Believe in yourself

Mary Kay Ash an American Business man once said, “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right,” meaning as long you believe in yourself, anything can happen and your challenges can be solved. There are many challenges that happen in our life; it takes a lot for a person to persevere and fight for success. Every day, many fight hard to succeed. People like William Wissemann fight a daily battle to succeed in education. Mohammad Ali, fight Parkinson’s disease, and fight to achieve good grades. Therefore, I think success is worth fighting for.

One young adult, William Wissemann, fights to achieve his educational goals. When William Wissemann was in elementary school, he had problems with learning and writing: therefore, he moved to a special school to help him learn better. Due to his dyslexia (a disease causing learning disabilities which affects a person’s reading, awareness, hearing, understanding and memory) gave him no choice but to move into another environment for his future. Although he is different from the other students, that does not mean he is simple minded. In my opinion, he is unique. Solving the Rubik’s cube made him believed that “sometimes you have to take a few steps back to move forward.” After William Wissemann slowly learned how to solve cube, he knew that it was important to figure things out slowly, to break things down and find connections. That way it could help him with learning. Rubik’s Cube taught him to be patient and when there are complex problems, he need to break them down smaller and more manageable parts in order for him to succed. This makes me wonder how much difficulties will he meet during his study procedure, or how long will education takes place in his life - 5 years? 10 years? Or forever? William Wissemann is one of many who has to fight a daily battle to succeed. He battled a learning disability, but some battle diseases that affect you physically.

Mohammad Ali, three times heavy weight boxing champions, fights his opponent Parkinson’s disease to maintain his quality of life. Parkinson disease is a disease causing degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that might easily cause death. Although Mohammad Ali has the disease, he does not give up his hope of life. Instead, he is still confident in himself and believes that he is ‘the greatest of all time’ . Mohammad Ali’s parents taught him ever since he was little that he could be the best at everything if he tries his best. Because of their encouragement, Mohammad Ali perceives his hope of life pretty well and understands as long as he does not give up, he still has a chance of success. Even though he had the Parkinson disease, when he was asked to light the torch for the 1996 Olympics he accepted it immediately, he believed that having the Parkinson disease is not a very big deal, he believed that he can still do it because he is confident. Everyone has something that they want to fight for success. After learning about fighting for success, it inspires me to persevere with life’s challenges.

I too, struggle with life’s challenges and need to fight for success. I fight for success in studying. I fight for a good grades, trying to beat my own personal best scores. After studying about William Wissemann, I learned from him that whenever I meet a problem, there will be many other ways to help me solve the problems in our life; it just depends on how we choose to face it or how we want our life to be. For instance William Wissemann, he chose to face it by learning step by step and at last, he succeeded in his improvement of study. To fight for my success, I study hard and ask questions when it is necessary. I realize that studying cannot be done in one day, two days or three days; it’s a lifelong thing. After perusing William Wissemann’s article, it inspired me with a new way to improve in my study. Whenever I have a problem on any question I am studying, I can take more time to understand it, or even break it into smaller pieces and try to find connections in it. In that case, the new skills I learned could stay in my mind longer by finding out the answers my own instead of getting ‘spoonfed’ by others without trying my best for the answers.

Believing in yourself can create confidence and it can change your whole life. As mentioned earlier by Mary Kay Ash, “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.” When you are facing a challenge, believe that anything can be solved as long as you believe that if you try, you can solve the problem.

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http://findreallove.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/believe.jpg

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Resources for information:

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/62638/

http://thisibelieve.org/essay/39318/

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marykayash141681.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease