I believe the key to life I just three things: self-confidence, honesty and courage.

Self -confidence is
one of the most important qualities to have in life. In my opinion, if you believe in yourself, you can
achieve anything you want to. I first learned this when, I started to play little league volleyball 2 year
ago, receiving was my biggest issue. I started out doing terribly, and I wanted to quit multiple times.

However, my mother helps me along the way and trained with me often times. I soon realize that
only reason that I was doing so badly was that I had no self – confidence. Will the time I started to
believe in myself, I started receiving with ease.it was at that point that I also realized that self-
confidence is closely related to patience.

My second principle that I carry throughout life is honesty and integrity. Honestly is a quality of
person with good moral values. I believe If you have honesty, then you stay true to yourself which is
very important, especially for teens. I myself have strong conscience. I first learned lying was wrong as a
young kid. When I was a kid, I didn’t know lying was such a bad thing, but I didn’t realize the effect it
could have on the innocent people. What I am thankful for now that I learned as a kid. Everyday does
something wrong, but if you don’t learn the difference between right and wrong, very bad habits could
follow you as you grow up well into adulthood.

Lastly my last principle in life is courage. Life is full of so many challenges. That it would be easy to
give up and stop trying. One influence on my life is my sister who passed away 5 year ago. Has made a
very big impact on my life. She is a girl who is braver and stronger than me. She learned numerous
things in her life and teaches me very important philosophies to have in my life. Among the things she
taught me, I think one of the most important things is to have courage. To never stop trying if you don’t
succeed at first, and never stop believing that you can succeed. This is especially important to me
because at my age; if I fall. its very hard to keep the mentality that I can succeed.

I believe there are just three principle to have in life. Self -confidence, honesty and courage. They
have been very Important to me in my life. And will continue to be important in the future. I will
continue to hold this life theories close to me and I will try to reached my goal of being an honorable
person.