<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="left" />There are many ways to succeed on a short-term basis. If life were a three-day weekend, it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to know what to do, and it wouldn&#8217;t really matter any way. Life is a marathon and not a sprint.  </p>
<p>Succeeding over the long-term is much different than becoming an overnight success.  If you look behind the scenes of people who appear to be an overnight success, you will find that either their success came over many years and you weren&#8217;t aware of it until recently, or the overnight success is really not successful.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/02/win-win-outcomes-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Win &#8211; Win Outcomes By Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":365,"date":"2011-02-02T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2020-12-20T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T04:19:59","slug":"win-win-outcomes-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/02\/win-win-outcomes-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Win &#8211; Win Outcomes By Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>There are many ways to succeed on a short-term basis. If life were a three-day weekend, it wouldn&#8217;t be hard to know what to do, and it wouldn&#8217;t really matter any way. Life is a marathon and not a sprint.  <\/p>\n<p>Succeeding over the long-term is much different than becoming an overnight success.  If you look behind the scenes of people who appear to be an overnight success, you will find that either their success came over many years and you weren&#8217;t aware of it until recently, or the overnight success is really not successful.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/02\/win-win-outcomes-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Win &#8211; Win Outcomes By Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}