WINNING ATTITUDE

Three people ran a marathon along with hundreds of others. None of them  won the race. Does that mean that these three people were lazy? Not  at all. Each went into the race with different objectives.

 The first ran the race to test his endurance. He came out better than his expectations. The second ran to improve on his previous performance, and he did. The third person had never ran a marathon. His goal was to compete and complete the race and he did.

Each of these three entered the race with different objectives, they all met them and they were all winners. Regardless  of who won the medal. Mark Twain said; “ It is better to deserve an honor and not have it than to have it and not deserve it. Dignity is not in possessing but in deserving.”

One can be a winner without a medal and one can be a loser with a medal. If winning is not kept in perspective, if winning is not your objective, you may miss out on the internal rewards that come with doing something well. More important than winning is winning with honor and deserving it. To have won, It is better to lose honorably than to succeed with dishonesty losing honorably may signify lack of preparation but dishonest winning signifies lack of character.

The real test of a person’s character is what he would not do, if he knew he would not get caught. It is not worth comprising one’s integrity and taking shortcuts to win. One may win a trophy but knowing the truth, one can never be a happy person. More important than winning a trophy is being a good human being.

Winners live and work every day as if it were their last days because one of these days it is going to be and nobody knows which one, But when they leave, they  leave as winners. Michael De Montaigne said; “ There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

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