Think Like A Winner

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." - Zig Ziglar

 

What are the traits that makes one person a winner? The big difference is in how a person thinks. Their attitude will govern their actions.

 

I coached youth basketball for a while when my oldest son was little.  This is the fun age to coach.  Co-ed team and started out with a whole lot of stuff that kind of resembled basketball.

The message was simple.  Winning isn't everything.  However, having the desire and will to win, is.  It's ok if we don't win the game.  But you have to want to win.  You have to work to win.  You have to improve to win.  You have to do whatever it takes to try to win.  That is having the will to win.  You do everything in your power, everything you can possibly do to help your team win.  That way, win or lose you can hold your head high, knowing that you gave it your best.

Always bring your best to everything you do.  Don't settle for less than your best.

Coach Vince Lombardi, who was best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960's, where he led the team to three straight (and five total) NFL Championships in seven years, said "Winning is not a sometime thing. It is an all-the-time thing. You don't win once in a while…you don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit…unfortunately, so is losing. Running a football team is no different from running any other kind of organization: An army, a political party, a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win. To beat the best. To compete. To maintain the winning attitude above all else."

 

To be a winner you have to think like a winner and act like a winner…soon you will be a winner.  You have to have the will to win and maintain a winners attitude.  Winners never quit, quitters never win. Winners do things others think is impossible. Don't give up don't give in. They persist.

 

• A winner is always ready to tackle something new and believes it can be done.
• A winner isn't afraid of competition and knows they always have a chance to win.
• A winner knows they are sometime wrong and is willing to admit their mistakes and doesn't look for someone else to blame.
• A winner is challenged by a new problem.
• A winner is decisive.
• A winner realizes that there is no time like the present to get a job done, they don't wait and don't hesitate.
• A winner thinks positively, acts positively, and lives positively.
• A winner is always part of the answer.
• A winner always has a program not an excuse.
• A winners glass is always half full.
• A winner is always willing to help out others.
• A winner sees an answer to every problem.
• A winner says "It may be difficult but it is possible" instead of "It may be possible but it is too difficult".

 

Take this attitude with you wherever you go. Whether you win as a team, or win as an individual, never lose sight of who you are and the value you bring…YOU ARE A WINNER.  Think like a winner, act like a winner…sooner than you think...YOU WILL BE A WINNER!!!  

Make today a great day!

Curtis

 

 “There is one quality which one have to possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” - Napoleon Hill