Position of Power

When you were younger, playing games against others – did you drop out of the games if you could see yourself beginning to lose? Or did you play on with the hope that you may find a way of working your way back up? In other words – did you give up too soon, or did you continue to fight despite the odds?

A successful person is someone who continues to persevere despite the many “failed” attempts. The positive person doesn’t see failure as a negative situation, but uses it as a springboard of personal feedback to calculate the next move. Let me take the game of tennis for example. I have a friend who always beat me in the game of tennis, so I played and played…and played… and played…(and played :D) until I finally beat my friend. I didn’t take my failures as complete failure. I took it as a continual challenge until I won! Now, this could be seen as an ego-based reason to keep playing, but I can see that it is a perfect example of never giving up until you succeed. If I had decided to give up after the first game and grumbled under my breath, with the words, “I can’t play tennis,” then I would have never progressed or succeeded. I can actually say “I can play tennis!” I didn’t have a desire to become a great competitor, I just wanted to get better at it, and by playing against someone who could challenge me was a good gauge of progress.

If you want to pursue a dream in life, you will get the knocks. You will need to get back up and take it purely as “feedback” in order to try again with new knowledge!

We all know that playing the victim doesn’t get you very far. Negativity breeds negativity generally in life. This energy pulls you down and brings a negative thought pattern of failure. If you want to succeed in life, or in your dreams, then you need to have a winner’s attitude. You need to be in a position of power! There are many phrases that determine the thoughts we have.

We can say “I can’t,” which is the victim mentality; or we can say, “I can…”

We can say “I give up.” Or we can say, “I want to try again.”

We can say “It’s a problem” or we can say, “it’s an opportunity.”

We could say “this is hard” or we could say, “this is a learning experience.”

After seeing these examples of view-points, you can see that the victim isn’t going to win, but that the opposing thoughts are potential winning opportunities!

Life is a little like the games we played as a child. If you can see this life as a simulation that challenges your mind, body and spirit, then we always have the option to perceive things as the victim or the winner!

How do you want to play the game of life? As the victim or the winner?

If you truly wish to pursue a dream, then surely if you hold enough desire to succeed, you will have that determination, with the winner’s perspective.

I often ask if my perspective is that of the victim or that of the winner. If I can tip the balance to be more in line with the winner, then I know my perspective on life is more positive. If I have more positivity in my life, then I attract people and events of the same…

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