Everyone wants to win, but not everyone knows how. Too often, we think of winning as the scoreboard, the paycheck, or the finish line. The truth is, winning happens long before the spotlight. It happens in the small moments. The choices you make, the way you prepare, and how you respond when things don’t go your way.
That’s the heart of the Win One Won mindset: Win every moment. One day at a time. And if you do that, you’ll have won.
Below are the four ways to make that happen – every moment, every day.
1) Show Up with the Winner’s Approach
Winning starts with how you show up. The Winner’s Approach isn’t just about talent. It’s about your preparation, mindset, and the energy you bring to the room. Each day is an opportunity to bring focus, discipline, and intentionality to everything you do. Whether it’s walking into practice, a meeting, or your family dinner, ask yourself: Am I showing up with purpose, or just going through the motions?
2) Develop Championship Habits
Success isn’t built in a single day. It’s stacked over time. Championship Habits are the routines and standards you live by when no one is watching. They’re the consistent actions that build trust, generate momentum, and eventually lead to winning results. Excellence doesn’t come from one great performance. It comes from dozens of unseen moments where you chose discipline over the distractions in your life.
3) Respond, Don’t React
Adversity is guaranteed. What defines you is not whether you face it, but how you handle it. Winners learn to respond with clarity and composure rather than react out of emotion. Responding means learning from mistakes, moving forward quickly, and locking in on the next play. Life is too short to stay stuck in frustration or failure.
4) Sustain Success & Create Significance
Once you’ve learned to win in the moment and stack wins over time, the real question is: What will you do with it? Sustaining success requires humility, consistency, and the desire to lift others. True victory is found in significance. It’s found in impacting lives, building legacy, and leaving people better than you found them.
Winning doesn’t have to be complicated, but you do need to be intentional. If you want to win in your sport, your business, or your life, don’t only chase the big moment. Win the moment right in front of you. Then the next. Then find a way to do it over and over again.
Win the moment. Win the day. And you’ll look back and realize that you’ve won.
About The Author
Andrew Wingreen is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, and the author of Win One Won, a powerful sports leadership fable that inspires athletes, coaches, and high performers to win every moment, one day at a time. A college basketball coach with years of experience building championship-level teams, Andrew brings a unique blend of competitive grit, personal growth, and transformational leadership to everything he creates.
Through his Win One Won framework, Andrew teaches the mindset and systems behind sustained success, focusing on habits, identity, resilience, and significance. His work has influenced leaders in sports, education, and business, helping teams build a winning culture from the inside out.
When he’s not writing or speaking, Andrew is mentoring others, leading the basketball program at New College of Florida, and spending time with his wife and two children. His mission is simple: help others show up with purpose, compete for something bigger, and win the moments that matter.
