HOW TO BE A WINNER...

As the days of your off-season begin to dwindle away and the next contest season approaches, you feel increasing amount of pressure to make gains, strive for new short term goals and notice visible and measurable improvements. Unlike others, you’re not foolish enough to believe the crap they brainwash young kids with these days to make them feel better about themselves when they fail.

Let me give you the cold hard truth about life:

YOU DON’T GET CREDIT JUST FOR SHOWING UP!

The fact that you tried is not enough! Sometimes even your best effort will result in failure! You need to figure out how to do better!

Most importantly, NOT EVERYONE IS A WINNER!!!

Actually there are quite a few losers, and often we have to lose before we figure out how to win. If winning didn’t matter, we wouldn’t bother competing! Life is a zero sum game. The group of people who get to enjoy the feeling of victory is far smaller than the group of people who come up short. It takes a special kind of person to overcome obstacles and excel to where they can win. Persistence, Determination, Desire, Passion… these are the characteristics embodied by a winner.

So don’t just ask yourself whether or not you want to win or lose. Everyone wants to win, but the choice isn’t that simple. How often do you set goals for yourself? How often do you think about those goals? What did you do yesterday to attain success at reaching your goals? What did you do today that will allow you to reach those goals? What have you sacrificed that others won’t? What are you going to do that will make YOU be a winner tomorrow?

Being a winner is about being different from the rest of the herd that follows along. For them, there is no big picture…they live day to day with no meaning and some get slaughtered and eaten before they were even able to question why they are here.

How are you going to make your mark? What is your purpose? If you died tomorrow, would anyone remember you? How have you lived your life? If you’ve been around long enough to face reality, you know life can be brutal, hard and unfair. The question is how are you going to respond. Are you going to sit on the sidelines, whine and make excuses for why you couldn’t succeed? …or are you going to grab life by the balls, be a leader, choose your destiny and go after your dreams with a F***ing vengeance!!!

The choice is yours.