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M.Sc. Tomaz Korelc, MBA

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF WINNERS™

Success is for the Brave!™

M.Sc. Tomaž Korelc, MBA

CREATING

BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS CONCEPTS

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Focusing on YOUR SUCCESS!

CREATING

BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS CONCEPTS

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CREATOOR / T: +386 1 620 33 10 / [email protected].

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This book is extremely dangerous. It can change your life!

Attention!

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“The only thing holding you back from doing

Raymmar Tirado

something truly amazing, is you.”

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© This work is the result of the tendency of humanity to recognise the deepest essence of man and the Creation in which we live. It is desirable to reproduce and use it for the benefit of humanity in every possible way and by any means.

never exhausts the mind.”“Learning

Leonardo da Vinci

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“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” Helen Keller

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Think Creatively, Work Decisively, Live Bravely!.................31

Who is a winner?................................................................42

In the search for the essence................................................50

The path of being victorious...............................................60

The essence of winners........................................................67

Temptations on the way to being victorious........................81

Being a winner...................................................................90

The path of being victorious...............................................95

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Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until its done.”

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To the most beautiful creature in the world,

you!

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“Nobody can prevent you from choosing

to be exceptional.” Mark Sanborn

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We are afraid of flying ...

Why?

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How much have you burdened yourself? How much have the others burdened you?

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We are taught to be losers ...

Those who fly high, fall far! Do not be yourself!

Do not take any risks!This is not possible!

You are not successful!Please me!

Do not be different!Do not be important!

Do not think!Do not feel!

Be submissive!You can not!

You should not!You are wrong!Do not believe!Do not trust!

Respect!Be quiet!

Work hard!

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Keep on going!

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This work is part of your journey ...

It was written with the best of intentions and desires, but when people walk a certain path, they realise that there are better, even more wonderful paths. Then, for a moment, the thought crosses their mind to go back and choose another, a “better” path. However, it is necessary to constantly be walking on-ward. We walk along a path to learn, and new paths teach us the most. And, as a result, all I had done in the past is negli-gible in comparison with what I will do in the future, and ev-erything that I will do in the future is negligible in comparison with the Creation. Our lives are so incomplete, and that is why they are so beautiful; even in their imperfection, they are given the immense beauty of growth.

How wonderful!

“What does not destroy me,

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“Every fight is won even before the fight.”Sun Tsu

“What does not destroy me,

Friedrich Nietzschemakes me stronger.”

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“You are stronger than you think.”The Almighty

When reading this text, remember that I did not write anything that is written in here. You were the ones who wrote everything, absolutely everything – everybody is reading with what they are and what there is. It is true, however, that through reading you are discovering yourselves. Actively indulge in the Philosophy of Winners – and let yourselves be surprised.

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“If you can dream it, you can do it.”Walt Disney

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The book was originally written for the business world.

In the symbolic year of the phoenix, it has grown into a creation of philosophical meditation. It is meant for you who do not want to drown in the grey average, for you who want to sing out the song of your hearts through the poetry of life.

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“If you want to do great things, act with your heart!”

Babaji

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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

Dalai Lama

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To my work ...

This work was based on the findings of my study on the fu-ture business environment and corporate behaviour by senior leaders in fast-growing Slovenian companies – known as the gazelles. It is dedicated to all of you who want to create a won-derful path of your life.

In recent decades, humanity has been facing increasingly great-er, faster, and all-encompassing changes. At a time marked by changes and challenges, people constantly desire to discover new and better paths.

Humanity is nowadays faced with the boom and growth like never before. With the wide variety of achievements of mod-ern science, we are actively intervening with our own evolu-tion. We have such great power in our hands that we can create a truly revolutionary leap in human evolution; however, it can also be devastating.

New dimensions and new worlds are opening up for us, but so are new and even greater challenges. Unfortunately, people all too often see progress even in areas that are in fact dead ends or even bring decline of our well-being. It is not only progress that is important, but also people’s happiness, which is why we incorporate love in our performance; the primary objective is relaxation and the enabling of all of our potentials. The ulti-mate objective is the creating and developing of an integrated and joyful man in the broader mutually-combined entirety –

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the Creation. When searching for the way to a brighter future, we will have to learn that not every change is automatically progress. We need to separate the wheat from the chaff, the real progress from the false.

Life is for the Brave!

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Modern man increasingly needs a new comprehensive vision of the world and man – himself. Because the man of today, unfor-tunately, no longer has a clear vision of himself and the world, despite the genuine flood of diverse forms of new knowledge and information. I would like my work to be a contribution, however insignificant, to a clearer vision of the world, because sometimes a single butterfly can cause a real storm with only the slightest flapping of its wings. It is necessary to flap one’s own wings, to fly, and not only study how others fly. For this, it is also necessary to take risks, for one never lives as fully as when one is playing with their own life. Let us think creatively, work decisively, live bravely.

“Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Socrates

"Worthless people live only to eat and drink;

people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

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There once was

a boy...

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There once was a boy ...

He wanted to change the world.

He felt that he was capable of that. He desired and wanted something more.

He focused all his energy and attention on changing the world. He was a rebel, ready for battle; determined to win. But he was experiencing defeat after defeat, disappointments, rejections, and failures. His dreams were starting to fade and, slowly but steadily, he went with the crowd. He became one of six billion people.

He was a baby eagle that fate had led to a chicken’s nest. He hatched together with the chickens and grew up with them. He sensed that he was capable of more, so he tried to change the chickens. However, he ended up doing what the chickens were doing, and thought like chickens think. He was poking around in the ground, searching for worms and insects, and clucking. He was flapping with wings and flew a few feet in the air from time to time, just like a chicken.A chicken is expected to fly like that, is it not?

Years passed by, and the eagle became influential and respected. He was spending his life making sure that a chicken was a chicken, a hen a hen, and a rooster a rooster. One day, he noticed a magnificent bird high above, in the cloudless sky. With elegant dignity, it circulated between the powerful air

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Your life is in your hands, so fly out from the crowd and become yourself!

currents, barely flapping its majestic golden wings. The old eagle took a solemn look at the sky: “Who is that?” he asked a friend. “That is the eagle, the king of all birds,” said the friend. “But do not think of it anymore. We are different.”

And the old eagle never thought of it again. He died believing he was a chicken.

He never realised that the dream was so close, that he held his destiny (a great power) in his hands. He could be flying, but unfortunately, he remained a chicken.

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,

Mark Twainit’s time to pause and reflect.”

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Mark Twain

Think Creatively,

Work Decisively,

Live Bravely!Those who live brave lives are living the lives of winners.

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My wings have melted with fear ...... I will never fly on them again and never realise that all they were was paper; dragons that were flying over me for so many years.1

Because they are afraid, many people never come to realise what a victorious path is. They live in their paper castles, afraid and resigned to their fate, wondering how to easily and with a minimum of effort survive in a “crazy, hostile, dangerous, and incomprehensible world”. In their fearful vision of the world, they are amazed by the eagles that are soaring across the sky – they envy them and often even condemn them and make them fall from the sky. They are not aware that they too can fly, but their fear paralyses them and hobbles their wings.

•Fear of the truth about themselves, because knowing it can be painful?

•Fear of the truth about the world that surrounds them, because this knowledge may lead them to realise a change is urgent?

•Fear of knowledge that they could have been wrong, be-cause they would have to admit their mistakes?

1 The poem “The heights make us dizzy” (Slo., Od višine se zvrti), performed by the Slovenian group Martin Krpan, wonderfully presents the nonsense of paper fears.

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•Fear of failure, because they do not have confidence in their abilities?

•Fear of rejection, because they do not trust and do not know their path?

•Fear of new challenges, because they have no guarantee of success?

•Fear that they would remove their masks and reveal true selves to others?

•Fear of knowing that they are the ones responsible for their own lives?

“If we want to change the world, it must first come from healing the discord

Will Bowenwithin our own souls.”

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Cowards think

If I ...... had better parents ...

... lived somewhere else ...... had a better job ...

... had a better education ...... were beautiful/handsome ...

... stopped smoking ...... had been born rich ...

When I ...... finish primary school ...

... finish secondary school ...... graduate ...

... get married ...... when my children grow up ...

... when I am offered an opportunity for promotion ... ... when my boss leaves ...

What if ...... something happens to me ...

... I lose my job ...... I get sick ...

... they do not like me ...... I will be rejected ...... I make a mistake ...

Winners simply are and live!

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Open your eyes!

Do not waste your energy on running from fears and paper dragons, on maintaining models and principles of the past. Open your eyes, instead.

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do

Mary Oliver

with your one wild and precious life?”

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Wake up!

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You are what you believe you are!

Become free!

Spread your wings and enjoy the beauties of the sky! Free your spirit and sing the song of your heart through the poetry of life!

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is,

Senekais what matters.”

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Think for a moment ...

When we were children, we found the world to be infinite-ly wonderful. We wanted to know everything, absolutely ev-erything, and we were afraid of nothing. Our eyes were spar-kling with joy, and we were astounded by the miracles of the world. We were waving our hands, stepping on toes, crawl-ing, screaming and laughing… all in order to get closer to the world, to know it and feel it in more detail. We did not always succeed, and that may have been the first time that we realised the world does not move the way we would have wanted it to move. And maybe, just maybe, that was the first time in life we were a little disappointed. But only a little, because there were numerous new adventures and challenges in front of us.

Our adventurous discoveries were so exciting; we could not believe how interesting and colourful our world was. Its in-finite width uncovered endless possibilities and opportunities; we were dreaming and building castles. Everything seemed possible and easy, yet it was also difficult. It is not easy to build castles from blocks; one has to make a lot of effort. And it is es-pecially difficult to build castles “in the sky”? Have we for this reason heard the words of the elderly so many times: “Do not build castles in the sky! It is pointless to dream.”

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Have they forgotten?

Have they forgotten that only those who dream live full, hap-py and creative lives? Maybe they have, but I believe that we have not abandoned our dreams – we continued to try, make a change and tried once again. We continued to dream. We dreamt that we were going to be princes and princesses, aliens, adventurers and heroes. Our dreams were limitless.

We were also highly motivated and persistent. Do you remem-ber how you learnt to ride a bike, your bruised knees and skin? Do you remember how you were falling and falling, but also repeatedly and persistently getting up and trying, until you be-came a true little marvel on a bike?

As life was passing by, new challenges came our way. And we were falling, tripping again, and standing up, trying and prac-ticing. We were still dreaming, wanting to create, enjoy and live a full, prosperous life.

Years have passed by, and our dreams have been slowly, yet steadily melting. We started running out of will, perseverance and courage. We were constantly hitting against “borders”, “limitations” and “walls”. We remembered the words of our elders: “You cannot! You should not...” Our perseverance, de-sires and faith have slowly, yet steadily began to melt, until we completely stopped dreaming. We have become rigid, some-times sad and stopped indulging in our dreams. Monotony, boredom, frustration, etc. Every day, day after day, until the end of our days?

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And yet, life can be so very, very beautiful.

I believe that the spark of wonderfulness – wonderful dreams – is still glowing somewhere in the corner of our hearts.

Have you thought about blowing the dust away and breath-ing life into it?

“Avoid people who despise your wishes. This is done by small people. Really great people make you feel that

Mark Twain you can become great, too.”

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“The term “Winning” may sound phony to you. Too materialistic. Too full of A’s, or luck, or odds, or musclebound athletes. True winning, however, is no more than one’s own personal pursuit of individual excellence. You don’t have to knock other people down or gain at the expense of others. “Winning” is taking the talent and potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or

Dr. Denis Waitley

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,

John Quincy Adamsyou are a leader.”

purpose that makes you happy.”

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Who is

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life.

Michael Jordan

And that is why I succeed.”

a winner?

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You alone are a winner!

You were born as a pure winning potential. Everyone is born as a pure winning potential. Maybe you do not realise that at this very moment, but the fact is that you are a Winner – a pure and complete winner.

The fact is that in each of us, there is a pre-programmed for-mula of a winner; and you are no exception. Everything that is happening to you, all the voices, all the objectives, all the desires, all the dreams, all the suffering, all the passion, all the good and the evil, everything together can be your path of victory. However, the victorious life is not given to anyone by itself. Anyone who wants to live victoriously must also take risks. They must be prepared for numerous challenges, because a victorious path is not an easy path; it requires the whole per-son, perhaps even his life. If you want to live truly victoriously, you must accept the possibility of constant change, forgetting, decay, and even the possibility of death. For this, boldness is necessary.

Being victorious is nothing other than a skill, a secret art that one must be true to oneself every moment in their life, be yourself; think, feel and breathe, as you truly are. Being vic-torious means ruling yourself, not the world. The key to being victorious is in constantly discovering, learning, and changing; in constant attention, learning, action, in being different and in new challenges.

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You are the one who has to decide whether you will live vic-toriously; because your chance, your freedom, your being vic-torious, success, and power are all in life that is “happening to you” and your responses to it.

No one can succeed, enjoy, love and become a winner for you. Everyone must live and come to recognise how to be victori-ous by oneself. For this, courage and complete devotion to life, complete faith in oneself and the world are necessary...

Be brave and let yourself go with the stream of life. Give your-self to life and step on the path of knowledge, where only a few dare to walk! Realise that your innermost essence is “vic-torious”. It might surprise you, but it will in no way leave you disappointed.

Take responsibility. Be a winner, be yourself!

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How to become a winner?

You are mistaken if you believe that you must first know and have something in order to become someone. In life, it is just the opposite. One must first be; after that, knowledge, experi-ence, situations and means that you can deliver will follow. Be the winners, and everything else will follow by itself.

Do not live the visions and lives of others, but find them in your own being – your own essence. Accept nothing, includ-ing this book, as the only truth, because more than anything else, it is important that you own yourself.

Winners face numerous challenges on their paths. They make mistakes and face minor and major difficulties and failures. During their journey, they experience ups and downs, but not as someone who is trying to become a winner, but as the winners they already are. Be a winner who is proceeding to-wards their ultimate victory, which is nothing more than your self-realisation.

Get to know yourself!

It will be difficult for you to succeed if you do not know who you are.

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“The majority of eagles does not try to learn anything more than the simplest things about flying – how to get out of the nest, get food and then climb back in the nest. For the majority of eagles, flying is not important – eating is. To me, both eating and flying are important. However, more than anything else in the world, I love flying.”

When people are expanding their horizons, it is easier and easier for them to recognise the charm of life and success. With a daring search for truth and understanding, as well as expanding the horizons, people are discovering themselves and their options that are buried deep in their hearts. Success-ful people develop those qualities that deepen internal and ex-ternal growth and development, wisdom, wealth and love, and lead to realisation and understanding.

Just as different plants grow, bloom and bear fruit in different climatic conditions, so different successful people choose dif-ferent life paths. Neither path is better nor worse; it may only be more or less adequate for someone. The only criterion of the path’s suitability is personal experience, on the basis of which one can ascertain the suitability or unsuitability of a certain path.

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Choose your brave path!

Be aware that everyone can succeed, set themselves free and accomplish their potentials. They must walk the path of inter-nal and external development, and achieve “being victorious and successful” with their own experience.

“A year from now you may wish

Karen Lamb you had started today.”

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The path is in you …

Paul J. Meyer

"90% of all those who fail in life are not actually defeated,

they just simply quit.”

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“Fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.”Arthur Schopenhauer

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the essence ...

In the search for

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What separates winners from losers?Many think that this wealth can be success, beauty or strength. Others think that it is being better, the best. And some swear by power, aggression, domination, etc. However, they are mis-taken, because the truth is simple. What separates the winners from the losers is only one single yet very important thing: total devotion to life. Devotion, devotion and once again devo-tion; this crazy, unusual, different, intoxicating devotion to life. A perfect, pure dedication to every moment. Being victorious cannot be built on profits, wealth, power, domination, etc. It must be built exclusively on oneself.

Today’s world is full of individuals and groups who long for reputation, prestige, dominance and power. They invest a lot of their time studying these or other “winning” techniques. Nevertheless, too many remain blind to the essence of being victorious. Maybe some even manage that for a short period of time: they become prominent, influential and powerful, but certainly not completely happy and satisfied. They are not win-ners. People cannot be winners if they are full of pretences, unhappy, tense, etc.

Winners are not fake.

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When searching for the essence of winners, we realise that a common denominator probably does not exist. There is only the essence of each individual – a potential winner. There are six billion people living in the world, and no two are exactly the same. Everyone has his own essence. It is therefore abso-lutely pointless to search for a common essence of winners. We can only come to know their general philosophy of life towards themselves and the environment in which they operate.

Each individual needs to find their own essence, their own victorious path, the meaning and mission, as each was born to become a winner in their own way. It is no surprise that all winners spend a great deal of time getting to know themselves, knowing that imitating others would be a complete waste of time. All true winners find their own meaning first, their own mission and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and only then embark on a journey of their mission, firmly confident in their abilities. They build their lives on their own skills and strengths, on what their callings are and what they perform best, not on any alleged restrictions.

Winners do not find it important that the society knows about them or confirms their victories. They know that even the tini-est and most inconspicuous person can be the biggest winner. To be winners, we need not become leaders of nations, athletes nor movie stars. It is important that we are free, happy and satisfied.

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It is important that we are freely and joyfully enjoying life and actively co-creating it.

If we really want to get to know our essence, we must first re-lease our fears, break free of all the shackles, limitations and barriers that make it impossible for us to discover our true essence. We need to become unburdened by the restrictions of the environment, absolutely free and our own personalities. Once this is achieved, we will be able to achieve almost any-thing we desire; one is, in fact, never given a desire without a chance to realise it, but it is not given to us as a present. Above all, one needs to actively strive and work to achieve it.

Once the winners learn about their mission, they passionate-ly give themselves to it, with all their essence. Resolutely and courageously, they walk the paths of their mission. For it, they are willing to sacrifice their lives. They are heading out in the world with the winners’ mentality, determined to succeed. In their essence, they remain firm despite the opposition, incom-prehension and disapproval of their surroundings. They do not get frustrated, nor even upset by the apparent setbacks, obstacles and blockades, for nothing is more important than achieving their mission. They are filled with joy and enthusi-asm by the determined and the brave walking on their path, rather than with their objective. To winners, giving their best and working the best is what is important. Winners compete with themselves and not with others. Their victorious general philosophy of life towards themselves and the environment is leading them along this path.

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You are who you are. Nothing more and nothing less.

“Veni. Vidi. Vici.”Julius Caesar

How wonderful!

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This allows them to break through the many challenges, estab-lished frameworks, rules and norms. Life is a wonderful chal-lenge for winners.

Winners are those people who dare to stand out from the crowd and think, speak and act differently. They have the con-cept of “acting differently” built deep inside. They do not hide or deny their difference. They realise that their essence is dif-ferent from the essence of other people, so they do not accuse them, force them or in any other way restrict them. The notion of being different is built into the nature of each of us, whether we want to admit it or not. Therefore, each winner is unique, irreplaceable and full of surprises. They surprise themselves and the environment, in which they live, but in their essence – their being – they remain true to themselves; from here, their power, strength, momentum and steadiness are derived. Winners are not spuriously or forcibly different, for differences cannot be forced. You either are a winner, or you are not.

Winners are brave. They dare to cut the Gordian knots of paradoxes. They break the old established notions, outlined boundaries and rules. By their example, learning and action, they are reducing the unknown and expanding the conscious-ness of people. In their actions, they are brave, creative, often provocative, strong and opinionated. They are what they feel themselves to be.

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Time and again, they prove that there are no boundaries in the world, although it seems that our world is governed and managed by boundaries.Although fictitious, for many they have become dogma, which you cannot doubt and which you must accept. The path of win-ners is, due to “virtual boundaries” and barriers, often difficult, painful and arduous, but in contrast to the others, winners do not take these boundaries for granted. While others complain, they succeed in fantastic breakthroughs.

The lives of the winners often resemble rough seas. Their de-velopment requires a lot of energy and sacrifice. It is not easy to be different. Therefore, the life of the winners is marked by a constant struggle for understanding and achieving meaning-ful order. This is the reason that winners often “suffer” a lot, are unhappy and dissatisfied at the beginning. Unfortunate-ly, many become lost under pressure and resign themselves to their “fate”; however, some do succeed. I wish all of them suc-cess. Despite all the challenges, real winners manage to keep their inner peace, because they learn when they must fight, when to wait and when actively release themselves.

While ordinary people are seeking a relationship with them-selves and society, from harmony with their surroundings, winners derive this from within themselves – their inner be-ing. They are searching for harmony within themselves first, and only then with their surroundings. Their feelings of their

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inner selves do not depend on membership, labour law or so-cial acceptance, but from their own essence. They are often driven to their essence by dissatisfaction with the environment they live in. This dissatisfaction leads them into their inner world, where they enjoy contemplation. Losers come out of it as confused and contrite individuals. In con-trast, winners are sufficiently persistent and determined, so they learn their meaning and experience a kind of purifica-tion or awakening. They are born into their own true selves, in connection with their own essence, on which they build their path.

One of the essences of every winner is that they are constantly changing, evolving and growing, as well as actively changing. Changing oneself and allowing others to change is perhaps the last lesson that each winner needs to learn. Although many have enjoyed a moment of being victorious, they have not been able to keep it. Too many have clung to their own ideas, concepts and limitations of the past. They were unwilling to change, yet changes are one of the most beautiful things a per-son can experience. You can shine in all your beauty only if you are constantly changing. The winners are aware that they need to change, in a way die, because only in this way can they be reborn and rise from the ashes like the phoenix, flying into the sky, full of new power.

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Modern society places great emphasis on education, but it unfortunately does not create winners – integrated, liberal, knowledgeable individuals with the possibility of realising their victorious potential. Certainly, winners cannot be trained through the “violent” socialisation, whose primary objective is simply maintaining the status quo and social relationships.

Victorious learning is not violent; it does not derive from being “all-knowing” or from a repressive external environment, but from the inner being of each individual. The path of being vic-torious is unforced natural learning that derives from the very essence of man. One cannot teach being victorious by provid-ing “absolute truths”; however, the general philosophy of life that leads to being victorious can be encouraged and actively developed. In being victorious, there is a question of the “gen-eral philosophy of life towards oneself and the environment”, i.e. all dimensions of values, attitudes, feelings, beliefs, find-ings, knowledge, style, etc., which all enable a victorious life. One cannot teach being victorious. Others can only be helped to recognise it and enabled to develop it. Whether they want to get to know themselves, learn, grow and develop, as well as get to know their true selves depends on each individual.

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“We are what we repeatedly do.

AristotleExcellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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The breakthrough power of performanceWinners are always working at the edge of their ability, and direct more of their resources and attention to those things that are still unknown to them, than on controlling what they already know. It is the only way they can continue their de-velopment. They do not measure their achievements by the standards of the past (how far they have come), but according to their vision of the future (how far they have to go). They do not allow the past to be an obstacle, an impediment to the future. Failures do not stop them. The fact that something did not work in the past does not mean that it cannot be made to work in the future. The fact that something worked in the past does not mean that it will work in the future. Despite failure, winners maintain faith in the future victories and successes.

Where ordinary people act within the scope of the given op-tions, the winners go beyond them. For solving complex chal-lenges, they find new, fresh approaches. Winners act with a strong charge of risk. Without hesitation, they are willing to take risks and go into action.

They live bravely and often unusually. They have a plan, ob-jectives, vision. They communicate them loud and clear. Each day, they are focusing on their plan, qualitatively and creative-ly. They work in a long-term manner. They do not hide them-selves, but go among the people and attract them. They instil enthusiasm in people, which they then actively maintain and

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nourish. They move step by step. When faced with opposition from others, they know that they will succeed with or without them. They are ready to go all the way.

They allow it to happen. They teach and educate their substi-tutes and successors. They are challenging established prac-tices. They are walking first, leading. They are changing the standards and rules. They do not subject themselves to others. They do not hesitate nor wait. Winners are constantly surpris-ing others.

They are characterised by the willingness to go beyond re-ceived wisdom, linking ideas of unrelated sources, encourag-ing change as an opportunity to break the limits. They perceive their mission and challenges they are facing as integrated, con-nected with Creation. They do not make hasty conclusions. They analyse and try to understand true causes and purposes. They make decisions. They do not hesitate, but rush into ac-tion. They do not waste time with negotiations and persuading those who are already convinced. They give everything some time. They love the storming seas of change, for they know they will help them fill their sails with wind as fast as possi-ble. They are proactively changing, helping to shape new ideas, guidelines and trends. They have an active and constructive attitude towards society, environment and objectives. Winners not only observe the environment, they also affect it. The result of these impacts is a changed way in which people think about

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the desired, the possible, the necessary and the urgent. They are drawing attention to the content and not to the process and rules. While the losers obediently abide by the rules, the winners know which rules are meaningful and which are not, and when, where and how they should be broken. They act en-couragingly, inspiringly, protectively, friendly. They are highly creative, flexible and adaptable.

In life, they have something that can be called the “field of stability” – stable long-term relationships that they jealously maintain and nourish. But first, they build a solid core that allows them to be unbreakable and indefatigable.

“We will either find the way,

or make one.”Hannibal

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Where does my path lead me?

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Winners are not lonely warriors

Winners do not think only about how to do or perform something, but also what their decisions mean for other people. They wish to lead the greatest possible number of people with themselves to the top.

Winners are distinguished by compassion, not only cursory attention to others, but also receiving feedback from the en-vironment and creating a shared meaning in their mutual relations. Winners are the people who have discovered their potential of compassion. They speak of people intuitively, in-spiringly and emotionally. They enable and uncover their vi-sions of something greater. Together with others, they form the final vision and can inspire a sense of common purpose and identity. With this, they are actively forming the opportu-nities for growth of everyone, not only themselves. They help other people, knowing that they must sow if they want to reap. They believe in them, teach them and educate them, as well as provide personal examples. They love them. They create strong impressions of identity, love and admiration in them. They for-give them their mistakes and failures. They protect them and advocate for them. They entrust them with responsible tasks and provide them with opportunities to prove themselves.

Winners are sincere and friendly. They do not hide their feel-ings, beliefs and thoughts, but express them clearly and com-prehensively. They laugh and have fun, but also cry with oth-ers. Winners are not short of praise; they give others personal

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“Simplify!”Steve Jobs

and public recognition. They do not condemn anyone. They are aware that they cannot succeed alone and that they can complete the entire picture – the vision – only together with others. They are open to the thoughts, ideas and opinions of others. They notice them, and they openly and publicly recog-nise their achievements. Winners do not allow others to bully, limit, mislead or deceive them. They are aware of their own abilities and are constantly maintaining, renewing and actively broadening them.

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The essence ofWINNERS

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PhilosophyWe can all be successful and happy, because our future success depends on our state of mind. Successful people are success-oriented, and unsuccessful failure-oriented.

OrientationThe ability to recognise and create one’s mission, vision, objectives and/or ideas toward which effort and abilities are directed.

AttentivenessThe ability to work in a constantly developing and changing environment. The ability to sense, recognise and explain changes, signals and hints from the person’s work envi-ronment, and the ability to use them for reforming and/or achieving one’s objectives and vision.

ResponsibilityPerforming one’s objectives, duties and assignments conscien-tiously, responsibly and to the best of one’s ability.

Taking the initiativeWillingness to accept challenges and the ability to gather sources and forces necessary for the achievement of one’s objectives. Taking the initiative for achieving one’s objectives and vision.

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AbilitiesOur abilities are our potential for the development of specific talents. Everyone has at least one talent, which must be first discovered and then developed in order to be used effectively.

CreativityA desire to discover new dimensions and ways, an innova-tive, inadaptable and creative thinking, and the ability to take creative decisions when facing challenges.

Personal stylePositive personal characteristics, which in themselves are not necessary in solving challenges, leave their impact on every person’s act.

ComprehensionComprehension is the capacity of the mind to understand and place the economic, political, technological, social and natural environments, as well as tighter community and indi-viduals into a logical unit as they are all in reciprocal connec-tion.

AttitudePositive attitudes towards the world, love for creation and firm, brave and persistent striving after achieving objectives, where mistakes and failures are seen as necessary experiences on the way to the final goal.

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LearningThe ability to gain skills, information, concepts and models for the explanation of past experiences and their effective use in future intentions.

Open-mindednessBeing receptive to everything that is new, different, unusual, even contradictory for open-mindedness broadens one’s hori-zon and creates new qualities.

Giving opportunitiesGiving opportunities, education and support to people in order to help them be what they can be.

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The winners pose victorious questions.™More than 2,000 years ago, the sages taught that the path of success was the path of proper understanding, proper thinking, proper speech, proper action, proper lifestyle and proper persistence, attention and concentration.

The reason for success or failure lies within us, in our relation-ships with ourselves and our environment, i.e. our general phi-losophy of life towards ourselves and the environment. Spe-cifically, the general philosophy of life that we nurture about ourselves and the environment has a very powerful influence on our behaviour and we are controlling it in a way that it is in line with our general philosophy of life. It has a great in-fluence on our behaviour, often on an unconscious level, and even against our will. The victorious path is therefore the result of a victorious general philosophy of life or attitude towards oneself and the environment in which we live.

In its formation, the internal dialogue that takes place in each and every one of us is of utter importance. We are establish-ing it with questions and therefore we can create the victori-ous philosophy of life only with victorious questions. Winners pose victorious questions.

2 A strategic control point is a strategic location that enables a strategic overview of development and quick manoeuvring in accordance with the situation.

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Victorious questions that winners ask themselvesSelf-discoveryWho am I and who are we? What am I and what are we? Do I know myself? Do I know my advantages and disadvantages? Am I aware of my own thinking, speaking, acting and life-style?

Strong and sincere desireDo I really want to reach the top? Do I want to be the best? Do I have a genuine desire to achieve something?

Motive and motivationAm I motivated and do I love challenges? Do I want to grow and develop?

DecisionAm I willing to make challenging decisions? Am I deter-mined to make it happen after I make the decision?

LoveDo I work with love towards myself and everything that sur-rounds me? Do I love what I do? Does my work fulfil me and fill me with joy, satisfaction and happiness?

Working honestlyDo I work with a fair intention? Do I respect agreements and keep my word?

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ActionAm I in constant action, working at the edge of my abilities, and exploiting of my potentials?

WorkAm I completely committed to my work and full of enthusi-asm?

Being differentAm I different from the competitors? Do I have my style and walk on my own – different path?Do I have control over my own destiny, act confidently and make decisions autonomously and independently?

IntuitionAm I able and willing to listen to my intuition? What does my intuition tell me? IntelligenceDo I know how to use my ingenuity? How do I use it? Do I also know how to think with my heart – feelings? Do I think I am the best and invincible?

HarmonyDo I know how to find harmony between business challenges and personal life? Do I consider the fact that other people need similar harmony, too?

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SpeedDo I make decisions quickly and effectively, without unnec-essary hesitation? Am I willing to reach for the new, different and unknown?

CompetitionDo I have a competitive spirit and desire for competition? Do I know how to act softly, but also fiercely?

Knowledge and experienceAm I constantly searching for new skills and knowledge, learning and upgrading my own development and the devel-opment of all around me? Openness and susceptibility to the newAm I open and susceptible to the new and the different? Do I enable, encourage and explore the flow of capital, knowledge and ideas? Am I not jealous of the ideas of others. Do I not hide mine? Do I share information with others?

EnvironmentDo I pay attention to the opportunities and possibilities in the environment? Do I pay attention to my inner, untapped potential and opportunities?

Understanding of the environmentDo I follow the local and wider business environment? Do I understand and try to understand events in the business environment?

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“What we think, we become.”Buddha

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FutureDo I work proactively? Do I consciously create my own des-tiny? Do I know my mission? Do I have a clear and unambig-uously formulated strategic purpose? Do I run on the long or the short term? Do I have a long-term perspective? Am I capable of anticipating the possible futures? Am I willing and able to take a long-term look?

Changing – break with the pastAm I constantly checking my general philosophy of life to-wards myself and the environment, concepts and models, and actively changing it? Am I able to admit my mistakes without hesitation and evasion, and to quickly and efficiently correct them? Am I willing and able to cope with the changes and actively introduce them? Do I eliminate impurities and that which is bad and inefficient?

Trends & technologyDo I monitor new trends and technologies?Do I know them and use them?

Growth and developmentAm I adaptable and flexible? Do I have a global orientation? Am I focused on the world, and in the growth and develop-ment? Do I want to grow and develop? Do I have great in-spiring objectives, continuously improve and develop myself, as well as grow, and also actively develop my own people, employees, processes, solutions, etc.?

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Market orientationDo I know the target markets, segments, existing and poten-tial competition? Am I searching for and actively creating market gaps?

Risk-takingAm I willing to take risks, but not mindlessly? Am I taking risks, although there is the possibility of error and failure?

ReputationDo I actively and responsibly manage my own identity and reputation? Do I have my corporate identity and brand iden-tity clearly and unambiguously outlined?

CreativityAm I resourceful? Do I have new and different ideas, am I creative and innovative? Do I encourage creativity and inno-vation? Am I capable of long-term creative power?

Leader in the environmentAm I actively building a network of contacts and acquain-tances? Am I a good negotiator and communicator? Am I capable of creatively bluffing (also positively manipulating), if necessary?

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Team leaderWith what kinds of people, partners, etc., am I surrounded? Do I select the right people? Can I and am I willing to se-lect those who are better than me? Do I have a cohesive and strong leading team? Am I willing and able to lead people?Am I capable of putting myself into other people’s shoes, sit-uations, and also of understanding them? Am I actively and systematically building the corporate culture?Perseverance and mental strengthAm I facing challenges in a healthy, strong and victorious manner? Am I an emotionally stable personality? Am I persistent, but not at all costs? Do I have a sense of when to persevere, when to move forward, change direction, move away or wait?

Letting goDo I realise and understand that long-term success cannot be achieved by force and that it is sometimes better to actively wait than to use force? Am I capable of actively surrendering myself to life and letting go in the moments when nothing seems to work for me? Am I capable of actively waiting, thinking and learning?

Unbreakable faith and confidenceAm I confident? Do I believe in myself and trust myself, my colleagues and the success? Does the following saying hold true for me and my colleagues: “The impossible is possible”? Do I blindly and infinitely believe in my being victorious, success and my “lucky star”?

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Are you a dream or a dreamer?

HappinessAm I aware and do I understand that success is often unpre-dictable – the result of “a happy coincidence”?Am I aware and understand that I have to actively co-create this “happy coincidence”? Do I believe that happiness is on my side?

Are you waiting or are you acting?

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Temptations on the way to being victorious

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The path of life is a path of many challenges and temptations. The victorious ones, in contrast with others, do not surrender to the temptations and do not succumb to the challenges along this path. On the contrary, they use them for their personal growth and development, enriching being victorious. Like all, they are facing fear, doubts, worries and shame on this path, but gather enough courage, determination, strength and faith that they manage to achieve a victorious breakthrough. Any-one who dares to face their fear, doubts, worries and shame, and exceed their limitations, becomes a winner. Winners do not succumb to temptations ...

Being trapped in habitsThings often seem normal and fine to us, because we are ac-customed to them. Caught in the “normal”, many never think that maybe there is another, a nicer and much better world. Occasionally, stop to think and ask yourself: “Why do I work this way? Why, why, why?

Reluctance to changeMany dream of a better, more beautiful tomorrow, but they are not willing to change and keep changing themselves. They stubbornly insist on the established concepts and patterns. They do not want to take risks. They would rather accept the pain and suffering instead of the possibility of a victorious breakthrough.

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The absolutist view of themselves and the world

The world is not black and white, but colourful, mysterious, surprising. In such a world, infatuation with absolutism be-comes one’s own prison.

Rejecting diversityRejecting diversity and surrounding ourselves with peers keeps us the same. Whoever remains the same is not changing, is not growing and is not developing. They do live, but they are living a dead life.

ComplacenceHave you ever said to yourself: “Why should I bother, when I have enough of everything?” Today is not the same as yester-day, and tomorrow will not be the same as today. You could soon realise that your lack of ambition pushed you into a spiral of decline – leading into an abyss.

LeisureThe lure of leisure appears in times of prosperity and well-be-ing. In such times, the vast majority of people are surrendering to pleasure and forgetting that after every sunny spell, the rain comes. Leisure can also occur in times of recession or when unpleasant things are happening. At such times, many do ab-solutely nothing and wait for better times to come. If everyone did that, better times would never come.

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ArroganceArrogance is extremely dangerous, as it blinds us and makes us careless. It makes us believe we are the best, we know it all and no one can get to us. That is how Goliath thought, too.

Being in love with one’s own worldLove is beautiful, but a blind insistence on false love will lead you to confusion, pain, and ultimately to failure. Excessive love for everything (ideas, people, company, etc.) is unhealthy, if not harmful.

Limited visionIf your view is limited and extends only to your home village, then the most beautiful girl in your village is also the Venus of your dreams. In your narrowness, you simply cannot imagine a prettier girl. The same goes for everything in life. Anyone with a limited vision also receives limited results.

Philosophy of evolutionDo not be fooled by the principle of natural evolution. A look back in history is a good example that revolutions happen, too. While dullards believe that it is necessary to introduce changes in an evolutionary manner, victorious ones know that evolu-tion is an effective way to change, but it is extremely slow. The path of evolution is far from the optimal utilisation of the po-tentials that exist inside and outside of us. The path of evolu-tion is not necessarily the best and the only principle.

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ResignationResignation occurs when the life charge is lost. There is no more competitiveness, no more desires, no more action. Be aware that thinking: “We are doing fine. After all, we are coping with everything. We have our niche market. We are managing. We are managing from day to day ...” only leads downwards.

Violence / passivityMany are trying to sail against the wind. They are walking through life violently, trying to force their desires, visions and objectives to happen, while others are like a ship without a rudder or sail on rough seas. Both approaches are contrary to nature.

Lack of couragePerhaps, you are afraid for your life and do not take risks, but not taking risks is the greatest risk for your life. Are you aware of that?

HesitationOpportunities do not wait. When they occur, they should be seized and exploited. Opportunities and luck are on the side of the strong and the brave.

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Lack of confidenceWhile a tree with weak roots is uprooted even by a light breeze, a strong and confident tree defies the worst storms. Those who do not believe in themselves and do not trust themselves, can-not expect that others will believe in them and their ideas.

Lack of knowledge and experiencePerhaps you are capable, but without investing in your own de-velopment, even the greatest ability remains merely untapped potential. Learning is a part of life, and those who do not learn, do not live. The same goes for experience. Those who live are constantly trying, testing and accumulating experience. Those without any experience are standing and waiting.

Preoccupation with knowledge and experienceKnowledge is the key that opens many doors, but if you want to open your heart, you need love. Knowledge is sometimes an advantage, but not always. All knowledge is also not true knowledge. As such, it can even be dangerous. The same goes for experience. Overload and infatuation with knowledge and experience are limiting your creativity, resourcefulness and are distancing you from the new.

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Indulgence to othersWe are not here just to fulfil the needs of others and others are not here just to fulfil our needs. If we meet each other, we have a nice time; if not, what can we do? Those who live victoriously can create boundaries.

Internal conflictsAs on the outside, also on the inside. It is difficult to live in a happy and beautiful world if you do not carry happiness and beauty in your heart. If you are focused on bad things, good things cannot happen.

Clinging to powerWhoever clings to their position or power, lives in fear, is full of worries and eventually loses his power. The greatest power is the willingness to submit power to others. Anyone who clings to power is blocked, does not grow and does not live.

Preoccupation with the pastThe greatest successes usually follow major failures. The magic of victorious people is that they persist, and go forward until they fail. Even when they “fail”, they feel successful because they know they have worked with their best intentions and in the best possible way. This is also a success – a great success, in fact.

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IndecisivenessWhen cancer cells begin to spread, they need to be removed. This is painful, but the longer you wait, the more it will hurt. Weaknesses should be removed.

Leaving the initiative and control to othersMaybe others are better at something than you, but be careful. When you submit the “strategic control point”,2 control and management of information, design and setting of rules to others, you lose your freedom.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t –

Henry Fordyou’re right.”

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“Success is walking from failure to failurewith no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill

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•A winner does not need losers; they do not evaluate them-selves and their achievements through relationships with others. A loser needs others to prove their strength.

•Winners are true to themselves; they do not carry masks. A loser is hiding behind many masks.

•A winner listens, but does not accept non-critical limitations or the guidance of others who tell them who and what they are or what they should be. The loser thinks first: “What will other people say?”

•A winner does not evaluate their achievements with the cri-teria of others. A loser is constantly comparing himself with the criteria of others.

•A winner is free. A loser is trapped.

•A winner is living a relaxed, full life (company, friends, etc.). The loser is always buttoned-up.

•A winner is calm even in the toughest moments, because they know that they are winners. Tension is the constant companion of losers.

•A winner is like an eagle, capable of broad and focused ob-

servation. A loser has blinders on his eyes.

•A winner is not burdened with trifles. A loser looks at every-thing, but the essence.

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•A winner enjoys life to the full, doing the right things in the right way, intuitively. A loser does the wrong things in their own “right” way.

•A winner loves himself and all that surrounds him; he is love. A loser does not love anyone, not even himself.

•A winner does not need others to sing their glory and praise. A loser needs losers.

•A winner makes a mistake, but acknowledges it with ease: “I was wrong.” A loser defends themselves: “It was not my fault.”

•A winner attributes his victory to luck, even though it was not a happy coincidence. A loser blames their bad luck for their loss, but it was not merely bad luck.

•A winner works more than a loser and has more time. A los-er is always too busy and has no time to avoid failure.

•A winner actively meets the challenges. A loser prefers to avoid them.

• A winner shows regret by correcting mistakes. A loser de-

fends himself, saying that he could not have done anything about it, but next time makes the same mistake.

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•A winner knows what they are struggling for and with which they have to live. A loser is fighting for something that is not worth fighting for and lives like they should not have been living.

•A winner says: “I am good, but I can be much better.” A loser says:

“Well, compared to the others, I am not so bad.”

•A winner decisively walks into the future, in the direction where they are intended to go. A loser looks back and on the people who have not yet reached the position that he already has.

•A winner respects those that are better and wiser than him and tries to learn from them. A loser rejects those above him, trying to find their mistakes.

•A winner feels responsible for life. A loser just shrugs and says: “I just live here.”

•A winner says: I want to find a better way.” A loser says: “Why should we change anything? It has always been done this way.”

•A winner creates winners. A loser creates losers.

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“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may.

BuddhaWe ourselves must walk the path.”

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THE PATH of being VICTORIOUS

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The path of being victorious is the path of self-discovery!Proper orientation.Proper thinking.Proper understanding.Proper speech.Proper actions.Proper lifestyle.Proper perseverance.Proper attention.Proper concentration.

The path of being victorious is the path of brave learning.Nothing more and nothing less.

Why not be adventurous?

Be brave – you may be surprised, but in no way disappointed.

In twenty years, you will be much more disappointedby the things you did not do than by the things you have done.

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Let us rise to the sky

Let us be like eagles, determined to fly, to rise to the sky. Let us not get lost in the crowd and judge ourselves by others, and others by ourselves. Let us recognise our strengths and abili-ties, as well as weaknesses. Let us get to know ourselves and clarify our own mission and values. Let us create a vision, pre-pare ourselves for it, think of it and bravely, powerfully and creatively take a run. Let us spread our wings and fly. Let us be persistent and when we feel the wind on our wings, rise upon it. Observe, research and explore. Practice. Do not spend your energy on changing the chickens, but focus on your purpose and surrender to it, completely.

Do not regret the past nor fear the future. Let us persistently move to a position where we will have the greatest pleasure,

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power and comfort, and from which we will have the chance to manage the sky in the best possible way. Take the position that is most appropriate for an action and keep to it. Go into action, but do not lose your purpose and sense of direction after initial successes. Take risks and be prepared to change direction if necessary. Let us change ourselves and actively change the environment, too. Let us be persistent and not fear the headwind.

Think and act ambitiously, because this is what we were cre-ated for. Make big swings. Be flexible and adaptable, and have an infinite number of different “manoeuvres” ready. Let us try and try out. Let us move in a creative direction.

Stay focused.

Be prepared for intermediate stops along the way, and espe-cially enjoy the flight, because the charm of the flight is the flight itself, not the destination – a landing.

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A winner creates winners!

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To all the victorious people ...

Is it not wonderful when you lead…

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Thank you

The nicest thanks is a simple “thank you” that comes from the heart. I feel deep gratitude to all of you who have advised me on my path, posed challenges to me, opened my eyes and also expressed criticism. Thank you for your friendly, frank and well-intentioned words.

We are born into the world as pure potential, which becomes what it is only in contact with our environment and through our own activities. Our own activity is extremely important, but it is the environment that enables us to unleash and devel-op our full potential and enjoy the freedom of creativity. On our journey, we are accompanied by the people who serve as an example, pose challenges, offer encouragement, teach, ad-vise, as well as enable and help us to truly live out our potential. Every moment, thought or touch, no matter how insignificant or indirect, shapes and changes us. It helps us develop, design and expand our living space, our view of the world and our-selves. It helps us develop a general philosophy of life towards ourselves and the environment in which we live.

With this work, I would like to thank all of you who have ac-companied me on my “astonishing” way of self-discovery, be-cause each and every one of you I have spent only a moment with, one way or another, has left your mark in my life and work.

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Finally free ...

However, no one had more influence on my work than my parents who have allowed me to become who I am, and that I have the opportunity to become what I can become. With this work, I want to express my deep respect and gratitude for their immense help and selfless love.

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I am grateful

For numerous challenges, because they allow me to grow.

For all my losses, because they are opening up new possibilities for me.

For all the painful surprises, because they provide the opportunity for self-discovery.

“Love conquers all.”Virgil

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For all the opposition and criticism, because they encourage me to learn.

For all the pain in my body, because this is the proof that I am alive.

For all the falls and failures, because I am becoming stronger.

For all the shortages, because this means I have a chance of becoming much, much richer.

For all the changes, because with changes, life is always interesting, never bor-

ing.

For all the frustrations, because they mean I have an infinite ability to change and

create.

And, at the end, for all the unfulfilled “desires”, because they keep me on my path.

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Think for a moment

If you woke up today relatively healthy, you are happier than one million of people who will not live to see next week. If you have never experienced the threat of war, the loneliness of a refugee, the horrors of torture or the ravages of hunger, you are happier than 550 million inhabitants of this planet.

If you can express your religious and social beliefs without fear of being threatened, imprisoned, tortured or killed, you are happier than three billion people in this world. If there is food in your refrigerator, a roof over your head, and you have something to cover yourself with when you lie down in bed, you are richer than 75% of people in this world. If you have money in the bank, cash in your wallet and a few gold trinkets at home, you are among the 8% of the richest people in the world. Moreover, if your parents are still alive and married, you are among a very few people. If you can read this message, you can be truly happy, because you are not among the two billion people who cannot read. If you finished high school, you are an educated person, because you are among the 10% of the most educated people in the world.

Do you still doubt that you are a winner?

You are a winner, and even if you lose everything you have, you will still have much, much more than the vast majority of humanity.

So do not hesitate – be brave, take chances!

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Be a winner!

Free yourself of all authorities, conditions, persuasions, tradi-tions and customs. Surrender yourself to life.

Be yourself!

Someone once said: “Work like you do not need any money, love like you have never experienced any pain, dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, and live like it is heaven on earth!”

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,

and I shall move the world.”Albert Einstein

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Sources:

Life is everything ...

“Those who live are those who fight.”Victor Hugo

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Surrender yourself to life, love, to the sun ...

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your fate!” Shogun

“Be the masters of

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“We must accept finite disappointment,

Martin Luther King, Jr. but never lose infinite hope.”

“In an orchard, one apple will begin to ripen and in so do-ing will send out a vibration, an enzyme, a fragrance, or an energy field of some kind that is picked up by the other ap-ples. This one apple signals the other apples that it is time to change, to ripen. As you become a person who holds only the highest and best for yourself and others in your words and thoughts, you will signal to all around you simply by who you are that it is time for a change. Without even try-ing, you will raise the consciousness of those around you.”

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the successful are saying: Be bold and everything else will follow by itself.

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