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If you only take care of one thing you will run out of gas. Let’s say you lift weights only with one arm, you don’t do your legs, you don’t do your torso, you don’t do the other arm, you only lift weights with arm, and you lift a lot of weight often. You may have a very powerful arm and I suppose that could suit you and serve you in some situations, but you would be out of balance. Your body will respond negatively to that ultimately. You need to have muscle in all parts of your body not just in one arm.

This is the same in your education, in your evolution, spiritual growth as a human, in your physical body, in your family situation, in your career and finances. You need to be lifting weights in each area, that way you can have rounded winning.
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Multidimensional Winning

One of the benefits of desire is having a commitment. Commitment does not guarantee you’ll succeed but a lack of commitment will guarantee your failure. Commitment requires courage and taking risks, stepping out, going as far as you can go with what you have. It means giving your all to those situations and people that you’re engaged with.

Commitment cannot be imposed on you, commitment is chosen by you. It’s something that’s self-generated, it’s based on your own conviction, your vision, your desire to achieve. If something is just not working, committing to sticking it out even if you can see it’s failing is not necessarily the best idea.
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The other day I was watching a football game. There was a receiver who had the ball coming right into his hands, there was nobody near him, there was a person about six feet behind, and he looked away for just a moment to glance to see how far the person who was going to tackle him was, and in that split second when he took his eyes of the ball he flubbed it. It bounced of his fingertips. It could have been the game winning catch for that team. They ultimately lost, that missed catch did not have to happen.

Do not take your eyes off the ball. Keep looking where you want to go. Make sure that the vision you have is clear in your mind, that you commit to it, you have purpose, you build your desire, you remember those things that are of value to you, and you don’t flub by taking your eye of your desired goal. Keep your eye on where you are going.
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Being a winner is very different from having the potential to win. You have massive potential. I believe that the vast majority of people have huge untapped potential but they rarely exercise it. They rarely go out there and make something happen because it takes action, it takes vision, it takes planning.

Nothing is much more inspiring than the person who has just an okay amount of talent but goes out there and struggles and works and practices and they develop into an amazing speaker, parent, athlete or whatever they are striving for. They move forward and achieve much more than the majority of their colleagues because they work at it.
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Have you ever watched someone who is really good at what they do, and think about how they got there? It wasn’t an accident, it was tenacity, perseverance, a will to win and all that time and effort and energy spent. It took action. It was a strong belief in themselves and their potential and the people who were supporting them.

It was caring about themselves, their goals, their vision, and what they were trying to achieve. It was creativity, finding new and unique ways to make things happen. It was overcoming conflicts, because nothing ever happens without a little conflict, it’s always there to at least some degree.
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#10 – Communication

You pay attention to the communicators and to the communications coming towards you. Most important, you also hear what isn’t being said. You listen both with your ears and your eyes and with your feelings. When good communication is present – trust and respect follow.

No one plans on being mediocre. Mediocrity happens when you don’t plan. If you want to succeed, you learn the traits that make you successful and plan on living them out every day.
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#9 – Self-Confidence

The highly successful believe in themselves. They have composure and confidence in their ability to achieve.

You have to trust you. It’s as simple as that. When you have that unshakable trust in yourself, you are one step closer to success than everybody around you. You have to believe in you, you have to believe in the possibilities, you have to see what you desire, you then have to take actions towards that desired outcome. Self-confidence and composure gives you momentum to move forward and keep moving.

Eddie Carlson, the executive that took the Western Hotel company into the Western Corporation and took a failing United Airlines to being one of the biggest and best airlines in the world said, “I believe in myself. I know what I need to do. I help my people see their value and believe in themselves and together we achieve greatly.”
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#8 – Optimism

Walter Winchell once said, “An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.” You know there’s much to achieve and much good in this world. You know what’s worth going for.

Optimism is about a strategy for making a better future. You take action today to build a better tomorrow. Unless you believe the future can be better, you are very unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. Optimism is one of those traits that makes a giant difference. Without optimism, without belief in possibility, you will have no pro-activeness and without pro-activeness, you are not going to take the needed steps to achieve the desired outcomes you desire.
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