Receiving Support from Others Can Help You Achieve Success: My Experience

People define success in different ways. For some people, it could be about money and power. For others, it could be getting married and starting a family. It all depends on the type of person someone is. To achieve success, there must be goals; whether they are small or big. Goals are the stepping-stones to getting anywhere in life. They lead to a lifelong adventure of succeeding and sometimes even failing.

For me, success is an extremely important goal of mine. I will not settle for a career that is not going to give me any kind of satisfaction. My career needs to be something I truly care about. I am not set on an exact career choice, but I know I want to be able to help people. Being able to bring happiness to other people has always been something I have strived for. If no one is happy, the world is a very bleak place. No matter what the job, my goal is to get to the highest level of placement there is.

As mentioned above, making others happy is important to me. A way I would like to give back to the community is finding a way to help kids that are less fortunate than me. I would love to someday be able to open a center where children eighteen and younger could come and hangout. They could get help with academics, make new friends, and most importantly have a space to let loose. Sometimes all a kid needs is a place where he or she can relax and not have to worry about the aspects of life that stress him or her out. Overall, that can make a huge difference in a community.

Within communities, there can be several different types of families. A person’s family and background can help shape him or her as a person. My family has had a strong impact on shaping me into the person I am today. The quality my family has taught me is best is how to be independent. Life has thrown many hardships at me and my family is always there to support me, but they do it in a laid back manner. They know I need to be able to handle tough situations by myself and be able to pull through. All of them will lend a supporting hand, but for the most part they let me put the pieces back together myself for future use. Some may find that to be mean, but I would not be the strong, independent person I am today if they fixed everything for me every time something went wrong. That is why I am sure receiving support from others can help you achieve success, and that is the main point of this essay.

Life is a long rollercoaster that everyone is riding. At some point in time, everyone must grow up and make something with their lives. Success runs through people’s blood and they try their best to achieve it. The people around can either bring others down or help to build them up. Since everyone is reaching for the same goal, why not go for it together?

What success means to me

As a 13-year-old I never thought about what I wanted when I grow up. My future is never really discussed since to me it is so far away. But now is the time to start thinking. What will I be doing? How will I make a change in the world? One thing I know is that I want to be happy and successful. Success, for me, doesn’t depend on money. Also, I want to be able to help my family and give back them for all they have done for me. Those are my hopes and dreams for the future.

In the future, I want to graduate college and hopefully be successful after that.

For most people being successful is being rich and having a nice house or car. But do materialistic things like that really make you happy? For me, success is being happy doing something you love and giving back at the same time. I’d rather make less money doing something I love then make more money doing something I hate. I could give back to my family by taking care of them when they need it. For example, I can bring them food every once in a while and have a meal with them. My family loves to spend quality time with each other. And to do that means a lot to them. Whether it be a simple meal together, or an adventure together, it will always be a good time. To me, that is a way of giving back, and that brings me joy.

Another thing I want to do is impact the world in some way to make it a better place for everyone. Our lives all have a purpose in life to make an impact. Whether it is a world-wide impact or even changing someone’s life, you can still make a change. Making change is also a way to bring happiness and motivation into your life. One way I can do that is to help out my community by volunteering. I can pick up trash and clean the landscape to help make it beautiful again. This will benefit the future generations to come so they can live in a clean, beautiful area. When you make a change for the better it pays off when you see it happen. For example, if you cleaned your community and someone thanks you for it, that’s where the joy comes from. You make other people happy at the same time you make yourself happy. Good deeds are a win-win situation.

In the end, I want to be successful and happy in the future. Also, I want to be able to help my family and contribute to my community for the future generations to come. When it’s all said and done, success, for me, does not necessarily mean wealth. But to do something that I love and be able to give back. I think that if you help other people, you will find happiness in that and so will the people you help. Those are my hopes and dreams for the future.

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