Competing with a Positive Attitude - Part 2

Football, volleyball, cross country, soccer, and band practice are in full swing as summer wraps up and school starts up. “Attitude is everything” coaches teach and preach. Sure ability makes a difference, but attitude affects a player, team and community like nothing else. You may not always win the game/competition, but if you play with a lot of heart and put forth your best effort more than likely you will walk away feeling good about your endeavor.
 
However, participate with or alongside someone with a negative attitude and you’ll be a loser in all respects:  Respect of the game, team, fellow competitors and even yourself. Negativity isn’t pretty; in fact it stinks because it spoils everything around it. It’s like a cancer that spreads, eating away the good of the effort.
 
Camp is not the place for negative attitudes, criticism, whining or complaining. Rather, it is a place of higher living and expectations resulting in lifting others up and rallying the best in any situation / circumstance…UNITAS!!
 
Philippians 2:5-10 reminds us to have the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus. Jesus’ attitude is the epitome of humility. Attitude is a choice… attitude is contagious… attitude is an expression of our character. Character counts!  Good attitudes add, sarcasm separates and mediocrity multiplies – you do the math.
 

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Camper Corner: Stink’n think’n is the root of negative attitudes which reveal your heart and its motives.  Therefore, Be-At-It-Dudes by living out the Beatitudes as Jesus described in Matthew 5.  Compete hard, react well, think it through. Let your attitude reflect your confidence that Christ is at work in you and through you (Phil 1:6).