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Playing for Keeps
By Greg Hickman
Each new day
offers you countless opportunities to achieve, to thrive
and to live life on your terms. However, it’s what you
do with these precious opportunities that determine how
far you will go and high high you will fly.
You can
choose to live life to its fullest where fun and
excitement is the name of the game or you can settle for
a dull, boring, run of the mill existence where you
barely scrape by. Since you and you alone get to do the
choosing, why in the world would you ever choose the
later?
A winner
could only make one choice and that would be to play the
game of life for keeps. We were blessed with a winner's
mindset that tells us we can have and achieve anything
that we want in life when we show the will to get it
done. Unfortunately, some would-be winners see life as a
game of keep away where other people get to have and
keep what these would-be winners have always wanted.
Living is about winning. You are about winning. You
should resolutely focus on being positive throughout the
day – when you arise in the morning, during the day and
when you go to bed at night. This constant focus and
attention on positive thoughts, words and deeds will pay
positive dividends. Hey, wouldn't you much rather live a
playing for keeps lifestyle dominated with positive
beliefs and positive actions than settle for a life of
keep away?
Life affords each of us an ongoing opportunity to live
the lives we have dreamed about and truly desire. Even
if we have made the wrong choices for so very long, we
can choose a life time committed to excellence right
here and right now. Its time for all of us to play the
game of life the way we were born to do so. We need to
play hard, play by the rules, play to win and for
goodness sakes - play it for keeps!
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