Kids, meet your competition

“Everyone from junior high students to Olympians runs faster when there is someone in the lane next to them.”
—Jeff Castolene

Value is established by comparison.

If you want to know how valuable something is, you compare it to something else. If you say this is GREAT, how do you know? Only by comparing it to something else!

This is not just true of products and services—it's true of people as well.

As we raise our children, we encourage them in everything they do, we want them to feel good about themselves. But as they grow up they need to realize that just because Mommy or Daddy said they are a great artist or athlete that doesn’t necessarily mean they are.

One of the best ways to help them realize that is through competition. That gives them the chance to find out for themselves how good they are.

“Competition is not always nice, but it's necessary." —Art Williams

Competition teaches you about making your best efforts, it teaches you about pushing yourself. It lets you find out how good you really are by introducing you to challenges and stresses. It helps you grow by showing you how to work with others to get things done.

It lets you taste the rewards of Winning and the sting of disappointing defeats.

There is nothing like competition to prepare kids for the realities of the real world.