Why The Secret To Success In Life Is actually Not a Secret

Keith Greiveldinger
3 min readApr 2, 2021

Your outlook on life is something that is uniquely yours, and it’s a choice you make every day. It’s very simple. You can choose to be a winner or a whiner.

Winners know that they need to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens to them, while whiners look to blame others for everything that happens.

There’s a clear distinction.

In sports, for example, the highly successful people know that it wasn’t the bad call at the end of the game that prevented the them from winning. A lot of things happen during a game that led to the final moment, and if things had been handled differently earlier in the game, that final moment wouldn’t have needed to unfold that way at all.

Winning is a team sport, and it never happens in a vacuum. More importantly, having the right team around you is critical. For example, Michael Jordan is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. And yet, he didn’t start winning NBA titles until Scottie Pippen and few other key players joined his team. As great as Michael was, he needed great teammates, and he need to trust them to do what they do best so that everyone together could achieve more. Often times, winning involves sacrifice. No one can reach the top alone. That frequently involves suppressing…

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Keith Greiveldinger

Highly Engaging and award-winning Inspiration Evangelist. Be inspired at www.TheWinitMinute.com. Started “The Win it Minute” to inspire others.