Thought 21MAY2009

ACT LIKE A WINNER
Dennis Waitley teaches that "winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance." Winners prepare to win, think like winners, act like winners and look like winners.

Minnesota Vikings football coach Bud Grant ingrained this philosophy in his players through demonstration. Newcomers were no doubt surprised with Grant's first drill at the first session of training camp. Grant lined up the entire team and demonstrated how he wanted them to properly stand for the national anthem. "You're winners," he would say, "so look and act like winners every second you're part of the team."

Winners believe they are winners because they've learned to act like winners - right down to the smallest detail.
extracted from 'Speaker's Sourcebook II, Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it - Russian Proverb