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CHAMPIONS Ready for Action!

What’s a Champion? • A person who has surpassed all rivals in sporting or other contests. • A person who vigorously supports or defends a person or cause • A person who voluntarily takes extraordinary interest in the adoption, implementation, and success of a cause, policy, program, project, or product.

What makes a Champion? • A champion has the courage to risk failure, knowing that setbacks are lessons to learn from. • A champion trains their thought processes as well as their body to produce a total approach to performance • A champion understands performances are like a roller coaster, with many ups and downs, and that you have to accept both good and bad

A Champion • A champion has vision. A champion dreams of things that haven’t been and believes they are possible • A champion says “I can. ”

What makes a difference • Champions have learnt to come out of comfort zones • Its not necessarily about talent of gifts but willingness to do the unusual • They are prepared to do whatever it takes to succeed • Be prepared to do the little extras and look for other ways to excel. • Champions are not in the complaining club! • Champions keep on keeping on! Do not weary in welldoing for in due season you will reap! • Have learnt to by-pass obstacles.

What is success? • Its about regularly stepping outside your comfort zone. • Its about pushing your own limits. • Its about getting comfortable being uncomfortable • The more you put yourself in a position where you challenge your own comfort, the more you refuse to be satisfied with status quo, the faster your progress • Champions challenge own weaknesses – do what most may not expect of them!

Be a champion • A Champion is a fighter, a wrestler • A champion has a record of victories, successes (medals, trophies) • A Champion is known by titles based on achievements