At five years old, I learned how to bake brownies from a store-bought mix. A seeming innocuous discovery, this has shaped my life ever since. Soon after, I learned how to bake brownies from scratch. From this, I discovered my love for cooking. I would cook for family and friends and they would all be amazed, but I kept thinking that there was something more that I could do with this gift. At church, I learned of a school in Haiti that they were funding. This caused me to hold my first lemonade stand and bake sale during a neighborhood garage sale at age 6. After raising $250 in one day, I was hooked on the concept of using my love of cooking as a force for good. I held multiple bake sales each year to support the Haitian school. However, when
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Through running this bakery, I made many close friends, and rather than watching cartoons, we always prepared for the next week’s farmers market. In addition, I learned self-confidence through community presentations and through being interviewed by the media. Even as a nervous 14-year-old, I understood that to create a change in the world, it does not take a hero, but rather anyone can create change and in turn, affect lives for the better. I wanted to share this idea with others which forced me to get over my fears of public speaking and have now come to enjoy …show more content…
First, by working to your full potential in everything that you do, it relieves stress. Stress is the difference between what your expectations of yourself, and the reality of what you can do at any given time. Therefore, by always doing the best that you can at that time, it relieves stress by setting your expectations of your best to what you are constantly doing. Disney’s quote also impacts me because it ensures that I am always working. By living under the mantra that I need to do my best at everything that I do, this discourages laziness and distraction because I am motivated to get involved in everything possible and to do my best at it. This dedication to involvement and leadership is what led me to become the president of Spanish Honor Society, captain of the soccer team, captain of science bowl, and even business lead of the second best high school robotics team in the
Through running this bakery, I made many close friends, and rather than watching cartoons, we always prepared for the next week’s farmers market. In addition, I learned self-confidence through community presentations and through being interviewed by the media. Even as a nervous 14-year-old, I understood that to create a change in the world, it does not take a hero, but rather anyone can create change and in turn, affect lives for the better. I wanted to share this idea with others which forced me to get over my fears of public speaking and have now come to enjoy …show more content…
First, by working to your full potential in everything that you do, it relieves stress. Stress is the difference between what your expectations of yourself, and the reality of what you can do at any given time. Therefore, by always doing the best that you can at that time, it relieves stress by setting your expectations of your best to what you are constantly doing. Disney’s quote also impacts me because it ensures that I am always working. By living under the mantra that I need to do my best at everything that I do, this discourages laziness and distraction because I am motivated to get involved in everything possible and to do my best at it. This dedication to involvement and leadership is what led me to become the president of Spanish Honor Society, captain of the soccer team, captain of science bowl, and even business lead of the second best high school robotics team in the