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THE PHILOSOPHY OF
WINNERS
Success is for the Brave!
M.Sc. Toma Korelc, MBA
www.creatoor.com
CREATING
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BUSINESS CONCEPTS
CREATOOR / T: +386 1 620 33 10 / info@creatoor.com.
Attention!
This book is extremely dangerous.
It can change your life!
is you.
Raymmar Tirado
Learning
Life is either
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Think Creatively, Work Decisively, Live Bravely!.................31
Who is a winner?................................................................42
In the search for the essence................................................50
The path of being victorious...............................................60
The essence of winners........................................................67
Temptations on the way to being victorious........................81
Being a winner...................................................................90
The path of being victorious...............................................95
you!
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to be exceptional.
Mark Sanborn
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Why?
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burdened you?
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Keep on going!
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This work
is part of your journey ...
It was written with the best of intentions and desires, but when
people walk a certain path, they realise that there are better,
even more wonderful paths. Then, for a moment, the thought
crosses their mind to go back and choose another, a better
path. However, it is necessary to constantly be walking onward. We walk along a path to learn, and new paths teach us
the most. And, as a result, all I had done in the past is negligible in comparison with what I will do in the future, and everything that I will do in the future is negligible in comparison
with the Creation. Our lives are so incomplete, and that is why
they are so beautiful; even in their imperfection, they are given
the immense beauty of growth.
How wonderful!
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Every fight
makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When reading this text, remember that I did not write anything
that is written in here. You were the ones who wrote everything,
absolutely everything everybody is reading with what they are
and what there is. It is true, however, that through reading you
are discovering yourselves. Actively indulge in the Philosophy of
Winners and let yourselves be surprised.
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can do it.
Walt Disney
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is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
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To my work ...
This work was based on the findings of my study on the future business environment and corporate behaviour by senior
leaders in fast-growing Slovenian companies known as the
gazelles. It is dedicated to all of you who want to create a wonderful path of your life.
In recent decades, humanity has been facing increasingly greater, faster, and all-encompassing changes. At a time marked by
changes and challenges, people constantly desire to discover
new and better paths.
Humanity is nowadays faced with the boom and growth like
never before. With the wide variety of achievements of modern science, we are actively intervening with our own evolution. We have such great power in our hands that we can create
a truly revolutionary leap in human evolution; however, it can
also be devastating.
New dimensions and new worlds are opening up for us, but so
are new and even greater challenges. Unfortunately, people all
too often see progress even in areas that are in fact dead ends
or even bring decline of our well-being. It is not only progress
that is important, but also peoples happiness, which is why we
incorporate love in our performance; the primary objective is
relaxation and the enabling of all of our potentials. The ultimate objective is the creating and developing of an integrated
and joyful man in the broader mutually-combined entirety
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Brave!
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a boy...
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Think Creatively,
Work Decisively,
Live Bravely!
Those who live brave lives are living the lives of winners.
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1 The poem The heights make us dizzy (Slo., Od viine se zvrti), performed
by the Slovenian group Martin Krpan, wonderfully presents the nonsense of
paper fears.
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Cowards think
If I ...
... had better parents ...
... lived somewhere else ...
... had a better job ...
... had a better education ...
... were beautiful/handsome ...
... stopped smoking ...
... had been born rich ...
When I ...
... finish primary school ...
... finish secondary school ...
... graduate ...
... get married ...
... when my children grow up ...
... when I am offered an opportunity for promotion ...
... when my boss leaves ...
What if ...
... something happens to me ...
... I lose my job ...
... I get sick ...
... they do not like me ...
... I will be rejected ...
... I make a mistake ...
Winners simply are and live!
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Wake up!
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Become free!
Spread your wings and enjoy the beauties of the sky! Free your
spirit and sing the song of your heart through the poetry of life!
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The term Winning may sound phony to you. Too materialistic. Too full
of As, or luck, or odds, or musclebound athletes. True winning, however,
is no more than ones own personal pursuit of individual excellence. You
dont have to knock other people down or gain at the expense of others.
Winning is taking the talent and potential you were born with, and have
since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or
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Who is
a winner?
I've missed more than 9000 shots
in my career. I've lost almost 300
games. 26 times, I've been trusted
to take the game winning shot and
missed. Ive failed over and over
and over again in my life.
Michael Jordan
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You are the one who has to decide whether you will live victoriously; because your chance, your freedom, your being victorious, success, and power are all in life that is happening to
you and your responses to it.
No one can succeed, enjoy, love and become a winner for you.
Everyone must live and come to recognise how to be victorious by oneself. For this, courage and complete devotion to life,
complete faith in oneself and the world are necessary...
Be brave and let yourself go with the stream of life. Give yourself to life and step on the path of knowledge, where only a
few dare to walk! Realise that your innermost essence is victorious. It might surprise you, but it will in no way leave you
disappointed.
Take responsibility. Be
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a winner, be yourself!
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The path is in
you
"90% of all those who fail in life are not actually defeated,
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essence ...
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Julius Caesar
You are who you are. Nothing more and nothing less.
How wonderful!
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This allows them to break through the many challenges, established frameworks, rules and norms. Life is a wonderful challenge for winners.
Winners are those people who dare to stand out from the
crowd and think, speak and act differently. They have the concept of acting differently built deep inside. They do not hide
or deny their difference. They realise that their essence is different from the essence of other people, so they do not accuse
them, force them or in any other way restrict them. The notion
of being different is built into the nature of each of us, whether
we want to admit it or not. Therefore, each winner is unique,
irreplaceable and full of surprises. They surprise themselves
and the environment, in which they live, but in their essence
their being they remain true to themselves; from here,
their power, strength, momentum and steadiness are derived.
Winners are not spuriously or forcibly different, for differences
cannot be forced. You either are a winner, or you are not.
Winners are brave. They dare to cut the Gordian knots of
paradoxes. They break the old established notions, outlined
boundaries and rules. By their example, learning and action,
they are reducing the unknown and expanding the consciousness of people. In their actions, they are brave, creative, often
provocative, strong and opinionated. They are what they feel
themselves to be.
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inner selves do not depend on membership, labour law or social acceptance, but from their own essence.
They are often driven to their essence by dissatisfaction with
the environment they live in. This dissatisfaction leads them
into their inner world, where they enjoy contemplation. Losers
come out of it as confused and contrite individuals. In contrast, winners are sufficiently persistent and determined, so
they learn their meaning and experience a kind of purification or awakening. They are born into their own true selves, in
connection with their own essence, on which they build their
path.
One of the essences of every winner is that they are constantly
changing, evolving and growing, as well as actively changing.
Changing oneself and allowing others to change is perhaps the
last lesson that each winner needs to learn. Although many
have enjoyed a moment of being victorious, they have not
been able to keep it. Too many have clung to their own ideas,
concepts and limitations of the past. They were unwilling to
change, yet changes are one of the most beautiful things a person can experience. You can shine in all your beauty only if
you are constantly changing. The winners are aware that they
need to change, in a way die, because only in this way can they
be reborn and rise from the ashes like the phoenix, flying into
the sky, full of new power.
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The breakthrough
power of performance
Winners are always working at the edge of their ability, and
direct more of their resources and attention to those things
that are still unknown to them, than on controlling what they
already know. It is the only way they can continue their development. They do not measure their achievements by the
standards of the past (how far they have come), but according
to their vision of the future (how far they have to go). They
do not allow the past to be an obstacle, an impediment to the
future. Failures do not stop them. The fact that something did
not work in the past does not mean that it cannot be made to
work in the future. The fact that something worked in the past
does not mean that it will work in the future. Despite failure,
winners maintain faith in the future victories and successes.
Where ordinary people act within the scope of the given options, the winners go beyond them. For solving complex challenges, they find new, fresh approaches. Winners act with a
strong charge of risk. Without hesitation, they are willing to
take risks and go into action.
They live bravely and often unusually. They have a plan, objectives, vision. They communicate them loud and clear. Each
day, they are focusing on their plan, qualitatively and creatively. They work in a long-term manner. They do not hide themselves, but go among the people and attract them. They instil
enthusiasm in people, which they then actively maintain and
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the desired, the possible, the necessary and the urgent. They
are drawing attention to the content and not to the process
and rules. While the losers obediently abide by the rules, the
winners know which rules are meaningful and which are not,
and when, where and how they should be broken. They act encouragingly, inspiringly, protectively, friendly. They are highly
creative, flexible and adaptable.
In life, they have something that can be called the field of
stability stable long-term relationships that they jealously
maintain and nourish. But first, they build a solid core that
allows them to be unbreakable and indefatigable.
or make one.
Hannibal
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lead me?
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Simplify!
Steve Jobs
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The essence of
WINNERS
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Philosophy
We can all be successful and happy, because our future
success depends on our state of mind. Successful people are
success-oriented, and unsuccessful failure-oriented.
Orientation
The ability to recognise and create ones mission, vision,
objectives and/or ideas toward which effort and abilities are
directed.
Attentiveness
The ability to work in a constantly developing and changing
environment. The ability to sense, recognise and explain
changes, signals and hints from the persons work environment, and the ability to use them for reforming and/or
achieving ones objectives and vision.
Responsibility
Performing ones objectives, duties and assignments conscientiously, responsibly and to the best of ones ability.
Taking the initiative
Willingness to accept challenges and the ability to gather
sources and forces necessary for the achievement of ones
objectives. Taking the initiative for achieving ones objectives
and vision.
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Abilities
Our abilities are our potential for the development of specific
talents. Everyone has at least one talent, which must be first
discovered and then developed in order to be used effectively.
Creativity
A desire to discover new dimensions and ways, an innovative, inadaptable and creative thinking, and the ability to take
creative decisions when facing challenges.
Personal style
Positive personal characteristics, which in themselves are not
necessary in solving challenges, leave their impact on every
persons act.
Comprehension
Comprehension is the capacity of the mind to understand
and place the economic, political, technological, social and
natural environments, as well as tighter community and individuals into a logical unit as they are all in reciprocal connection.
Attitude
Positive attitudes towards the world, love for creation and
firm, brave and persistent striving after achieving objectives,
where mistakes and failures are seen as necessary experiences
on the way to the final goal.
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Learning
The ability to gain skills, information, concepts and models
for the explanation of past experiences and their effective use
in future intentions.
Open-mindedness
Being receptive to everything that is new, different, unusual,
even contradictory for open-mindedness broadens ones horizon and creates new qualities.
Giving opportunities
Giving opportunities, education and support to people in
order to help them be what they can be.
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the power.
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My life is
my message.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Action
Am I in constant action, working at the edge of my abilities,
and exploiting of my potentials?
Work
Am I completely committed to my work and full of enthusiasm?
Being different
Am I different from the competitors? Do I have my style and
walk on my own different path?
Do I have control over my own destiny, act confidently and
make decisions autonomously and independently?
Intuition
Am I able and willing to listen to my intuition? What does my
intuition tell me?
Intelligence
Do I know how to use my ingenuity? How do I use it? Do I
also know how to think with my heart feelings? Do I think I
am the best and invincible?
Harmony
Do I know how to find harmony between business challenges
and personal life? Do I consider the fact that other people
need similar harmony, too?
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Speed
Do I make decisions quickly and effectively, without unnecessary hesitation? Am I willing to reach for the new, different
and unknown?
Competition
Do I have a competitive spirit and desire for competition? Do
I know how to act softly, but also fiercely?
Knowledge and experience
Am I constantly searching for new skills and knowledge,
learning and upgrading my own development and the development of all around me?
Openness and susceptibility to the new
Am I open and susceptible to the new and the different? Do I
enable, encourage and explore the flow of capital, knowledge
and ideas? Am I not jealous of the ideas of others. Do I not
hide mine? Do I share information with others?
Environment
Do I pay attention to the opportunities and possibilities in
the environment? Do I pay attention to my inner, untapped
potential and opportunities?
Understanding of the environment
Do I follow the local and wider business environment? Do
I understand and try to understand events in the business
environment?
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What we think, we
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become.
Buddha
Future
Do I work proactively? Do I consciously create my own destiny? Do I know my mission? Do I have a clear and unambiguously formulated strategic purpose? Do I run on the long
or the short term? Do I have a long-term perspective? Am I
capable of anticipating the possible futures? Am I willing and
able to take a long-term look?
Changing break with the past
Am I constantly checking my general philosophy of life towards myself and the environment, concepts and models, and
actively changing it? Am I able to admit my mistakes without
hesitation and evasion, and to quickly and efficiently correct
them? Am I willing and able to cope with the changes and
actively introduce them? Do I eliminate impurities and that
which is bad and inefficient?
Trends & technology
Do I monitor new trends and technologies?
Do I know them and use them?
Growth and development
Am I adaptable and flexible? Do I have a global orientation?
Am I focused on the world, and in the growth and development? Do I want to grow and develop? Do I have great inspiring objectives, continuously improve and develop myself,
as well as grow, and also actively develop my own people,
employees, processes, solutions, etc.?
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Market orientation
Do I know the target markets, segments, existing and potential competition? Am I searching for and actively creating
market gaps?
Risk-taking
Am I willing to take risks, but not mindlessly? Am I taking
risks, although there is the possibility of error and failure?
Reputation
Do I actively and responsibly manage my own identity and
reputation? Do I have my corporate identity and brand identity clearly and unambiguously outlined?
Creativity
Am I resourceful? Do I have new and different ideas, am I
creative and innovative? Do I encourage creativity and innovation? Am I capable of long-term creative power?
Leader in the environment
Am I actively building a network of contacts and acquaintances? Am I a good negotiator and communicator? Am I
capable of creatively bluffing (also positively manipulating), if
necessary?
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Team leader
With what kinds of people, partners, etc., am I surrounded?
Do I select the right people? Can I and am I willing to select those who are better than me? Do I have a cohesive and
strong leading team? Am I willing and able to lead people?
Am I capable of putting myself into other peoples shoes, situations, and also of understanding them? Am I actively and
systematically building the corporate culture?Perseverance
and mental strength
Am I facing challenges in a healthy, strong and victorious
manner? Am I an emotionally stable personality? Am I
persistent, but not at all costs? Do I have a sense of when to
persevere, when to move forward, change direction, move
away or wait?
Letting go
Do I realise and understand that long-term success cannot be
achieved by force and that it is sometimes better to actively
wait than to use force? Am I capable of actively surrendering
myself to life and letting go in the moments when nothing
seems to work for me? Am I capable of actively waiting,
thinking and learning?
Unbreakable faith and confidence
Am I confident? Do I believe in myself and trust myself, my
colleagues and the success? Does the following saying hold
true for me and my colleagues: The impossible is possible?
Do I blindly and infinitely believe in my being victorious,
success and my lucky star?
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Happiness
Am I aware and do I understand that success is often unpredictable the result of a happy coincidence?
Am I aware and understand that I have to actively co-create
this happy coincidence? Do I believe that happiness is on
my side?
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dreamer?
Temptations
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Arrogance
Arrogance is extremely dangerous, as it blinds us and makes us
careless. It makes us believe we are the best, we know it all and
no one can get to us. That is how Goliath thought, too.
Being in love with ones own world
Love is beautiful, but a blind insistence on false love will lead
you to confusion, pain, and ultimately to failure. Excessive love
for everything (ideas, people, company, etc.) is unhealthy, if
not harmful.
Limited vision
If your view is limited and extends only to your home village,
then the most beautiful girl in your village is also the Venus of
your dreams. In your narrowness, you simply cannot imagine
a prettier girl. The same goes for everything in life. Anyone
with a limited vision also receives limited results.
Philosophy of evolution
Do not be fooled by the principle of natural evolution. A look
back in history is a good example that revolutions happen, too.
While dullards believe that it is necessary to introduce changes
in an evolutionary manner, victorious ones know that evolution is an effective way to change, but it is extremely slow. The
path of evolution is far from the optimal utilisation of the potentials that exist inside and outside of us. The path of evolution is not necessarily the best and the only principle.
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Resignation
Resignation occurs when the life charge is lost. There is no
more competitiveness, no more desires, no more action. Be
aware that thinking: We are doing fine. After all, we are coping
with everything. We have our niche market. We are managing.
We are managing from day to day ... only leads downwards.
Violence / passivity
Many are trying to sail against the wind. They are walking
through life violently, trying to force their desires, visions and
objectives to happen, while others are like a ship without a
rudder or sail on rough seas. Both approaches are contrary to
nature.
Lack of courage
Perhaps, you are afraid for your life and do not take risks, but
not taking risks is the greatest risk for your life. Are you aware
of that?
Hesitation
Opportunities do not wait. When they occur, they should be
seized and exploited. Opportunities and luck are on the side of
the strong and the brave.
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Lack of confidence
While a tree with weak roots is uprooted even by a light breeze,
a strong and confident tree defies the worst storms. Those who
do not believe in themselves and do not trust themselves, cannot expect that others will believe in them and their ideas.
Lack of knowledge and experience
Perhaps you are capable, but without investing in your own development, even the greatest ability remains merely untapped
potential. Learning is a part of life, and those who do not learn,
do not live. The same goes for experience. Those who live are
constantly trying, testing and accumulating experience. Those
without any experience are standing and waiting.
Preoccupation with knowledge and experience
Knowledge is the key that opens many doors, but if you want
to open your heart, you need love. Knowledge is sometimes
an advantage, but not always. All knowledge is also not true
knowledge. As such, it can even be dangerous. The same goes
for experience. Overload and infatuation with knowledge and
experience are limiting your creativity, resourcefulness and are
distancing you from the new.
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Indulgence to others
We are not here just to fulfil the needs of others and others are
not here just to fulfil our needs. If we meet each other, we have
a nice time; if not, what can we do? Those who live victoriously
can create boundaries.
Internal conflicts
As on the outside, also on the inside. It is difficult to live in a
happy and beautiful world if you do not carry happiness and
beauty in your heart. If you are focused on bad things, good
things cannot happen.
Clinging to power
Whoever clings to their position or power, lives in fear, is full
of worries and eventually loses his power. The greatest power is
the willingness to submit power to others. Anyone who clings
to power is blocked, does not grow and does not live.
Preoccupation with the past
The greatest successes usually follow major failures. The magic
of victorious people is that they persist, and go forward until
they fail. Even when they fail, they feel successful because
they know they have worked with their best intentions and in
the best possible way. This is also a success a great success,
in fact.
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Indecisiveness
When cancer cells begin to spread, they need to be removed.
This is painful, but the longer you wait, the more it will hurt.
Weaknesses should be removed.
Leaving the initiative and control to others
Maybe others are better at something than you, but be careful.
When you submit the strategic control point,2 control and
management of information, design and setting of rules to
others, you lose your freedom.
youre right.
Henry Ford
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A winner does not need losers; they do not evaluate themselves and their achievements through relationships with
others. A loser needs others to prove their strength.
Winners are true to themselves; they do not carry masks. A
loser is hiding behind many masks.
A winner listens, but does not accept non-critical limitations
or the guidance of others who tell them who and what they
are or what they should be. The loser thinks first: What will
other people say?
A winner does not evaluate their achievements with the criteria of others. A loser is constantly comparing himself with
the criteria of others.
A winner is free. A loser is trapped.
A winner is living a relaxed, full life (company, friends, etc.).
The loser is always buttoned-up.
A winner is calm even in the toughest moments, because
they know that they are winners. Tension is the constant
companion of losers.
A winner is like an eagle, capable of broad and focused observation. A loser has blinders on his eyes.
A winner is not burdened with trifles. A loser looks at everything, but the essence.
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A winner enjoys life to the full, doing the right things in the
right way, intuitively. A loser does the wrong things in their
own right way.
A winner loves himself and all that surrounds him; he is love.
A loser does not love anyone, not even himself.
A winner does not need others to sing their glory and praise.
A loser needs losers.
A winner makes a mistake, but acknowledges it with ease:
I was wrong. A loser defends themselves: It was not my
fault.
A winner attributes his victory to luck, even though it was
not a happy coincidence. A loser blames their bad luck for
their loss, but it was not merely bad luck.
A winner works more than a loser and has more time. A loser is always too busy and has no time to avoid failure.
A winner actively meets the challenges. A loser prefers to
avoid them.
A winner shows regret by correcting mistakes. A loser defends himself, saying that he could not have done anything
about it, but next time makes the same mistake.
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THE PATH
of being
VICTORIOUS
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power and comfort, and from which we will have the chance
to manage the sky in the best possible way. Take the position
that is most appropriate for an action and keep to it. Go into
action, but do not lose your purpose and sense of direction
after initial successes. Take risks and be prepared to change
direction if necessary. Let us change ourselves and actively
change the environment, too. Let us be persistent and not fear
the headwind.
Think and act ambitiously, because this is what we were created for. Make big swings. Be flexible and adaptable, and have
an infinite number of different manoeuvres ready. Let us try
and try out. Let us move in a creative direction.
Stay focused.
Be prepared for intermediate stops along the way, and especially enjoy the flight, because the charm of the flight is the
flight itself, not the destination a landing.
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lead
Thank you
The nicest thanks is a simple thank you that comes from the
heart. I feel deep gratitude to all of you who have advised me
on my path, posed challenges to me, opened my eyes and also
expressed criticism. Thank you for your friendly, frank and
well-intentioned words.
We are born into the world as pure potential, which becomes
what it is only in contact with our environment and through
our own activities. Our own activity is extremely important,
but it is the environment that enables us to unleash and develop our full potential and enjoy the freedom of creativity. On
our journey, we are accompanied by the people who serve as
an example, pose challenges, offer encouragement, teach, advise, as well as enable and help us to truly live out our potential.
Every moment, thought or touch, no matter how insignificant
or indirect, shapes and changes us. It helps us develop, design
and expand our living space, our view of the world and ourselves. It helps us develop a general philosophy of life towards
ourselves and the environment in which we live.
With this work, I would like to thank all of you who have accompanied me on my astonishing way of self-discovery, because each and every one of you I have spent only a moment
with, one way or another, has left your mark in my life and
work.
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Finally free
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...
I am grateful
For numerous challenges,
because they allow me to grow.
For all my losses,
because they are opening up new possibilities for me.
For all the painful surprises,
because they provide the opportunity for self-discovery.
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Be a winner!
Free yourself of all authorities, conditions, persuasions, traditions and customs. Surrender yourself to life.
Be yourself!
Someone once said: Work like you do not need any money,
love like you have never experienced any pain, dance like no
one is watching, sing like no one is listening, and live like it is
heaven on earth!
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Sources:
Life is everything ...
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Be the masters of
your fate!
Shogun
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In an orchard, one apple will begin to ripen and in so doing will send out a vibration, an enzyme, a fragrance, or an
energy field of some kind that is picked up by the other apples. This one apple signals the other apples that it is time to
change, to ripen. As you become a person who holds only
the highest and best for yourself and others in your words
and thoughts, you will signal to all around you simply by
who you are that it is time for a change. Without even trying, you will raise the consciousness of those around you.
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You are mistaken if you believe that you must first know and have
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