Fear and Winning.
“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. Everyone wants to win, but not everyone wants to prepare to win. Preparing to win is where the determination that you will win is made. Once the game, or test, or project is underway it is too late to prepare to win. The actual game, the test, or project is actually just the end of a long process that is getting ready in which the outcome was already determined. So if you want to win, you must prepare to win. Once you prepare to win, winning is almost anti-climactic.
-Bobby Knight
Winning is in all of us. Winners don’t think normal. Everyone says think outside the box, but there is no box when you start out on a new journey, new goals for yourself. When you are in the chase for greatness, the chase to win, the ability to block out the noise, your head has to be in it. The only things you have are the things that are most important to you. That’s what winning is about. Every single day you have the opportunity to win. When you see those wins, and capture those wins, they bring you a little closer to what’s next. But most people don’t want to get in the race. Winning is a noble thing. It inspires others to be better themselves. When you win, someone else is going to win because of that. In order to win, your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. When your feelings win, your decisions typically suffer. When you remove emotions, you can fast track winning.
The fear of losing, of not playing, of what happens if, in my experience has been the detriment to my own goals and aspirations. If you want to win, if you want to hit a home run, you have to walk yourself up to that batter’s box and face the pitch, face the unknown that comes from trying to win. There is always a little bit of fear, but there should never be any doubt, disbelief in yourself, your abilities.
When you don’t have any doubt, it keeps your emotions under control and you keep going and going and going. You need that fear because it pushes you beyond what you would normally push yourself.
Fear gets you to move. The fear of not going for it, not walking up to that batter’s box, not doing and becoming more, what you leave behind and how much growth you still have propels you to do it.
Champions systematize the whole process.

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