Hello Every-one, How is everyones weekend so far? Yesterday I had a competition for my Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. As my goals were to receive gold, I did walk away with a silver medal. After I had lost the final fight, I was very upset with myself. I was upset as I felt I should have received first place after 2 hard weeks training, working and study for Uni exams, I felt I deserved it. But I also felt that I had let my coaches and team down. I am a very passionate person and I am not scared to let my passion show through tears, joy, opinions or what ever it is. How I feel at a given moment, I show as being true to yourself, you owe yourself to come forward and let your emotions go. But as it was good to let my emotions go, I was too hard on myself and has to remind myself that it is ok to not always win and excel, after all every thing happens for a reason. As I can say I am a strong person, but yet I am only human. So yes I was very hard on myself after and it was hard to remove my negative thoughts from what just happened. But as I was watching one of my team mates who kept winning his matches I reminded myself that my passion can be given to help others succeed as well. So I turned my negative thoughts into positive by cheering my close friend on, sending my passion for the sport on to him so he could use that energy to achieve his goals. My point to this little story is that, there is never a loss. It is ok to cry, its ok to get angry but the important thing is, not to let that emotion CONTROL you but to switch that emotion to some thing positive as there is ALWAYS a positive to a negative. I also know that not winning gold has opened so many more doors for me. I now know what I need to improve on and the best of all is that I get to learn more. As when you stop learning you stop living. We are all human, and we have our bad days and moments and it is healthy too, but let these moments always have a learning to it. My clients always say to me, I love how you have so much knowledge at a young age but I also love how you arent afraid to show you are human...I have this knowledge at a young age because I have and do risk many things, take chances, I have experience many things good and bad and I am never scared to make mistakes. How else are you to learn? And yesterday has just given me more experience, and that to me is amazing as I now can help another person who felt the way I did as I felt it and I moved on from it... Much love Tina XOX
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 07:02:24 +0000