The Winning Way

 

Today is Wednesday September  08, 2010

Thought For The Day

“Risk! Risk anything! …Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
–Katherine Mansfield

 

I Have Been Thinking

What makes a person a winner?  I was reading a story about coach Daryl Royal when he was talking about “a winning tradition.”  He said when you have a winning tradition going the new people you add to your team seem to become better just by joining  the team. He was talking about the many times his teams went out to compete knowing the opponent was a better team, but just because they believed if they played well just because the team was a winning team they would and could defeat their opponent.

Winning is a habit.  How can you develop a winning habit?

Feel good about your accomplishments. Look at your past successes. For every failure you learned something. What was it?  How did you turn that into a success.

Set goals. Creating a plan for achievement then marking it off as done will help you develop an attitude that you can do it. As your list of accomplishments grow so will your confidence in being able to do anything you set your mind to doing.

Practice. There is no substitute for practice. When you are committed to developing your skills you increase both in activity and skill. No, it might not feel good to sit at the piano hour after hour practicing the scales. Sometimes it feels like you are never going to graduate to a real tune, but keep it up practice it correctly and you will eventually be able to play most any piece the first time you pick it up.  I believe that is true of ANY skill.

Tie your goals into your belief system.  Never give up no matter how difficult it gets.

Opportunity is never lost
It goes To Those Ready to Accept It!
Your Success is my Greatest Interest
CWinslow

 

Ice Breakers

 

Name The States

An old pastor made it a practice to visit the parish
school one day a week. He walked into the 4th grade class,
where the children were studying the states, and asked
them how many states they could name. They could only come
up with about 40 names.

He jokingly told them that in his day students knew the
names of all the states.

One lad snickered, “Yes, but in those days there were only
13.”

 

 Tip

 

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you are about to make it again.

Happy Designing