I was watching a TV program last night about “How To Win“.

This program was very enlightening for me but it didn’t teach me much more information or ideas that I read in “The Secret”…. except one vital clue as to why some people win and many people lose.

There’s a fine line between winning and losing at something, and after watching this show on TV, I finally realized what makes some people great at winning and many people great at losing – it’s your perspective on things and how they relate to you.

This post is just going to be a quick ramble about how I think you can win…

Success and winning at much the same thing – they both define getting what you want no matter what happened, who got in your way or what experience you have. In business, and with online business, winning can take the form of getting the top search rank, performing a successful product launch or even closing a big deal.

The problem is that many people are not very good at winning. They don’t do the things that help them win, and this TV show yesterday showed me that was all down to how people perceive winning and their luck. You see, many people perceive the World around them in a negative view. They think everyone is out to get them and they are just a victim to processes that are out of their control. They take what’s given to them and make do with what they end up with. That’s the ‘loser’ way of thinking.

However, ‘winners’ think in a totally different way. Winners have a much more positive attitude but with a lot realism mixed in with it. Winners don’t treat a mishap or bad result as a ‘failure’ – they just see it as something to avoid the next time they do something. And winners always look on the bright side of every story.

That’s the big message for this post – that there’s always another side to the story.

It’s easy to get swept up with the media and all sorts of people around you, who just think in a negative light about everything. It’s easy to throw your hands up and say “Oh! The economy is down the toilet! Oh! I am not making $1,000,000 a year! Oh! Why Am I Such A Failure?”. This is a big problem because if you start to think like that, you’ll get swept up with all the bad results that go with those ideas.

For example, if you believed the media and thought the economy was going to really fail – would you have started a business last year? Nope. But if you used my little technique of always looking at the other side of the story, you’ll realize that there are still people buying things, even in a recession… making it a no-brainer to start a new biz.

If you want to get some winning results, it’s my opinion that you’ve first got to get a winner’s mindset. And a winner’s mindset starts with seeing the positive in everything and working solely on the positive as well. It’s amazing how much good it can do