Youth ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION

CHARACTER TALK

Doing Your Best

• Introduction

• Definition – Performing a job or assignment as well as you possibly can.

• Mentor Student Discussion

• All you can ever expect of your self is to do your best, no more, and no less.
• People who fail to give their best are cheating both themselves and those who count on them.
• There is never any good reason for not doing your best, because all it requires is that you try. We can never guarantee success, in fact great people fail a lot, because they try difficult things. The ultimate measure of success is the knowledge that you gave it all you had. Do that you will never be ashamed.
• Doing your best means finishing the job right.
• Doing your best means to work hard without complaint
• Doing your best means you want to succeed.
• Mentors and students should discuss examples of people not doing there best. How do you feel when a teammate give a halfhearted effort and your team looses? Or when your brother or sister are asked to do some chores with you and they refuse to do their part?
• Mentors and students should discuss examples from their own life of how doing their best on some job really paid off, and the feeling of satisfaction that came with it.
• Mentors and students should try to come up with three tasks that they can commit to “doing their best” at.

• Group Discussion

• PD should ask the students to define “doing your best”
• Ask students to give several examples of how they can do there best at school or at home.

• Summary

• You feel good about yourself when you have done your best, regardless of whether you won or lost. There is never a good excuse for not giving something your best shot.
• Take away line: Do you best.