Funny, I can never decide which book changed my life, because they’ve all impacted me in so many different ways, but if you want to WIN, then keep reading… because this one is crucial.

This book (to the right) is no different, and if you haven’t read it yet, but you’re serious about a better future, go out and get it immediately…

Anyway, to get on with today’s very quick (but important) post…

In today’s economically challenged phase, we see people “pulling back” and going into “defense mode” in an attempt at winning the money game.

Employees will “save” for emergency, business owners will pull back on their marketing budget, etc..

In fact, I heard someone say the same thing again this week…
“I’d love to take advantage of that opportunity, but I just don’t have the money”.

I always think to myself, “If you only knew how quickly this kills your chances of future business success”.

This “defense” mindset is precisely what keeps most employees and business owners struggling, month-to-month, year-to-year.

You may barely be squeaking by, wondering why you can’t seem to get ahead or catch any lucky “waves”. Nothing ever seems to change.

I know it all too well, because I used to be there, playing “NOT to LOSE”.

Play To WIN vs. Play To “Not Lose”

To make this accidental “defense mode” easy to understand, I’ll put it in sports terms:

Let’s say you were a football team solely focused on defense…

100% of your team’s effort was GUARDING the other team from getting to your goal.

(With ZERO of your team’s effort focused on OFFENSE, to MAKE the goals.)

Now, what would be your chances of WINNING the game, if you only played DEFENSE for the entirety of the game?

That is – if you only focused on protecting yourself, (aka, staying in your comfort zone, not taking any risks or investing time into something new), and never really taking any real action to actually play offense in order to MAKE goals?

You would never actually WIN a game, would you?

The best you could EVER do is maybe get lucky and end in a “tie”, but you would never ever WIN.

The majority of month-to-month strugglers won’t take the risk to invest their money or time into better business vehicles or strategies as the dollar depreciates.

If you don’t stretch yourself to do whatever it takes to come up with a better (OFFENSE) strategy, you’ll never get out of your defense situation.

The funny thing is, it is your FEAR that is causing the downward spiral, and ultimately, it is affecting our whole economy.

Like I said in previous posts – Your worst fears will become reality if you do not step TOWARD them. When you fear losing money, you become a “loser“…. of money, LOL!
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