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Graduation Speech: Ten Things To Remember After You Graduate
10 Things To Remember After You Graduate- or in general/10 ways to be awesome after you graduate
So you’ve just graduated polytechnic a little less than a month ago. Well, congratulations to you for getting over this major milestone! You find yourself in a slew of celebratory parties, a string of familial affairs, newfound sense of “freedom” – you get the drift, it’s all been pretty awesome right? Wrong. Because amidst the celebration & all things fun, lurks a swiftly escalating feeling of generalized anxiety. You have no desire to head to University, yet, or hook yourself up with a full time job. So what in the world do you do during this gap year?! Relax. Why not learn to be awesome this gap year? Here are ten ways how!

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That will potentially land you into a lot of trouble mate - you might want to reconsider taking that plunge. By risks I mean, positive, calculated risks. Here’s why I think you should take risks: it opens you up to new opportunities, it can make you more creative and you'll never know if you can succeed unless you venture out into new territory. Taking risks empowers you to establish new limits in your mind. We all have boundaries or a comfort zone where we'd like to stay and many have misconstrued visions of what we think we deserve or are capable of accomplishing. When you take risks, you can eradicate that thinking, establish new boundaries, and improve your outlook on life and your ability to achieve. Taking real risks requires freedom–freedom from the loyalties, expectations and fears. Is there a chance of failure involved in taking risks? Of course. But the reward is there too, so don’t be afraid too fail. You want to go on a new business venture? Go ahead. You don’t need a physical storefront or even a physical product to start a business. You try it out for a year, it fails and you’re 21/22. You’ve got the rest of your life to play it safe. Take calculated risks, go for it. Unless you’re bad at math, then don’t do

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