Competition Is Best Kept To Yourself

By Author: Rhoberta Shaler, PhD
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The need to win drives your mind into the future and away from the matters at hand. This is a problem.
Are you 'playing golf' at work? Richard Behrens, Golf Grand Master, says, "Good golf is all in the mind....the golfer's own lower mind, and how the person perceives the situations s/he finds...on the course are the major reasons s/he suffers from unsatisfactory play." It's all in the mental discipline of the game. This mental aspect of 'the game' often eludes players. The same principles that affect your golf shots apply to the workplace. Have you ever talked yourself out of executing a project that is well within your ability to make, or have carried anger with you from another poor situation and had it affect your entire day? In any game played with others, there is a winner. Either an individual or a team wins. Just about everyone who enters a competition does so with the desire to win. This is healthy and natural, however, if you have a 'need' to win, things change. The need to win drives your mind into the future and away from the matters at hand. This is a problem. It is impossible to ...
... do something for pleasure and have a need to win. That 'need' will eradicate the pleasure of simply doing the activity. How is this applied in the workplace? Hopefully, you enjoy your work.