How do we describe SUCCESS

“Do not let what you can't do

interfere with what you can do.”

                        - John Wooden, coach

I like this for today.  We want our Gold Award girls to reach high and make a change. We want them to Take Action and make a change in their community.  But we don't want them to get stymied by how big their idea is, or what they can't do because they're too young, or don't have the required training, or whatever.  

We want the girl to do what she can do!  

It needs to be a stretch!  And it needs to be some good work, but it needs to be doable, too. Our job as advisors is to encourage the stretch!  Keep the bar raised!  Push the girl to do her best and achieve the goal!  It's going to look different for every girl because they are each individuals.


We want her to succeed and to celebrate that success. We want her to see that by Taking Action, she has made the world a better place.


She can do it!