Obstacle In My Life

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An obstacle that can restrict and complicate my life is time. Time to work, to study, for family, and for myself. For me it seems like there is not enough time in the day for me to get everything done that I need to have done. I work two jobs, a son, and going to school. On top of that I still have housework that cannot go untouched. I heard that I must sacrifice some things in my life, but I refuse to sacrifice anything to better my career and my son’s future. I will not sacrifice the things that are dear to my heart.

Time is to have something planned or arranged for something to happen on or done at a specific time. Time is a terrible thing to waste and I cannot afford to waste any of it. I know that I am not the only one who has
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This is how most of my day is. Sometimes it changes and I have to rearrange things but that is life. There will always be some type of unexpected changes. When I first started I thought I could not and would not be able to handle it. I just had to keep practicing, have faith, and have patience.

An obstacle that happen recently was I over book myself and really did not have the time for neither events. I planned to help my sister-in-law with her back to school party, take my grandmother to pay a bill, to help my aunt to plan and decorate for her God-daughter birthday party, and on top of that spend time with my son along with doing homework. I did not have time to do anything for myself. I started feeling bad and thinking that I would have to cancelled everything because I did not want to do one event and not the others. I thought long and hard on the decision I had to make and chose to do everything. When I say that I am going to do something, I try my very best to make it happen. I was very cautious on my time and at the same time, my details in my work. Everything turn out great but I have learned that I cannot procrastinate on anything and time is very
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