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**How my optimism will help me press on to greater achievements in the future**
Optimism. What do think when you hear optimism? Do you think of yourself as being optimistic? Life is too short, it should be cherished and lived to the fullest. My point is that optimism is the way to live your life. Every day I try my best to be optimistic and I feel great. My view on things have changed and yours can too.

I had optimism when I took my entrance test for Bishop McLaughlin High School and when I do everything in life. I know that life is short so because of that I will cherish life and live life to the fullest. I had learned that optimism is a way of life not a rule or responsibility. Every day I try to be optimistic in the way I do my school work, my homework,even now when I'm doing my speech, when I do sports, etc.

The way my optimism will help me press on greater achievements in the future is to try to do my best to help other people that need help. If I can help other people who need the help, then my future will be so much better then it will be if I don't help people. I can help people by: giving people food who are on the streets, going to places like metropolitan ministries and help do work there, and I can start a fundraiser to help the people who don't have any food, shelter, clothing, etc. There are many things I can do but these are a couple I could do without a doubt.

My goal in athletics is to play baseball and football for Bishop McLaughlin High School. Having optimism will help me to achieve this goal, instead of just worrying about not making the team. Another example would be looking at a team with the attitude that you are definitely going to lose. That negative expectation will get in your head and cause you to do things you would not normally do, such as not trying your best. In athletics, my main focus is to always do my best, and that should be everyone's main goal.

Optimism is really important for achieving goals in life. I am not the most optimistic person out there, but I know that optimism can help me overcome so many obstacles in life. I know there will be more obstacles in my future. A couple of examples would be when I go to high school and doing the right thing, going to college and also doing the right thing because it gets harder to do the right thing when we get into older grades. My optimism will help me press on to greater achievements in the future by helping me believe in myself and believing that every mistake I do now will be a lesson to learn for my future.