Which kind of person are YOU?

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(Adapted from ASCA; author John Leonard)

We can be two kinds of people....the kind that encourages everyone around us to work hard and achieve more, or we can be the kind that says “we don’t have to work that hard to achieve more”.

We each of us have both people within us.

Everyone who has ever coached or ever swum or ever competed knows this is the truth.

If just one person backs off, it lets the next weakest person do likewise. It's a disease, and it spreads fast.

Encourage each other to be achievers.

No one person in the group can achieve more than the group aspires to achieve.

The group has got to get it right, and none can have the attitude that says “we don’t have to work that hard”.

If you don’t want to be your personal best self, you don’t want to train with me. You can train somewhere else and float through with some other coach.

Life, and this sport, does not reward those who “float through”...it rewards those that enjoy the work for its own sake.

Make the effort for a few days and see how much satisfaction you can get from encouraging someone else to do more than they thought was possible. Especially if they think "I can't" more than they think "I can."

We can all choose to be the person who says “let's do less” or the person who says “let's swim faster.”

Just one person who thinks they can “do less” can ruin a team, or a group, or an office, because we all have the capacity to sink, or to rise to leadership.

And just one person who thinks they can "do more" can have the opposite effect.

Do you want to be like that "do less" person, or do you think you can be like that "do more" positive person?

Think about it.

And remember... ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

Show your intent with ACTION.