YOU CAN BE A WINNER

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YOU CAN BE A WINNER

 

>From early childhood we are inbred with this idea that life is a race and

someone must win. Each one of us in his own way, or in his own scheme of

things, wants to be a winner.

 

The urge to strive, to win, is inherent in all of us to a greater or lesser

degree. Perhaps we waste our time, our money, our mental and physical energies

in following up the struggle and sharing in the victories of others with more

ability, more drive, more 'know-how' than ourselves.

 

Perhaps we are to stand on the side and watch others run the race, engage in the

struggle and fall or win as the case may be . Perhaps there is sometimes a

sneaking sense of envy for the winner-a sense of relief that we are not the

loser.

 

Yet surely we are not content to go through life, just holding a watching brief?

We too must be in the race, the turmoil, involved in the effort to achieve.

 

The winner only knows in himself whether he is winning. It may not be for you or

me to be in the forefront of life, to make headlines in the news, or even to be

known to our smaller local communities as a success - a winner. But each man

and woman has his race to run, his achievements to make, his goal to win.

 

The choice is yours. it is waste of mental and physical energy to sit by the

wayside, envying those who are racing by and achieving public recognition.

 

Success is to the doers and the thinkers. Dreaming can be dangerous and play

only a small part in any success. Look around, do the job and enter the race

that lies to your hand. Cease to envy others, take a real look at yourself and

weight up your talents.

 

No one has everything nor ever will have. Everyone has something however small.

Take stock of your talents; some have mental ability, others have health and

physical strength; while many have a strong personality which carry them

swiftly among the road to achievement.

 

There are more opportunities today than ever before. No one need be without

education or training, the doors are wide open to those who will reach out,

seize them and then work. In your own small way, you can be a winner in that

place where you find yourself, or in any niche you may work your way towards.

The world may not shout your name aloud from the house-tops or print it in

headlines, but whatever you do, however, small or lowly, if you achieve, then

you are a winner!

 

"What men want is not talent; it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labour."

 

(Courtesy: Modern Practical Psychology - June 2003)