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Having devoted my life's work to studying winners in every walk of life, from Apollo astronauts to world-class athletes, from top executives of multinational corporations, to youth groups and young entrepreneurs, I consider it a privilege to offer a few opening comments about Gary Pittard's new book, Why Winners Win.

It has been said, with timeless wisdom, ‘The greatest teachers are themselves the greatest students,' and I can say emphatically that Gary Pittard has studied ‘winners' all his adult life. He is just as curious, inspired and eager to continue growing as a student of life-management attitudes and habits today as he was when he first began his upward journey to enlightenment. As with each of us, Gary was not necessarily born to win. He was born with the equal right to invest in his potential to become a winner by choice, rather than by chance. If winning in life was based on luck, Las Vegas and Macao would be ghost towns. Winning, other than the lottery, is based on universal principles that time, technology and circumstance cannot alter.

There are several major differences that make this book so relevant and special. First, although it deals with winning in the real estate industry, with a banquet of hands-on examples, Why Winners Win is just as applicable to every industry, leadership position, sales situation, and personal development program for individuals and family members. Another major difference is that, while quoting many icons in business and the personal growth fields, Gary does not merely recycle what he has learned by reading and studying their work, as well as attending their keynotes and workshops – he has lived his own success journey after decades of trial and error. He has earned his reputation as one of the premier sales and sales leadership experts in Australia, and I believe his book will gain global recognition as the ‘winning by example' manual.

A noteworthy difference that Gary's book provides is that he structures the critical qualities of a winner in their natural progression: attitude, knowledge, skill and competent action. Attitude certainly is the primary key to our lock on the door leading to success. The right attitude opens up the treasure chest of knowledge and skills (habits) development. While many books talk about the Law of Attraction, Why Winners Win gives us, the readers, the most important ingredient of all: Competent Action. Winners are busy ‘doing' while the rest of the population keeps ‘stewing'.

I consider Gary Pittard a colleague worth emulating and a lifelong friend. If you internalise the concepts within, this book can change your life.

Dr Denis Waitley, author of The Psychology of Winning