To help make the process in your life better and easier, you must keep yourself focused. At the end of the day though, most goals we achieve are by the amount work and time we put in to make it a reality.
In dedicating your time to winning, think about how long you hope to achieve your goal, and when you want it to be completed. Time frame helps you find it between the setup and what ever your ideas may be created for.
You must have an undying drive and zeal to seeing you get to the top of your game and that cannot be done by just sitting still and hoping. You must hop on the moving train to be able to achieve a win.
Look at this: Imagine you expect you will need 15 hours of work to master the basics of playing Saxophone and you want to learn it in 2 weeks. You'll need to spend about an hour on this every day.
There's no way to get around putting in the time to achieve this unless you are truly committed to your goal, and are ready to put in time daily to achieving that goal.
Dedication also means, you must have that thing done routinely otherwise, it will not be attained as there may be times when you will miss out on it. Missing out on set time for practice and follow up, will lead to a lag in productivity.
Your time is too precious to waste on flimsy excuse making ventures. You must be responsible enough to understand that, there is a time for everything and to win, you must put in that needed amount of time.
The saying that, "Make Hay While the Sun Shines," is talking about the usefulness of time. Do not seek to spread out your corn when the sky is all dark and cloudy, there is a reason why the sun shone and when you miss that reason, you will miss the whole essence of really taking and making good use of TIME.
I am really conscious of time and no matter how well it looks to be working when I waste it, it will never return back to what it was when I started my day. You move or not, time moves no matter what.
Joshua may have made time stand still, but it never really stood in its entirety, it evolved and caused some regions to stay bright even while is yet is dark. (4am in the Middle east is like 10am in Nigeria and same is obtained in various other regions around the world.)
Don't be deceived, time is not for man to manipulate, time is for man to use to get the benefits of the world at large. You Snooze, You Loose!!!