Be Your Own Champion

Shirley Robertson

 

Top sportspeople are often called ‘high performance athletes’.

So to be your own champion means becoming a ‘high performance person’. To be your very best you need to live a winning lifestyle all day, every day.

How do you become a high performance person?

·         Set and achieve goals so that you are always challenged. Always seek to be a little bit better today than you were yesterday. Remember that improvements are mostly little steps not giant leaps.

·         Keep a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Know that the key for getting the best from your body is to eat well, drink the right fluids and to stay fit and active.

·         Continually work on having a positive attitude. Believe in yourself! Those who reach the top start out just like you – normal ordinary human beings who worked hard and followed their dream.

·         Turn negatives into positives. Learn from things that go wrong. Remember that making a mistake is a good thing if you learn how to overcome it the next time.

If you can live like a champion lives then one day it might be you visiting a school to inspire a new generation.

If not you, Who?


Quiz
  1. 1.  

    In which city will the 2012 Olympics be held?

    • Vienna
    • Berlin
    • London

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"Talent’s not enough. You’ve got to have all the other attributes: Sacrifice, eat properly, sleep properly, train properly, drink the right things, rest at the right times. As long as you give it everything you've got."

John Collins
Football - Scotland, Hibs, Everton, Monaco and Celtic