Ever since a young age when I first began my sublime adventure through the world of swimming, I have always needed the ability to remain eager to achieve success, as it allows for me to keep my eyes on the prize and continue to persevere no matter how often it seems like others might try to preclude me from reaching my goals. As long as I remain ambitious in this sense, I will manage to prevail in the end. Even now, I will not be mendacious by saying that I ALWAYS remain positive in every situation, but I have learned that remaining ambitious through all the onerous practices, all the heartbreaking meets, and all the failures is by far the best solution to achieving success later in life. Every time I get behind the blocks, I try to get myself to a positive mental state by thinking about all that I have been through and using those experiences as tools for learning (see picture above). …show more content…
When times get hard, it especially becomes necessary to maintain a positive outlook. As stated before, these experiences can be used as learning experience to help you come even closer to achieving your goals and getting auspicious results in the future. If you were to juxtapose your results after using your failures as learning experiences with letting you failures get you down, you would easily see how much better you did when your failures were used to teach rather than bring you