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Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)

Grover, Tim S.

Citation (Chicago Style): Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series). Scribner, 2021. Kindle edition.

The Language of Winning

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Winning requires you to be different, and different scares people. So if you’re worried about what others will say, the long-term effects, the sacrifices you’ll make, the sleep
you’ll lose, your family being angry… I can’t help you with that. There’s nothing “typical” about the lifestyle and choices you’ll have to make. Winning is inside all of us, but
for most, that’s where it will stay, trapped under a lifetime of fear and worry and doubt.

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When you start apologizing for who you are, you stop growing and you stop winning. Permanently.

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THE WINNING 13 #1. WINNING makes you different, and different scares people. #1. WINNING wages war on the battlefield in your mind. #1. WINNING is the ultimate
gamble on yourself. #1. WINNING isn’t heartless, but you’ll use your heart less. #1. WINNING belongs to them, and it’s your job to take it. #1. WINNING wants all of you;
there is no balance. #1. WINNING is selfish. #1. WINNING takes you through hell. And if you quit, that’s where you’ll stay. #1. WINNING is a test with no correct answers.
#1. WINNING knows all your secrets. #1. WINNING never lies. #1. WINNING is not a marathon, it’s a sprint with no finish line. #1. WINNING is everything.

The Winning 13
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If you think like everyone else, if you act like everyone else, if you follow the same protocols and traditions and habits like everyone else, guess what: You’ll be like
everyone else.

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Winning is a war. And it’s fought on the battlefield in your mind.

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We all know people who are just plodding through every day. They say things like, Another day another dollar… Easy come easy go… Sun up sun down… Just glad to be
here… Same old same old. If that’s you—and I seriously hope it’s not—you need to blow up that routine, and replace it with something that engages you mentally and
helps you create new challenges and results.

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You get updates for your computer and your phone; how often do you update your ideas? Your strategies? Your priorities? How often do you reboot your mental energy
and delete the outdated programs and files?

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When you stop putting a high value on other people’s opinions of you, you give yourself permission to stop caring about the little issues and problems and distractions that
fascinate everyone else.

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After you win, or lose, there’s plenty of time to be emotional about whatever happened. But during competition, the only thing you should feel is total control. It’s your
responsibility to demand that of yourself.

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Control your thoughts, and you control your emotions. Control your emotions, and you control your actions. Control your actions, and you control the outcome.

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No excuses, no apologies. If that feels extreme to you, you’re correct. Extreme results require extreme competition.

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You had a great month? Good for you. See you in thirty days. Someone will be there winning. It might not be you.

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Being competitive and being a winner aren’t the same thing.

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Every day, you need to compete at a higher level than the day before. Small decisions. Little changes. New challenges. Bigger ambitions.

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We waste so much time talking about how we’re going to win that we forget the most important thing: actually winning. There’s a big difference between hanging
motivational slogans on your wall, and actually doing what those slogans tell you.

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Time for everything equals time for nothing. And winning at nothing.

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You have to master the art of NO. “No” is a complete sentence, it requires no interpretation, and everyone around the globe understands what it means. They might not
like what it means, but they understand it. And every time you say yes, every time you say maybe or not right now when you really want to say no, Winning rolls its eyes
and looks at someone else. Why is it so hard to say no? I know, you want to help people, you want to be nice, you want to show that you can take on everything and make
it all work. But Winning doesn’t need you to do any of those things. Winning needs you to win.

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Stop spending time you don’t have, on people you don’t like, doing things you don’t want to do. What do you want? More time to work? More focus on your goals? More
time in your relationship? More time to yourself? Figure it out and make a decision, otherwise you won’t be happy in anything.

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Part of that price—perhaps the most significant part—is embracing the reality that you’ll often make decisions and take actions that will make other people unhappy. And
eventually, you’ll learn not to care. That’s how you distance yourself from everything and everyone who stands between you and Winning: You learn to separate.

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You’ll have to brace yourself for the storm that goes along with disappointing people who feel they should have a voice in all your decisions; you’ll have to decide whether
you need the outcome more than you need their approval.

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Winning is an investment. It’s the result of making “selfish” choices that empower your goals, separate you from limitations and insecurities, and create distance between
where you’ve been and where you want to go.

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Invest in yourself because you’re worth it. It’s not selfish to want more; it’s necessary to survive the hell of Winning.

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I don’t think there’s a lonelier experience than looking for answers, finding none, and realizing you’re at the crossroads of your life: Either you fight your way out of the hell
you’re in, or start accepting that you’ll be there forever.

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When you feel fear, when you can’t trust anything else, you must be able to trust yourself.

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Fear is about playing to win. Doubt is about playing to not lose.

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There are four components of Winning that determine how you’ll manage your fears and doubts and make that leap, or if you’ll make it at all. Talent. Intelligence.
Competitiveness. Resilience.

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Resilient people don’t act like victims, they don’t feel sorry for themselves. They’re not dwelling on what’s happening right now, they’re looking ahead to see how they can
take control and change the outcome. If they don’t like the way their story is unfolding, they write their own.

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For very young kids, I understand and support the value of emphasizing the experience instead of the results. It’s inclusive and supportive and gives children their first
experience in sports. But by the time they’re in first grade, it’s acceptable—no, it’s essential—to teach kids that sometimes they will lose, and then teach them how to lose.
Teach them the value of working hard and achieving something. Teach them how it feels to put in effort and earn results. Teach them that a loss is the best way to learn to
win. Teach them that Winning matters. Results matter.

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Winning takes long walks in your head, usually in the middle of the night, and brings everyone you don’t want to see. The skeletons in the closet. The monsters under the
bed. Your secrets. Your fears. Your insecurities. Your doubts. You wake up in the darkness to thoughts and ideas and worries that you didn’t have when you went to sleep,
but suddenly there they are, blowing up your world.

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There is no greater superpower than the ability to say “This is who I am.”

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Think about how much energy and time go into trying to be someone or something you’re not. How much further along would you be if you put that same effort into being
yourself? When you’re confident in who you are, when you can stop worrying about what others think and finally decide what you think, you’ll understand the relief and
satisfaction of feeling those ghosts become a part of you. Possibly the best part of you.

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And the longer you fight with that, the longer you’re at war with yourself, the longer you’ll struggle to find some peace.

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Winning doesn’t meet you at the start of your race; it hates crowds. It meets you near the finish, when the others have quit or failed.

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To have what you really want, you first must be who you really are.

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One of the worst “motivational” expressions ever: “Showing up is half the battle.” No. Showing up is none of the battle. If it’s a battle for you to just show up, you’re so far
from Winning you won’t find it with GPS and a team of hunting dogs. Winning demands you show up with purpose and intention and discipline.

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Whatever you’re chasing in life, it’s not an option to sit back, skip a few days, think about it for a month, and see how you feel in a year. It means doing it consistently, with
purpose and focus, from start to finish.

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Turn off your phone. Turn off the TV. Close your door. You don’t need to ask eight people what to do. It’s just you and the work now. No distractions, no clock. Focus on
what you’re doing, not what you’re missing.

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If you do it like everyone else, you’ll be like everyone else.

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To me, a sense of urgency is the ultimate distinction between those who win and those who watch others win.

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There must always be joy.