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Welcome to a new ____ of High School Magazine.

To start ____ the new school year on the right foot, we asked some of our recent graduates 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 ____ of becoming an illustrator.

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

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

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

I was embarrassed ____ it wasn’t very good.

People say you shouldn’t compare ____ 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 a disadvantage, that ____ didn’t.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The consequences of ____ 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 ____ that bad things would happen, but I never thought about good things.

____ I noticed 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 of them do it anyway because they ____ it’s worth it.

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

I grew intellectually and socially by ____ myself more clearly.

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

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

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

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

I ____ get excited, anxious, worried, and bored all at once and then 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 responsibilities, ____, and anxieties, and that was when I read an article with a simple insight.

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

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

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

For ____, 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 it.

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

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

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

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

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