1. Alexis Hand April 30, 2013 5 th Period

2. Perseverance:  Perseverance is when you keep pushing forward to do your best, while others stop trying.  I always make an Perseverance to make good grades in school, even though the work gets harder at times.

3. Kindness:  Kindness is when you treat someone with respect and treat them the way you want to be treated.  By me being a kind person, I show kindness to someone in need by helping them through hard times.

4. The Value of your Best:  The value of your best means when you go through a hard time and you just hang in there until something good comes along.  The time I had to used the value of my best is when I had to leave my hometown for something new.

5. Prepare for Rain:  Prepare for rain means that when you are in a time of need and you feel all alone with no one to turn to, just prepare for something good to come toward your way.  A time in my life I had to prepare for rain is when I thought I wasn’t going to make cheer, but later that next year I made the cheer team.

6. Areas of Life:  Areas of life is when you try the impossible and keep pushing to try more boundaries.  The areas of life I came upon, is when many people told me I couldn’t make it but I prove them wrong.

7. Persevere In the Midst of defeat:  Persevere in the Midst of defeat means that you still push yourself even in the face of defeat.  The Persevere in the Midst of defeat I had in my life is when I didn’t give up, I kept pushing forward.

8. Encouragement  Encouragement means to guide someone toward the right decision.  Once in my life I had encouragement from my teacher to continue on to be a leader.

9. Choices  The choices you make can affect you in the future, because if you do wrong then wrong will follow you, and if you do good then good will follow you.  I once made a choice to do good in school, so when I go to college than my hard work will follow me.

10. References  http://happytoinspire.blogspot.com/2012/02/art-quote-of-day-i-can-do-it.html http://happytoinspire.blogspot.com/2012/02/art-quote-of-day-i-can-do-it.html  http://hannanhigh.org/athletics/teams/cheerleaders/ http://hannanhigh.org/athletics/teams/cheerleaders/  http://www.empowernetwork.com/amandareimer/blog/random-acts-of-kindness-day-was-february-17-did-you-celebrate/ http://www.empowernetwork.com/amandareimer/blog/random-acts-of-kindness-day-was-february-17-did-you-celebrate/  http://www.semonin.com/MovingOutArea.aspx http://www.semonin.com/MovingOutArea.aspx  http://iron.lmc.gatech.edu/~ntrivedi6/blog/?p=4533 http://iron.lmc.gatech.edu/~ntrivedi6/blog/?p=4533  http://www.stmarkscarmel.org/college http://www.stmarkscarmel.org/college  http://blogs.amway.com/amwayinsider/2011/02/15/a/ http://blogs.amway.com/amwayinsider/2011/02/15/a/  http://www.feelmylove.org/2012/10/dont-give-up.html http://www.feelmylove.org/2012/10/dont-give-up.html