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Vas Dinis wins in Rotary speech contest
Each year Rotary clubs in the Valley and foothills host speech contests, with the finalists from each of the 12 areas going on to compete at the District 5220 level. Ceres Rotary hosted Zoom contests at the school, club and area-level during January and February.
The Ceres Rotary Club’s contest on Jan. 29 drew five speech givers via Zoom. Claiming first place and $125 was Ceres High School junior Elijah Vas Dinis. The second place spot was earned by Paolo Campos, a senior at Central Valley High School who earned $100. Ceres High School freshman Kiera Valdovinos took third place and $75. Honorable mentions went to Manhoor Kahloon, a Ceres High School senior; and Olivia Davis, a Whitmore Charter High School junior.
Come to terms with your decision
As you let your dream go, you might be agonising over whether you’re making a mistake. ‘There’s no good answer, there’s no formula’ for deciding whether to plough on or give up, says Wrosch. However, he recommends bearing in mind a phenomenon known as ‘goal shielding’ – when we’re highly focused on a particular dream or ambition, we tend to filter out inconvenient information that might imperil the project. ‘Motivational psychologists call it an “implemental mindset”,’ says Wrosch. ‘If you cross the Rubicon, you focus on what you want to achieve, and you don’t have that balance [in how you process the situation] any more.’ For that reason, he says most us are, if anything, probably more at risk of stubbornly pursuing a dream for too long than giving up too early.