Bryan Hughes highlighted the passion and desire among his Wrexham side after they guaranteed a place in the play-offs but insisted that was only half the job done.
Wrexham sealed a 2-1 win at the Hive on Saturday over Barnet, Akil Wright and Jermaine McGlashan firing either side of a reply from Shaquile Coulthirst.
Victory means neither Ebbsfleet United in eighth or Sutton United - who travel to the Racecourse on Good Friday - can overhaul the Dragons in the race for the top seven.
It is the first time since the 2012-13 season in which the Dragons have earned a play-off spot, but Hughes insists there is still much more to come from his side.
“The next step now is Sutton,” said Hughes. “We are not thinking about where we are going to finish.
“We are going to try and approach every game to win it and see where we finish at the end of the season.
“The table at the end of the season, that is where you deserve to be whether it is first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh.
“We are guaranteed play-offs, that is our first milestone and these lads deserve a lot of credit for that.”
Wright grabbed his sixth goal of the season in Saturday’s win, heading home Luke Young’s cross inside the first two minutes of the second half to move to Wrexham’s joint top scorer with Shaun Pearson , Mike Fondop and Stuart Beavon - the latter two both having scored one each in cup competitions.
The Dragons were in control of proceedings up to Barnet’s equaliser, the home side building on Coulthirst’s goal and looking the more dangerous as the half wore on.
However, McGlashan beat Mark Cousins to a ball flicked on by Jason Oswell and Chris Holroyd to somehow divert an effort into the far corner of the net and wrap up the win inside the final six minutes.
The joy was there for all to see as the Dragons players celebrated in front of the 400-plus visiting fans, and Hughes feels there has been a change in mentality within the camp over the last fortnight.
He added: “They are all big wins. I think the best part of it is coming away from home and winning again; getting that winning feeling away from home.
“We've given ourselves a chance and we are going to approach every game to try and win it.
“One thing that was evident was the commitment of the players. The desire, the organisation, things that we have worked on, trying to get the mentality right, and it was there in abundance.
“The commitment we showed for each other and work ethic was unbelievable at times.
“The timing of the goal always helps winning the game. I am just delighted for all the players.
“Over the weeks we have taken a bit of stick and rightly so; the performance levels haven't been strong enough.
“But there has been a change in our camp since the second half at Ebbsfleet.
“I believe in this group and I have showed them the sort of belief that they need to do as well to get them over the line.
“There was evidence of characters coming out again like when I first came into the club.
“The personnel on the pitch, there is a togetherness there again which is great because it can take you a long way.
“I made reference to the mentality of the players still dwelling on what happened last season.
“We were losing silly games and giving away disappointing silly goals. It is just about installing belief into them to try and stay as positive as I could when other people were questioning us.
“Results weren't right but it wasn't through lack of effort, it was just potentially avoidable goals and mistakes at times that cost us.
“It was just trying to nullify them silly mistakes and silly goals that we can get rid of and we have done that over the last couple of weeks especially.
“I talked about the passion last week when Shaun Pearson scored ( against Braintree ), and you could see how much it means to the team, and you could see that again when Jermaine scored the winning goal.
“These lads want to get promotion this year, make no two ways about that.
“We are going to have rocky rides in the road, even in the next three games. We are not going to have our way in games all the time, Barnet had loads of possession and we had to see the game out.
“There was loads of times where the organisation side was there in abundance and that got us through the game.
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“Overall we had the better chances and could have scored more goals but we are away from home and Barnet are in good form as well, one defeat in their last nine, so I would have taken that before the game.”
