My Personal Credo

 I believe in taking opportunities when they are given to you. Taking opportunities doesn't just mean taking a new job or starting a new sport. It isn't just doing something in name only. To take an opportunity you need to really take it, and take it as much as you can. You need to wring it out until it has given you everything it can because sometimes those last few pieces that you thought weren't important are the best part of the whole thing. If you are going to do something, you need to do it to the best of your ability. That is what taking an opportunity means. You need to not just take the position, but really do the job. Put your full effort into that job so that job can yield benefits to you that doing a half-effort job wouldn't have. Taking the opportunity means not only going to every practice, but practicing on your own as well. It means not only doing all your assignments, but doing the extra credit assignment that you most likely won't need as well. I means giving not just 100%, but 110%. It means doing something fully. Take advantage of your opportunities not only by doing what you have to to get the job done, but by doing the extra little bit as well. If you put more in, you'll get more out. There will always be an opportunity to do something a little bit better, and taking that opportunity is what will pay off in the end.

-Ellie Lane