believe!

recently i have been watching the us open...and watching in particular this player melanie oudin. i saw her in a press conference, after beating her 4th russian ranked player, and sometime she said stuck with me (yes i am learning from a 17 year old, but hey!)

she said she believed she could win and she did. she kept winning. i realized that i don't think i can win. i went into every tennis match just hoping to win a game and was sooo excited to win a set. but never expected to win a match. i think i was afraid to win. that might sound silly, but i am starting to see the competitive mental game that is played out in tennis....

and not just in tennis, but in the world. you have to believe you can get somewhere or do something before you can do it. i know i've heard this before, but it really stuck because i can relate to tennis. it all starts in our minds! negative thoughts DO affect us and bring us down...and our thoughts become our actions. and you have to want it...badly enough.

so i'm going to start believing i can win this next season in tennis...and i am going to start believing i can be a better doctor. a better friend. a better servant for god's kingdom. believe!

thanks melanie!