Saturday, August 30, 2008

The Best Advice

As I expected, my activities are taking over my life. I am very stressed. At cross country the other day I was so tense/stresses that my shoulders wouldn't move, so my legs were basically disabled for the day. Anyways, my coach noticed and asked what was wrong. I told him I was stressed, pressured to be good at everything, and overall not good. He gave me some great advice:

When you are in the worst mood, try to be happy, just fake it. Fake it until you make it. No one will know, and you will have a much better time handling issues. Try your best. You don't have to be good at everything, just try. If it doesn't work out, then it doesn't work out. Wait until you are in a routine and things settle down a bit. Everything gets better with time. When you work out a routine, everything will be so much easier. 

He is a pretty smart man.

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