Planning for the Future

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Planning for the Future

• Education
• Finances
• Employment
• Personal Issues

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Graduating from high school
Where do I go from there?

• What Career?
• What College?
• How am I going to afford it?

You too will have to make your decisions soon or
are making them now.
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Deciding College plans and finishing Pearls
requirements
What I have gained from the last four years of
high school

• A work ethic
• New interests
• Being helpful to others

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Classes

• Weight Training
• - Patience in learning technique
• US history
• - A new interest
• Business Law
• - A interest in creating a business
• Spanish
• - Failure

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Activities

• Raising Calves
• - Dedication to a goal pays off
• Community Service
• - How to help others
• McDonalds
• - Work experience
• P.E.A.R.L.S
• - Too many things to list. ?

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Lifting Weights

• I have learned a lot in my classes and activities
  but have had the best learning experience in
  lifting weights.

What I have learned

• What lifts work well for me.
• What Supplements and nutrition I need.
• Goal setting.
• Something that makes me feel good.

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How it all started
Freshmen Year

• Got a membership at Nautilus with my family.
• Got a tour of the Nautilus
• Lifted on the Universal Machines
• Went up 10 lbs on my bench max
• Became Obsessed with trying to get more and more

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Sophomore Year
Learned a lot about what lifts work well for me,
and what I get the most strength gains from

• Looked up lifting tips on the internet and read a
  lot of magazines
• Started to use free weights instead of the
  machines

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Junior Year
Got interested in Supplements and Nutrition to
help my strength gains.

• I heard a lot about creatine and protein helping
  lifters a lot
• Went to GNC and bought creatine mono-hydrate and
  a tub of Simply Whey Protein
• Noticed better strength gains in about a week

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As a senior

• Lifted first semester, stopped second semester
  and I am starting again next semester
• Lifting is something that I really like to do and
  when I do it I feel better about myself.

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How it all has prepared me for my future

• Work Ethic- I am more prepared for a future
  career from learning Patience, having work
  experience, and knowing that hard work towards
  goals pay off.
• New Interests- By learning more about business,
  it has given me a better idea of what I would
  like to do in the future
• Helping others- It not only feels good but can
  reward you later on in different ways.