Try To Win Instead Of Just Breaking Even
By: Floyd Mori
Tags: Failure, Sports, Politics, Life, Success

Try To Win Instead Of Just Breaking Even

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Everyone wants to be a winner. Nobody wants to lose. Sometimes a tie is allowed in certain aspects of life. A tie is like breaking even. It is not winning, but it is not losing either. It is better than losing even though it is not winning. To become a winner and achieve success, a person needs to overcome the failures that come and break the ties.

Most sports events do not allow for ties or breaking even. Although some sports will allow for ties at the end of a game, many will play to the bitter end until a clear winner is declared. Sometimes major league baseball games might go on for twelve innings or longer until one team wins if they are tied at the normal end of a game. Golf tournaments have playoffs if two or more players are tied when the tournament should have ended. Teams will play in overtime when there is a tie. Breaking even and ties are not allowed in many sporting events. Life, as well, may require extra time for success to come.

Winning is the goal for everyone in all phases of life. No one wants to lose or be seen as the loser. Most people realize that you cannot always win. There is a winner and a loser so someone has to lose.

Donald Trump needs to accept the fact that he lost the election. It is over, and he should realize that. There are winners and losers in politics as in most aspects of life.

Failing or losing at something is not an excuse to give up and quit. Everyone experiences loss and failures. Picking oneself up and starting anew is necessary. It is a fact of life that most successful people have had many failures. They did not give up and allow losses to curtail their success. They kept working and kept trying. Then they achieved success.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is possibly the greatest American professional basketball player of all time. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and had a historic career with the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards. He has made a lot of quotes about success and failure. Here are a few of them:

“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.” “If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.” “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Breaking even financially when a venture is undertaken is not the best outcome, but it is better than losing big time. Being able to end up financially secure is a goal of life. Some make it, and some do not. Working hard and being aware of where your money is going is advisable. Taking risks may be necessary in life, but study and good choices will make the outcome better.

Winning is possible and probable if the right course of action is taken throughout the pathways of life. There will be many failures and trials which come into every life. Handling them well and persevering will be necessary in order to achieve success.

We all want to be winners at the end of the game.

[Source: Wikipedia, goodreads.com]