Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness (Tim Grover Winning Series)

How do you manage when nothing is “normal”? People love to talk about “pivoting” in hard times—making a fast shift in a different direction—but you have to pivot and move toward something, you can’t keep changing direction just to change direction. And unless you know how to think for yourself, you’re just going to keep pivoting back and forth, thi

Winners have a “Done” list.

The steps to Winning are infinite, and constantly shifting. One minute you see a step in front of you, the next moment it’s quicksand.

I can list all the traits and habits and philosophies that made him great, but the secret is in how they’re put together, and that’s unique to every individual.

And that enemy is you: the one person who knows all your weaknesses and fears, knows everything you crave and dread, and never stops using them against you.

I’m working with a competitor who is so elite that he’s literally competing against himself, I have to combine all the research and teachings and data, add the unique component of his specific needs and challenges, and create solutions that are unique to him.

Not all of those mines are cruelly harsh; they can also be dangerously kind: You should take the day off. You work too hard. You’re better than the others. They have no chance. You’ve already won. Relax, enjoy. Don’t take everything so seriously.

Every routine has to factor in the possibility of uncertainty. If you prepare only for one scenario, you have no chance of surviving the volatility of real-game conditions. True in sports, true in business, true in life. If you can only function when things are done a certain way, at a certain time, that tells me you lack the ability to adapt to re

Everything you do starts with your thoughts. How many times have you sabotaged your own goals and ambitions because your head wasn’t in the right place?