FREE ESSAY ON THINK WIN

THINK WIN

To us "winning" means always doing our best, as individuals and as a team. If we have done
all that, we have "won" no matter what the score may be. "Win-Win" means that we have all
contributed in some way, however small it may seem at the time, because basketball, like
life, is made up of constantly new opportunities to learn and to do better.
"Win-Win" means being successful with each other. But we know we cannot be successful
with others if we haven't paid the price to be successful with ourselves. Paying the
price to be successful with ourselves means being responsible, beginning with the end in
mind, and putting first things first.
 I cannot talk my way out of a problem I have behaved my way into.
 We cannot have the fruits without the roots.
 The most important thing we bring to the team is not what we say or what we do,
but what we are.
As a team, we are always making deposits in an Emotional Bank Account with each other. A
deposit is when we do something for a teammate that helps them, by practicing hard and
applauding our teammates when they practice hard, when we acknowledge a good act on the
part of another teammate, when we are honest, courteous, and polite with each other, when
we show a teammate how we depend on them, and when we show a teammate that they can
depend on us.
 When we act in keeping with our values, we become self-aware and independent.
That allows us to make meaningful promises and commitments to our teammates.
 When we are considerate and honest with our teammates we are acting with
maturity. By doing that, we are paying our teammates a great compliment.
We know that as a team there is plenty of everything for everybody - plenty of
opportunities for each person to contribute in their own special way, plenty of ways to
be a part of something that is special, this TEAM.
 We know that one person's success is achieved through the cooperation and effort
of all.
 We know that there is not just my way or your way. There is another way - a
better way - our way.
 We know that if we aren't all winning, we are all losing. Winning is helping
everybody make the best contribution that they can make at that time.
REMEMBER
 I am truly happy when members of my team succeed.
 By saying BIY I am telling my teammates that I believe in them and reminding
myself that they believe in me. That is real "Win-Win".