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Fitness 2021
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| You Are Who You Believe You Are |
It is amazing how much one can achieve just by believing
that they can do something. It is important to believe in your capabilities
just as it is important for those people around you to be positive people who
believe in you, people who believe that you can achieve whatever you put effort
into achieving.
I was reading Mind Powers: How to Use and Control Your
Unlimited Potential and I have to say that reading that book was quite eye
opening, I learned that quite a lot could be achieved by tapping into your
brain whether it was becoming more successful, seeing the world or yourself in
a more positive light or even healing yourself from illness just by believing
you will get better and that you are healthy.
Stay Away From
Negative People
Reading the book further confirmed to me the importance of
staying away from negative influences, people who bring you down, people who
want you to fail and believe you are good for nothing. Staying away from these
negative people is the first step to becoming positive and successful because
they make you believe you are good for nothing, and by believing it, you never
live up to your full potential. So to start thinking positively getting away
from negative influencers can be a great help.
Negative Parents
Sometimes these negative influencers could be your own
parents, who constantly remind you of how useless you are and that you can
never amount to anything. If that is the case there are a number of ways to go
about changing their influence on you, one way is to confront them and tell
them that their actions and behaviour are affecting you negatively and that
putting you down only serves as a negative. Tell them that instead of putting
you down they should be encouraging you to chase after your dreams. If that
fails maybe moving away from your parents is your best option, this is if you
are old enough to move away from home to start a life away from your negative
influencers.
Negative Teachers
Some people are let down by their teachers, the people who
are supposed to guide us, the people who mould us into what we are from the
moment we start our education. Usually with teacher’s first impressions count
and when a student does not do well in a test, the student usually starts
disliking the subject or school instead of working harder, because most
teachers give up on the students with the lower to average marks and pay more
attention to the higher achievers (IMO).
I had this very same
problem, when I was in the 9th and 10th grades of high
school I used to do very well in all my subjects except in the languages, I did
not understand why I was doing so badly in the languages so I just thought I
was a math and science kind of student, my English teacher did not have much
confidence in me and soon I had no confidence in myself I ended up ignoring the
language subjects altogether which made sure my marks never improved but they
never decreased either. I was always a c student in languages.
However this started to change in the 11th grade
with a change of teacher, this teacher seemed to care a lot about my progress
and it was obvious that the teacher believed I could get higher marks than I
was currently getting if I put more effort into it. The teacher always gave me
a hard time and I was irritated at the time because I always got in trouble
with her, she always seemed concerned. Later upon reviewing the 11th
grade I realised that teacher really cared and in turn I started caring about
my work as well which led to and increased interest in the subject especially
in poetry and short stories. My marks increased a little I progressed from a C
student to a B+ student.
Finally in the 12th grade I made the conscious
decision that I was going to become an A student, my changed mindset coupled
with the fact that I had a great English teacher that I was fond of made it
easy for me to attain my goal of getting that A. At first I was surprised at
the results I was getting, the teacher had confidence in me and that further
boosted my own self confidence. I also started reading a lot more which helped
me improve my language skills.
I believe that most teachers start out loving their jobs
thinking they will be appreciated by students, but most students suck and do
not appreciate their teachers, this lack of appreciation and the low salaries
teachers earn leads to teachers hating
their jobs and not being the most positive influencers. Only teacher’s pets and
top students get the right kind of attention and encouragement/positive
reinforcement from teachers to get the best out of their education. Teachers
reward interested students, they like it when students ask them questions and
show interest in their subject, that is the reason they became teachers in the
first place. So to get the best out of school the best thing to do is start
showing interest and ask questions, if that does not change, the student
teacher relationship then maybe a change of teacher could do you some good. You
want to be taught by someone who sees potential in you and helps you reach your
full potential, not someone who sees you as good for nothing and a waste of
space.
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Negative Friends
Perhaps this is something that could hold you back the most,
because your friends are a representation of who you are. We usually hang out
with likeminded people or so I would like to think. Hanging out with the wrong
type of friends could be disastrous; many people have been led to a life of
drugs and crime/gangs because of their friends.
One of my favourite shows at the moment is Suits,
one of the main characters Mike Ross is a genius who was kicked
out of university for helping others cheat of their tests. The reason he got
into trouble most of the time was because of his friend Trevor. He was always
helping Trevor out in some sort of illegal scheme and he always seemed to be
affected by the negative consequences of those actions. In Trevor’s latest
scheme, Mike was to help him sell a suitcase full of weed but what Trevor did
not tell Mike is that he overheard the drug dealers he was dealing with saying
that the deal could be a set up and that whoever was caught with the weed would
spend a long time in prison. Had it not
been for the fact that Mike was very smart; he would have been caught and taken
yet another fall for his friend Trevor.
Old friends from back when you were doing not so well and
friends like Trevor are usually not good friends especially if they are still
in the same messed up situation you left them in. They do not like to see
others progress, they always want to bring you back down instead of trying to
improve themselves. Stay away from such
negative influencers for they are not true friends, they are like a disease you
need to be cured of.
Believing is a
step towards being
Imagine your dream life, believe that it is attainable and
work towards achieving each goal towards that dream and slowly but surely your
dreams will come true. Do not let negative influencers into your life, surround
yourself with what is positive and you will in turn become a positive person
with self belief powering your motor.
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