Winning!

Winning is defined as “the act of a person that wins”. To win is to succeed through effort or trying!  Each and every single one of you is a winner and are already winning! How? By virtue of the fact that everyday you are blessed to get up, you rise and put forth the effort to be better today than you were on yesterday! You have never been content with just getting to each day’s finish line. You are a man or woman whose heart’s desire is to go through each day’s finish line!  Winning in life is not about finishing first. Just finish! Don’t try to finish cute, or with swag! Just finish today! None of us can predict exactly what each day will bring. We might stumble, we might fall, we may even end up in pain as we run toward our finish lines, but don’t stop just because it’s embarrassing, or your ego and pride are wounded along the way.

Someone said that “winners are not people who never fall, fail, or faint. They are people who never quit”.  Just because you may have not acquired a lot stuff, don’t give up – you’re winning!  Just because your name is not known by the world, don’t give up – you’re winning!  Just because you may suffer rejection after rejection, don’t give up – you’re winning! In the face of adversity and obscurity, you are growing and learning and transforming and becoming  wiser and wiser!  THAT is winning!  Sacred scripture reminds us, “the race is not given to the swift nor the strong but he who endures until the end”(Ecclesiastes 9:11) And because you choose to endure and fight and believe and stay in the race, I declare – you are already WINNING!