Confindence In all aspects

 

I have noticed especially in the past few weeks that confidence seems to be a reoccurring theme in everything that I partake inside and outside of scholastics. In class my teachers are talking about confidence as more of a way to get out of our shells that we placed ourselves in high school. Our teachers want us to talk more, set up times where we can discuss things we are struggling with, and be active in class discussions. Not to mention the classes that ask us to attack our readings with a confidence that shows how good of a reader we truly are. Being an athlete we always are told to be confident not cocky. The football team is not doing what we all believed that we would do, so our coaches are telling us that we need to still be confident in our talents although our record does not reflect what we thought it would. The coaches want us to be confident in each other as well. They want us to not only believe in our talents as individuals, but as a team as well. In my social life I have hit a weird stage of getting dumped for no apparent reason at all. So even though I know that I did not do anything wrong in my three year relationship, I still find it hard to keep confidence in myself. I feel like because I was shocked by the break up that I have lost a lot of my confidence. So basically it took all of this to say that obviously confidence is very important in many aspects of life. When I focus on each aspect that I need to have confidence in, I realize that confidence is only a mindset. Like any mindset I notice that it is easy to change it either negatively or positively. Simply telling myself something can help out my confidence or take it all away. In the class room if I tell myself that I cannot simply read these fifteen pages, I find that it is a lot more difficult to get through that chapter than it would be if I would have just believed in myself. When I am trying to catch a pass and I have second thoughts about whether or not I am able to do so, is when I seem to make mistakes. When I act shy around people because I blame myself for a break up that was not my fault, is when I seem to not make friends. All in all confidence as important as it is in all aspects of life, it can easily be swayed by keeping a positive mindset on whatever you are trying to focus on.

Distractions Are Everywhere

It seems like the longer I get into the semester, the more work I get and the more distractions seem to pop up. The longer you are in class the more comfortable your professorss become with loading you with work. Also the longer you are in college the more friends you meet, the more friends you meet, the greater your chances of having a person distract you become. College is full of these external distractions. The thing about college is that you are able to get used to these distractions, you find ways to get things done despite these external distractions, even if staying up all night to do something is not the best thing for your health, you are still getting it done. While you find adaptions to these external distractions, what really kills any drive to work is the internal distractions. Lately with grades coming in, the home sickness beginning to take its toll, and the stress of midterms and tuition payments piling up, it is extremely difficult to get my mind focused on the most improtant thing. At night my mind constantly runs through all of the things that I do not need it to run through, and forces my sleep schedule to be put on hold. I find myself staring at a book and worying about little things that should not be on my mind when I am trying to read. As an eighteen year old first year college student there are certain social issues that are difficult to keep off of our minds long enough to focus on homework and studying. Whether it is relationships, or sports, or video games, or even the fact that while you want to study every person you know is out having fun, there are a plethora of distractions that we students must over come. It is important to prioritize where, and when to focus and what to focus on. Learning the skills it takes to ignore distractions will set the foundation for your future with whatever profession you arre looking to put your efforts to.