It’s all about our confidence and efforts.
On 12th in July, we had an exciting English speech contest in the school hall. All the speech weren’t prepared before. We had to draw a topic 10 minutes before. It sounds nervous but exciting, right? And it’s happy to see that all the contestants have done a good job. And I have some feelings and thinking through the different speech contest.
There are two important things that decide the points of our speech. One is confidence, the other is efforts.
Only with the great confidence we can deliver a natural speech. Confidence is the trust of your own ability. When you believe in yourself, you will be able to perform better in some extent. Confidence is very important in our daily life. You will manage to do something hard for you if you have confidence. Speaking in front of a large audience will need confidence. That is when you have to tell yourself you can do it. On the one hand,get rid of the negativity. It’s all in your head. Negativity simply comes from negative thoughts. “I don’t have confidence”, “I’m scared”, or “I’m not good enough”. Get rid of all of them. Whenever you catch yourself thinking like that, simply replace it with a more positive thought. Negative thoughts work like a train. Once it starts, it keeps going until it crashes and causes a wreck. You got to stop it. On the other hand,stop blaming yourself. It’s not always your fault you know. Sure, you lack confidence. Maybe you held back and didn’t achieve your goals, but that doesn’t mean you need to blame yourself as if you’re the worst. Always try your best, learn from it and grow. Recognize the progress you’re constantly making. You’d surely see improvements.Once you feel ready, just do something. All you got to do is try. It’s start of your confidence game. How you play it is up to you. But get these basics in mind. What little steps you take now will bring you a long way. It’s going to be all good.
As for the effort, I think of a poem:beating in the darkness, such as paint, let the darkness of endless fear in the hearts, but it is still the eastern end of the horizon, no hurry do not delay a trace of light; squally showers, the wind off revealing the end it's still a shiny sky rainbow. Eventually at the end of the night, demos will be sunny, life it not so?
In our real life, we will experience many setbacks, a person's whole life is never problem-free life path as same winding brook. This time, how should we do? Is escape? Or surrender? Or blind? So all not line, we need -- brave struggle. I know that all the contestants were worried about the unprepared speech, but through our efforts, we have succeeded, right?
Not only in this contest but also in our real life, we need confidence and efforts.
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