Count your Lessons, Not Losses
Count your lessons, not losses.
There's a book that John Maxwell wrote called "Sometimes You Win-- Sometimes You Learn." The reality is if you attempt anything with, "I'm going to learn from this," you're going to be better off. There really is no loss per se. You can go into a game, and you can say, "What can I do to win?"
I had the chance to interview a friend of mine, a strength and conditioning coach at Gonzaga University, Gonzaga men and women both won their conference championship. A pretty amazing feat. As he talked about it, they have a culture at the university and say, "What can we do that's hard? What can we do that's going to stretch us and make us better?" As I think about this, so often you see that in sports. Well, if you don't win, you're the first loser. Well, if you don't win, what did you learn? How can you get better?
We talked about that in that interview about professional athletes. How do they go about their game? They say, "How can I continue to stretch myself? Maybe try to do something different so that I can get better. So if I come into a game situation, I can at least try and know that I've maybe been there before.”
I encourage you to think about that in your business to say, "What can I do today that's going to teach me a lesson? If I don't win, if I don't enroll that person, if I don't make a sale, if I don't whatever, I can learn.” Man, then you've won no matter what.
So my encouragement today is, "Count your lessons, not your losses."
