The Truth About … Winning at life
If you ask most people whether they would like to be a winner or loser in life, I’m sure they’ll say winner. But you have to wonder, “What does it mean to win in life?” For example, my favorite game of basketball declares the winner as the team with the most points at the end of the game. On a sidenote, Vince Lombardi said, “The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.” LOL.
But it’s not easy to figure out what it means to win in the game of life. And it’s because people have different ways of defining it. I know a lot of people who consider the accumulation of money or material posessions as winning. My collegues may agree that winning means living the longest. Athletes could say it’s to have their body in tip-top shape. I believe a part of it has to do with having a happy family and healthy relationships.
And you know what? They all can be right. So what we need to do is look at the bigger picture. Let’s think about it differently. Generally, people think of winning as the over-achievement in a particular, chosen area. But change that. Instead of focusing on one aspect to overachieve, try succeeding in maintaining balanced achievements in numerous areas.
In order to truly win and be a success, is not to overachieve in 1 area, but to maintain balanced achievement in all areas of our lives.
Personally, I know I did well balancing my life in high school because I had good grades, officer of a club, served in student government, lettered in track and field, volunteered, and many other areas. In undergrad, I studied, held a job, had a wonderful girlfriend, and lead two car clubs. In grad school, I fell apart. My undergrad girlfriend and I went separate ways, I had trouble fitting in with the car clubs here, school was ultra-competitive, and I kept changing jobs because I wasn’t satisfied. But in the end, my overachievement was finishing as a Doctor.
You can see the imbalance in my life in grad school. Could ask yourself, are you a success if you earn millions of dollars but lose your family along the way? Are you a success if you have nationwide fame but have no friends? Or course not! In fact, you may live the most pitiful of all lives.
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Dr J
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