You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. It's time for our Friday,

two minute warning edition. Post it on Sundays to, ah, did you do a double take? Post it on Fridays

to give you something to think about watch for or to do to finish your week strong, maximize

your weekend. I will also include an occasional red zone rant, but not today. Here's my topic.

Are you a player or competitor? Some of you know I work with athletic teams, and what I really prefer to do is

before I ever speak to the team is to be able to watch them on the practice court. They don't

know who I am or why I'm there. And my first assessment is who are the players and who are the

competitors. There's a big difference between the two, and usually about 20 or 30 percent is all

you'll find that are really competitors. See, here's the difference. Players participate.

Competitors seek to dominate. Players are there to participate. They go through the motions,

they do what's required, but the competitors, they are trying to get better. They're wanting to win.

They're competing against how well they did yesterday or the day before.

You know, they're competing against their former self, and they want to beat the people

they're out there with in a healthy manner.

And it's the same in business as it is in sports.

You have players and you have competitors.

So how about you? Which are you?

Do you go through a day or do you get from it? Do you just participate and do what's required?

Or do you seek to dominate, especially your former self? Do you just endure and just kind of go through and last?

Or do you try to conquer your goals and who you once were as far as

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