The Positive Choice: Dennis Pursley quote

Every successful coach understands the importance of creating a positive training environment. Our thoughts, choices and decisions will be influenced by the environment around us.

 A commitment to excellence is extremely difficult to sustain even under the best of circumstances. It becomes almost impossible to sustain if we are surrounded by negative influences, or by those that promote self indulgence or mediocrity.

As much as we are able, we should immerse ourselves in an environment that is conducive to the pursuit of excellence. This means that we should choose our friends from among those who are striving to be the best they can be, and who are willing to make the necessary commitment to achieve that goal.

 It means that the books we read and our entertainment choices should be inspiring and challenging.

Most importantly, we should challenge ourselves to “keep it positive” in all of our thoughts, words and actions.

The closer we come to achieving this objective, the more likely we will be to achieve performance excellence.

Thanks to John Hogan for the heads up.

This is underpinned in our club motto “Turn Up, Stand Tall, Try Hard.”