Achieve To Succeed

          I believe achieving your highest goal will make you succeed in life. There could be many different goals you may want to achieve but there’s always that one goal in your life time that you’re going to want to achieve. All you have to do is believe in yourself and it will happen. My goal was to read at the grade level I am in. My goal was achieved.

            I remember a time when I wanted to achieve a couple goals of mine and there was one goal I did achieve which was reading at a 10^th grade level. One time in 1^st grade I had to get held back because my reading wasn’t exactly where it was supposed to be. For a little while I felt dumb and realizing that only a few kids in 1^st grade get held back for reading well I guess I was the lucky one. I never thought that you could get held back in first grade but it was possible and back then I wasn’t too worried about being held back but then as I started getting older I had to deal with telling people my age and they would be like how are you older than me and I would just tell them that I started school late.

            The only thing that sucked about being held back was seeing the same teachers and people asking me about my age. I was and still am older than a lot of the kids in my classes. I think me being held back was good because in the long run I’m reading at the level that I’m supposed to be reading at. My reading teachers in the past and present helped me also they helped me grow as a reader and become a growing reader also.

            My Reading has progressed over time because of the reading classes I‘ve been in and the lovey teachers that have helped me believe in myself. A lot of my progress has come from my work ethnic because I’m always doing my writing task and reading done. I used to think reading was dumb and not useful in our everyday lives, but then when I started reading books that caught my attention I started thinking and saying if I can read at a good pace and think about what I read then I wouldn’t have to be in reading classes anymore and I could get into a good college. I worked hard, and that’s why I believe that achieving your highest goal will make you succeed in life.

            Believing in yourself will make your goal happen. A couple days ago I had an IEP meeting and my reading teacher Mrs. Weaver was there she told my case manager how good of a reader I am and how it has improved. I scored high on my reading test and it said that I read at a 10^th grade level. Mrs. Weaver also said I go back and read when I don’t understand something. Throughout the years my reading improved and me believing in myself paid off. That’s why I believe Achieving your highest goal will make you succeed in life.

           

--Jasman Sydnor