My Philosophy "You can only appreciate things that are fun after you work hard to achieve them." Fortune Cookie, 2000 My philosophy of life is that if you work hard enough, you will achieve the things you want. In other words, "Practice makes perfect." The feeling that you get from having fun is great, but it is important to work hard ... to achieve this "fun" thing. The feeling of having fun is irrelevant if hard work was not involved in achieving it. An example to illustrate this point is when someone begins a ... my achievement in this sport. Another example of feeling a sense of satisfa...

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... sports time - its Kreeda. Teams of Indian students compete in this exclusive sports and games event. Competitiveness is soon lost on us and all we have is fun - pure and unadulterated. Though they did award a Champion team but strangely all of us were smiling and cheering as we went back. November 4. Exams were ... Indian food, lit up sparklers and danced late into the night to Bollywood tunes. One could not have had a better diwali away from home. Too much fun at Diwali soon has us panicky with exam-jitters. There is too much of the un-understood and the never-read stuff. Thank SOIS ! ...

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... , Craig, Steve, Seth, Greg, and myself. We got our guns ready by filling the paintball hoppers full, putting in fresh CO2 cartridges, and making sure our masks were clean. Everyone test fired a few times to make sure our guns were working properly, and then we chose teams. We divided into two teams, with three people on each team. We chose teams ... house to get something to drink. Seth and Craig walked up, saying, "that was a close game guys, it was even fun to watch you guys battle it out. Even though we both got hit early in the game, it was still fun." The game had lasted for about 3...

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... in again, and I had the feeling of "now I am here and you all better watch out."" After weeks of practicing at my country club, it finally came the time to test myself and to see if I had improved. In golf it is hard to see your true skills when you are just playing with your friends for ... fun. But when you are in a tournament, you play to win and everything is done with intensity. When I arrived, the tournament had already started and my team had already played four ... a bonus my dad called me that night after I had gotten off work and told me that we had each won an additional hu...

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... coaching objectives for their team there are certain criteria to look into. The three major objectives of a sport is to one have a winning team, following with helping young people have fun, along with helping young people develop physical, psychological, and social environment for the team and the individual athlete. As a coach, one needs to focus a lot of the conditioning and health ... stretch for an extended period of time. The recommended holing times are varied, ranging from 10 seconds to 60 seconds. An athlete needs to know their muscles, know the lingo, test your athletes on eac...

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... and our church's own little twist. Earlier on before the night begins, several of the older women noisily crowd in the church's kitchen to put their cooking skills to the test. Of course, they make the same thing as they do each year, but it always seems to taste a little better. Few women may be preparing the Korean stew with small ... and college students kick back on the couches or talk outside. The middle-school boys play hacky-sack in the dark night outside but all the same, they still have fun. It is loud and busy inside the fellowship room and all the members are excited and havi...

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... team recognition for team identity. One of the best turning points we experienced as a team was our first observation of our real world team. Why? First of all it was fun! Everyone was very relaxed I believe this was mostly because we were out of the classroom setting. Our communication at the bowling alley that first time was easier going that it ... of everyone's exam assignment to our one page of allowed notes. We all were supposed to have e-mailed Terrence the notes we each wanted put on the page for the test. Well, we got into the exam and part of our strategy worked and part of it...

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... 1900's. Young children, teens, and adults have played this sport every day at their public basketball courts or at their own homes. While they are enjoying the benefit of the fun of the game, and terrific physical exercise, there are other wonderful lifelong skills being developed. While participating in basketball, they are learning valuable life lessons such as being team, task ... body may begin a difficult exercise program. Being able to keep the goal in mind of the slimmer, healthier self can help them stay with their program. Basketball has stood the test of time because it is a g...

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