Begin each day a new and better way by reciting the following and practicing each day!

1. This is the beginning of a new day.
2. What I do today is important, because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it.
3. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place whatever I have traded for it.
4. I pledge to myself that it will be for gain, good, and success, in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for this day.
5. My thinking and my attitudes are calm and cheerful.  I act and feel friendly towards other people.
6. I am tolerant of other people, their shortcomings and mistakes, and I view their actions with the most favorable understanding possible.
7. I act as though attainment of my GOALS is CERTAIN to happen!  I am the kind of individual I aspire to be and
8. everything I do the way I feel expresses this individuality.
9. I will not allow my judgment or attitude be effected by negativism or pessimism.
10. I try to smile as often as possible.
11. I respond in a calm and intelligent manner, without alarm, no matter what the circumstance or situation.
12. If I cannot control a situation, I try always to react in a positive manner, even to negative acts.

Each of the above habitual ways of acting, feeling and thinking does have a beneficial and constructive influence

on your self image.  Experience them daily and you will find a marked decrease in worry, sense of guilt and hostility. 

And because of this you will find an increase in your self-confidence!

-Courtesy of Coach Steve Pappas

Deerfield Basketball

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