Warrior Coaching

As a Coach and Sports fanatic I love Winning! Or should I say I love playing to WIN!

In truth I am happy to take second place when I've been soundly beaten by a stronger candidate, but only if I know in my heart I did EVERYTHING possible to stake my claim to the number one spot. Vince Lombardi says it best in the quote:

'Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is!'

So naturally I am always looking for the great techniques, models and formulas that ignite individuals to really want to WIN and WIN BIG! I can't help it as its just in my blood. Yet when ever I search for more answers or interview more experts I just get all the fluff of 'align them with their values', 'assist them to believe', 'inspire them through leadership' etc etc. Don't get me wrong Values and Beliefs are 'Bread and Butter' for us coaches but sometimes it just doesn't create enough true value, and it doesn't get down to the grit of WINNING! Now I do understand that some peoples values may be happier with acheivement over success which could answer why WINNING isn't high on their agenda. That could make sense. But I'm not ready to just buy it yet as I want to get to the bottom of this once and for all.

So I'm asking you what you think. Is the will to WIN genetic? Is it something that could be proportional to an individuals Biochemistry? Could it be attributed to testosterone? Or is it simply something that is unleashed when we fully understand our values?

Sometimes it feels like saying I WANT TO WIN! is a bad thing, and that I should be happier with the journey. But in my heart I know I'll only enjoy the journey if I did all I could along the way to be the very best that I could be. Otherwise what kind of a journey would it have been?

So do we create WINNERS? Or do we simply pick the WINNERS?

Looking forward to your thoughts

We all get told on a daily basis that we can do anything that we want in life and the truth is that we really can.  However, when you look around it appears that the whole premise of that statement is just words and small talk.

So if we really can do anything that we want then whats the problem?  Or should I say what's the catch?

Well there is one small catch.  In order to be able to achieve what you really want you need to know what it is.  And to be truthful there is a very small percentage of the population that actually know what they want.  Those that don't cling to the same old throw away goals such as 'to be a millionare' or 'to own an Aston Martin' or better still 'to win the lottery!'

Mostly goals like those are fabricated because they don't know the actual goal.  So take some time to have a think about what you really want and don't be surprised if it takes a bit of effort and longer than you think.  Stick with it as this is something that is really worth taking the time to work out.

After all the quality of life is dictated by the quality of questions we ask.  So if you haven't found the answer yet then ask a better question.

And if you find you really can't get to the bottom of what you really want then maybe you could use a helping hand.  If so, don't be shy and drop me a message.  It's what I'm here for ;)