Are you Winning?
Campbell Lumbila October 15th, 2009
I’ve been reading a lot in the last months and one of the books I was reading asked the simple question: How do you know that you winning in business and life? That is an interesting and thought provoking question.
Well, when you watch a soccer match and your team scores first you get excited because your team is on the wining path. How do you know? The goal of the game is score points and when that happens you know you’re ahead. The score or ‘win’ is clearly defined. You win if you’re ahead in points at the end of the game.
Its the same principle in life. We must have clearly defined goals so that we can celebrate when we win. Each one of us must complete this sentence everyday of our lives: I won or scored today because…..seriously fill in the blanks. Clarifying your goals simply means knowing what you want to achieve and doing it. When you complete that goal that means you’ve won. It’s that simple.
In a business setting the goal can be as simple as treating our customers well in order to create a great customer base or as Ken Blanchard calls them; “Raving Fans”. So whenever you have a regular walk-in customer converted to a die-hard raving fan, then you just won.
Winning in business and life takes time, dedication and perseverance but in a paradoxical way; winning is simple.