“What you do that day to make progress toward being a winner is all up to you.”
Truly, to a large degree.
Someone with continual migraines, or severe emotional trauma, or chronic cancer, or whatever, there are some things you can’t “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.”
But for the most of us, there is always something we can do to improve ourselves if only a little. This stops when we start feeling like “victims.” I’ve had to fight that in my own life, and remind myself I am not a “victim,” at least not very often.
I think everything I’ve said still holds true. For people with debilitating challenges, the definition of “winning” is just different than what most of us would use.