Build In Yourself, A Winning Mentality

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” ― Zig Ziglar.

I learnt of this excellent quote about three years ago and to be sincere I have been using it as a footprint that drives me on. You will notice that all a winner wants to ever do is keep winning and winning without even getting tired or anything.

Lewis Hamilton has won a record 103 races in Formula one and yet he is still on course for more victories come the start of the new season in Bahrain. He is a clear example of someone that has won it all and is still hunger to win more.

I loved saying to people when I see their achievements and success that the sky is their limit but one day I said this in the presence of one of my mentors and he told me I shouldn't offer such kinds of remarks again but always say "You are going farther than the sky".

This simply meant that me saying the initial I was only hoping the person goes far but not farther or up to the sky. The latter then means that you are going far to the sky, and even farther than the sky i.e if there was anywhere after the sky, then that's where you are going.

Building a winning mentality is never easy and in most cases is always full of downfall, but the most important thing is that you aren't going to be a success if you aren't going to master pulling through from failure. Many people are usually content when they win once, they relent and in the process they slumber and fall, back to square one.

“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.” ― Winston S. Churchill.

Winning isn't the end, not even the beginning of the end, but only a step further in the journey to the beginning of the end. The correct definition of a Winner isn't someone that defeats another person in a battle but someone that has that ability to come out on top in his veins, someone that is so accustomed to winning that when they don't win once, they give their all the next time and emerge victorious.

Being a loser is in fact the most easy thing to do, a loser isn't someone that doesn't try, but someone that tries and fails to make that trial note worthy and exceptional.

Pep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City in the 2016/17 season a proven winner, after sucessful stints at Barcelona and Bayern Munich. He was always destined for the top cos he fought his way through and remained at the top cos he didn't allow his success and winnings get into his head.

He won nothing in his first season but lifted a double and a treble in his next two seasons. He lost the EPL in 2019/20 to Liverpool, but won a double again in 2020/21. The only trophy that has remained elusive of him till date is the UCL. He will win the title for city, cos he continues to build a winning mentality for the citizens.

I am not here to suddenly delve into writing on football, but the information I am trying my best to pass across is that when you build yourself winning mentality, then you shall and will always be a winner. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Once you quit, forget it you can never be a winner.

Always have the mindset of a winner at all times, make sure you have a plan in place to achieve that goal you want, walk towards that plan in the best possible way and always believe you are a winner. Anything short of winning isn't your portion, all you have to do is to build that mentality.

The mentality a person has goes a long way in determining so many things about such person. You can only be a winner if only you build a mentality of a winner in yourself. Act like a winner, reason like a winner, speak like a winner and behave like a winner. Say no to losing and if at all you lose, take it as a stepping stone to unlocking greater success.

Even at times when a winner is losing, the fact that he had a winning mentality is enough to give him the victory, whether ugly or not. A win is a win no matter how close you were to losing.

Ways to build a winning mentality

• Set tangible goals and work towards them

• Be appreciative

• Erase procrastination

• Embrace failure and remember there is light at the end of the tunnel

• Never give up, be determined and keep fighting till your last breath.

Conclusion

Listen to the conclusion of the whole matter brethren, Build yourself a winning mentality to avoid being destroyed into tatters by failure.

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TOPIC: WINNING MENTALITY
WRITER: MICHAELBCH
DATE:MARCH 2ND, 2022

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