Learning from experiences is one of the ways in which we decide to cultivate more of what we like about ourselves as opposed to just randomly accepting every way in which we react.

Your habits, priorities, ways in which you interact with people and work that you love, even how your perception is being shaped… All of this partially came from learning from your experiences. We are sum of our experiences, hence they are priceless. What you and I are today is due to what we have experienced and how we decided to label that.

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Everything that we do and everything that we are is partially shaped by what we believe is possible.
Try making a high jump without believing that you can reach the bar. I guarantee you that you will fail nine out of ten times. And this is only an apparent physical limitation that our beliefs bestow upon our body. The mind controls everything.

But what is more frightening is the fact that our beliefs also dictate what we are willing to try, what we are willing to accomplish. And this picture paints itself over the long run. Over the course of our lives.

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If you try to count the times where you passed an opportunity based only on the notion that you lack the knowledge and the step by step pattern, you, and I both, will come to realize that the number is a rather large one.

And in missed opportunities, I tend to believe that even one is one too many. Yet we still turn our back on many opportunities because of somewhat of a mix which comprises fear of the new, fear of failure, fear of not being able to get it.

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They say that if you take a big task and start slowly and apply consistency, everything becomes possible. The long journey begins with one step kind of philosophy. Yet, the fact remains that you have to be focused on the journey for it to be completed- focused on one thing only.

And the same metaphor applies in almost every aspect in life. No matter the intensity that you put into doing something, the outcome will always be positive if you keep focus and try to improve.

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