The swimmer Natalie du Toit, South African, had the dream of participating in the Olympic Games and worked hard, in 2001 she suffered a traffic accident that caused the amputation of one of her legs. Despite, the prosthesis was not an obstacle, she did not give up, she removed prosthesis and just swam, after many victories in paralympic events, in 2008 she qualified to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing, in another competition later established a record ranking 16 out of 25 participants. She surpassed 9 swimmers without functional diversity.
Natalie has a motto of life " The tragedy is not not reaching the goals, it is not having goals ", who has a clear objective, studies, prepares, trains and makes an effort, using all the resources that have to achieve it. Someone with vision, longings, dreams, tries new things, gives a quota of passion, faces even what he does not want to do and does not surrender as impossible as it may seem. If you focus on your vision, do not be frustrated by the ridicule, the criticism, the interruptions, the pauses of life.
You can! You're done for more! The affirmation words you use in your life are crucial, note the phrase used by Natalie, where she focuses her energy on her goals and reaches them. The psychologist J. Hadfield, devoted part of his life to the study of human behavior against affirmations and showed that by focusing on the defects, shortcomings and affirming negatively with "I can not, I am a disaster, poor me ..." we put what I call a mental prosthesis and we activate less than 30% of our capacity, if on the contrary we focus on our strengths and abilities with an "if I can, I am capable!" we multiply our capacity up to 500%.
Take off the mental prosthesis that prevents you from giving your 500%! and throw yourself into the water of life for what you crave.
Written by
Erlymar López-Jiménez
