“You can’t control everything, but you can control your attitude and how you approach what you are doing that day.” - Jay Wright
Does your attitude help you or hurt you? Does it make you bitter or better?
Jay Wright is a Hall of Fame basketball coach and won two national championships at Villanova.
He built his program on one word: Attitude.
Coach Wright said, “We want our guys to understand that the greatest characteristic you can have is a great attitude. It’s a choice you have— every day—when you get up. There are things you can’t control. Some days you are going to make your shots, and some days you won’t. Some days, the refs are going to make great calls, and some days they will make bad ones. You can’t control everything, but you can control your attitude and how you approach what you are doing that day.’”
How do you measure attitude?
Coach Wright asks, “Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you?”
I like to ask, “Is your attitude making you bitter or better?”
Coach Wright values attitude so much that they gave an athlete a scholarship based on his attitude, not his talent, and when they won an Elite Eight game sending them to the Final Four, the team chose that teammate as the person to cut down and hold up the net.
Good and bad things happen to us all the time. Some of it we can control, much of it we can’t. What you can always control is your attitude - the way you think, feel and respond.
Question of the Day: How is your attitude? Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you? Does adversity make you bitter or better?
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