Blog 2.5

What's goodie, hoodie? This week I based my project completely off of mindset. One mindset that I tried was that I needed to be happy always and that I should always try to be this perfect person. The thing about this was it seemed to backfire. Whenever this didn't work, it truly didn't work, like I would get really mad or sad and I'd just have a terrible mindset. While setting goals, if I didn't achieve them I would get mad at myself and it would set me off for the next day and I would just keep a domino effect. The mindset that worked best for me is a mindset that honestly sorta suprised me. Whenever something happened, I would just say it's whatever. I realized that it's done, it's over with and that it is what it is, I have no control over the actions of the past so I just took that mindset and it really went well. I wasn't ever stressed. As for goals I went with not setting any. When playing ball I just went to the game and I would tell myself "I'm gonna play my ball." That's it, not I'm going to get 15 points tonight, just that I don't want to play anyone else's style but mine. This all kept me in a form that really seemed to be pure within myself and honestly, I loved it. I told some people about it and they were against it but quite frankly, I didn't really care because it was helping me, sometimes you need to be a little selfish when it comes to your mental health. Next week I will be looking at how time management may effect your mood and mindset.

Blog 2.4

This week I decided to jump ahead a little bit. I was trying my friends method of "therapy". So I did both sitting in the shower letting the cold water pound me in the face and I also took an ice bath. During both of these I really only had one thought and that was, "other people have been through worse, I think you can handle a little cold." Throughout the progression I just got a little used to it and as the week passed on I got this "it is what it is" mindset. This just allowed me to not really care about all the crap that was happening around me and it was sorta nice. Really the only thing I thought about was why am I sitting on the floor of a shower...

Blog 2.3

Many people go through rough patches in their lives. They don't know what to do so they seek one of two options; loneliness or help. This past week I didn't know what happened to me, this is supposed to help me but I went through something and I wasn't myself. Nothing was right. But everyday you have to go into the day with the mindset that it's your day. No matter what happens you do your job and be confident. One quote I've always seen in Mrs. Crews' room and love is, "Tigers don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep." - Zag. Now I don't have one clue who Zag is but that is straight facts. In order to make yourself become the competitor you need to be, to get the top spot at your work, whatever it is, you can't let people get in your head and tell you simple things that will bring you down. Play your game. Last week I had a kid on a team tell me at the end of the game while we were shaking hands that I am the softest kid on the team. Instead of getting over it, I thought about it for days. Before last week I would've just told him to play me one on one, but for some reason something was getting to me last week and I was soft and it was showing. Always be the tiger. Never turn down just because of something someone says. Whenever someone says anything negative towards you it's either because they are mad or they see you as competition that they know they can't beat.