How to win by Mirza Yawar Baig

1. How to Win?
Fundamental Laws and how to
leverage them

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3. Fundamental Laws
1. Fundamental Laws are fixed and change for no
man (or woman)
2. Fundamental Laws always give the same result
3. You didn’t make it, you can’t break it
4. To benefit you have to pay the price
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Only those who follow them, can succeed

4. Passion
ExpertiseReturn
Integrity

5. Integrity is about you,
• Integrity defines you, distinguishes you and
differentiates you in the environment.
• Integrity is one of several paths, but it is the only
one on which you will never be lost.
not about them

6. Passion…
• You will find true success only in those
efforts that captivate your heart.
• Belief fuels passion and passion rarely fails.
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-lights the dark road of heartbreaking effort

7. Expertise…
• Push for excellence: Make your mark
• Become ‘Best in the World’ in your area
• Continuously seek improvement
-Is repeatability

8. Return
• Be clear about the ‘return’ for your effort
• Be thankful and seek to increase it
• Always ensure that you give more than you
receive
Sacrifice is what the chicken does for you
Everything else has a return

9. ‘Master’ or ‘Victim’
It’s your choice

10. Window of Opportunity
• In the life of every man and woman comes a time
when they have a unique opportunity to make an
impact and influence others.
• When it closes your life is over, even if you remain
alive
Our window is open now

12. The Essential Truth
Living life is about making choices:
 Choosing to be a “Victim”
 Or choosing to be a “Master”
Both stances are subject to the same givens of
society, environment, organization etc.
But have very different implications in terms of
your development and happiness

13. Who’re You?
Victims
• Complain about what
happened
• Think of excuses
• Blame others
• Lose hope & give up
• Perish
Masters
• Say, “What can I do about it?”
• Think of solutions
• Own responsibility
• Have courage to try new ways
• Win, even if they fail
Choose wisely because it is your life

14. Price of Success
• Success, like everything else, has a price.
• It is essential therefore that we:
• Define ‘Success’
• Are clear about the investment
• Are willing to pay that price
Because nothing in life is free

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16. My success depends on
 How serious am I about success?
 Am I willing to invest?
 Am I willing to change?
 Can I stick through the pain?
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Success is inevitable but only for those who really want it

17. Learning Curve
Current
Desired
Pain

19. 6 – Fundamental Laws
1. Discipline
2. Passion for the goal
3. Courage
4. Perseverance
5. Inspire others
6. Measure results
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To benefit you have to pay the price

21. 1. Discipline
• Discipline is to accept that success is inevitable but
only for those who want it seriously
• Discipline is to do what needs to be done – not only
what you like to do
• Discipline is to seek feedback and listen to what you
need to hear
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Practice makes permanent not perfect

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23. 2. Passion for the goal
• Great success needs heroic effort
• Passion fuels heroic effort
• Passion is to revel in the journey
• Passion is the joy of the struggle
• Passion is highly infectious
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Passion is itself the payoff

25. 3. Courage
• To care more than others think is wise
• To risk more than others think is safe
• To challenge yourself unnecessarily
• Pick your battles because not everything is worth
fighting for
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To take the unpopular stand

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27. 4. Perseverance
• Those who win the race are often those who
stayed in it long enough
• To own mistakes and learn from them
• To generate alternatives infinitely
• To take the pain
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Perseverance is a factor of confidence

28. Structured learning
• Rovio made Angry Birds and people said, ‘Wow! it's an
overnight success.’
• 2 billion downloads, 200 million minutes/day
• Actually they'd been working eight years and it was their
52nd game.
• They succeeded because they consciously learned 51 times
What do you do with mistakes?

30. 5. Inspire others
• Because you can’t succeed alone
• Do because of who you are, not because of who is
watching
• Convert one way to two way (WiiFM)
30Become extraordinary because ordinary is..

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33. 6. Measure Results
• Because success is a number
• Because it is eminently possible to fool yourself – metrics
are the protection
• Metrics energize and encourage
• Metrics are the early warning system
• Measure yourself relentlessly
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Only what you can measure, exists

34. Life is Math
• Life is an equation
2 + 4 = 6
• We control one side of it only but by changing the
number we write, we can get the result we want
Development is a product of thought, not time

36. Action steps
Start Stop Continue

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