Are You A Winner? Find The Winner In You

Let's face it...The odds of you creating, developing and maintaining a viable business past the first three-year mark are not all that good. Much of the general consensus is that you'll fail. Recent statistics for business start-ups say you'll fail.

How is it that you can hope to succeed when all around you are failing?

There's a real secret to success that hinges on your remembrance of one simple thing, and then acting accordingly with the principle. What is the one simple thing you should remember? Pay close attention. Here it is:

The battle for your success is fought and won nowhere else but in your mind.

* Your success or failure is does not depend upon where you grew up (Just ask Jermaine Griggs).
* Your success or failure does not depend upon your credit rating or the balance of your bank account (Does anyone even remember that just a few years ago Donald Trump's business was in bankruptcy, he was on the verge of personal bankruptcy and at one time he had nearly $900 million in personal debt?).
* Your success or failure does not depend upon your level of formal education (Although I am a proponent of the value of a good education, I'll take a sharp mind, determination and perseverance over a good education every time).
* Your success or failure does not depend upon what your family, your friends, your peers or your co-workers feel are your chances.

Your success depends on what you have inside. Are you a winner?

Can you withstand failure? Because most winners fail. In fact, a great many winners fail over and over and over again. Are you able to be knocked down or knocked out in your attempts to succeed, but have enough courage and tenacity to get up time and time again, brush yourself off, figure out what went wrong, what you did wrong, and then start again?

Are you able to withstand humiliation? In the midst of failing, can you endure your closest family, friends or loved ones saying “I told you so”, “I knew you couldn't do it”, “I don't even know why you wasted your time/money/effort” when you know in your heart of hearts that you are capable and you can achieve the success you so desire?

Can you humble yourself? Can you face business partners, financial backers or investors when all your money has run out and you still haven't made a go of it, yet you have to ask them for more time, more resources, more money because you know it will work?

Can you cope with the loneliness and isolation that is often an inherent part of entrepreneurship, because no one else shares your vision or can see the future the way in which you see it?

Are you strong enough to break through or break free of limitations you put upon yourself or that others have placed on you? Are you capable of continuing on your chartered path when your boss or your husband or your wife says you don't have what it takes to succeed?

Are you able to lift yourself beyond your current circumstances?

Can you drive yourself forward, even when it means challenging and overcoming immense fear?

Can you train yourself to feel that you are consistently in a place of abundant supply rather than lack of resources?

Can you open yourself up to consider limitless potential and enormous possibilities in terms of what you are capable of?

Are you a winner? Not everyone is, you know. Winning is a hard, difficult business. If it was so easy, everybody would be winners. And we've already established at the beginning of this article that's not the case. People get tired, people get lazy, people change their minds about what they want and what they're willing to settle for.

Are you a winner? I don't know, but I believe you are. I believe that you have what it takes to succeed or you wouldn't be here. I believe that there is a reason and a time and a place for everything. I believe that's why you're reading these words right now.

Are you a winner? Only you can answer that question. Find the winner in you.