more and my body will do so.
ReplyDeleteHey chase, this is an excellent writing, and i can relate to it in many ways. I have the same troubles in basketball since i have to stay right after school and have no food or drinks. Its hard but i push my self more than i can to show i should be on the team and that i want to be on the team.Very good writing.
DeleteHey chase. I enjoyed your blog on this lovely pre Christmas weekend. I loved reading it. You're a very good writer. Keep up the good work. Im glad you pushed yourself into continuing running. It will only make you better for the future. You should feel very proud of yourself.
Delete"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." -Michael Jordan. Micheal Jordan was trying to say that you should try 110% instead of 100%, which means to push yourself harder to achieve better goals. Which Micheal Jordan did by becoming one of the best basketball players of all time, he pushed himself harder and made himself do things he would have never thought he could do. Michael Jordan was a legend and will never be forgotten.
ReplyDeleteThere has been a couple of times where i had to push myself harder to achieve better things. When i use to skate, i wasn't very good at first but i would push myself to do things i wouldn't be able to do when you first start out skating, which in the end made me better. I could barley olie when i first started but once i learned them. I started jumping off tables, ledges, and doing other tricks. Those tricks included various grinds, kickflips, pop shove its, stalls, and many more. To accomplish those goals i had to push my self harder and think in my mind i can do those tricks and i am going to do them now, which made me get better each and everyday. Eventually i gave up on skating but still it showed that i did try my hardest to become the best i was. I also did fulfill my goals and i was very proud of myself and so was my family. I still am skating now, even though i lost some of the tricks i could once do but now i just do it for fun. I enjoy skating now a lot more since i have friends who skate with me and we go off of each others energy. It's a fun time when you know you have other friends who enjoy something you do. Michael Jordan's quote is true in many ways, put your heart to and give more than 100 percent every time you try something.
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." This quote is by Michael Jordan the famous basket ball player. This quote means you have to know you will do things before you do them. In other words before you do things expect them to happen. There has been times when i asked more of myself than i thought i could do. Those times are interesting. All of those times i would not expect to happen, but i did not think about how much i could handle. One of those times was on a busy day of mine. I thought I would be fine to hang out with my friend till late one night, do homework for all my classes, and study for a test in all one night. By the time my friend left it was about eight at night. Then, i did my homework right away. I did not get done with my homework till about midnight. After that, I quickly began studying for my science test which was the next day. I was so exhausted i fell asleep studying. That proved all my homework and hanging out with my friend all in one night was too much for me. I would never expect to do all that in one night but at the moment i thought i would be able to handle it. I asked more of myself than I could do. Wanting to hang out with my friend really drove me fulfill my small personal goal. When Michael Jordan says, "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.", he means it. I agree what Michael Jordan is saying in this quote. It makes me learn my lesson from my mistakes of the past. Now i know to expect things before i do them.
ReplyDeleteTyler this is really good. I like it alot. You should most deffinatly continue writing like this! Anyways hope you had a good weekend and I'll see you in schOol tomorrow!! Bye
DeleteI have asked myself to do way more than I thought I was capable of. My second year of seventh grade I was not doing so well with my grades, I was failing several classes. I knew I had to do something to get my grades up but I didn't think I had it in me. I just thought to myself, how hard could it really be and do I really want to repeat the seventh grade for a third time. Finally I said I can do it. The next week I got all the work I could make up and I made it all up. I ended up passing and making it to the 8th grade. That is a time I pushed myself to do something.
ReplyDeleteThere have been many times when I have expected more of my capabilities. But one of the most memorable took place last year. My wrestling team had a match in red bank. That day I had to wrestle 2 matches a kid from red bank and one from freehold. The first match our team had to win to be seeded high in the division. That’s when my match came up I wrestled smart and eventually pulled out the 9-2 win in the third period. After that match I talked to my coach and then sat down to support my team for their matches. When everyone was done wrestling we found out that are team had won. Now our team had another match as the lower weights started wrestling I was getting ready to wrestle. When it was my turn I walked on the mat I shook my opponents hand and got in my stance right off the whistle I shot he fought it off an rolled me over then I was trying to fight to get to my feet then the whistle blew it was the end of the first period. For the second period I was in the down position and was getting dominated by the time the third period came along I was down 5-0 I was really determined and expected more than I thought I was capable of but I stuck in there. In the beginning of the third period I was on top right off the whistle I broke him down and threw the half finally I got him on his back then I held him there and pinned him. I couldn’t believe him that I just pinned a kid that was beating me 5-0. That is the time I expected more of myself.
ReplyDeletethere was a time when i once asked myself more than i thoguht i could do. to make myself a better person i set goals and standards for myself to accomplish them. throughout my whole life i have been setting goals for myself> sometimes i accomplish them and other times i dont but atleast i tried and i got close.
ReplyDeleteThere are many times i set goals for myself but i think this is the one im most happy about accomplishing. when me and mike mesirendino where little we would always play football wether it was in his frontyard or on the football field. we were always making eachother better by fighting for who would be better. so one year i told him that i would beat him in touchdowns. we fought about it over and over but the only place that could deciide it would be the field. so every practice i busted my butt because i wanted to beat him in touchdowns and he busted his butt because he wanted to get more than me. once we got on that field we were both able to prove ourselves. so everygame we tied in touchdowns> Everysing game that season we scored a touchdown. every sing game we went out there and busted our butts. we did not only make ourselves better we made the team better.