Zig Ziglar is one of my favorite motivational speakers. Last week I listened to his last book, Born to Win, which he wrote with his son, Tom Ziglar. He shares how we were all created to be winners in life. He says that the reason some people do not become the winners they were intended to be, is because they don’t want to. He states, “desire is the mother of motivation.” If we don’t want something badly enough to do the necessary work, then we won’t get it.

I believe we were each created for a specific purpose. We were given strengths with which to fulfill that purpose. However, we could go through our entire life and never recognize or use those strengths to accomplish what we were designed to do. Zig Ziglar says, “My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win but in order to be the winner you were born to be you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.”

My question to you today is, What do you want? Are you using your God-given strengths and capabilities to win in life?