Keith Mancil

“Storm the beach.” Keith Mancil. As I go through life I am realizing that it is getting more and more challenging every single day. The school work is piling up, the aspect of becoming an adult is becoming real. As I go through my everyday routines and just try to make it to the end of the day, I am starting to realize that, this is only the beginning. I have not even begun to feel the full responsibilities of what an adult is required to go through daily. However, I have one characteristic that will become very handy when it is time for me to start taking on adult responsibilities. That characteristic that shapes who I am is determination.
” Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” Og Mandino. Determination
I am very competitive so I am not going to stop until I am satisfied with the outcome. One can find my level of determination in everything I do. Being determined is not always about completing something first or being the best at something. It is about making myself feel accomplished with the outcome. Whether it is in sports that I am competing in or making myself get up and go to a class. Every time that I get out of bed and drive to school, I am shaping myself into a stronger individual that will be more successful in the future. I make myself go to classes because I am thinking about my future. If I bite the bullet now and take on all the hard tasks that get in my way I can have a more enjoyable life later. I am basically following in the footsteps of my sister. She is training to become a physical therapist. Becoming a physical therapist is not an easy task. If it was easy, anyone would be able to do it. I am fortunate enough to see the things that she did not do that would have been beneficial to her. I am able to better myself so that when I am in the upper level education courses, I will not have to fret as much as she does. I can prepare myself for the worst by taking on the worst now rather than later. This can either be for the upper education that I will need to partake in the future or the career that I will need to establish later in life. Success in building a healthy family and a
There is one area that I lack in determination. I lack determination to go to church on Sundays. This is another aspect of determination, but it is very similar. Faith is a very powerful thing. A person with a very strong faith will find that even in the worst of times, there is a potential positive outcome. There have been many times that my faith has been tested. My faith is tested every day with everything that I do. If I do not have faith that there is another outcome in the end, then what is the point in being successful while I am here. The day I realized just how strong faith is, was the day that I was saved. That was the greatest day of my life. The amount of emotion that was forced out of me was like a knockout blow from a heavyweight boxer. The emotion that I was showing was not a bad emotion, it was a matter of having all the problems that I have and will have in the future, being lifted off my shoulders. Having faith can be one of the hardest things to have, it takes a strong-willed individual to not lose their faith at