Highly considering swimming, just looking for tips and help

Welcome Josh! Become part of the swimming community locally (near where you live) & globally (online and when you travel) Join a team & train regularly, give it a go for several months. you wrote: here's some thoughts Motivation comes from within Motivate yourself. Decide what you want Decide who you want to be Come up with a plan and DO IT Commit Act As if You already are what you most want to be. Change your script and internal dialog. Write down the kind of person you'd like to be: your list of "I am's ..." Create the intention of becoming that person. Turn your doubts inside out, tell the doubter in you to "Shut the ?%#@ up" Confidence comes from: thinking confident thoughts. telling yourself "I am confident" acting as if you are confident person speaking as if you are a confident person believing in yourself, your ability and your dreams having supporters and supportees, having belief, believing, and believers, reading inspiring quotes books and stories listening to inspiring music watching inspiring videos (youtubes) and movies associating with positive inspiring people going from woe is me to WOW is me Being humble not cocky, but fierce and determined on the inside Intensely desiring your goals and work HARD and smart dealing with doubt when it rears it's ugly head Doubt will come and when it does, escort it to the door like a bouncer and boot it out note your state when doubt arrives, maybe you're sick or tired or stressed or having an awful day Some swimmers have told me there's a lot of useful and inspiring info in Swim Faster Faster Maybe you'll find some too. Begin The thing that happens is: Determine who you want to be and start acting that way. Then later, people observe you and some begin to reaffirming your own belief. By saying "You are . . ." This list of beliefs is our self image somewhere along the way you've had doubts and you told yourself or heard someone say you're not a confident person. Unfortunately it snuck in and stuck, but why let other people and your life experience so far define who you are and who you are going to be. Only you can change you. Will you? Ande one of my favorite quotes is Thank you for these words friend! This is definitely something I will come back to read for motivation. The person i want to be, is fit, healthy, someone that does some form of fitness for the next 40 years of my life if not more (pretty sure swimming is also the answer there), a person that has a fit physique, someone that can be an inspiration and a leader (I've never been one before, mainly just been someone that's in the middle, I've never really lead but i haven't always followed either). I wanted to go more positive with myself.

Welcome Josh! Become part of the swimming community locally (near where you live) & globally (online and when you travel) Join a team & train regularly, give it a go for several months. you wrote: here's some thoughts Motivation comes from within Motivate yourself. Decide what you want Decide who you want to be Come up with a plan and DO IT Commit Act As if You already are what you most want to be. Change your script and internal dialog. Write down the kind of person you'd like to be: your list of "I am's ..." Create the intention of becoming that person. Turn your doubts inside out, tell the doubter in you to "Shut the ?%#@ up" Confidence comes from: thinking confident thoughts. telling yourself "I am confident" acting as if you are confident person speaking as if you are a confident person believing in yourself, your ability and your dreams having supporters and supportees, having belief, believing, and believers, reading inspiring quotes books and stories listening to inspiring music watching inspiring videos (youtubes) and movies associating with positive inspiring people going from woe is me to WOW is me Being humble not cocky, but fierce and determined on the inside Intensely desiring your goals and work HARD and smart dealing with doubt when it rears it's ugly head Doubt will come and when it does, escort it to the door like a bouncer and boot it out note your state when doubt arrives, maybe you're sick or tired or stressed or having an awful day Some swimmers have told me there's a lot of useful and inspiring info in Swim Faster Faster Maybe you'll find some too. Begin The thing that happens is: Determine who you want to be and start acting that way. Then later, people observe you and some begin to reaffirming your own belief. By saying "You are . . ." This list of beliefs is our self image somewhere along the way you've had doubts and you told yourself or heard someone say you're not a confident person. Unfortunately it snuck in and stuck, but why let other people and your life experience so far define who you are and who you are going to be. Only you can change you. Will you? Ande one of my favorite quotes is Thank you for these words friend! This is definitely something I will come back to read for motivation. The person i want to be, is fit, healthy, someone that does some form of fitness for the next 40 years of my life if not more (pretty sure swimming is also the answer there), a person that has a fit physique, someone that can be an inspiration and a leader (I've never been one before, mainly just been someone that's in the middle, I've never really lead but i haven't always followed either). I wanted to go more positive with myself.