Journal Entry (5/11/21)

When thinking about your challenges, what are your successes/challenges? The successes I had this week was that I got to successfully teach Ester another swimming class where she learned a new technique for kicking in freestyle and she got her first try of swimming on her own with no floaties. It was challenging to get her to feel comfortable swimming with no floaties since she is used to having the support of a floating noodle when she swims. Why is it important to think through the challenges that you are working on in this class? I think it is important to think through these challenges in order to persevere through them and not let them stop us from achieving our goals for our project plans. I need to know how to stand back up if something doesn't go as planned at the first try and how to keep trying until I get the results I want for my project. How do they make you feel? How are you overcoming them? My challenges make me feel like I have a limit to what I am able to do, they sometimes stop me from thinking outside of the box. The way I am overcoming these challenges is by confronting one challenge at the time. This helps me to slowly but surely understand how to do the things I want to do correctly. What about these challenges excite you or scare you? How do you use that energy to move your project forward? What scares me the most about my challenges is that I won't be able to persevere through them and I will start to doubt my project decision, to the point where I'd feel like giving up on it. The way I stay motivated to keep going is to think of the benefits I would be getting from teaching Ester and getting an idea of how to teach kids to swim and going to my WSI classes to get my certificate which could later benefit me with a job.