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Welcome to a new season of High ____ Magazine.

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

Compare ____ to Apples

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

In university, though, everyone ____ 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 ____ day, I happened to see a drawing I had won an award for from middle school on the kitchen wall.

I was embarrassed because it ____ very good.

People say you ____ compare apples to oranges, and they’re right.

That’s why it ____ make sense to compare yourself to Internet personalities or even people in your real life.

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

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

Only you know where you ____ 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 ____.

I’m ____ to see now the drawing in the kitchen was full of mistakes that I no longer make.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many people are ____ to speak up, but a lot of 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 ____ myself more clearly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was drowning in a sea of responsibilities, concerns, and ____, 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 circle of concern: things I ____ 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 ____ I do for it.

Believing that ____ 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 ____ energy into things that mattered.

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

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

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