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When you choose to do your best, you are a success. Unknown
When you have done the very best you know how to do - when you/ve given it all you've got - you're a winner. It doesn't matter whether or not you fail to reach a personal goal or wether or not someone else does better than you. When you choose to do your very best, you win. You win self - respect. And you experience the rpde in knowing you gave it your all.
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Describe a time when you did your absolute best but felt like a failure. Were you hard on yourself? How would you treat yourself differently now? How do you treat others when they try hard bur don't reach the goal, like at a sports event or a school performance? How can we best support and encourage each other at times like these?
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ReplyDeleteI personally think my personal best i did was my First middle school report card. I made honor roll wit all B's and 1 A. But i know i can od better. And our parents can encourge their kids to study or go over their home work with them. But us, our selves, can encourge each other by having a little study group or something like that
ReplyDeleteWell I personaly have absolute felt great about all of my faliures because theirs always something you can learn from it.
ReplyDeleteIf i have to choose a time that I've felt bad when I was doing my personal best is when I was playing football and I didn't do as I was told to do on the field and the had to pull me off the field. I think the best way to over come these failures is to keep trying and soon youy will meet your goal.Like some people like to say it's not over until the fat lady sings.
I think sometimes I could do a little better. But then other times I have done my personal best. Somethings like talking to poeple in class have always been a problem for me. Other things like always doing my homework i`ve never had a problem with. So there are still somethings I need to work on.
ReplyDeleteYes I am choosing the right personal best. When I try something new, and I'm good at it and enjoy it, then I am choosing my personal best! I always choose my personal best, and I will continue to choose my personal best!
ReplyDeleteI have done my personly best my whole life.I have been a sucsess all my life aswell.But that doesn't stop me from making the sucsess I've been making.
ReplyDeleteOne time I tried my best to get All-STARS but I felt like I didn't make it, I tried my best but come time to pick I got it.I was hard on myself by pushing myself to the limits and when my friends don't make a sport that they realy whant to play I cheer them up by playing a game of that sport (I let them win).We can do the same thing I do.
ReplyDeleteI am doing my personal best because I am achieving in everything I need so far. Like in school, I am passing all my classes. Also I'm studying for each test. At home I help my mom and dad around the house. I even went christmas shopping for my brother and sister. So I know I'm doing the best I can.
ReplyDeleteI choose to do my best because i want to get some where in life. To my self i am a winner because i do my best. I give it all i have and if people don't respect that then they don't know what to respect.
ReplyDeleteNo I am not becuse I am not doing the thigs that I am supose to do I am not do my work Iam not paying attention in class and I don't like to do my homework so I am not chooseing to do my personal best
ReplyDeletechristian witers
I always do my best because I know I can make something out of myself. Like when I played football for 9-10 we lost but I tried my personal best.
ReplyDeleteBrandon Edwards
ReplyDeleteDecember 14, 2009
2nd period
There are many times where i have tried to do my best but didn't succeed. There once was a time to where i couldn't cook my parents dinner and i set my house on fire, but i never gave up. Although i failed i didn't act mad or be mean to anyone i just acted like nothing happend.
I am choosing my personal best all the time. Sometimes, I don't reach my personal goals and i am hard on myself at times. The lesson I learn is to try harder and do better next time. Now I just tell myself to do better and I'm not so hard on myself. When others try hard but don't reach their goal I tell them that they did a good job and they'll do better next time. We can all best support each other in hard times like this by encouraging each other to do better.
ReplyDeleteBreyana Williams
12-14-09
2nd period
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ReplyDeleteI think I tried the most when my baseball team went to the championship game. I trained everyday. My dad and I went to the bating catch when ever we could. When it came to the day of the game, not everyone was practiceing. So we losed and came in second for the season. But we won the championship next year.
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ReplyDeleteI am doing my personal best with everything in my life. Well really to me I think mostly everything I do I think I fail. But I have people around me who support me. Like when I was playing basketball when I was 10 and my team was loosing. We lost the game but I tried my hardest and I was proud. Our next game we won and We all felt happy. The best way to encourage or support somebody is to be there for them when they need it.
ReplyDeleteKymberli Payno
12-14-09
2nd period
I chose to do my personal best by doing every thing I can in reason. I do the best i can in school and home. I reach goals I set for myself every week. I try my best a every thing. I do the best i can in life.
ReplyDeleteGAry Williams
2nd period
They have been times when i have tried to do my best but have failed. No one is perfect so it is not really my fault that i failed because no one is going to always succeed life. Its life and that's just ho it is.
ReplyDeletei always do my personal best even if the situation is not important, like last year when i tried to get into all- star but didn't make it. i justg klearned to practice and worker next year.learning from your mistakes is the key.
ReplyDeleteI have felt like I have failed even though I have done my best! If I make a lower grade than what I was hoping for then I am really hard on my self. But if a friend were to have failed I woud give them a good pep talk and cheer them up to make them feel better for a while.
ReplyDeleteMarina DeLeon
2nd Period
Baker
when it come to doing my best.. i struggle alot but if i work my hardest i can achieve about anything. just like a year i was failing almost all my classes because i wasnt into what they were trying to teach me but in like 3 weeks later i brong them up to almos high b's
ReplyDeleteYES I AM TRYING TO DO MY PERSONAL BEST BECAUSE I FEEL THAT I CAN ACCOMPLISH MORE WHEN I TRY TO DO MY BEST INSTEAD OF DEMANDING AND OVER WORKING MY SELF. BUT ANY WAY ONE TIME I REMEMBER TRYING T DO MY PERSONAL BEST I WAS IN 7TH GRADE AND EVERYTHING WAS GOING GREAT (SO I HEARD). I GOT A PROGRESS REPORT FROM MY TEACHERS AND THEY SAID THAT I WAS DOING GREAT BUT I FELT LIKE I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER I HAD TWO B's AND THE REST A's BUT IT DIDNT FEEL RIGHT WHEN I GOT MY GRADES IT FELT LIKE I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN BETTER GRADES BUT I KINEW MY MOTHER WOULD BE PROUD WHEN SHE SAW THEM.THE REASON I WANTED BETTER GRADES WAS BECAUSE MY FRIEND ASHANTI MADE HONOR ROLL WITH ALL A's AND I JUST WANTED TO DO BETTER THAN HER. BUT I TOLD MY MOM ABOUT IT AND SHE THOUGHT I SHOULD CALL HER AND TALK TO HER ABOUT IT AND WE DID.AND SHE FELT THE SAME WAY ABOUT HER GRADES. BUT NOW I KNOW I CANT BE BETTER THAN PEOPLE AT EVERYTHING I JUST HAVE TO DO MY PERSONAL BEST.
ReplyDeleteI am doing my personal best at everything. Of course at reading. But I can't be good at everything though!
ReplyDeleteim choosing to do my personal best by coming to school everyday an doing my work i am choosing to do my best by asking my teacher for helpn when i need it
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ReplyDeleteI think that i am doin my best most of the time. Thatz my own personal opinion. Everybody else says im as gud as i can get. But i thimk i can do a whole lot better.
ReplyDeleteI always strive to do my personal best in everyting I do. One time on my report card in 6th grade I had A's in all of my classes and a 79. I first blamed myself for not making it by one point and then my teacher for being unfair. I now realize that I tried my best and a 79 is always better than a 0.
ReplyDeleteI think I am doing my personal best because I am passing all my worksheets and quizes. At first I was doing great, but then everything got harder. Thats when I started to slack off in school. Though, when I noticed my brother was doing better I decided that no matter how hard things get I must try my hardest. And thats what I did, and I made an 85 percent on my Science Quiz because of it. Although I feel like I could've done better...And I'm sure I can
ReplyDeleteI think i am not doing my personal best. My grades are goood and all but i just keep getting low scores on easy test. i study almost every night and try to perform my best. it never works though its like theres an obsocle in my way but i just cant see it. On the other hand i perform well in a lot of my other classes. I hope to get my study habits right. Im currently making high A's and B'sand currently have the highest average in one class(maybe more i don't know.)
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I did my best when I got a grade on a science test. But I didnt get a 100. So that made me mad. I think I got around a 97 or a 96. Because I made a simple miss take. I was so mad at myself, but I didnt get to hard on myself. For now on if I get 90's I will be happy. When other people dont reach there goals I dont laugh I tell them it is okay they can do it next time. To support them we can help reach their goal and not put them down.
ReplyDeleteOne of my best I did was when I beleve that I did great on the test. Some way I didn't feel like I did well on the test. It was a spelling test that I did feel right. When I got my test back I saw my grade I got a 78 on it. I knew I would fail that test. I could have done better. So I know that I would past the next test.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying my best in my social studies class because i'm failing her class right now. Somtimes, i bother not even doing her work because sometims it is hard. im going to keep trying to pull my grade up to at least a C before we go to christmas break
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to do my best. Sometimes my best just isn't good enough. I remember in 6th grade when we were getting progress reports and I thought i did so well, but I had a C. I felt really bad because I knew I could have done better. By the time repot cards came out I had worked my hardest and gotten an A.We could have people come talk to students to get them motivated and encourage them to do better and try their hardest.
ReplyDeleteShaunda Jarrell
5th Period
December 14,2009
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ReplyDeleteIm trying to get better in basketball and try to get on a collage team and get drafted to an NBA team and become a successful basketball player.
ReplyDeleteAm I doing my personal best. Yes I am I trie my best most of the time. I dont always do my best like when I am in school. But when am playing football I always do my best.
ReplyDeleteI have been trying to do my personal best in my math class. I will try to get an A in this class. I want to get an A so I can get better grades in school. I felt like I failed myself and that I could do better.
ReplyDeleteAmy Ballou
12-14-09
5th period
I felt that I was doing my personal best in all of my classes. When I saw that I had failed a class on the progress report I got really discouraged. I tried to get my grade up to passing and I feel that is.
ReplyDeleteHarned
5th pd.
12-14-09
I do my best in my testes that I take.
ReplyDeleteI do my best by studying and paying atention in class.Sometimes times I get failing grades but I still do my best at everything I do. The grades that I get is A's and B's but I don't fail.
I am trying to do my best in all my classes. I may be doing good enough to get by, but thats not enough. I don't always pass my Report Card with an A or B, sometimes I may get one C(which I'm not proud of). I'm going to try to pull up all my B's to an A. I think I am choosing to do my personal best.
ReplyDeleteJohn Smith
12-14-09
5th Period
Im choosing to do my personal best . I have be doing better with my attitude and grades this year . I want to achieve these goals because i was to be a successful Veterinarian when i grow up . Thats why i changed up my appearance and the way i talk to people to follow my dreams .
ReplyDeleteJakelia Haggray
5th Period
12.14.09
Today I'm going to tell you Am i going to do my personal best? Yes i am and this is how im going to do it first im going to try to do my best in everything but im not going to be perfect at it but sometimes my best isn't just enough to get by. when i get my repot cards i think i do so well but it ends up that i didn't do good
ReplyDeleteIve done my very best alot. to try to get the things that I realy want. If I realy want some thing I would try to do my very best with what ever it is. Some things I put all my affort into something that i love to do. most of the things that I do in school I have gotten As and Bs thats what my goal is going to be for hare on out. Some people are motivating and inspiring.Those people who are something in life are the people who try there hardest to do there best. some of those people are lawyers, singers, artist of all sorts. Thats what I want to do my best in.
ReplyDeleteLakia Daniels
5th period
December 14,09
Have I ever tried my best, but felt like a failure? Yes, I beleive the time where I first tried to swim incorporates into this scenario. I always wanted to learn to swim (I do now.). I would give it my all, but I usually ended up somewhere at the bottom of the pool or doing some awkward dog paddle like manuever. I felt so frustrated everytime I sunk or couldn't perform the correct motions accurately. I felt so dissapointed in myself, as I would get out of the pool everytime, drenched in my failure, absorbing it.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was hard on myself. Swimming is a difficult activity to learn, for their is a risk of drowning if you perform it wrong. I would have nightmares of drowning unless I was able to swim. Everytime we walked or rode to the pool, I felt anxious to get in the pool. I wanted to learn how to swim but it was difficult. I could feel myself, getting better and better, but I just never could swim across the entier pool without filling my lungs halfway with chemicaled water.
I would say that I did very good when I taught myself how to swin. It took a few trips back to the pool to learn how to, but I feel I tried my best and was rewarded for my many failures. I would have been more patient if I was back there now. I did my best, even though it wasn't as good as it should have been.
If someone else is struggling. I usually will observe and offer simple advice here and there. And if they need a lot of help, I'll usually give them examples and show them eaiser ways to remember/accomplish the task ahead. I usually only give advice when asked, or I'll offer my advice. If you support and encourage one another, it makes them feel better in themselves and they won't give up as easy as a desperate person would. If everyone is encouraged, then a lot of untapped potential will shine through and grace everyone will it's exceptional abilities.
This is why trying your hardest, even though there are many failures is a great thing. Nothing is easily abtainable in life, you'll have to work for it. And through lots and lots of failed attempts, one day, you'll know how to accomplish that specific task. I like being encouraged, for it makes me feel confident. I do the same thing too, for, I am sure everyone appreciates a little amount of encouragement.
Devyn Lewis
5th Period
December 14, 2009
Sometimes I feel as if I have done my very best but at the same time I feel like a failure! An example of something like this that has happened to me before was when I rode a loping horse for the first time. It was so hard and I was so frustrated. Whenever I see a close friend dealing with problems like these, I often invite them over for a sleepover and time for a serious girl-talk. I'll do anything to make them happy and I'll encourage them in every ways possible!
ReplyDeleteSarah Whited
5th period
December 14, 2009
in speech, i try to do my best but something i felt like i am lousy. it make me little upset with myself. later,I practice my speech then it make me feel better. I will not get upset with myself. I would tell other people to get practice and do not get upset again.
ReplyDeleteI dont always choose my personal best even when I know I should have. But if I dont get it right the first try I always try to do better the second time on everything. When it comes to basketball, family, and -----girls------. I do my best and I suceed,but if I give up I dont. Tell me what you would choose?
ReplyDeletei learned how to save up your money.i learned that you have to opay alot of money to.it shows the balance.it shows your interest. it has principals. it tells about loans and dept.it shows that large and small down payments.it shows your expensive and advanges and disadvantages. it really shows alot of bankey stuff.
ReplyDeletekeeana delaney
3-9-10
4th period