Hockey great Wayne Gretzky was interviewed before the second game of a particular playoff series. His team hadn't looked very good in the very first game. They lost. He was asked whether his coach had shown the players their mistakes on video.

Gretzky said that rather than showing them a video of their mistakes, their coach showed highlights of some of their best games where they performed well.  Why reinforce negative images? They needed to see themselves as they could be, not as they had been.  That's the cup of cold water that the Church offers, the promise of who we are in God's eyes and the hope of what we can be through Christ. By the way, Gretzky's team won the second game and subsequently took the Stanley Cup that year.