Excellence Award Recipients Research Paper
Thank you, Roland for inviting me to share my life experience with the Excellence Award recipients. I felt honored and would like to express my congratulations to them. I’m sure that all of you, the Excellence Award recipients, are smart, have excellent grades in high school, and have admitted to the top colleges. Your parents are proud of you and have the high expectations for your future. They have put lots effort supporting you for that goal and hope you have the best advantage at this starting line up – the gate of the college—a race for you future. Life composes of many “races” from elementary school, to high school, college, your first job, your promotion, you name it…..all involve competitions. If your
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Being in the racing and winning mood one after another all his life, he still had endless races to go. The journey of his life was like a high-speed train running from one station to another without any memory of the scenery, the people, and the culture along the track. He became tired of his life which was the mirror image of the high speed monotone train ride. Even he had won all the planned races, but he was very unhappy and simply exhausted since he had no friends and didn’t do anything which was not related to the race. A burn-out is no symptom of success; success is not about accumulating wealth and power, it is more about happiness, contentment, and satisfaction. Unless you are happy you would never consider successful in your life, no matter how many races you have won. I‘m not a wise man, but I do have experience of balanced, happy life since I just completed my carrier cycle and retired from my profession. What is the experience? Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson …show more content…
- Only compete with yourself to strive for your best effort. - Focus on what you can influence, not things you can’t control. - Be passionate in whatever you do, and be sure you enjoy what you are doing. - If you must do something which you don’t like, be sure you make yourself like it. 2. Time management - Everyone has the same amount of time, 24hrs per day, it is all about how effective you use your time. Focus on your goals and priorities. - Planning your time schedule for work backwards, from the delivering deadline to the date which you have to start. You always deliver what you have promised on time.
3 Spend time with your loved ones and good friends
- Having a great relationship with your family and good friends. Make sure you cultivate them when you are young. - The only way to have a friend is being one. Live your life so that you have friends you can always count on. - Be the person you truly are and the sincerity of your efforts will bring a wonder to your life with
Being in the racing and winning mood one after another all his life, he still had endless races to go. The journey of his life was like a high-speed train running from one station to another without any memory of the scenery, the people, and the culture along the track. He became tired of his life which was the mirror image of the high speed monotone train ride. Even he had won all the planned races, but he was very unhappy and simply exhausted since he had no friends and didn’t do anything which was not related to the race. A burn-out is no symptom of success; success is not about accumulating wealth and power, it is more about happiness, contentment, and satisfaction. Unless you are happy you would never consider successful in your life, no matter how many races you have won. I‘m not a wise man, but I do have experience of balanced, happy life since I just completed my carrier cycle and retired from my profession. What is the experience? Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson …show more content…
- Only compete with yourself to strive for your best effort. - Focus on what you can influence, not things you can’t control. - Be passionate in whatever you do, and be sure you enjoy what you are doing. - If you must do something which you don’t like, be sure you make yourself like it. 2. Time management - Everyone has the same amount of time, 24hrs per day, it is all about how effective you use your time. Focus on your goals and priorities. - Planning your time schedule for work backwards, from the delivering deadline to the date which you have to start. You always deliver what you have promised on time.
3 Spend time with your loved ones and good friends
- Having a great relationship with your family and good friends. Make sure you cultivate them when you are young. - The only way to have a friend is being one. Live your life so that you have friends you can always count on. - Be the person you truly are and the sincerity of your efforts will bring a wonder to your life with