I guess I shouldn’t have gotten so excited about the Blazers winning the other night because they lost tonight. But I guess every NBA team loses some. That is the way life is, good days and bad days, successful days and failure days, happy days and sad days, winner days and loser days. Nobody wins them all, but it is sure nice if you have a winning season. I think part of the key to winning more than you lose in life is how you respond to the loser days. With many a bad day results in a major downer, resulting in a belief that I am a loser incapable of ever winning. That is a dysfunctional way of living, and spirals downward as we continue in that way of responding to bad days. The worst thing about being a dysfunctional person is that you inevitably infect others around you with the same disease, it is very contagious. I work hard to respond to bad choices, poor performance, and major mess up days with self-talk that focuses on improvement and the accomplishment of a champion. “I can do better than that and next time I will, please help me Lord!”