What is the meaning of success? In my own understanding, success means happiness gained from overcoming challenges and obstacles in life. Let the truth be told, as a human being, my life is not a bed of roses. The journey I travel is full of challenges and obstacles. By overcoming challenges and obstacles along the rough gravelly road, I feel happy and successful as a result. Obviously, people do not form ideas out of nothing, there are causes and effects that shape a person’s thoughts and feelings. As for my case, there is one significant moment in my life that has led me to form my own theory about success and happiness. In this paper, one of my important life stories could greatly illustrate as an example on what I mean by “success is happiness
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Clark High School, the Academy of Finance (A.O.F.), is a magnet school that specializes in training and creating business leaders. A.O.F. is a rigorous school program that only a selected few got accepted. Students are taught to be a skilled businessperson in all aspects possible. As one of the ambitious students, I wanted to know what it feels like to be the best in the field. Each year, the best way to determine who is the best business student, is often through competing in business competitions. Out of many competition events, the most challenging competition is the Nevada State Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition. The nature of the event is highly competitive. Across the state, countless of young entrepreneurs compete against each other to find out who is the real deal. I realized at the time that business is all about the competition. As enthusiastic as always, I submitted the application to enter as soon as I heard that the event was only two months …show more content…
Walking steadily, I approached the stand in front of the room. The boardroom was a gigantic ballroom where the hotel used for setting up events such as the business plan competition. For the first few minute of the presentation, I did not know where to start and where to go. I took a deep breath, shut the crowd out, remembered about the rehearsal and all the practices I had in front of mirror, then suddenly everything I wanted to say became clear. Ideas started to line up logically on its own in my head. It was almost as if I saw an open highway in front of me. I first captured the audience by showing respects to all other competitors. I then thank you sponsors for making the event possible. I began my business plan presentation by explaining the niche for the business and the inspiration behind the project. I looked and told the audience in the eyes on why they might as well be customers of my business. Marketing research, statistics, and financial projections were shown. The presentation ended with the audience’s satisfied reaction: nodding and clapping. With everything that I did, I knew that I had given all I got. Too excited to be in the crowd where winners were about to be announced, I stayed inside the bathroom to keep myself calm. Minutes later after a quick hibernation in the bathroom, my friend broke into the bathroom with a loud yell: “Hey JP You Won!” At that moment, I suddenly knew why people sometimes
Clark High School, the Academy of Finance (A.O.F.), is a magnet school that specializes in training and creating business leaders. A.O.F. is a rigorous school program that only a selected few got accepted. Students are taught to be a skilled businessperson in all aspects possible. As one of the ambitious students, I wanted to know what it feels like to be the best in the field. Each year, the best way to determine who is the best business student, is often through competing in business competitions. Out of many competition events, the most challenging competition is the Nevada State Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition. The nature of the event is highly competitive. Across the state, countless of young entrepreneurs compete against each other to find out who is the real deal. I realized at the time that business is all about the competition. As enthusiastic as always, I submitted the application to enter as soon as I heard that the event was only two months …show more content…
Walking steadily, I approached the stand in front of the room. The boardroom was a gigantic ballroom where the hotel used for setting up events such as the business plan competition. For the first few minute of the presentation, I did not know where to start and where to go. I took a deep breath, shut the crowd out, remembered about the rehearsal and all the practices I had in front of mirror, then suddenly everything I wanted to say became clear. Ideas started to line up logically on its own in my head. It was almost as if I saw an open highway in front of me. I first captured the audience by showing respects to all other competitors. I then thank you sponsors for making the event possible. I began my business plan presentation by explaining the niche for the business and the inspiration behind the project. I looked and told the audience in the eyes on why they might as well be customers of my business. Marketing research, statistics, and financial projections were shown. The presentation ended with the audience’s satisfied reaction: nodding and clapping. With everything that I did, I knew that I had given all I got. Too excited to be in the crowd where winners were about to be announced, I stayed inside the bathroom to keep myself calm. Minutes later after a quick hibernation in the bathroom, my friend broke into the bathroom with a loud yell: “Hey JP You Won!” At that moment, I suddenly knew why people sometimes