How to Overcome Obstacles

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Life is all about obstacles. No matter what you do in life you are always going to go

through bumps and obstacles. I have had a lot of little obstacles in my life but there is one I will

never forget. The biggest one that I have gone through was playing football as a freshman and

trying to work my way up to be a varsity football player as a freshman. It was a hard thing to do

but I got it done. It was a hard and fun experience and I really liked it.

I think it was a good and learning experience for me. You will not know something is really hard until you try it and when you do try it and actually Succeed it is the best feeling of your life and you will never forget it.That image will be stuck in

Your Head because of how
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Always go at your fastest and keep pushing no matter how hard it is. There are also things you ca

Can learn from while succeeding from a hard obstacle.

Well from overcoming my obstacle I learned a lot of things. One of the things I learned

from succeeding my obstacle is to never give up. Keep trying no matter how hard it is keep

pushing and striding towards the win. Do not make up excuses you are the only person that can

Make yourself fail. Another thing I learned is to never blame anyone but myself for my mistakes.

You just have to swallow your pride and take a look at reality. You are going to make mistakes in

Life. If you do not take blame for your mistakes then you are never going to grow. It is important

To make sure you take action in your mistakes so you can learn from them that is key.

If you do not take blame in your mistakes then you are not going to grow up and you are going

To blame other people for your mistakes and that's how your whole life is going to be.

As you can see there is a lot of things you can learn from succeeding a big obstacle in

Your life. Not only do you feel good about overcoming your obstacle but, you can learn

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