What Separates Winners From Everyone Else
Winning one time doesn’t make you a winner. What makes a winner a winner is winning a lot, especially when it counts. Furthermore, there are many ways to win, but there is only one way to be a winner. That is by having winning behaviors.
What separates winners from everyone else is nothing complex. It ultimately comes down to repeating the behaviors that help you win. Simply stated, winners are willing to do things that losers aren’t willing to do. It’s not talent, it’s not luck, and it’s not some complex mindset technique either. All of these things can help. However, none of this matters if you don’t consistently repeat the behaviors that make winners win.
Some (and I stress some) of these behaviors are below:
- Maniacally stepping yourself through the same pre and post competition routine before and after each and every time you compete.
- Consistently showcasing optimistic, positive, or neutral body language and self-talk that makes you look and feel like you will win.
- Bringing a high state of emotional intelligence to high pressure situations.
- Getting in the optimal zone of intensity regardless of the environment around you.
- Spending as much time thinking about and planning your training routine as you do physically training.
- Using both the growth mindset and strategic mindset to learn from failure.
- Leveraging visualization techniques to train your mind to believe success is inevitable.
- Focusing most of your energy on achieving task goals instead of ego goals.
- Proactively building your mental muscles as part of your daily strength training routine.
- Consistently using positive training pain to increase pain tolerance and mental toughness