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It has always been said that someone's mentality, or the way each person thinks will determine how they act and will also influence how their life will turn out to be. If you want to emerge as a champion, then you must satisfy the first demand of being a champion - think like one. You cannot think mediocrity and expect to become a celebrity. Your thoughts must align with what you want to become so that it will fuel your passion to pursue after it and then you will ultimately hit your target.

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In every aspect of life and in your endeavours, there are bound to be oppositions, challenges, or even obstacles, but your mindset of winning and your mentality of "overcomer" will enable you to face the oppositions and overcome them. You have to know that the presence of opposition or challenges on your way is a strong indication that you are doing the right thing and that you are enroute on the right course. The truth is that no one will want to challenge or oppose you if they do not see anything worthwhile in you.

Think like a champion. But how do champions think? Others may see challenges or problems in every opportunity that is presented to them, but champions will see opportunities in every challenge/problem that comes to them. This is the difference. By thinking like a champion, you are opened to welcome challenges because they are the pathway for you to emerge victorious. Obviously, no student is promoted to the next higher class without fulfilling certain demands, like writing and passing their exams. So in the school of life, you have to pass through challenges to emerge a champion. So you should ride with challenges instead of trying to avoid them. This reminds me of this popularly phrase:

> What does not kill someone will make the person stronger.

When thinking like a champion, you have to learn to be positive in your thought and focus more on what is working and not on the negative things or on things that are not working. That is, your thoughts should revolve around your strengths, so as to consolidate more on them, and not on your weakness. When you think of your strengths and act towards them, it will be easy to succeed and become a champion. The likes of Ronaldo and Messi saw their strengths in football and then they consolidated on it. Imagine if they had shifted focused to another sport like basketball because it also involves ball, they would not have made so much outstanding results as they are making now.

One thing to also know about champions and their thought-pattern is that they are determined and resilient. That is they believe that everything is doable and achievable if they will set themselves to achieve it. No matter the kind of obstacles that may be presented to someone with a champion-level mentality, it cannot withstand the power that is resident in them to overcome the obstacles. As a sailor for example, you may not be able to determine when the storm will come or how it will arise, but you have control of one thing - how to direct your sail. In the same way in life, your choice may not cover if challenges will come or not, because it will definitely come, but you have a choice of your response and reaction to the challenges.

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In addition to all the aforementioned thought-patterns of a champion, they have to be purpose-driven and not just to "fulfil all righteousness". Always have in mind that, even though everyone is given the mind and ability to think, the responsibility lies exclusively on you to create your thoughts to your advantage and to the way it will be beneficial to you. Your thoughts, your mentality, your reasoning, and your mindset are the real you, and are almost indistinguishable from you. So how you will want your tomorrow to be will determine the kind of thoughts you cultivate today. I will conclude with this particular quote I once heard from a close friend:

> Your thoughts are like seeds, so sow the right thoughts and sow them rightly.

***Thanks for reading***

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