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LESSONS THE

WINNERS
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Winners make excellence a habit, and you can too.

Fake it until you make it. Yes, it sounds cliche, but even if you feel like a loser, emulate the behaviors of a winner. Your actions can influence your thoughts, and it takes time for any behavior (good or bad) to become a habit.

Every great achievement is the Victory of a flawing heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A winner will never quit and a quitter will never win

The opposite of a winner is not a loser - it is a quitter. People who "win" at life, who accomplish their goals and do great things, are those who keep trying. Instead of letting a little setback knock them off course, they dust themselves off and take another go at it.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. Paul Bryant

Decide that you are tired of losing.

Make a concrete decision to change your life for the better. It all starts with a single decision to change. So, make a firm commitment to change.

A winner never stops trying. Tom Landry

A winner will never act blindly. They will create strategies and plans before they take any action.
Some people work with their hands (labor work). While some people work using their mind. It is a different in strategy. As you can see it clearly now, it is all about strategies. If you follow through the right strategy and take the right action, youll reach your goals sooner. However, if you use the wrong strategy, youre going to use more time to reach your goals.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts. Ralph Boston

A winner is also a go-getter. A proactive person will take action to get rid of the obstacles they face instead of being held by the obstacles.

The problem with most people is that theyre not a go-getter and theyre not proactive in their life. Most people will wait for things to happen instead of becoming the first one to take action to make things happen.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. Lou Holtz

Winners have their eyes open for opportunities. Things change, and opportunities don't last. A winner will take the chance and go for it when the opportunity arises

Having the vision to notice the opportunities requires having a positive outlook on life. Winners are positive people. They believe they can eventually win the prize if they keep working toward it. In fact they don't just believe it - they know it.

In racing, we wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, we have to be willing to roll the dice. Bobby Rahal

When youre passionate in your work, youll automatically come up with the energy and motivation to do the work.

The way passionate people talk, walk, move, breathe, think and almost everything they do, are going to influence you. You can feel it when youre talking to them. This is the kind of habit you want to adopt. You must learn to be passionate in what you do to be a winner in your life.

To win, you must have a strong focus. You have limited resources and must use them in the most effective way.

Being a winner means pushing through and doing whatever it takes; even with small things.

If you are unemployed and overweight, be willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to turn your life around. On a day to day basis, go the extra mile in EVERYTHING you do. On those days you feel like taking it easy, RESIST THE URGE to do little or nothing.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen. Nancy Kerrigan

Easy does it! Don't try and change everything all at once. But make consistent progress.

Have realistic goals. Ok, so you'd like to have a Ph.D. in teleportation, but the degree doesn't exist yet and you majored in basket-weaving...be realistic people.

You were born to win, but to be a

winner, you must plan to win,

prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar

Instead of blowing away with the wind, the kites arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facing upward and against the wind.

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Let us each rise to the great heights our Heavenly Father has in store for us, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafe under are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind. Remember the wind has the word win inside!!!

Don't let the pain of 1 season destroy the joy of all the rest. Don't judge life by 1 difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches & better times are sure to come some time or later.

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The man said there is only 1 season in the tree's life. You cant judge a tree, or a person, by only 1 season, and that the essence of who they are & the pleasure, joy, & love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the season are up. If you give up when it's winter, youll miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

"There is no failure, only feedback."

If you want to be a winner and live the life you want, you must be committed and be willing to play it full out.

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A winner is a person that makes 100% commitment to their life. They know that if theyre not committed, theyre going to get lousy results. If youre not committed, it is better not to start. This is because when youre not playing it full out, you definitely are not going to get the results you want.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser. Mark Fidrych

Winners do not value life as much as what they can do with it. For them life is not a tedious journey from the womb to the tomb. It is a journey about crossing milestones and looking forward to new ones.

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The secret of winning in life lies in seeing life differently - in its different shades and outcomes. "Life becomes a path that leads to achievements.

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way the things work out

Surround yourself with people that are winners as well.

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Find people who have qualities you desire, and hang out around them instead. Not only does this help with networking and opportunities, but you'll act more like the people you surround yourself with.

"The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results." Edward de Bono

Every winner is willing to learn because they know that if they want to win, theyll have to learn.

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If you can commit to read a book each month, youre going to digest 12 books in a year. And if each of the book you read is going to give you an idea to improve your life by a mere 1%, do you know how much youre going to improve by the end of a year? The answer is not 12%. Were talking about the compounding effect here. The 1% you created is going to stack up and accumulate compound into amazing growth in your life.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. Robert Service

Thank You Very Much Sompong Yusoontorn