Boy Scout Troop 325
Scoutmaster Minute
You Can Always Reach Higher
June 10, 2003
George Denise, Scoutmaster

Tape a large piece of paper on a wall at your eye level. Ask two or three Scouts to come up and make a mark on the paper with a marker as high as they can reach. Thank them for their effort and allow them to return to their seats.

Tell the troop that we can all usually do better than our first effort.

Ask the same Scouts to come back up and see if they can reach a little higher. (Most of them will be able to.)

Remind them that you asked the Scouts to reach as high as they could the first time.

Note that we promise to "Do Our Best" in the Boy Scout Promise. If we can always do better the second time around, and we are really going to do our best, then we need to learn to give our "second effort" on the very first try. Think about it.

Thank you, and see you next week!