James's Notebook

      something that I value in my life is humility, I value this because it has helped me overcome various challenges within my life and has helped me develop new skills in my life. The way that I have learned humility was by starting at a white belt level when I first started learning mixed martial arts, and by learning from mistakes that I make in my form. By having humility I then learned ways that it could help me develop as a person. 

               In my previous post titled how martial arts helped me, I mentioned the various ways it helped me to develop the kind of thinking needed to accomplish goals. As I accomplished goals, I gained confidence in myself. The way learning martial arts helped me gain confidence was by completing goals which would lead to larger goals such as earning a belt. As I learned those skills, I learned how to deal more effectively with people who are difficult because I had more confidence. By having confidence in myself I learned to not break down when I face challenges in my life.