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Hello hive learners’ community 👨👩👧👨👩👧, how are you doing today? I just want to appreciate what the community is doing; they really work hard to make everything good.
I made a terrible mistake last Saturday; I was trying to post hive learners’ contest; I mistakenly posted it in gaming community.
I will also share one of my experiences today. I had a water phobia; that was where I knew that fear was a torment. Because of the fear, I don’t like to come closer to the water bank 🤽♀️🤽♂️.
There was a day we went to picnic with my classmate while I was in the high institution; we went to a big hotel with good swimming facility. As you all know, the depth of the swimming pool varies. I could not enter the swimming pool because of the fear of being drown.
When they were playing inside the pool 🤽♀️, I could not join them to have fun. When I got back home, I started thinking about how to learn to swim. There was a beach in my environment to learn how to swim, but since I could not swim, it was not a good option to swim at the beach.
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There was one of my friends that was very good in swimming, I told him that I want to learn how to swim.
He said, “Chris you need to take away fear from you: fear is your biggest problem. I would not lie to you, we have been a friend for years; I could see your reaction whenever you see water- pool, ocean and river. Until you take away fear in you, that is the only way you can learn how to swim; and that is the reason you need to take away fear in you. What fear does is to put fear in you that if you do it, you will die or fail in the process. This will make you not be able to do it because most people don't want to die, and the majority of people don't want to fail; People are also afraid of failure. take away the fair in you, and understand that failure is pat of life. Failure makes you correct your mistake so that you won't make such mistake again."
As he was talking to me, I knew that my biggest problem; from that moment I began to change my thought about swimming began to change, I began to think positively. I saw the power of positivity- I can do it; I will do it; if I fail, I will try again; I will not give up; I will continue to try until I do it.
This is how I knew the power of positive thinking; positive thinking makes one win before you do it, it makes one erase doubt and fear. It makes one a winner.
With zeal and seriousness without fear in my heart, my friend and I went to a nearby hotel in my school. The moment I saw the swimming pool, there was no fear like before in my heart. When my friend dived inside the swimming pool, I said in my heart ‘I can do it’. He told me to walk slowly to the water; I walked slowly to the water, and did according to his instructions.
Since I was a novice, he told me not to go to deep places, and he put something like tire in my loin, and he told me to start flinging my hands. That was how I started my swimming journey.
Since I was interested in swimming, I began to learn it on my own after 4 times he taught.
That is the reason I said, I don’t believe there is impossibility in anything I want to achieve. If it is impossible for me, it is because I make it impossible for me.
Therefore, something impossible to you is not possible because you see it in that way. If you believe you can do it, you will surely do it.
I was afraid of swimming; I don’t even like to come close to the beach or swimming pool because of the phobia. Today, I swam like a pro, it was possible for me to swim like a pro because I got rid of my phobia and fear in me.
Friends, whatever you want to achieve, make sure you have a positive mindset about it, achieving something is from your mind before you face it in reality, always think that you can do it, you will do it again even when I fail in various attempts., I will achieve it. It will help you to develop a positive mindset.
I stand up for success, and success is not achieved by merely making mouth, No room for laziness, no room for idleness.
Thank you for reading my post.