Use the following list of comparisons to determine if you are a winner or not. Remember, sometimes it takes losing at things to determine how to achieve successful results. Winners know how to assess current reality relative to their goals, and how to adjust their actions to take winning steps to those goals.
Winners aim to achieve success.
Losers aim to avoid failure.
Winners aim for honest personal and business results.
Losers aim for personal kudos and ego gratification only.
Winners develop themselves by helping others to succeed.
Losers criticize others to make themselves feel better.
Winners talk solutions and take action.
Losers talk problems and do nothing.
Winners work based on priorities and successful actions.
Losers never have time for things they’d rather not do.
Winners know that failure is only deferred success.
Losers think success is only deferred failure.
Winners conquer their own fears of failure and their learned limitations.
Losers quit when the going gets tough, usually to avoid failure and take the easy way out.
Winners make an effort to take control of their lives.
Losers rely on luck and live in hope or for expectations of charity.
Winners have directions, goals, and real successes.
Losers have hopes, wishes, and unfulfilled dreams.
Winners look for the truth and reality in every situation.
Losers let their feelings and other people’s opinions influence their decisions.
Winners create values (products, services, and art).
Losers simply enjoy stuff and never produce anything of value for themselves or others.
Being a winner requires work.
Losing requires little to no effort at all.
The Winner thinks, “I’m good, but not as good I should or could be.”
The Loser thinks, “I’m not as bad as some of the others.”
The Winner makes commitment
The Loser makes promises
The Winner focuses the gain
The Loser focuses the pain
The Winner is like a thermostat
The Loser is like a thermometer
The Winner makes it happen
The Loser let it happen
