The Ten Qualities of a Total Winner (Positive Self Control)

Positive Self Control

Total winners can sacrifice immediate pleasure for a gain in the future. Delayed gratification is of immense value in reaching your goals.

Having positive self control is a great quality because it shows that you are always calm and collective. Many people are not like that. They want things now and want the reward.  Self control helps you in the future and not really the now part. For example, If an NBA team trades its superstar player because he couldn't win a championship. The team will decline a little but the team that he was traded to offered 2 first round unprotected picks. Obviously the team will lose more games but that means they will have a high pick because of the trade and with that pick let say they draft a superstar. Now they are in the same boat but with an extra pick. This gives the team to draft another superstar with there top pick. And let say again they hit on the pick and get a superstar. That means they have two superstars. This show self control because they could of kept that lone superstar but they traded him for a chance of two superstars. They hit on both picks and now have a better chance of winning the championship in the upcoming years. 

The Ten Qualities of a Total Winner (Positive Self-Direction)

Positive Self Direction

You gotta have direction if you are going to go anywhere. True winners know where they are going. Their sense of direction comes from the self and not from outside influences like parents or friends.

Having positive self direction is a quality of being a total winner. By having a direction and knowing where you want to go. The direction comes from the yourself not anyone else. No outside influences like friends that are trying to sway you in a different path. For example, friends can influence you in where you go to school. Maybe one is got accepted to a UC but does not accept it because they want to be with there friends at a CSU. One person that I see doing this is Kobe Bryant his direction was work hard to win a championship. This was his passion and that is why he won 5 NBA titles. I try to handle myself in that way. In a sense of not letting others around me tell me different. This keeps me mature because I am handling my own business. Being your own boss makes you more responsible and having self direction allows you to mold your future.

The Ten Qualities of a Total Winner (Positive Self Image)

Positive Self Image

 When you're a true winner, confidence is key. It is the primal assets that you will possess that will ensure that in anything you do or are set up to do you will conquer it and achieve it with ease and confidence. Confidence makes you proud of yourself to do the right job. Confidence will drive you to your most accomplishing goals and it will place at the top of success. When you don't have confidence you are most likely to feel and be insecure about yourself, your skills, and the possibilities that you can do. You will not be able to trust yourself to the fullest extent to do something because the majority of the time you will be hesitant of your own capabilities. Try and stay ahead of the pack with confidence! 

The Ten Qualities of a Total Winner (Positive Self Motivation)

Positive Self Motivation

"True winners dig deep and find motivation inside themselves to get through that tough task or to learn a new skills"
One of the qualities of being a total winner is having positive self motivation. People that have this trait are more likely to succeed because they have the motivation. Sometimes when I am not in the best mood I tend to keep it to myself and hurts my motivation. That's something I need to improve upon on. I have to dig deep to find my true motivation. Someone that I think has self motivation is Kobe Bryant. He always wants the last shot. He has not only motivated himself but he also motivated others like Dion Waiters who said a similar quote "I rather go 0 for 30 than 0 for 9 because that means you have given up". This just means that you should never give up. Even

Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore 

 Gordon Moore is a American businessman and the co-founder and chairman of Intel Corporation. He was born on January 3, 1939. He was born in San Francisco, California. He is currently alive and has a spouse named Betty Moore. He studied at the University of California. In 1954 he received a PhD in chemistry and physics from California Institute of Technology. Moore joined the Applied Physics Laboratory where he examined the chemistry of rocket propellants in antiaircraft missiles. Moore realized that private industry would offer more exciting research with a big reward. Moore was fascinated by the transistor but didn't like the Shockley's management and he switched over to Intel company. In this company they work directly on the production on magnetic oxide semiconductor chips. This chip became Intel's big success. This chip is used in many computers today. These chips can make a high end desktops, tablets, and laptops. His net worth is 9.6 billion dollars. He was rewarded the IEEE Medal of Honor.

The Ten Qualities of a Total Winner (Positive Self-Expectancy)

Positive Self-Expectancy 

"Life is a self fulfilling prophecy. True winners go into every event expecting to win."
One of the qualities of being a total winner is positive self expectancy. Having that positive optimism in everything you do. Also having the thought of success in your min . Never going into something and thinking that you are going to fail. Having the mindset that you will win no matter what it takes. Positive self expectancy is also a self fulfilling prophecy. This means that everything you do you have to make it your legacy. One way to implement this to my life is by always expecting to win. Also by having that drive to work hard to reach success. One person that comes to mind when talking about winning is Micheal Jordan. He went to the finals six times as a Bull and won the championship all six times. To me he is the definition of positive self expectancy. He was know as the goat Greatest Of All Time.

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth.
2. Tell someone about your commitment.
3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.
4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.
5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.
6. Don't indulge in little white lies.
7. Watch out for silent lies.
8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.
9. Talk to yourself.
10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth.

All the tips benefit me by always telling the truth. They benefit me by being committed to telling the truth. You also need to think before you are dishonest, by doing this will help you tell the truth. While using figurative language be sure to make the other person that you are being sarcastic. Never leave anything about the truth out  because it is basically lying. Do not tell little fibs or you will get caught because the truth always comes out. Silent lies are when you do not say anything, but you know something. When you catch yourself lying just shut your mouth and stop talking. Talk to yourself in your head before saying anything so you lie. Do something good for yourself when you tell the truth. I will be applying all the tips to my life so that I become better at telling the truth. I will also write down goals so that I do not forget.