The Secret to Maintaining a Winning Mindset

Do you find yourself struggling to consistently maintain a "winning" mindset or long for the secret to a winning mindset?

It's an intriguing question, and if you've been a student of personal growth for any length of time, you already know that the secret to the game of life is mindset. Mindset is everything because it's your mindset that frames all of your experiences and determines how you feel about them.

We recently watched the film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. In the film, Dustin Hoffman plays Mr. Magorium and he offers this brilliant piece of advice:

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

You'll be hard pressed to find a better motivational quote to illustrate the importance of mindset ... and more specifically of a winning mindset.

Do you remember to treat your life like the occasion it is? And are you willing to rise to the occasion? In order to rise to the occasion, what mindset do you require?

The secret to maintaining a winning attitude is to remember what life is really about. All of the tools, principles and techniques of personal development that we read about -- meditation, affirmations, journaling, etc. -- are ways of assisting you to connecting with that remembrance.

And when you remember that your life is an occasion, how can you not help but be inspired to rise to it?

Zig Ziglar: motivational words and quotes

Zig Ziglar's book, See You At The Top, is likely the very first personal development book I ever read.

Back in 1983, when I was given Zig Ziglar's book by my sales manager in my very first job after leaving university, the term personal development was unknown to me. But there was no mistaking the power of the message in that book.

At the time I had no idea who Zig Ziglar was. It was years later, after I began to fully immerse myself in personal development that I really began to understand the role Zig Ziglar has played in the lives of so many people as one of the key teachers in the self growth and personal development movements. Zig Ziglar has played a key role in my own journey to living a life of inspired abundance, and to embracing personal development as a key aspect of my growth.

So when I came across this video, I felt compelled to share the power of Zig Ziglar and his motivational words.