Morning Inspiration

Got into office on a Monday morning and read an email from my boss which really got me thinking. Here is the content:

"What makes winners different from losers is NOT what happens tothem. Rather, it is the different choices they make.

I know many winners in life who were born with pretty lousy deals!Some of them were born to abusive parents, born with low IQ, borninto very poor families, or even born paralyzed. Yet, they becamesuper successful and happy because they chose positive thoughts andactions.

At the same time, I know many people who were born smart, rich andgood looking. However, because they chose negative thoughts andactions, they ended up broke, addicted to drugs and miserable.Let's find out how people choose to become winners or losers inlife.

The Loser

When losers have problems, they always choose to do three things.First, they choose to give excuses. For example, if they lose acompetition, they will give themselves excuses such as, 'there wasno time to train', 'I was unlucky', 'the referee was not fair' or'the weather was too hot'.

Secondly, losers choose to blame everyone else. For example, theymay blame their coach ('he's a lousy coach'). They may blame theirparents ('I inherited their lousy genes' or 'they did not encourageme').

Finally, instead of improving themselves, losers like to spendtheir time complaining about why everything is so bad.When you blame someone (or something), you are giving him/her yourpower! For example, if you fail English and blame your teacher forbeing lousy and boring, it means your teacher is the onecontrolling your success! So, you have no power to change yourresults; only your teacher can do so.

This is why losers feel powerless and helpless. They believe thatfor things to change, other people must change. So, they let theirlife get controlled by everyone and everything around them. Theylike to say things such as, 'that's just the way I am', 'there'snothing I can do', 'it's not my fault', and 'they ruined my day'.

The Winner

Do winners have great things just happening to them all the time?Nope, in fact some of them may be born into poor families, haveabusive parents, have mean teachers, or be given less opportunities.

However, they always have the power to make their life the way theywant it.

This is because winners choose to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY foreverything that is happening in their life. For example, if theyfail an English test, winners will take responsibility for thesituation.

Instead of blaming and giving excuses, they believe that THEYCREATED their results because of their past choices. Maybe theychose not to pay attention in class, they chose not to askquestions when they did not understand, they chose not to studyhard enough, or they studied using an ineffective strategy.

Because winners believe that they create all their results, theyknow that they have the power to change and create differentoutcomes! They also believe that for things to change, they mustfirst change themselves.

So who do YOU want to be?"

I think to myself. Did i give myself too many excuses?

YES. Definately.

I think i should take this into considerations :)