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Today's
Quotation:
Thinking like a winner means not always having to
defeat
someone else. It
means being able to grow from a situation
in which you fail
to reach
your goal. It
involves not demanding perfection from yourself in every
single thing you do, but,
instead, thinking of yourself as
perfect and thus
capable
of growing.
It means reminding yourself that perfection
doesn’t
mean staying the same; it means being able to
allow yourself
to grow.
Thinking
as a winner means not
coming down on yourself; it means
refusing to allow
self-repudiating thoughts into your head. It involves
pushing out the inclination to evaluate yourself
in
comparison with others,
and giving yourself permission
to
be the unique person you are.
Wayne Dyer
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Today's
Meditation:
Why
is it so important to focus on "thinking like a
winner," as opposed to "being a
winner"? What's so important about our
thoughts? Why should we focus on them instead of the
way we want to be?
Actually,
throughout pretty much all of the research that I've done on
actualizing ourselves and becoming the people we want to be,
learning about the way we think is the most important first step in
changing anything in our lives. In my experience, too,
nothing has changed in my life until I've been able to
change the way I think about certain things. It's like
an athlete who takes up a certain sport-- at first, they have
a hard time with many of the basics, until they develop a
sense of confidence. Once they have that confidence,
though-- a different way of thinking about what they're
doing-- their performance tends to improve significantly and
quickly.
It's
realistic to think optimistic, confident, caring thoughts
about ourselves, yet very few people do so.
Conditioning-- both social and self-conditioning-- tends to
make us think more negatively than positively, and it makes
us see the limitations rather than the possibilities and
potential in any given situation or endeavor. It's
important to know our limitations-- I would not try to climb
Mt. Everest next week, without any training at all-- but it's
also important to give ourselves a chance and not beat
ourselves down with our own thoughts. We can all be
winners, and winning doesn't necessarily mean beating
someone else at something.
Actually,
we all are winners. Unfortunately, many of us keep
that "winner" part of ourselves hidden by the many
negative and self-defeating thoughts that we have. And
what a shame that is, for we could help many, many people by
allowing our "winner" side to shine through!
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