What do you see? Half full or Half empty?

Half full or Half empty?

One of my favourite subjects in secondary school was Mathematics! I think it sounds strange to you as it did to many of my friends and probably my teachers then. But in my form one I did not do very well in my first maths exam and I thought maths was very difficult and many believed with me that it was so.During the holidays I met one of my sister's maths teacher and I told him about this. "Teacher, I was doing well in Maths in primary school, but now I find it very difficult and I don't like it anymore". You know what he told me? 

Godliver, Mathematics is the simplest subject. But unless you change your mindset from 'difficult' to 'simple' then you will not love it, then you will not enjoy doing it, then you will not work hard for it and ultimately you will fail and hate it even more". Then he added, "Maths is only difficult to those who believes is so or told to believe so". 

These may seem like just a mere story, but to me it transformed my way of thinking. From that day, I promised myself and him(my teacher) that I will start a new look in this area and I will do the best. Of course I not only worked hard on the subject but I took an initiatives to inspire my friends especially girls that they could do it. It worked! I remember to have written an article in one of  the Girl schools' magazine called TUSEME about Mathematics because it turned out to be interesting to me

I do not intend to inspire you to study mathematics now but to challenge you how mindset works. The way you believe you are then it will turn out to be true. The more you see it as difficult , the less efforts you invest to it and I guess the results will ultimately prove you to be a failure. Only when I gave mathematics a new perception and acted upon it, its when I could see fruitful results.Just ask yourself how do you look at things? It is not being over ambitious but being positive. Believe that you are able to do it and take actions about it. If you know that you have every thing needed to be the CEO of this company, don't find reasons to make you feel you cant, instead look at the strengths you have to go for it. See the glass half full instead of half empty.You will find many ladies sympathising that  they can't do certain types of courses or jobs because they are women. Who said so? It is just your mindset. I believe you can, give it a try and you will see!

Are you there? I want to challenge you today to see things from a perspective of an optimist and opportunist where you will realise your glass is half full and you see an opportunity to do something to make it full . Start from the way you look at yourself, your job/business, your family, your community and your nation. Let me put it clear, it is not about just being positive but it is 'Yes I can' with actions. First I started by looking Maths from this angle: If I can read hundred pages for one chapter of biology and understand, is it not even easier to grab one or two formulae in Maths and am done with the topic? But then my next step was to work on it, talk about it and share the knowledge with others until it was not only clear but also interesting to me. So it takes a change of mindset and action to bring about change!

Tuamke, Lets talk! Tuongee!