Champions fight the good fight, strive for mastery

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TO ME, success is the only battle worth fighting for. Success comes through fighting, so roll up your sleeves and prepare for a match.

TO ME, success is the only battle worth fighting for. Success comes through fighting, so roll up your sleeves and prepare for a match.

-Fortunate Chibike

Get ready for a test of spiritual and emotional strength, a trial of endurance, a war of nerves, an intellectual battle, a tussle, a scuffle, a showdown.

In order to achieve both personal and organisational greatness, we have to fight for it.

The fighting spirit is one of the most common characteristics of champions.

One thing I mastered about achieving greatness is that once you establish your goals and position yourself for success, the next step is to fight for your success.

I am not referring here to the physical fight; instead, I am referring to the spiritual and emotional fight that starts in our minds. Remember, success begins in the mind.

At this point, it is imperative to encourage you in this way: Never say anything is hard because when you say it’s hard, you actually mean that you are not strong enough to fight for it.

Some of these possessions we desire are attainable only when we become aggressive enough to posses them. Don’t just sit and wait for things to happen the way you want them to, instead, do something about them.

  • Abandon old ways of doing things

Just because something was right in the past doesn’t mean that it is still right today. The same applies to success strategies.

They should be renewed whenever necessary.

It’s high time you abandon old tricks you used to employ and start devising new tactics to improve your day-to-day life. It starts with the day-to-day activities you engage in.

Some of the strategies that we would have originally devised thinking that they would lead us to success fail to do so. In such instances, there is need for a routine change of habits.

Of course, habits are created over time and once they are established, are difficult to break.

However, certain situations call for us to take drastic measures to improve whatever situation we might be facing and that entails changing our habits as well.

Precisely, each goals calls for its own set of supporting habits.

  • Leave behind baggage

As you fight your way to success, there is need to leave behind some of the cumbersome burdens that might hinder you from being productive.

I am not necessarily referring to the physical possessions or luggage; instead, I am referring to those people, habits and other sources of constraints that hold you back whenever you want to embark on a project.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather realising that you have changed and then learning to start over with your new truth.

  • Desire excellence

There is nothing as encouraging and inspiring as possessing your own desire to put on an excellent performance.

What you don’t desire, you don’t get and even when you get it that easily you don’t value nor respect it.

You must desire excellence intensely.

That is when it could be accepted by your subconscious mind. Then your subconscious mind upon reception could now direct thoughts towards your conscious mind and then bring them into its physical reality.

  • The story of Elliot Mujaji

I believe Elliot Mujaji is one good example of a Zimbabwean champion who fought his way to stardom. One would argue that his history and experiences would have easily discouraged him, but he never gave up.

Elliot Mujaji qualified to compete at the 1998 Commonwealth Games before suffering severe burns in an electrical accident while at work.

His right arm was amputated, and he remained in coma for two months.

After recovering he fought his way back to glory. He resumed training and qualified to compete at the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Australia.

He was the fastest runner of the 200m competition, but was disqualified for having encroached on another lane.

His disqualification in 2000 did not discourage him at all as he continued to succeed in athletics.

He won gold in the 100m — Zimbabwe’s first-ever Paralympic gold medal and he competed again at the 2004 Paralympics resulting in him once again winning gold in the 100m.

He represented Zimbabwe for the third time at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, competing in the 100m and 200m races.