Confidence is Key

I believe confidence is extremely important in anything you plan to do. However, there is a difference in being confident and humble, or confident and cocky. Really confident and humble is the type of attitude needed. Being confident and humble makes you stay in reality, you don't want to be confident in something and get an unrealistic result. For example, I'm a student athlete at Texas Lutheran, while I'm confident in my playing ability out on the football field, I'm also humble knowing that I must give my best effort that the starting position isn't going to be given. The same mentality should be used in academics, however; it's not I get confident in myself and start to become cocky and get unrealistic results. I need to have the same mentality in the classroom and on the football field which is confident and humble. Give your best effort in class and on the field and get ideal results. I know in football I can't just have one good play in practice and be mediocre the rest of the time and expect to play. Just like in class I need to give all myself in order to pull out the grade I am aiming for, one good grade doesn't mean I'm great at school, of course one bad grade doesn't mean I'm bad at school either. But I do believe if you go into class already knowing you’re going to fail a test or paper then you have already defeated yourself. Just like football you can't say man we are going to get crushed in this week’s game because then you will. Positive and confident attitudes lead to positive outcomes, but you must be humble at the same time knowing that you did a great job but more work is needed to maintain that grade. You must prepare yourself for everything you must practice something to become good at it, and do not fear failure, embrace it because then it shows where your weak points are at and you can focus on strengthen them for next time. While I believe confidence is the key to success you must also be humble and thank the Lord for helping you achieve your goal. Through Christ anything is possible but you must put in the work and the effort in order to achieve that goal. So be confident and humble and you will succeed.