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Welcome to a new season ____ High School Magazine.

To start off the new school year on the right foot, we asked some of our recent ____ to give us tips on how to succeed in the coming year and beyond.

In high school, everyone told me how talented an artist I was, so I dreamed of becoming an ____

In university, though, everyone seemed much ____ talented than me, and they all worked so hard that I felt small in comparison.

I thought about giving up my dream of ____ an artist.

Then one day, I happened to ____ a drawing I had won an award for from middle school on the kitchen wall.

I was embarrassed because ____ wasn’t very good.

People ____ you shouldn’t compare apples to oranges, and they’re right.

That’s ____ it doesn’t make sense to compare yourself to Internet personalities or even people in your real life.

Maybe they had an advantage, or even ____ disadvantage, that you didn’t.

If you are going ____ compare yourself to anyone, the only fair comparison is “yesterday-you.”

____ you know where you started and how much effort you’ve put in.

I couldn’t see the progress in my ability when I ____ compared myself to others.

Everyone develops differently. I’m able to see now the drawing ____ the kitchen was full of mistakes that I no longer make.

It is empowering ____ see how I have improved rather than to envy the success of others.

Your competition isn’t the person next door or the influencer on social media: it’s ____

Do you share your opinion in class discussions, or do you just stay silent and keep it ____ yourself?

Like many of you, I often found myself in the ____ group.

A little black hole inside of me swallowed my voice ____ I considered speaking up.

____ consequences of being ridiculed or being wrong were always on my mind.

Then, after a particularly ____ conversation in class, I asked myself, “What am I afraid of?”

I was scared that bad things would happen, but I never ____ about good things.

When I ____ others taking risks, I knew that I needed to do the same in order to participate.

Many people are scared to speak up, but a lot ____ them do it anyway because they think it’s worth it.

So I left my comfort zone and started to ____ up.

I grew intellectually and socially by expressing ____ more clearly.

I ____ closer to friends who liked how open I was with them.

Now I have more people with whom I ____ talk, share my ideas, and learn new things.

Remember, taking the risk of expressing yourself can be extremely ____ in unexpected ways.

As I worked through ____ second year into my third in college, I had more troubles balancing school and personal life.

I would get excited, anxious, worried, and bored all at once and ____ separately.

I would get exhausted when I had to write a ____ for my courses, mediate a disaster between friends, and respond to the comments on my online journal.

I was drowning in a sea of ____ concerns, and anxieties, and that was when I read an article with a simple insight.

The article advised me to draw two big circles, with ____ in the center.

The smaller circle is my circle of influence, and I have direct control over the things inside it: what I eat and drink, how I behave, or ____ I do after school.

The bigger circle is called my ____ of concern: things I worry about but have no direct control over.

For example, I have no direct control over how my professor will react to my report, but I do have control over the amount of research I do for ____

Believing that everything was in my circle of ____ left me stressed out and constantly exhausted.

By wasting less energy on my circle of concern, I was able ____ invest more energy into things that mattered.

I no longer worry about what my friends think, and I focus ____ my own actions.

I don’t get anxious over what might ____ on the test, and instead I put in every effort to understand the concepts themselves.

Now, I only put my mental and physical energy into my circle of influence: ____ healthy, staying in shape, and working hard.