Although our daily lives are filled with countless experiences, emotions and hardships, we tend to undergo only a few significant watershed moments. These pivotal events not only have the ability of changing the entire course of one’s life, but they can also leave you with profound insight that influences every decision you make afterwards. There have been many important events and accomplishments in my own life, but my personal watershed moment is best represented by an incident that occurred about six years ago. What initially began as a violent argument between my brother and I about our performances at school later turned into one of the most momentous self-transformations I have underwent till date. Along with motivating me to completely
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This held true for my intent of increasing my grades as not only did I abide by my entire action plan, I pushed myself to aim higher than my targets. My family’s decision to move to Milton only added to my motivation, for the change in location allowed me to turn over a new leaf. Every day after coming home from school, I would immerse myself in completing the schoolwork I had yet to do. While my notebook’s pages became cluttered with the scrawly notes that I had written while studying for tests or simply reviewing the concepts that were taught in class. My pens ran out of ink as swiftly as speeding bullets due to how frequently I used them. During the weekend, the only sound one would hear from me was the scritch-scratching of my pen as I raced to go over the math homework I struggled with, redo the test questions that I did not understand and practice extra math problems. Furthermore, along with spending my summers reading underneath the warm sun in my fragrant backyard to exercise my mind, I shared my deepest secrets with my journal while on trips so that I could improve my writing skills. Little by little, my hard work and dedication began to pay off since not only did I qualify for the honour roll throughout elementary school, my brother and peers began asking for my help whenever they were struggling with schoolwork. Not only did this sudden change motivate me to strive even harder in my studies, it gradually re-built my shattered
This held true for my intent of increasing my grades as not only did I abide by my entire action plan, I pushed myself to aim higher than my targets. My family’s decision to move to Milton only added to my motivation, for the change in location allowed me to turn over a new leaf. Every day after coming home from school, I would immerse myself in completing the schoolwork I had yet to do. While my notebook’s pages became cluttered with the scrawly notes that I had written while studying for tests or simply reviewing the concepts that were taught in class. My pens ran out of ink as swiftly as speeding bullets due to how frequently I used them. During the weekend, the only sound one would hear from me was the scritch-scratching of my pen as I raced to go over the math homework I struggled with, redo the test questions that I did not understand and practice extra math problems. Furthermore, along with spending my summers reading underneath the warm sun in my fragrant backyard to exercise my mind, I shared my deepest secrets with my journal while on trips so that I could improve my writing skills. Little by little, my hard work and dedication began to pay off since not only did I qualify for the honour roll throughout elementary school, my brother and peers began asking for my help whenever they were struggling with schoolwork. Not only did this sudden change motivate me to strive even harder in my studies, it gradually re-built my shattered