SCRABBLE: Learn To Cope With Loss
When we finally decide to sign up and compete at a scrabble club or tournament, we begin to anticipate the thrill of victory. However, when we compete in a competition, whether there are 10 opponents or 1,000 opponents, there is only one ultimate winner. Even the #1 Seed has no guarantee that he/she will end up in the winners circle.
It is my observation that there are many excellent players who come to the scrabble scene, but leave soon thereafter because of the way that they deal with losing. The truth is that we all cannot finish in 1st Place all of the time. BUT, we can learn volumes of information and further develop our skills, simply as a result of our participation.
When you consider how life seems to work, we all have our 15 minutes of fame in the spotlight, and then we have the rest of our lives. It seems critical to me that in order to be happy campers, during the better part of our lives, it behooves us to learn how to cope with being ranked below 1st Place.
TIP #12 – Accentuate The Positive
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Stay focused on the fun of learning, smell the roses along the way, set many short-term, achievable goals for yourself. Physically check off your accomplishments when they are completed. You will gain steam and enthusiasm from every goal your meet. Use that energy as a catapult toward attacking your next challenge. Stay true to yourself and your regimen.
So, what do you do when you suffer a major defeat? What do you do if you didn’t win a single game in the 7 game tournament? DON’T throw your score sheets into the trash, in disgust. USE your experience as a tool for building toward you success. ANALYZE your games, your plays, your challenges, and more. PLAN a list of things that you need to improve up with TIME FRAMES for your proposed actions.
THEN DO IT!
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