Everyone Wants To Win

Oh, that feeling of victory when the thing you’ve wanted so badly finally happens. It’s the job promotion, the offer that was accepted on your house, getting your dream car, or becoming a published author. Sometimes when you’re waiting for your win to happen, you look around at other people and their achievements and think that good things are in abundance for everyone but you. What exactly is it that cultivates the success that’s hiding behind every win?

Preparing To Win

Most of us have the inherent desire to want to win but then we struggle in the area of practice and consistency. Reaping the results of being healthy is the same way. We have to practice. Why is the practice of being healthy important? Because in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle long term we need to establish new habits and patterns throughout the entire process and that happens through practice. Practicing, or preparing to be successful yields life-long benefits including physical, mental and emotional healthiness.

Gaining And Losing The Same 10 Pounds (or 20 or 30…)

How many people do you know who have successfully lost weight only to regain what they lost and maybe more? As it turns out, allowing yourself to learn what it takes to be a lean and healthy person and endure in that part of the process, is a necessary component to keeping the weight off. That means, when it takes longer than you want it to, or you feel like you can’t tolerate what feels like restriction, you are in fact learning the skills necessary to ALWAYS be 10 pounds lighter (or 20 or 30…). You are practicing being at a lean, healthy weight even if you aren’t there yet. This is a skill you don’t already have, but you’re working on it. If you spent years practicing being overweight and unhealthy, it’s going to take time to put some new things into practice to start changing how you think and behave.

Shortcuts Rob You Of The Win

Shortcuts rob you of the preparation it will take to win. When we spend more time looking for the shortest route rather than just establishing and investing in what it will take to get there, we’re forgetting that being equipped, and knowing what to do once we get there, is just as important as winning. Most of us couldn’t (nor would we want to) be shoved onto a stage in front of an audience to give a compelling speech with no preparation, and expect to be successful. In the same way, there’s no reason to believe that we can get to a healthier place in life without the same level of commitment or time. Being healthy, lean, strong and balanced requires practice and preperation. Once you grasp this reality you won’t want to hurry through or rush past it. You NEED the time it takes (even when it doesn’t feel like it) to be educated and equipped once you get to a place that’s totally new and different. Once you begin to treat preparation and practice as valuable skills to possess, you can allow yourself to invest in the length of time it’s going to take to get there.

Dawna LS Wilson

It’s not the will to win that matters, everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. -Paul Bryant