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Today's speaker was Scott Welle, a motivational speaker whose presentation was entitled "Outperform The Norm". Scott has presented to many Rotary Clubs as well as the local Optimist Club, where Kevin Keenan first heard him. Scott has a masters degree in Sports Psychology and began his career working with athletes to improve their performance. He discussed the difference between motivation stemming from competition with others versus motivation that comes from within - being internally driven to keep improving. This internal motivation is relevant in all aspects of life and Scott now works as a consultant, bringing his message to businesses and other individuals. He claims that the average person has 50,000 different thoughts each day; 80% of which can be categorized as "glass half empty" versus "glass half full" type of thoughts. He maintains that our thoughts affect our behaviors, which then affect our outcomes and he preaches a philosophy of playing to win instead of playing not to lose. He promotes the following steps as the means of achieving this: Commit to being engaged. Commit to being enthusiastic. Commit to being excellent. Specific actions which help along the way are to fuel our bodies properly, keep physically active and stay focused.