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I am a full-time writer and entrepreneur who discovered the joy of creating
my own success when I stopped trying to prove to the world that I was
the best.
A perfectionist and stressaholic through my high school
and college years, I’d rather skip an assignment than risk turning
in a less-than-perfect paper. After years of denying myself happiness
in an effort to strive for perfection, I graduated summa
cum laude with
a 3.92 GPA and fell into depression. In case you're wondering, summa
cum laude means "with highest honor."
I never once congratulated myself for graduating from college because
all I could think about was the next task: trying to prove myself
in the real world!
When I was a little girl, I used to write about faraway places and treasured
characters but somehow by age 22, writing conjured up nothing but pressure,
deadlines and a misguided sense of achievement. I wrote to make the grade
- my talent’s worth was reduced to a letter etched in red ink on
the top of my paper (and if that letter grade was less than an “A”
there was an internal hell to pay).
Somewhere along the way in the past seven years since graduation, I ditched
my need to be perfect and began focusing on what I WANTED, not what
my family, friends and acquaintances I met in the supermarket thought I needed.
Guess what? It was the most liberating thing I’ve ever done
- and it paved the way for the success I enjoy today. The only thing
I regret is that I can’t go back and help the stressed out student
that I was once. I can help others though.
Now I'm on a mission: To spread
a dose of "campus calm" to stressed-out high school and college students
world-wide so you don't have to suffer needlessly like I did.
By the way: that summa cum laude college diploma hangs on my office wall
next to my other awards. They're there to serve as a reminder that I
should be proud of my accomplishments but they also remind me of all
I sacrificed on my pursuit of perfection.
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Questions & comments? Please
email me at the address below. I'm thrilled to hear from you!
Maria Pascucci
E-mail: maria@campuscalm.com
Phone: 716-510-4402
446 Parker Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14216
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