Your attitude makes all the difference!

If you use each letter as a number in the alphabet -- for example, A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5 and so on -- you can spell the word ATTITUDE and it will equal 100 percent.

A=1 T=20 T=20 I=9 T=20 U=21 D=4 E=5

Total: 100

As a coach or as a leader, your mental attitude toward a positive winning goal is the key to success.

One of the marks of real success in life is to believe there is a reason for everything. We can not control every event, but we can control our response to it.

Life is so unpredictable.

“What makes a winner is that when something happens, that person’s belief system brings forth attitudes that can take good events and make them better; likewise, it transforms bad events into opportunities to learn.” --Ken Blanchard.

We as coaches, parents, teachers, and athletes always need to aim for the 100 percent bull’s eye. When we wake each morning, we should attack the day with the math problem of 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100. We should never subtract any amount before we turn off the lights to end another day.

Just like a river bank, we need to channel all our efforts toward a desired outcome. An outcome that is worthwhile, helpful, and one that keeps the momentum headed to the positive outcome.

Joey McQueen is the Lampasas High School athletic director and the Badgers’ head football coach.