Landon Julson

Period 4

9/27/12

 

This I Believe

 

            I believe that hard work will eventually pay off over time in anything that you work on.  It seems that the more effort I put into daily tasks and things that I want completed turn out better in the long run than they do if you just “half-ass” it.  I feel that when you’re younger, around the age of 14, it is helpful to have some type of job and learn that when you strive for excellence and put hard work into something, good things will come out of whatever you’re doing.  From past experiences I have learned that when you have a job it will suck going to work and since my work is more hard and dirtier than other work, it makes me want to give up on it and stop doing it. But in the back of my mind there is that mindset that I’m getting paid at the end of each week for the time I put in doing the things that I do.  What it has taught me is that even at the hardest times putting in more effort is the way to get what you want faster.  When I go to baseball practice or games and see people just go through the motions it makes me mad because most of us are there to get better and become a stronger team.  Sports are a thing that one day can work in your favor and other days against.  Sometimes people drop out of sports that they just tried because they were bad, when really they just didn’t put the time and effort into it that they should have or had the opportunity to.  Having bad days in sports only makes you better for the next game or time that you get to do something over.  I’m not going to lie, I struck out so many times in the last 4 years.  Just this last year I started focusing more on the basic mechanics and working for my goal of hitting good and having a decent average.  The work that I put in has paid off because I don’t strike out as much anymore and I put the ball in play and have a more comfortable approach to each at bat.  So for anyone who is struggling to get by or feel like they can’t do something, just try.  And don’t try with a “half-assed” attitude I mean try hard and work your best and put all that you have into everything that you do.