I do agree with the phrase. And when I am thinking about biggest challenge in my life I cannot select just something one. I do believe small things make differences. So most of my challenges were small but important.
I was rather shy boy in the school so when I started to make presentation in the front of public about my IT scientific project during competition - it has really changed my life. Even it is rather easy to speak some topic what you are passion about it was still challenging for me. I read a lot of books about public speaking, rehearsed and rehearse before next speech. And little-by-little I get used to it.
Additionally I was never good in sport till my 15 years. I studied music and read books instead. So even simple jogging was rather hard for me. But then I started jogging by each morning and attending kick-boxing club so I got passion to sport instead of hate.
As I said I was rather shy teenager adn I never had girlfriend in that time (and it was OK for my circles). So I decided to change myself and started to meet girls just on the street and in public transport every day. It was also very challenging first times but later it was fun. You should just catch your fear to stop it.
In the university I started conducting trainings about Time-management skills and my school presentation skills become very useful. Now I can say I'm quite professional trainer in such field.
One of the latest challenges is my internship in Jordan with AIESEC organization. The half-year in Jordan was fulfilled both with challenges and fun. The most difficult part was to live in totally new environment: new language, new people, new food and even new air. Sometimes it was too sad to be far from Ukraine, but after my internship I got very valuable experience to see on the world from Arabic point of view.
After I got back from my internship I got my next step in challenging myself : I open my own web-development company, where I work with customers over all planet and do my own project with my small but growing team.
I think we should challenge ourself every day, basically life is the route from challenge to challenge. And if you do not have one - you should be aware - cause you has stopped to grow.
Pavel Obod
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