Personal Narrative: My Personal Obstacles

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Personal obstacles are very hard to prostrate. Personal obstacles are things you don’t like about yourself or something around you that is hard to change. I have personally gone through a lot of obstacles. My mental health and insecurities are one of my biggest obstacles. I’d like to change that and move on to be successful.
My biggest problems are procrastination, hiding my feelings, and my anger.
I often procrastinate doing things. I usually do this because I’m very lazy or I was too tired from doing something else. I often do a lot of the work that is due the next class, the class before or even in that class. This causes a lot more stress than if I would have done it the night before like I should have. Which can also lead into my anger

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