Parent Meeting

We will have a parent meeting Monday September 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at Rogers High School We should be finished by 8:30.

Fall Practice Focus

1. Be Ready

2. Get Better Everyday

3. Compete Everyday

4. Una Voce'

“Within the freedom to choose are those endowments that are uniquely human. In addition to self-awareness, we have imagination—the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality. We have conscience--- a deep inner awareness of right and wrong, of the principles that govern our behavior, and sense of the degree to which our thoughts and actions are in harmony with them. And we have independent will---- the ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences.” 

In the book Stephen Covey relays a story about Viktor Frankl who was a death camp survivor during the Nazi Holocaust. He was tortured and never knew if he would be sent to the ovens or be one of the "saved" ones who removed the bodies or shoveled out the ashes of those who were burned to death.

“One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of the human freedoms”--- the freedom his Nazi captors could not take away. They could control his entire environment, they could do what they wanted to his body, but Viktor Frankl himself was self-aware being who could look as an observer at his very involvement…… He could decide within himself how all of this was going to affect him. Between what happened to him, or stimulus and his response to it, was his freedom or power to choose that response. 

While we may not be in control of our circumstance we are in but we do control of how we respond. We must learn to choose the right response.

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Be One Percent Better by Sue Enquist