WINNING IS...
Compiled & edited by Rochelle Jourdan

• Taking the talent or potential you were born with and have since developed, using it fully  toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.
• Giving and getting in an atmosphere of love, cooperation, social concern and responsibility.
• Never whining.
• Treating animals like people and people like brothers and sisters.
• Being glad you are you.
• Habit forming, (so is losing).
• Winning is a way of thinking and living.
• Winning is all in the attitude.
  
  POSITIVE SELF CONTROL:
   
• Take blame and credit for you position in life, openly and honestly.
• Use "I've decided to" instead of "I have to."  Use "I'm more comfortable doing this" instead of "I'm afraid to do that."
• Believe, "My rewards in life will reflect my service.
• Set a specific time frame each week to initiate action letters and calls in your own behalf.  Go for it!
• "Action TNT" – Action Today Not Tomorrow!
• How can I spend my time today on priorities important to me?
  
   POSITIVE SELF AWARENESS:
   
• Be more curious about everything in your World.
• Look at yourself through other peoples eyes.
• Look at yourself objectively from a distance and note the differences from your normal subjective view.
• Take 30 precious minutes each day for you alone. Relax and breathe deeply.  Exhale slowly.
• Look for the truth and speak the truth.
• Be aware of the children and the elderly.  Listen to their dreams.
• Be empathetic. Feel how others feel and consider where they are coming from.
  
  POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM:
   
• Dress and look your best at all times, regardless of the pressure from friends and peers.  Projection on the surface shows how you feel about yourself inside.
• Volunteer your own name first. Paying value to your name in communication, you develop the habit of paying value to yourself as an individual.
• Use encouraging, affirmative language when you talk to yourself and to others, about yourself. Everything you say about yourself is subconsciously being recorded by others, and more importantly, by your own self-image.
• Smile. It tells people that there's a caring, sharing person inside saying, "I'm O.K., you're O.K. too!"
  
  SELF MOTIVATION:
   
• Replace the word, "can't" with "can" in your daily vocabulary. Can applies to about 95% of the challenges you encounter.
• Replace the word, "try" with "will" everyday.  It simply establishes a new attitude of dwelling on things you will do; rather on things you plan to try.
• Focus all your attention and energy on achievement of the objectives you're involved with right now.  Forget about failure, it's only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. You usually get what you think of most.
• For every goal, make it a habit to repeat, again and again, "I want to...", "I can..."
• Don't take counsel from your fears and don't worry about them. They're part of being human. Associate with other winners, they'll help you overcome you fears.
• Give solution-oriented feedback when people tell you their problems.  When the problems are your own, focus on the immediate question, "What's the answer?
  
  POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE:
   
• Go for a walk on the beach, in the country or a park.  Recall your childhood play.  Dust off and "oil" your imagination.  It rules your World.
• Set aside 20 to 30 minutes a day to relax and imagine yourself achieving and enjoying your most personal desires. In three short segments: award winning ceremony, family joy and victory, get the actual sensation of how good it feels to experience each one.
• While you relax, visualize your own imagined triumphs. The process of relaxing with music will open the subjective window in your subconscious level of thinking and make you most receptive to your own creative images.
• When around young children, become a story-teller. Using your imagination for a good old fashioned ghost story or science fiction tale once a week before bed.
• Limit your television viewing for stimulating special shows.
• Since self-image is the visual, conceptual display of self-esteem, take stock of those images with which you display yourself:  clothes, auto, home, garage, closet, dresser drawers, desk, photos, etc.  Make a priority list to get rid of all the clutter and sharpen up all the expressions of your life.
  
  POSITIVE SELF-EXPECTANCY:
   
• Use positive self-talk morning until bedtime:  "It's another good day for me." "Next time, I'll do better." "We'll make it."
• Find something good in all your personal relationships and accentuate the blessings or lessons in even the most trying confrontations.
• Learn to stay relaxed and friendly no matter how much tension you're under.  When tension or anxiety enter the room, breathe slowly and deeply. Lower the tone and pitch of your voice, sit back and relax your muscles to respond calmly to problems with suggested solutions.
• Think well of your health. Cure what's curable. Prevent what's preventable.
• In projecting your own healthy condition to others, realize that your daily conversation is the automatic readout of your thoughts and subconscious emotions. Use positive self talk, "I'm feeling better now... I can feel the difference in my nutrition and exercise program."
• Be realistic and optimistic, at the same time by realistically examining the facts in a situation while remaining optimistic about your ability to contribute a solution or constructive alternative.
• Wake up happy. Optimism and Pessimism are learned behavioral attitudes.