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Strength comes in many disguises. It’s the confidence to walk away when it’s time, and not look back at what you left behind. It’s showing emotion when you feel it, and not faking it when you don’t. It’s sharing your wins with those who rode along with you, who never left your side and never will.

Winners have one fear, and it isn’t about losing. They fear not having enough time. Not enough days, weeks, months, and years to complete their life’s work. Not having everything in place. Not accomplishing everything they dreamed of. Not finishing. Most people accept that they won’t get to do everything in their lifetime. Winners can’t accept that. They need to finish. Everything.

If you do it like everyone else, you’ll be like everyone else.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 214). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Focus is highly conscious; it requires you to be sharp and aware of every moment, and allows you to work on skills so intently that you eventually no longer have to think about them. You just execute. You can’t enter the Zone until you’ve mastered focus; focus is the training ground.

The Zone is unconscious; your skills and expertise are so highly developed that you don’t have to think about what you’re doing, the action just flows.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 210). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Focus is about minutes, not hours or days or years. If I need you for one hour, you can’t lose focus at fifty-nine minutes.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 209). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Most people worry about how long something will take. Winners just keep going until it gets done.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 203). (Function). Kindle Edition.

He had the unfaltering ability to focus on what he was doing, for as long as he needed to, until he got the results he wanted.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 203). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Every team finishes the season. Only one will win the title.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 200). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Winners make decisions alone, and they deal with the backlash alone. They worry alone. They work alone. And they feel alone, even when they’re surrounded by millions.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 182). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Your darker side is about action. It doesn’t want to hear what you’re planning, it wants to see what you accomplish. Stop talking about it. The darker you get, the quieter you need to be, so your results can do the talking for you. Your darker side takes you from the dream to the reality.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 182). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Resilient people don’t act like victims, they don’t feel sorry for themselves. They’re not dwelling on what’s happening right now, they’re looking ahead to see how they can take control and change the outcome. If they don’t like the way their story is unfolding, they write their own.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 160). (Function). Kindle Edition.

There are four components of Winning that determine how you’ll manage your fears and doubts and make that leap, or if you’ll make it at all. Talent. Intelligence. Competitiveness. Resilience.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 156). (Function). Kindle Edition.

You can prepare yourself, you can plan and organize and map out everything you want to do. But at some point, you have to take that jump into the unknown, let the fear flow through you, and believe with total confidence that you’ll succeed.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 156). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Fear tells you there’s a minute left on the clock, and you need to win now. Doubt tells you there’s a minute left on the clock, and you’re about to lose. Fear is pressure. Doubt is panic. Fear says I can do this. Doubt says I’m fucked.

Grover, Tim S.. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series) (p. 156). (Function). Kindle Edition.