Winning Is An Attitude, Not A Score

So many locker room moods are defined by a matter of simple points on a scoreboard. Office moods by a gain or loss. Home moods by getting our way or not. The physical outcome too strongly defines whether or not we've "won." Winning is an attitude. No one's really "lost" until they've lost their smile. In sports it's possible to execute well in defeat and poorly in victory - the right message is to focus on that rather than the scoreboard outcome.