Champions Choice

Being the Best

Are You & Your Athletes Making the Champions Choice

Talent is your ticket to practice, it won’t even get you in the meet!

Be Smart Work on something specific each day. Have a plan! Train with a purpose. Improvement is incremental. Small steps lead to big steps.

PressurePressure is what you make it! Use the pressure to make you better, internalize it and use it as a positive influence.

“Pressure is Power” Maddie Rooney, GK US Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team

Belief Think you are the best and you are on your way. Confidence, believe in yourself, your preparation and your support system.

Great athletes doing the same thing, the same way, at the same time each day. Regularity. You can set a clock by the great ones.

Routine

1440Everyone works. The great ones work smarter. Objectively analyze your strengths and weaknesses. Minimize your weaknesses and optimize your strengths. Bring your weaknesses up to the level of your strengths.

Work

Choices

It is always about choices. Make the choice to be the best. Life is constantly about choices.

“And that came out at the moment I needed it the most,” Phelps said, adding: “I’m not going to sit and make excuses. Those lazy finishes were decisions I made.”

Who’s going to pick up the trash?

You can’t do it alone

Teamwork

Discipline

Sticking with it through good and bad. Highest form of discipline is self discipline.

Self AwarenessDeep understanding of who you are and what you value. Be acutely aware of blind spots &

weaknesses. Work to overcome them.

Notes from The Jesuit Guide to Almost EverythingBy James Martin, SJ

IngenuityEmbrace change. Be willing to explore new ideas without deviating from core

beliefs. This demands flexibility and adaptability.

Notes from The Jesuit Guide to Almost EverythingBy James Martin, SJ

LoveSee the good in others. Commit to honor & unlock potential in others.

Create an environment characterized by loyalty, affection & mutual support.

Notes from The Jesuit Guide to Almost EverythingBy James Martin, SJ

HeroismImagine an inspiring future & actively set

out to shape that future. See opportunities in obstacles & difficulty.

Notes from The Jesuit Guide to Almost EverythingBy James Martin, SJ

I see trees of green, red roses tooI see them bloom for me and youAnd I think to myself what a wonderful worldI see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself what a wonderful worldThe colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going byI see friends shaking hands saying how do you doThey're really saying I love youI hear babies crying, I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful worldYes I think to myself what a wonderful world

What a Wonderful World

Your Choice?