| "If you continue to do what you've always done, | | | | you quit. |
| you will continue to get what you've always got!" | | | | The great Ghandi taught: "If one advances toward a |
| Yogi Berra | | | | specified objective or goal, and does not lose 'belief' |
| It is easy to be a loser. All you have to do after you | | | | in its attainment; even though they may start their |
| failed at something is to continue the patterns and | | | | journey without the necessary tools or knowledge of |
| thoughts that created your personal conditions of | | | | how to get there; if they keep their faith and focus |
| failure and lack of achievement. It really is that simple. | | | | they shall most assuredly obtain the required tools |
| Most people are scared of the challenges that being | | | | and knowledge along the way." |
| successful will bring, or they just lack the willpower to | | | | Let's look at the differences between winners and |
| do what it takes to be successful. The realization | | | | losers: |
| that they are going to fail again creates anxiety and | | | | A winner says: "Let's find out" |
| emotional unrest which most people don't like and | | | | A loser says: "nobody knows" |
| they return quickly to the familiar world of excuses | | | | When a winner makes a mistake, he says: "I was |
| and justifications. | | | | wrong." |
| Unless the cycle of thought patterns is broken in | | | | When a loser makes a mistake he says: "It wasn't |
| those who fail, they will experience a lower quality of | | | | my fault." |
| life that lacks the good things in life that comes with | | | | A winner goes through a problem and deals with it. |
| success. The truth is: nobody is born a success, and | | | | A loser goes around a problem, and never gets past |
| nobody is born a failure. Losers learn from the | | | | it. |
| mainstream: Negative thoughts and negative actions. | | | | A winner makes commitments. |
| Winners learn from other winners, change their | | | | A loser makes promises |
| thoughts accordingly, and do their best to copy their | | | | A winner says: "I am good, but not as good as I |
| actions. | | | | ought to be." |
| Losers say: "Don't dream! Dreaming is impractical. Only | | | | A loser says: "I am not as bad as a lot of other |
| fools dream. We are in reality! One should stay in the | | | | people." |
| real world!" Winners, on the other hand, dream and | | | | A winner tries to learn from those who are superior |
| dream big. The great King Solomon said over 3000 | | | | to him/her. |
| years ago. "Unless people dream they perish." Did he | | | | A loser tries to tear down those who are superior to |
| mean dream when you sleep? No! He meant one | | | | him/her. |
| should have a firm goal or objective to achieve. | | | | A winner says: "There ought to be a better way to |
| If we dream and do not believe that we will | | | | do it." |
| accomplish our dreams, the dream becomes just an | | | | A loser says: "That's the way it has always been |
| idle wish, and will never be attained. On the other | | | | done." |
| hand if we remember and do what Napoleon Hill said, | | | | A winner says: "I will find the right people who can |
| we will never fail. He said: "Effort only fully releases | | | | help me." |
| its reward after a person refuses to quit." | | | | A loser says: "I will do it myself." |
| The following is an example of someone who didn't | | | | A winner looks for an answer in every problem. |
| quit. See how many times he "failed." | | | | A loser looks for a problem in every answer. |
| PORTRAIT OF AN ACHIEVER - Abraham Lincoln | | | | A winner says: "I will do it now!" |
| 1831 - FAILED IN BUSINESS, BANKRUPTCY | | | | A loser says: "I will do it later." |
| 1832 - DEFEATED FOR LEGISLATURE | | | | A winner says: "I will quit trying and simply do." |
| 1834 - FAILED IN BUSINESS, BANKRUPTCY | | | | A loser says: "I will keep trying." |
| 1835 - FIANCE DIES | | | | A winner says: "I will create my own good luck." |
| 1836 - NERVOUS BREAKDOWN | | | | A loser says: "I might get lucky." |
| 1838 - DEFEATED FOR U.S. CONGRESS | | | | A winner makes things happen. |
| 1846 - DEFEATED AGAIN FOR U.S. CONGRESS | | | | A loser lets things happen. |
| 1848 - DEFEATED ONCE AGAIN FOR U.S. | | | | Now you can see that winners make different |
| CONGRESS | | | | choices than losers. They think different thoughts, |
| 1855 - DEFEATED FOR U.S. SENATE | | | | believe different things, adopt different attitudes, and |
| 1856 - DEFEATED FOR U.S. VICE PRESIDENCY | | | | therefore produce different results in their lives. Now |
| 1858 - DEFEATED AGAIN FOR U.S. SENATE | | | | you have the choice to look at the above attitudes, |
| 1860 - ELECTED 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED | | | | and decide which you want to be; a winner, or a |
| STATES OF AMERICA | | | | loser. The choice is yours. |
| From the above it is clear that you can't fail unless | | | | |