Champion’s Playbook: Play your own game—do what you do best. Make your own rules—from experience. Quit when you’re ahead—walk away a champion!
Champion’s Playbook: The Art of Winning on Your Terms
Some people play to win. Others play not to lose. But the real champions? They’re not even on the same field as everyone else.
They’re busy inventing their own game—scribbling out messy blueprints on the back of napkins, smudging ink with a leaky pen, and breaking every so-called “rule” in the book.
Winning, my friend, isn’t just about raw skill. It’s about knowing who you are, owning it fully, and walking away with your head high—even if your shoes are untied.
Let’s break down the Champion’s Playbook:
1. Play Your Own Game—Do What You Do Best
Ever seen a basketball player try to crush it in baseball? Yeah… MJ, we love you, but the bat-and-ball game just wasn’t your arena.
Your greatness lives in your lane. Trying to dominate in someone else’s game? That’s a fast track to burnout—or at best, being mediocre in a sport you don’t even love.
Your secret weapon? Doing what you do best, better than anyone else. Forget the competition—run your own race, and let the rest eat dust.
2. Make Your Own Rules—From Experience
Here’s a shocker: most of the best “rules” weren’t found in a manual. They were written mid-stumble by people who learned the hard way—and kept going.
Steve Jobs didn’t follow the tech CEO rulebook. He torched it. Then he redesigned it in brushed aluminum and called it innovation.
Don’t wait for permission. Don’t wait for perfect. Use what you’ve learned, trust your gut, and write your own guidebook—one hard-earned chapter at a time.
3. Quit When You’re Ahead—Walk Away a Champion
This might sound like blasphemy in hustle culture, but: quitting can be a flex.
The smartest winners know when to bow out while the crowd’s still cheering. Whether it’s an exit from a job, a project, or a phase of life—it takes guts to say, “That was enough. I did it. I’m out.”
Champions don’t cling. They evolve. Sometimes, the most powerful move isn’t pushing harder—it’s walking away before the game changes you.
✍️Note to Self: You don’t need to be perfect to win. Just play like you—flaws, quirks, messy brilliance and all.
Final Takeaway: Own Your Game
Final Takeaway: Own Your Game
Champions don’t mimic. They master. They don’t follow paths—they carve them. They play hard, walk tall, and bow out with grace when the time is right.
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About Tony
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Tony Brigmon | Speaker—Emcee | TonyBrigmon.com
Tony Brigmon is a party animal. He’s been known to stay up well past nine o’clock drinking root beer and telling G-rated jokes. Sure, the neighbors complain, but that doesn’t stop him. Because Tony is serious about having fun. Serious fun, with serious results.
As a result of his questionable spelling skills, Tony learned at an early age that his name spelled backward is “YNOT.” As in, “YNOT take a closer look at his book?” Or “YNOT smile when you should be crying?”
Tony was a Southwest Airlines “Insider” and the former “face” of their renowned culture as their official “Ambassador of Fun”. At Southwest Airlines, “fun” was the power of “positivity” that helped catapult a small carrier into a force that changed the airline industry.
Today, Tony is a popular speaker, emcee, and author of The FUNomenal™ Workplace. (FUNomenal™ is pronounced the same as phenomenal but it’s a lot more FUN.)
Former CEO of Southwest Airlines Howard Putnam says: “Tony has a gift for blending fun and capturing ideas in a manner that sticks for audiences.” Tony’s friends say that no one should have so much fun while sober. Tony’s wife said she has had about all the cheerfulness she can stand.
“Fun” transformed this author’s work and life. YNOT discover if the serious power of fun can transform the next 30 seconds of your day or 30 years of your life?
YNOT arrange to have Tony Brigmon teach you and your team how the power of fun can help you get more done, bring out the best in everyone, and make you irresistibly attractive in your communication with others. You can do this. So, YNOT?
