Personal Narrative: Challenging Yourself

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Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. Successful people always go for the next challenge, setting the bar higher than before and will make you stretch more, making your way to better results.

Challenging yourself can cause self confidence that will radically change your perception, the picture you have about yourself, and you will start to see yourself already there, already changed, for way better. Confidence I’ve acknowledged that word just recently. I was shy and very quiet and I still am today but, not as much. Since I started 7th grade in the year of ‘10. I met a lot of new friends. That same year I joined choir I enjoyed it until that one day in 3rd period the Mr. Fernandez

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