How Do You Want to Win?

There are many ways to win. Channels, styles, metrics, pursuits, identities.

To win you have to pursue something. Can you win at nothing? Everything is something, even what looks like nothing (low activity), is potentially something you can win at. So, yes you can win at something that looks like nothing.

You set the parameters ultimately on what winning looks like. Just as you do whining, which is the antithesis of winning.

You’re in control.

You can copy someone else and win if you consciously (or even subconsciously) decide to.

You can derive a massive bold strategy to win that no one has ever seen (at least in your own mind).

Or be somewhere in between, which is what I think most of us do.

You can fight dirty. Play to win (does not have to be outright dirty). You can play nice…….You can not play at all.

But how do you define the win? That’s really the point here. Will that definition change over time? That may be the best definition of growth in some senses of that word.

What goes into the definition? And when do you decide to define?

Again that’s on you.

Do you ever do it? On you.

Do you choose a definition when you decide not to choose to define what winning is to you?

Why does all this matter all?

Again up to you.

Confused?

Up to you.

At this moment in time I happen to be redefining what WINNING is to me. As a person. As a business owner. As a Dad. Everything is on the table and up for discussion. There’s no sacred artifice. There’s nothing off limits to be over turned.

Why? Why now? For me at least it’s the feeling of it’s just time to do it. Combination of my trajectory as a business owner, my actual age in terms of years gone by and ahead, and my emotional and psychological age (how I feel and view me).

Can you schedule this exercise? I suppose you can try. I believe it’s one of those things that happens upon you. Not so easily calendared. And you just have to go through it when the moment happens or a trigger necessitates it.

The challenge for me, and caution to you, is to not over-define and haphazardly throw anything way.