I've been having a bit of a dip this week and I have been in need of a little pick me up. Nothing makes me feel a bit better than looking at gorgeous quotes on Pinterest, so I thought I would share with you my top 10 quotes for when you need to keep going.
After months of worrying and stressing, I finally received my GCSE mock results last week. I had convinced myself that I had failed everything. When I opened up my results I was over the moon, I had managed to get 7 B's an A and an A*. I had spent weeks and weeks worrying and getting myself in a panic for absolutely nothing. I am constantly too hard on myself and I put myself down straight away, something that I am trying to change. When I got home my parents were thrilled as they knew how hard I had worked to achieve these grades, but my brother being a little stirrer said - "Well they aren't all A's are they". And there was a part of me, a tiny little part in the back of my mind, that agreed with him.
I think we put so much pressure on ourselves to achieve perfection when really it isn't needed. I got amazing grades, and grades that I am extremely proud of and that I would be happy with if this was the real thing and yet I still felt a little bad? That's not right at all.
Not everybody is going to achieve a perfect score of all A's and A*'s and I think we need to stop comparing ourselves to the people that do. It is okay to strive for perfection but it is not okay to beat yourself up for it when it doesn't happen. One persons idea of perfection may be completely different to the person standing next to them.
All that matters is that you work hard in order to feel good about what you have done, and achieve the best that you can. It's about setting yourself a goal and working towards it. Worrying wont solve anything, it will just make you feel bad about yourself when actually you are doing pretty well. Don't compare your winnings with somebody else's. They don't know the journey that you had to take to get there.
The start of this school year for me has been filled to the brim with mock exams. I am currently into week 2 of my mock GCSE's and I am at a point where I feel like I haven't done particularly well. Add in that it is nearly only 3 school weeks left until Christmas and you can imagine that I am probably not feeling that motivated. By the time you have read this post I will have finished my German reading & writing paper. A subject that I am not particularly strong in and should probably be revising for now but instead I am sat in front of blogger trying to make myself feel a little bit better.
I really like this quote and so I thought I would share it with you guys.
I'm now off downstairs to see what's for dinner. I'm bloody brilliant at procrastination.
I recently watched "About Time" which is an amazing film. Possibly one of my new favourite films and I strongly recommend that you all watch it. Anyway there was one particular line that stood out to me a lot and it involved the quote above. It just made think, and then made me really happy.
BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!
