Winner Winner.................

Chicken Dinner...............Okay stupid saying, I know. But it leads to this question. What would you do to win? Just how high a limb would you climb? Would you play fair? Would you lose your morals and cheat? Would you lie, spread rumors, harass, demean? Would you, in fact, ruin your reputation? I'm sure you're thinking, well, NO! But think long and hard because what YOU do to win is what you're teaching your children to do. What you do to win is showing others how you choose to live your life, and your moral fiber. Do you live fairly? Do you take your hard knocks and learn from them or make excuses? Do you lose gracefully? I get the fact that we ALL want to win. Hook 'Em Horns and that sort of thing. We love to cheer our teams on in that Good Ole American Spirit of Competition. That is NOT what I'm talking about in this blog. I'm talking about YOU personally. Do you walk through the fire and take the heat and the loss if necessary or do you skirt around it and then either claim to have walked it or make excuses why you didn't? Do you blame others, do you belittle when you have the chance just because it MAKES you look better? Bet it doesn't make you feel better? And if it does, then you need some really deep cleaning, soul searching. You are being watched. Trust me you are. You are being watched by friends, your kids, your family, your co-workers. We can all be honorable winners unto ourselves and our Creator and at the end of the day, isn't that the beauty of life? I hope you play fair, not hide your little light under a bushel, but not set the basket on fire to hide your mistakes. Be a winner and do it with integrity. And when you lose, well, you lose. Be that person who can take what life hands out and learn and grow and walk with your head up and mouth closed. Belittling, bullying, demeaning only makes you look like what you are. And that is someone who can't take the responsibility of life, who looks in the mirror and not matter what, sees perfection, but deep in their heart, the cracks are growing and the shame is poisoning their soul. I hope you're a winner every day of your life. And I hope it's with good morals and high standards. Because nobody HAS to live with you but you.