Winning at life. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
| Someone recently asked me how it felt to have won in life. My short answer? I’ll let you know when I get there. But if I’m being honest, I think the best way to win in life is to not win. I see this time and time again in my peers from the racing world and in business. The ones who "win" and stop pushing and take it easy, the ones who retire, either languish on the vine or realize they’re languishing and get back in the game because they need it to thrive. Some of this comes down to personality. I am admittedly and somewhat regrettably a Type A personality. I will always keep pushing, and if I’m not pushing or moving forward in some way, I feel guilty about it. If I were to retire, I’m pretty sure I would probably die a few years later or at least go crazy from boredom. Hell, I even tried "retirement" after selling Primal Kitchen. I was miserable and restless. There's a real danger with this mindset of course: recovery is hard to come by. Recovery becomes even more important when you feel like you have to constantly push. You really have to actively regulate that. So though by many accounts I may have won, I haven’t. I built a nice business for myself and sold it for a lot of money. I built another business selling minimalist shoes. I became a grandpa. Lots of "winning," but the game never ends. Winning is entirely relative to the individual. The trick to figuring out if you are winning or not is if you wake up and you know what to do rather than feel aimless, if you’re excited and happy to do it, if you are motivated and compelled. That’s winning, no matter who you are, no matter whether your compulsion is to spend a day with your grandkids or work on a business. The key is to think of yourself as not having won but actively winning. Winning is an ongoing process. Having won is the end. And it's a myth. You say a man or woman has won the day they die. It’s for the outsider to ascertain whether or not someone has won. So no, I haven’t won, but I am winning. What do you think it takes to win at life? Is such a thing even possible. Join the discussion over on Instagram or Facebook. |
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