Four Steps to The Mindset of a Champion

1. Be Hungry

All great things start from within. It what’s between the ears that separate the winners from the losers. We must train, we must study, we must work like we’re always second place. To be a champion, a person’s hunger has to drive them to almost insanity. Your vison must consume you. You must eat, sleep, and live out your hunger for your dream everyday. Do what you love and you’ll love what you do.

2. Accept failure, Never Defeat

Times can be tough. The path to success will never be a straight line. An obstacle is going to pop up every moment of our lives. You either let it define you, or you tear it down. Like Rocky Balboa once said, “There ain’t nothing that hits harder than life. It ain’t about hard you can hit; its about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. Its about how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” If you can take, then you can make it. Learn from your failures. Train harder and work smarter. There is a difference between working smarter and cutting corners. Don’t ever cut corners. Working smarter is by laying out all your options and choosing the most efficient way to achieve your maximum goal. Cutting corners is to accomplish something acceptable but not excellent. Acceptable workers don’t get anywhere near the CEO’s desk. Remember, the master has failed more than the beginner has ever tried.

3. Respect Authority and Fall in Love with The Dirty Work

It’s not about kissing ass to the big man, its about knowing where you stand on the hierarchy of command. A champion doesn’t automatically become one, he or she starts out where everyone else began, a Grunt. All shit rolls down hill and as a Grunt you have to deal with it. So you can either take it as it is, or you can polish that baby up and sparkle it with gold. Learn to love the dirty work. Here you learn a work ethic of a champion and that work ethic can lead you right to the top. A Grunt doesn’t become a General overnight.

4. Go Big or Go Home

A champion always dreams big. Now along that way to success they don’t throw the Hail Mary pass all game. They throw the realistic passes, the ones that will move the chains forward. Keep the ball going down field and the result are points on the board. I didn’t say touchdown because we can score field goals also. Both are victories, but some are bigger than others. We want the touchdowns but we’ll take a field goal most of the time. Though there come times where we must take some risk. Playing conservative and taking the easy points might seem like a good idea but it can lose you the game. A champion knows when to take those risk, to let it all on the line. A champion lives for that moment. The moment where failure is not an option because history is only written by the victor.