Find A Way To Win

Day 168: "Whoever said winning wasn't everything, never won anything." And then there is the quote that says, "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game." I like the first one much better because the other allows you to feel better about losing and open the door for excuses. So, if you're in the game of life then you might as well be about winning.

I was reminded today of the three Astronauts on Apollo 13 when an oxygen tank exploded thousands of miles from earth. If odds were ever stacked against a situation, it was for them. Yet, the lead flight director for Mission Control, Gene Krantz, told his somber ground team, "Failure is not an option."

And for the next four days the engineers on earth along with the three astronauts in space went to work on a solution. The three men finally came home victorious. Why? Because the entire team found a way to win and never gave up on each other. That kind of tenacity is what is needed in tough times.

Women we know how to get blood out of a turnip when things start to looking tough. We know how to find resources and we know how to pull together. This is not the season to walk alone nor is it the time to sit and complain. It is time to be more strategic and deliberate about what we want and how to get it.

Everyday incredible women are taking pink slips, broken relationships, rebellious children, and even health diagnosis and turning it into a win. I'm more convinced than ever before that without a vision the people perish. We must write our vision down and then go after it like our lives depended on it. I am not talking about someone else's vision for your life, but the one you want to get up every day pursuing.

We must diligently seize every and any opportunity to win. Because at the end of the day it is never about you. It is about others who are looking at you and up to you for the future. It's about a generation.

I'm not saying it will be easy, but nothing worth having ever is.