If you adopt these beliefs, you will win much more often.
1 – Failure does Not Exist
When Thomas Edison was trying to find the right filament to make the light bulb work, a reporter asked him how it felt to have failed thousands of times. Edison said he hadn’t failed. He just discovered thousands of materials that didn’t work.
There is no such thing as failure. You either get the desired outcome, or you learn. No matter what the result, you win. The past does not equal the future.
By thinking this way, discouragement can’t get a foothold in your mind.


2 - If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me!
Every single one of the people in the biographies I read overcame some major challenge. Struggling through those challenges is what made them great. A piece of coal has to experience a huge amount of heat and pressure in order to become a diamond. We are no different. Every time we face a challenge we have a choice to make. Will we get bitter or better? Decide to get better. Face the challenge. It’s there to make you stronger. You will need that strength further up the road when you’ll be facing even bigger challenges.
Don’t ever make excuses. Whenever you make an excuse you are giving up control. Rationalizing is telling yourself 'rational lies'.
Believe that you are in charge of your life. You are totally responsible. You create your results. You are in control of your life. You have the power to change your circumstances.

3– Get Out of Your Comfort Zone!
Commit to stretching. Put yourself on the line. Commit to do things beyond your current abilities. That’s how you grow. That’s how you get better and stronger.


4 – Just do it!
Commit to act even if you don’t know everything. You don’t wait till all the lights are green before taking a road trip. If you wait until you know everything before acting, you’ll never do anything. Take a chance. Act on faith.


5 – Be True to Yourself
Always act from Personal Integrity. Be true to yourself. If it does not feel right in your gut, don’t do it. Don’t ever go against your personal values. No victory is worth not being able to look yourself in the mirror.


6 – There is Always a Way if You Don’t Quit!
Mental toughness is developed through consistency of effort.
On the road to the Olympics, many athletes much faster than me quit along the way. How do you think they felt when they watched the Olympics on TV? The price of getting your dream is big but the pain of regret is hundreds of times bigger.
Commitment is the glue that holds everything together. Commitment is the most powerful tool you have as a human being. Commit to practice until you are good. Even if you fear what it takes to get to your goal (as I feared the luge), do it anyways. Commitment will pull you through.
Commit to do whatever it takes (as long as it is moral, legal and ethical) to succeed.
The difference between people is there are those who are interested and there are those who are committed. The key to success in life is going from being interested to being committed. Once you are committed you will produce results. At the point of commitment, you mentally 'burn all the bridges' and you do whatever it takes to make it happen. THAT’S when you become unstoppable!
Chase your dream, go for the gold, and never ever quit.