to win
You can’t win every game you play; you just don’t have that much control over the competition. The key to consistent success is to shift your focus from a preoccupation with the result of individual games to an obsession with the preparation necessary for winning.
If you identify winning individual games as your goal, you can’t help but fall short more often than you like over your playing career. If, on the other hand, you concentrate on your want to win, and measure yourself by the activities you undertake every day in the pursuit of that goal, success is much more likely.
You will soon experience a world that doesn’t just put the emphasis on the final score; there are companies and bosses out there who are as concerned with how you get to the finish line as with where the finish line is. ‘Nice guys finish last’ misses the fact that true champions may be running in a completely different race.
Don’t measure yourself by temporary results that are almost completely out of your control; learn that out of the want to win will grow the habits that are the win.
THOUGHT: It is out of my want to win – doing right things right - that success comes.
