This is a guest post by Brian Vishal.
In the race of life, winning is everything. That’s why they keep the score. In fact, Vince Lombardi says:
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
In the calculus of life, you must develop the attitude of a winner. The reason I say develop is because each one of us was born with a raw capacity to win called talent. Regardless of physical inabilities, disabilities or financial limitations, we were born to win and God never created anyone empty!
It is sad that to the naked eye opportunities seem to keep diminishing every day while the population keeps growing. The competition will always grow stiffer. Needs will always increase and problems will continue to grow. But have you ever thought that among more problems exist more opportunities?
among more problems exist more opportunities?
Many people have failed not because the competition was cut-throat but because they replaced the finishing mark with excuses. They saw the waves and stopped walking on water. They saw how others were well trained and gave up trying. They imagined the shame of failure and preferred to preserve their dignity and protect their ego. If you want to become a General in the army of life, constantly stay in the presence of competition! Every time, every day, not just as you do your work! But all day long and all night long, stay set to win!
The secret to winning is that there is no secret. Winning is not a preserve of a few people. It is available to every man and woman who wants to. Everyone is subject to the same rules, same game, same disadvantages and same requirements and if you can meet the credentials, your victory shall surely come!
You are not the only one that struggles, even qualified men struggle and go through tough times. Your environment might constantly subject you to tough situations but your mind is free to roam to the land of victory until your environment catches up with the picture of victory in your mind. The soul that refuses to die always convinces the body to keep living!
Two things to note:
1. EVERYTHING STARTS WITH A DECISION
The decision to make decisions is the beginning of leading yourself. Leading yourself is the beginning of leading others. Leading others is the beginning of leading while others follow. Decision is the selection of a course of action among several alternatives. Every decision-making process must produce a final choice, failure to which that process is incomplete.
The output can be an action or an opinion of choice. Cowards are not cowards because they don’t act. They are so because they don’t decide! Indecision is a decision! Even the Kingdom of Heaven, that is freely given to anyone who wants, cowards will not inherit it! They will be locked out together with rebels.
2. WINNING IS A HABIT.
You must make a decision to win not once but every time. The more you get used to winning the more you set a standard for yourself and the more you demand of yourself to maintain that standard subconsciously and eventually, naturally. You must become addicted to winning and never exchange that trait for anything. There is a satisfaction that comes in life that is only and can only be drawn from winning.
You must keep trying until you win the first time. Your first victory is a critical stage in the lifestyle of victory! You must keep winning until victory grows into a legacy! The habit of winning is mandatory! The life of a man can never be a vacuum. It’s either filled with one thing or another. If you don’t fill yourself with thoughts and habits of winning, losing will inevitably creep into and occupy that space. You must keep winning because while winning is an upward spiral, losing is a downward spiral.
It is just up to you what staircase you want to take. Don’t focus on style and impressions. Focus on winning. The style; be it old, trendy or yet to be discovered, will always, naturally fall into place. You can look good all you want but you must first and foremost sell good. You must develop a rambunctious reputation of winning because there is always a chance to!
I’m excited that you are reading this. It’s proof I have company on my winning side.
You are a winner and that is what God calls you!
1 John 5:4
… for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even
our faith.
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