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After reading Tim Grover’s newest book release, Winning: The Unforgiving Race To Greatness, I ended up doing quite a bit of reflecting.
Am I winning every day? No, it doesn’t feel like I am. But there are days when I feel that I have won because I gave a full effort into making the most of what I could, in the time that I’m allotted for that day.
When he said that it’s an unforgiving race, I feel it. When he quoted Kobe, who said winning is “everything” I felt it. It’s a rough and messy road. I don’t know if it needs to be that way, but somehow it ends up that way.
We all go through so much just to get to the end of the day feeling fulfilled. If we ever get to feel that we did enough.
Happiness is important, and that may be what decides whether you won the day or not. It’s really up to you.
I feel his method of talking is to light a fire under me so I can start running to my destiny; one that I’ve shaped and formed for myself. He’s there to help me know how to think. Not what to think.
And his book gives ample examples to help understand what experiences can help one know how to think. Embracing one’s dark side is part of it.
Yes, I love the light side of me. The one that believes I can make it, that I can do anything I set my mind to.
The dark side is the one that teases me, “Can you really do it? Do you have the cajones to go through the uncertainty? Who’s to say you can be who you want to be when you haven’t completely lived as that person yet?”
And I think, “Who’s to say I can’t, other than myself?”
One moment I believe I can, the next moment I’m not so sure. Have you felt that before?
Then I remember, if I don’t keep it in check, my mind will control me instead of me controlling my mind. So I do what I can, to prove to my light and dark side that it’s possible. That we can make it, long as we move forward, towards the quantum leap that we desire, we’ll be good. Eventually, I’ll be unstoppable.
But it’s day in, day out, trying to make the best moves I can so I can make it.
I’m still learning, about the universe and about myself. It’s a never ending cycle.
I believe we are eternal beings, living in a finite way, needing to live in an infinite way, so that we can make our mark on this lifetime, and we may make another mark in our next, and the next, and the next.
I want to win. I may not always feel it, but I know that a step closer to my goal is a win for that moment.
There’s also those times that I win after some work has been finished. Or that I’ve accomplished some goal (Like passing the Part 107 sUAS test with my wife last month). Winning feels amazing for the moment, and it’s necessary to savor that moment. The next day, there’s always another goal ahead to figure out and conquer.
Get the book, it’s an awesome read.