Are you a winner or a loser?
I was trying to understand about me, my character, what I had achieved, what is my goal, am I satisfied with the way I am living, etc., etc. Many questions started coming up in my mind. One of the questions that came up again and again was “how would I classify myself - As a winner or as a loser”.
I decided to find an answer to this question and went about trying to find out what do we mean when we say a person is a winner or a person is a loser. I found that Winners always considered themselves to be winners and Losers always considered themselves to be losers. One thing was clear to me. If you think you are a winner then you are a winner and if you think you are a loser then you are a loser. Whether you are a winner or a loser depends upon your perception and the attitude. I came across these attitudes and perceptions, which makes us either a winner or a loser. I found them in a little book entitled Winners and Losers by Sydney J. Harris.
When a Winner makes a mistake he says, "I was wrong," when a Loser makes a mistake he says "It wasn't my fault."
A Winner learns from his mistakes. A Loser learns not to make mistakes by not trying anything different.
A Loser believes in Fate. A Winner believes that we make our fate by what we do or fail to do.
A Winner stops talking when he has made his point. A Loser goes on until he has blunted his point.
A Winner in the end gives more than he takes. A Loser dies clinging to the illusion that winning means taking more than you give.
A Winner thinks. A Loser accepts.
When you look at it you will realise that there is another way of looking at things, a positive way of doing things and looking at the results.
G. de Purucker said in Studies in Occult Philosophy: "You know you can affect your character by your thoughts, your feelings, whether you give way to them or master them, whether you determine to live a life which is grand or one which is the reverse. You affect the whole of your character thereby and thus affect your destiny."
Everyday we face challenges. Challenges keep coming up at every turn in our life. If we have to face these challenges and overcome them then we must turn our thoughts outward use our intuition. This will ensure that we always win and win for the right reasons.
