CHAMPIONS are made one day at a time with Hallmark ATTITUDES:
When you care enough to give your very best.
by CoachFreeb

The single most important trait we bring to any given situation is our attitude. The self-fulfilling prophecy simply states you will find what you are looking for and become what you expect to become. You can literally program yourself to have a better day. Unfortunately the converse is also true.

There are so many negative inputs from society that we become programed to be negative unless we really work hard to have the right mental attitude. Many have observed that few people will stop on the commute home to view a beautiful sunset, while just about everyone will slow down, stop and gawk at a grisly accident.

The single most important thing to remember is that, “You can do everything wrong and still succeed if you have the right mental attitude, however, you can also do everything right and still not succeed if you have the wrong mental attitude.” The right mental attitude is so very important. Not only for you, but for everyone else around you.

When you are coaching and working with a team that has the right, positive, upbeat, can-do attitude everything flows so much better. Unfortunately in many of our working relationships we have developed a Hill Street Blues (US vs THEM) attitude. The squad meeting at the beginning of the popular police show would end with the instructions, “Let’s go out and do it to them before they can do it to us.”

This attitude exists everywhere in our society. US vs THEM is a confrontational not cooperative situation. There is infinitely a whole lot more that can get done in our society through teamwork and cooperation than confrontation.

The Hill Street Blues mentality certainly does not fit well with the motto, “To Protect and to Serve.” Confrontational attitudes are not conducive to making IT happen (whatever your IT is).

Remember that life is a game of choices. If you are in the pursuit of a worthy ideal that exists for the benefit of others, the pursuit of you own personally selected goals and trying to make your dream come true, why would you ever have a “Bad Attitude?” Why would you ever do anything less than to give your very best?