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If You Don’t Believe In Yourself, Who Will?
You need to believe before you can achieve
The other day, I did something that I never would have done a few years ago.
I booked onto a mountaineering course and learnt some basic skills. While this may not sound like much, it did involve some technical aspects that a layperson would be unfamiliar with.
We learnt how to walk up a mountain covered in snow with and without crampons, and how to use an ice axe to make our way up too.
This was new terrain for me. I had never done anything like it before. When I am learning a new skill, I am very tentative and wary about what I am doing. Sometimes, this can manifest itself into doubting myself and working myself into a full-blown panic.
There were times during the day when I was wondering what the hell I was doing as I traversed my way up a white wall of snow with only the crampons on my feet and my ice axe stopping me from slipping into the boulders below, but I carried on regardless.
A few years ago, I may not have had the confidence in myself to complete such a task. I would have let the voices in my head get the better of me and I would have been paralysed with fear halfway up.
