A Little Bit about Enyawd

Hello World, my name is Enyawd E. Enyawd and talking about myself is not fun or an easy thing to do.  I know you might be thinking what kind of name is Enyawd E. Enyawd right?  Well, I was not born with that name.  It was originally Dwayne Curtis White and I changed my name several years ago.  I am a very shy person when you first meet me, but when the ice is broken, I will talk your ears off.  The first thing I would like you to know about me is where I was born.  I was born in New Orleans, LA., to a teenage mother and no father on the Westbank 15th Ward in Algiers.  I had to grow up fast and learn the ropes of self-defense and protection for me and my little sisters.  I was the man of the house and I had to be a strong male figure at home.  I would love to tell all of you guys that my life got better, but it did not and I am not pissed about it.  Well, I think that would be a dishonor on my part.  I was extremely angry that the man who helped to bring me into this world did not want to take care of his responsibilities in raising me.  But I think I turned out of okay considering all the things that could have happened to young black boy growing up in New Orleans.  The second thing I would like you to know is that I worked really hard in high school because I had a learning disability, but I received a tennis scholarship to Southern University of New Orleans.  I really do love tennis, and I can still play some pretty good tennis.  I also love to teach it and I like to watch it.  Yes, I am a tennis nut, in a good sense.  I can sit and watch tennis all day, on the phone or on YouTube.  The third that I want you to know is that I decided a couple years ago back that if my small manufacturing company did not succeed, I was going back to school.  Well, unfortunately my business did not make it.  I lost a lot of my personal money and accumulated a credit card debt.  But I kept that promise and now I am about to finish my first year at El Camino College in Torrance, CA.  This is something that I am so proud of doing, and I’m hanging in there and learning a lot about myself and my abilities to learn.  

I learned several study skills from one of my books Ten Skills You Really Need To Succeed in School by John Langan.  For example, in chapter 4 he talks about managing my time.  It is something that I struggled with and did not really wanted to admit to it because I was good at doing the things that I said I would do, but I did not like to write it down.  Well, I learned a lot from doing just that, writing out my activities down in my dayrunner and following through. Langan says, “A to do list is a written--on paper--of things that need to get done.  It is a very powerful tool for organizing one’s life and making the best use of one’s time” (Langan 78).  Like when you have work, school, and things you have to do around the house having a dayrunner to help you manage it all, simply by writing it down makes your life easier, and you can focus more on the important things at hand.  Another example, chapter 6 “Improving Your Memory and Study Power” is something that I need to follow through on for sure.  I know that memory is remembering and without it you will not get very far.  I need to focus more on memory and study power.  Langan says, “Memorizing is done through repeated self-testing” (Langan 106).  I really need to focus on memory and study power to help me get through college.  For example, writing information down on flash cards, such as vocabulary words or math formulas helps me memorize the information that I am studying to help me score better on exams and to become a better college student.  Finally, life can be great and terrible.  It is all about how we see ourselves in the mirror and ask yourself “is the glass half full or half empty.”  I choose to see it as half full.  I am a strong person and I will never ever quit until my goal(s) are accomplished and I see myself walking across the stage at Stanford University.  I can look at myself as a victim, but why would I allow myself to think that way?  I know what I put out there in the universe is what I will get back in return from the universe.  So I try to put out the positive things, so that positives things will return to me.