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HOW WINNERS WIN

Winners are not superhuman people with extraordinary abilities rather they are ordinary people who have developed good habits to extraordinary levels. There is a way that all winners act and here are just a few of those 'sacred' ways

1 Winners learn from defeat: Dr. Mike Murdock wasn't babbling when he said that, 'Winners are simply ex-losers who got tired of losing'. Winners learn more from their defeats than their victories because victories make them arrogant and cocky while defeat makes them curious to know what made them fail. Thomas Alva Edison after successfully creating the incandescent lamp on the ten thousandth attempt was asked how he felt failing a number of times before he succeeded. He responded by saying, 'I never failed ten thousand times rather I discovered ten thousand other ways not to do it'. Henry Ford said' Restlessness is a sign of discontent which is a sign of progress, show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure'. Winners don't take their defeat personal rather they take it in good strides just like current world champions Germany who after losing the World Cup to Brazil in 2002, came third in 2006 which they hosted and 2010 in South Africa yet went on to become champions in 2014 in Brazil, the team they lost to twelve years earlier.

2 Winners go the extra mile: Michael Jordan will ever remain a basketball legend because he went the extra mile in all his games, he was usually the first at the basketball court to practice as well as the last to leave just to add that little 'extra' to his ordinary. David Beckham practiced his free kicks to an extent that people coined a statement 'Bend it like Beckham'. Winners rather than stop where others have stopped still go the extra mile in delivering 'the goods' which makes people marvel.

3 Winners help others win: There is an African proverb that goes thus, 'To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. One unique quality about winners is that rather than knock others down, they lift others up. Don't be a cloud because you didn't become a star, rather help others win. Though this is not the easiest thing to do in a world where everyone is playing King of the Mountain but trust me it is the best thing to do. A protege of mine walked up to me and informed me of her intention to have a site of hers, rather than discourage her I gave her the necessary support which she deeply appreciated till today and mind you she said if I had kicked against it, she would not give it a second thought and I am glad I did because she is one of the reasons I am operating this blog which you have been visiting for some time now.

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WHYWINNERS WIN

Someone said, 'Success is a matter of luck ask any failure' another mused that, 'Success is when preparation meets opportunity. We look at winners and with some envy wishing that we were in their shoes. The bitter truth is that winners didn't just stumble into victory, they paid a great price for the great prize which you stare at enviously. Winners are not super human neither are they beings from another dimension but they do know a couple of things that we don't know, know and yet ignore or even know and are too lazy to practicalize it. Here are a couple of reasons why winners win which is not as easy as rubbing Alaadin's magic lamp but also not as difficult as rocket science.
1 Winners have winners as mentors: Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is both an A-list actor and wrestler is the definition of success as he is continually hitting the pinnacle of his careers both in wrestling and acting, the secret of his success as a wrestler apart from hard work and commitment is his mentor in person of Bret 'The Hit Man Hart' who was picked all the titles in the WWE, as well as being the first ever winner of the King of The Ring. It takes a winner to raise another winner for only giants can raise other giants. Winners go out in search of other winners to help them achieve their goals and aspirations.

2 Winners have other winners as friends: Charles 'Tremendous' Jones said it best when he said that, 'Where you will be in five years because of the books you read and the company you keep'. Take it friends, you can't have a loser as a friend and expect to win because eagles don't keep company with the chickens or the turkeys.Your friends are like the buttons on an elevator that either take you up or bring you down. Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan are the best of friends because they are the best in their sports and even in their businesses. They help each other to grow complimenting each other along the way. When one falls down the other will pick him up

3 Winners raise other winners: Winners are not just winners because they are successful in their fields of endeavours but because they contribute to the success of others. True winners are not content in winning alone but go the extra mile in growing other winners because success without successors equals failure. Winners are not only mentored by others, they mentor others and an example is Eddie Murphy who was mentored by Gregory Hines of blessed memory who was mentored by Bill Cosby who was mentored by Dexter.

4 Winners are persistent: Winners don't quit and quitters don't win, this was the advice of Sir Winston Churchill to a group of graduating students, 'Never, never, never,never, quit. Heroism as a Norwegian proverb said consists of hanging on a minute longer. Winners become winners because they don't quit,just like President Muhammadu Buhari who became president after contesting elections a good number of times before winning ousting the incumbent president, a record that had never been broken before in sixteen years of democracy in Nigeria.
Friends here are just a few reasons why winners win.

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