Sibusiso Mbhele
What separates a winner from the rest of the pack is not raw talent or
physical ability; it is the drive and dedication to work hard every single day
and the heart to go after your dream, no matter how unattainable others think
it is.
Linda Mastandrea
There are determining factors in
life that crown others as winners and some losers that have prevailed over
time. In life, we are inspiring to win. It might be in sport, education, music,
work, relationships, politics, and e.t.c. winning is what drives us to face the
new day. In the process of pursing championship, some stick to the rules and
some broke those rules. However, it is playing according to the rules of
championship that we become champions. I have met people who wanted to win but
did not adhered to the rules of championships and failed. Champions happen to
be people who were less acknowledged in their lives. Champions learned to do
things that losers did not do. In my process of studying champions in the
process of enhancing myself as a speaker, I learnt many things that make a champion.
Some people have
believed in their minds that champions are extra-ordinary people. Champions are
people who go an extra mile than losers.
The curios part about champions is that they are not born as champions
but they are made to be champions. Championship transcend being in the field of
play but excellence is their core principle.
In this article, I
want to share with many people the scoop of winning in life. For champions are
different from the mediocre. In my book why sit there, I spoke about getting
out of your comfort zone. So, champions feel strong when they are under
pressure. They perform more when the opposition rises against them. You cannot
earn a championship title unless your back is strong to face every setbacks.
Dr. John Tibane once said, “You need to turn your setbacks into your comeback.”
To be a champion it requires that you wake up each time you fall. Championship is not the matter of not failing
but rising up each time, you fail.
Champions are people
of influence with their lives. These people worked hard to get into the spot
light and still work hard to remain. In a nutshell, champions are leaders. They
are the true reflection of leaders no matter what comes their way. Champions
fight the good fight of faith. Champions believe in themselves. Champions work
in themselves before they get into championships. Lastly, champions possess a
dynamic desire that lastly them for the good course and a lifetime.
Champions
are principled people. They live a life which is value driven. To be a champion
in your life, you need to have principles that distinguish you from the rest of
other people. This mean understanding what you need to do, to reach a high
peak. Successful people have this in common, principles that they live
according. You will never be a champion unless you have principles that will
accelerate you into a championship.
As
someone, enjoy watching sports, all champions in every sport codes have
principles that they follow everyday. Whenever, they have made it to the top,
they recite such principles when interviewed. In my career as a speaker and
author, I came up with this three ground principles of champions. They are the
core of the ones I was to think of.
Play where you can win
To be
a champion it calls that you find a sweet spot. A sweet spot is an area where
you can excel. Where is an area where you can excel more than your opposition?
Most people have failed to live remarkable lives due to the failure of focusing
on the places where they can win. People who have earned championships are the
ones who have find their sweet spots.
If you want to improve your impact as a
leader, build upon your strengths by spending as much time as you can doing
what you do really well, learn to do what you do not know how to do, and spend
as little time as possible doing things you do not do well.
Soccer
stars, netball, hockey, music, movies, basketball and baseball they all have
one thing in common, they are playing where they can win. They did not watch
other people doing what they do best and tried to be them but they followed
their desires. What is your sweet spot? Where are you playing to win?
If
you were to be given everything that money can buy and the sum of money you
have been thinking about, where can you express yourself? What is that activity
that puts a smile in your face, wake you up in the morning?
Discover
Your Passion
Before
you set your intention, it is important to know what you are passionate about.
Do you know what you are truly passionate about? If you do, Great! Do this next
exercise to confirm your passion. If you do not know what your passion is, pay
particular attention to this next section. Discovering what you are passionate
about is simple to do. Simply think about what you love to do. Think about what
gives you the most pleasure.
How
do you know you are passionate about something? Just recognize how you feel
when you think of that thing. What do you talk about most of the time? What are
you thinking about even when you shouldn’t be thinking about it? Which book
section do you go to at the bookstore or the library? Which magazines do you
buy or look through? What subjects were most appealing to you when you were in
school? What do you do research on? What are your hobbies? What are the things
you really enjoy spending time doing? Start to think about some of the things
that you have done in the past that you became passionate about.
Think
about a time in your life when you were the happiest and the most peaceful and
remember what it was that you were doing, having or being. Ask yourself the
appropriate questions. You will get the answers. If you do not have answers to
the questions immediately, ask again and again until you get the answers. Try
doing different activities – drafting, gardening, public speaking, lecturing, a
sales profession, writing – and use your gut instinct to determine your level
of passion.
Here
are the questions to help discover what you are passionate about. Record your
answers as you ask the questions and review them later. Keep these questions
for future reference. Your passion may change as you get older, or your passion
may change when circumstances in your life change, so you may want to keep
these questions handy for future reference. You can also use these questions to
determine your continued level of passion after you have set your goals, to
decide whether the goals you have set for yourself are true for you.
Here
are the questions to determine your passion:
What
do I really want to do with my life?
What
am I passionate about?
What
do I love?
Where
would I go if I had the freedom to go anywhere?
What
would I do if I could do anything?
What
would I have if there were no limits?
Who
would I become?
What
gives me the most satisfaction in my life?
What
do I really enjoy doing in my spare time?
What
motivates me?
What
inspires me?
What
excites me?
What
drives me?
When
I have had the experience of jumping out of bed with excitement, what was the
cause?
What
have I done in the past that has given me the most pleasure?
How
do I want to contribute to the lives of others?
What
would I like to give to others?
How
would I like to be remembered?
If I
were granted one wish, and I knew that that wish would be granted, what would I
wish for?
You’ll
know what your true passion is by the way you feel when you answer these
questions. When you reread your answer you will feel the blood rush in your
veins. You will feel excitement and energy. You will feel inspired. You will
want to get up and go!
Know
your passion before you move on to the next part of this lesson.
Do
what is essential
When
you have found that spot, you need to do just what is essential for you to win.
Being a champion, is sticking to the core things that makes you a champion.
Focus your attention on the activities that accelerates you. Only use your
energy on the things that you enjoy doing and you do well.
You
can never be a champion doing things that does not contribute in you becoming a
champion. Ahead of you, there is always victory but if only you stick to the
right activities.
There are three fundamental areas that will
define your success as a champion: how well you lead yourself, how well you
lead others, and how well you lead the organization. Only if you can master
these, will you achieve true greatness.
Do
it at the speed of execution
Champions
are crowned within a given time. To be a champion, you need to master time. It
takes ninety minutes for a soccer match for a champion to be crowned. If you cannot master the art of time in your
way to the top, you cannot remain there for some time. We are all given 24
hours a day to influence where we work, in our relationships, society, more but
we complain about not having enough time. Champions do not complain about the
time given to play the game. The reason being is that they start the game with
an understanding that 90 minutes, 80 minutes etc. is what they have win. They
begin the game with high energy to score the winning goal.
The
most contributing factor to many failures has been their slow pace. They did
not acknowledged time given to them. All great champions or stars and leaders
have maximized their activities within time they had. What are you doing with
your 24 hours per day? Do you feel lacking time or clear goals?
I have provided
you with essential tools to win. Your life is a valuable treasure that needs to
be exploded. Only people who have mastered the art of winning have reaped the
fruits of living a good life. Dare to win in your everyday life and apply these
principles.
Sibusiso Mbhele
is a transformational speaker ,Life Coach and an author of three books; Three
Areas to a Successful Career, Why Sit there ‘till you die and The Make of a
Champion.
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