Before you go to bed, ask yourself did I do everything today that I wanted to do? It's ok if I didn't get everything done because even if I made a small impact, I am moving in a forward direction, and I am making progress.
Each day is a day closer to achieving my short term and long term goals. What we need to do is recognize that we are awesome and things can get done as long as we put all of our energies into it.
So why do we put things off so long? Why don't we take action on the things that mean the most to us? What if we set small manageable goals instead of looking at the big oppressive picture in front of us? If we take small steps towards it and spread it out over a few days, weeks, or months, more than likely, we will get there. Every small step is a win!
I think people would be happier if they were accomplishing things they didn't think were possible. For example, when everyone doubted that I could walk into a place and get hired because I believed in myself, I proved everyone wrong. I have never been happier being a personal trainer. It is personally the most rewarding job I have ever done. Just like teaching, you are training and teaching people to make fitness a lifelong commitment. It is identical to how we as teachers inspire children to be lifelong learners. Granted I have studied, applied myself and maintained my commitment to being better every day. By never giving up on myself or those who I help, has inspired me to be the best that I can be in the field that I have chosen. The most important thing. is a good bit of advice from my Nan. She said, "Hunny, just do what you love and you will be great at it." So I did and I love it! When it doesn't seem like work at all that means you were born to do it. When it feels like drudgery, it is time to make a change. You can't fake your way through life. Then you aren't being genuine.
Why don't we take chances more often? What have we got to lose? Isn't it worth just trying?
Write down three things that you would like to do in the next year or get started on. By setting small goals more than likely you will get at least one of them accomplished or off the ground.
Look at Lance Armstrong, everyone doubted him that he could enter the Tour de France for an 8th time and four years older. Look at the results! He is unstoppable and the only one who never stopped believing in him was himself.
For me I always wanted a Masters degree and never thought it would be possible. But after diligent research, here I am only three classes away from completing it. This is one of those things that makes you really proud of yourself that you achieved and something your family and friends are blown away by. Once again if it is something you want, than go get it.
By believing in yourself and taking action on the things you want to accomplish your dreams will come true...............................Really!
4 comments:
Bonnie,
Nice work combining your previous essays and comments from your classmates. You used examples from the world and your own personal life to support your position, and gave concrete advice to encourage the reader to break down goals into manageable steps.
One suggestion is to place more emphasis on your teaching, not just your masters. Perhaps explaining why you wanted to get your masters would help the reader better understand why it is such a major accomplishment. I get it, but I always try to remind my students to write as if the reader doesn't know much.
Bonnie-
Well done! Combining all your ideas really has made a strong statement about believing in yourself and never stopping until you are happy. I like your end phrase about taking action and your dreams can be accomplished, your piece really backs up that statement and pulls it all together.
I think the piece is great as it is, a thought to add is to maybe talk about how you motivated yourself to accomplish all you did, did you start with a small list and work on it piece by piece or was there some event that occurred that pushed you into personal training or teaching. This is just something to think about if you wanted to add some more but I really think the piece is great just how it is, nice job!
Bonnie,
I love how you combined all of your previous topics and combined all of them to support your topic. This made your writing so much easier to connect to and relate to. I just wanted to clarify, the writing piece that you are using is the one at the top of your blog. "My experiences as a Trainer" is a completely seperate piece, correct?
Lisa, yes, the personal training one is separate but a help to the final one which ties in with it.
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