What if you went to work each day with attitude, "I just have to find ways show everyone that I am better than my peers."? Oops, trouble ahead. This is 'need' to win. Doing your work to best of your ability because you enjoy it and you care about it demonstrates your desire to win. And, just as in golf, you are competing with yourself. Can you do better quality work? Can you pay more attention to details? Can you bring project in slightly ahead of schedule? Will you take time to be supportive to colleagues? Do you treat folks respectfully? Do you refrain from gossip and bad-mouthing? AND, can you do all that a little better than you did yesterday because you WANT to? Now, that is desire to win.

Your desire to do your best shows that you are truly on your own team. That's where you want to be--on task and on target with your desire to demonstrate what you value and who you are. You do that by living in integrity with what is important, significant and valuable to you. Your attention is not on showing others up, but, rather, on bringing your best to workplace.

Excellent golfers play to improve on yesterday's performance. Even when they are playing tournaments, their focus is on doing their best, not on beating others. They keep fun in their game, too. The best keep their competition to themselves. There's much to be learned from game of golf. How are you playing?

I've often suggested here that you find those things that are most important to you, and center your life around them. Enthusiasm is to be found where those most important things you value reside. These are things that light you up. It is easy to know what lights you up because you know feeling, no matter how fleeting. Just before rational mind starts convincing you that you are mistaken, your heart soars for a moment. Your eyes light up and you hear that "Yes!!!" from deep inside. This is seat of enthusiasm. Grab it, examine, it and, above all, do more of whatever it is that creates it!

For today, no matter what rational mind says, look and listen for places, events, ideas, people and activities that make your heart shout that loud "Yes!!!" . Spend some time deciding how to bring more of those things into your life. You deserve to live enthusiastically.