{"id":1933,"date":"2020-05-22T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:43:01","slug":"i-started-strong-and-finished-stronger-my-goodbye-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/2020\/05\/22\/i-started-strong-and-finished-stronger-my-goodbye-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"I Started Strong and Finished Stronger. My Goodbye Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Goodbyes are never easy, and I can\u2019t believe this is my final blog for Warhawk Fitness. I don\u2019t even know where to start this blog. I am so thankful for this opportunity to expand my creativity, my voice, and my horizon. I want to say thank you to all of you readers. Without you, I wouldn\u2019t be able to push myself to create better content than the last. Writing these blogs, creating and filming vlogs (cringy or not), and sharing content with you on our social media pages have meant so much to me because I was able to share my voice and express my love and passion for health. The Warhawk Fitness and aquatics PR Team encouraged me to be my best for everything I did. I am so happy to have been a part of such a creative, welcoming and passionate team like this. Since this whole pandemic started, my company is on a hiring freeze until Covid-19 is over. However, even though this isn\u2019t how I wanted to end my senior year, my graduation, or my shift into the real world, it has taught me that with patience and positivity that I can make the best out of each situation. Below I am leaving some advice I have learned and lived by throughout my life and college experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            When you see something you want,\ndon\u2019t stop until you get it.<\/strong> When I was young, my father started telling me\nthat I was a \u201cDog after a bone\u201d, meaning I will do whatever it takes to achieve\nwhat I want. I applied that to everything I did, whether it was in my\nrelationships, my extra-circulars, jobs, academics, or job search, I gave it my\nall. I remember walking into my interview for PR team and answering their\nquestion of \u201cwhat is your spirit animal and why?\u201d. I responded with \u201ca dog\nbecause I am a dog after a bone, doing whatever it takes to catch what I want.\u201d\nI looked up and saw former team member, Max Prospero, look up and tell me that\nwas amazing and just how much he loved that. In that moment, I knew I caught my\nbone. Never stop until you achieve what you want. Go after that bone with\neverything you got. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            My last piece of advice is my tag\nline, Start strong, Finish Stronger.<\/strong> When I was a child, I had a very\nhard time in school. It wasn\u2019t something I truly cared about until it was too\nlate. However, my mother used to tell me that I needed to start strong to\nfinish strong. Ever since that moment, I started to get my act together. I\nwould go in for extra help or stay up all night studying if I had to. I worked\nhard so that when I finished my college journey, I was nominated to speak at\ncommencement for all my hard work and achievements throughout my time at\nWhitewater. It doesn\u2019t matter what you have to show for that success, but that\nyou feel accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Be proud of who you are and what you\nhave worked towards. You can achieve anything when you set your mind to it.\nThank you, Warhawk Fitness and Aquatics and all you readers, viewers, and\nfollowers for believing in me, inspiring me, and pushing me to be my absolute\nbest. I will look back on this and be proud of everything I have accomplished.\nI started strong so I could Finish stronger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nlove and gratitude, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma O’Connor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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