What Has Made Me Who I am Essay
A moment in my life that has shaped or formed who I am has got to be be involved and/or discovery of sports. They really have made me who I am and it’s such a great thing that I can do these activities. There are many moments that I can remember that got me started with sports. The athleticism started on my mom's side on the family with my grandpa in school. When he was in highschool, he played football, basketball, and ran track at the varsity level. He was only about five feet seven inches and weighed about 150 pounds Even with that holding him back he was still an outstanding athlete. He played running back for the football team, point guard for basketball, and he ran sprints in track. At the high school
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My teacher did a week long activity with watching the stock on certain products and that really grabbed my attention. After that I have known that I wanted to get in the business world since. I am a person who likes to take risks with things and work incredibly hard.
One of my main interests now is wanting to become an entrepreneur and start my own business. I want to start my own clothing business. In one of my business classes I am creating a 30 page business plan to create this business for DECA, but it is good practice for me when I actually go to create one. By wanting to do this it has made me smarter with how I think about getting things done and has helped me set short-term and long-term goals.
I also would like to be a stockbroker when I’m older. I like the high-risk, high-reward factor to being one. One of my idols has got to be Jordan Belfort. Not for the drugs and the sex, but how he managed to become who he did from nothing. He put in hard work and stayed motivated at what he did. Another one of my idols is Tai Lopez. He is a self-made entrepreneur who literally had nothing and lived all different kinds of lifestyles to find out who he was. He reads a book and day to gain knowledge about life and the real world and I hope to be like him one