All you got to do is try

This week I decided to try something new. Shockingly it was a sport. I was playing against people who had been doing it their whole lives. Compared to them I was absolutely rubbish, but I loved it. Not being rubbish next to them, but the sport. There were several points in the experience where I thought I may as well give up. But I kept going and by the end of the day I'd improved in skill and confidence. Now I'm thinking of joining a club and am looking forward to learning more and more. I found somebody throughout this who was also in  my place and we started talking and we are going to do it together helping each other out and pick each other up if we fall. This gives me just a glimmer of confidence.

Now every day we will be in situations like this and we won't always have somebody else who we can share it with. So all we have to do is try. Try to succeed, try to take part, try to make friends. Just try and even if we fail, then we won't have any regrets or ever wonder why and regrets are always at the back of your mind. So if we simply try there won't be any more regrets. Perfect, and I know it won't always be as simple as that, but there's always a way out and we have to remember that always.

When you're in a sticky situation:

• Make a friend- There will always be somebody who is in your situation even if they don't shout about it and its also helpful to find somebody who's better than you, they can help you, pull you out. Without you knowing about it you could have just made a load of friends that are absolute baes.
• Try- This whole post is about trying, we get up to this everyday. Even if it is trying to get out of bed.
• Forget yourself- Sometimes this is the thing holding us back from succeeding, we are too worried about how we are seen to try. So if you can just shake it off, allow somebody to help you, allow yourself to try then you WILL succeed.
• Think- Think about what you are doing, close your eyes and forget about everything else, focus on what you are doing and think about the end goal.

I hope you enjoyed this post and it has encouraged you to put yourself out there more in situations which may be a bit uncomfortable at first. xx