In the past few months, I have been skateboarding quite a lot. I have been able to relearn a few tricks that I had learned a couple years ago but had lost due to not skateboarding for a while. One of the first tricks that you learn on a skateboard is an ollie. It is when you pop the tail against the ground, drag your board up with your front foot, and jump with your board simultaneously. Although I know how to ollie, I have been struggling with ollieing over bigger obstacles. So today, I worked only on improving my basics and trying to get a higher ollie. I immediately tried ollieing over a big cardboard box with no success. I realized that I needed to start off with smaller obstacles and gradually ease myself into ollieing over bigger ones since a large part of the trick is training your mind and overcoming the fear in your head. I started off with doing the trick over a crack in my driveway then worked my way up to a hat, basketball, and eventually the cardboard box. Using this strategy was really helpful as it broke down my goal of ollieing over the box into smaller achievable steps. I think that this is a good strategy to have for any goal in life. Since I sometimes struggle with getting larger assignments done for school, I want to implement the same strategy of breaking my work down into smaller and more gradual steps. If I can do this, I think my schoolwork and work habits could improve drastically and better prepare me for the times when there are a lot of big IB assignments due.
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