By Leslie Lindsay Am I a “winner” because I spent the majority of my “free time” (i.e. kid-free) whacking bushes?  Well, perhaps I am.  At least according to “The Winner’s Brain:  8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Succeess” by Drs. Fenske and Brown (Harvard Press, 2010) who suggests that motivation is one of those 8 strategies.  Here’s how it works: I am motivated to trim my bushes with an electric trimmer that my neighbor loaned me.  You see, I was out over the weekend painstakingly trimming them with this large pair of scissors–you know the kind?  It was taking forever, but in a weird way, it was kind of satisfying.  I knew all about the electric version, it’s just that we don’t have one (ask my hubby, it’s his “rule.”)  But then, after Mr. Chin showed me how….it started raining.  Hard.  We packed up and headed back in.  Today–finally warm and sunny–I headed out to get the job done.  I wanted to return the Bushwacker promptly as any good neighbor would do. You see, …