“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford.
On the way to success, your belief in your abilities will determine whether you succeed or not. Every successful person must challenge the inherent fear of feeling inadequate or incompetent. You can become more anxious because of people who have done so well in an area where you have been trying to excel. For example, if you are going to win a boxing competition, you must fight against the current champion—that’ scary. But then, if you don’t fight, there is no championship for you.
18-year-old Emma Raducanu from Britain won the recent Women’s single at the US Open grand slam, coming into the tournament as a qualifier. She had to play prequalifying games before participating in the competition because, in tennis, the top-ranked players are seeded first in big rounds before others. She was not a favorite to play in the tournament talk less of winning. According to world ranking, Raducanu was number 150 at the start of the US Open at the end of July 2021. She made history as the first person to win a tennis grand slam as a qualifier in both men’s and women’s tennis less than three weeks later. Her victory has been called one of the greatest underdog stories in the history of sports.
Raducanu had booked her flight back home after the qualifying tournament because she never was doubtful of herself. However, she won ten straight matches during the tournament, meaning she could not return home because she had qualified for the main grand slam. In the final game against 19-year-old Leyland Fernandez from Canada, Raducanu won straights sets to make history. But had she not believed in herself, she would not have left her house, not to talk of competing in a significant competition and winning.
You may be thinking that you don’t have what it takes to overcome that complex topic in a subject. You may also be thinking that if you attempt to do something new, you will fail. But as Raducanu’s success story shows, you too can succeed if you believe in yourself and put yourself in the race. You never know what you can achieve until you try, and you never try unless you think that winning is possible.
You may not be a tennis star like Raducanu. However, there are areas of your life where you can put in the effort to become better. Ignore the fear and push yourself to start, and who knows what medals await you.
I will be happy to read your comments and questions in the comments section below.
I wish you all the best.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Besidone Ebule is the Project Director at B2SL, where he works to encourage personal development and build success networks. You can contact him at bessy.ebule@b2sl.org.
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This story shows that we should always be determined that we are going to win our own goals in this don’t be depressed by any obstacles you faces in this world just be determined that you are going to make it one day
Every successful person must challenge the inherent fear of feeling inadequate or incompetent.
There is a proverb that say if “there is no enemy within enemy outside can do nothing”
It really interest me to see things like this. I believe that we should not have low esteem and we should never say no in times of challenges. I mean we should always try as there is no harm in trying. We should try to give it all our best because anything worth doing is worth doing well
For you to be a successful person in life you have to face a lot of challenges
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For someone to be successful
We must challenge fear
Noted
Challenging your unbelief….whatever task, whatever area of life we want to get better at, we should always face our fears. We shouldn’t allow our fears to create unbelief in us because unbelief is a barrier to success.
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right” – Henry Ford.
Taking the initiative is an important step to achieving success.Every successful individuals got to that point because they took step.You never know how far you can go until you start. I want to ward away negative thoughts and be optimistic.
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Your greatest enemy is yourself
Thanks.
Believing in yourself is one essential key or step to succeeding
Believing in yourself will you an optimistic being and you’re optimistic, you’d be full with a lot of positivity and positivity increases the rate of success
Believing in yourself is one essential key or step to succeeding
Believing in yourself will make you an optimistic being, you’d be full with a lot of positivity and positivity increases the rate of success…
Having the believe that that you will face a lot of challenges before you can make it in this life but don’t let it overcome you, overcome your challenge
Having belief in yourself will make you an optimistic being and positivity increase the rate of our success