When you look at any professional athlete or musician, you see great talent.  But the mind is what elevates the best to the highest level.  Former tennis great Chris Evert observed, “The thing that separates good players from great ones is mental attitude.  It might make a difference of two or three points in an entire match, but how you play those key points often makes the difference winning and losing.  If the mind is strong, you can do almost anything you want.”

How do we teach our young people to have a positive attitude?  We must remind them that attitude is a choice.  Psychologist Victor Frankl believed, “The last of our human freedoms is to choose your attitude in any given circumstances.”  If they have a positive attitude, they need to be encouraged to keep it up.  After all, maintaining a good attitude is easier than regaining one.  And if they have a negative attitude, they need to understand that if they can choose their attitude, they can also change it.

Today, no every day, I encourage you to help your students to develop a positive attitude.  It is important that we recognize as teachers that if the only thing we leave our students is a positive attitude, we will have given them something of incalculable value.  Just sayin’!

Make Today a Magnificent Day!

Gary L Rupert

Lead Mentor/COO

II:Leaders Creating:II Leaders

LCL Mentors @ Marching Arts Education