Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13 | Issue 654 |
Craig Impelman Speaking | Championship Coaches | Champion's Leadership Library Login | |
"HELP OTHERS (BEFORE THEY ASK)" In 1985 I began conducting my own summer basketball camp in Southern California. The enrollment was small and, given the overhead, the future didn’t look bright. One morning while visiting us, Coach Wooden said he wanted to talk to me about my camp. I had never asked him for help or even mentioned the situation with the camp to him.
Coach told me that he would like to come and teach fundamentals at my camp two hours a day every day for all three weeks of camp and that I could advertise that he would be there. The only condition was that I was not allowed to pay him.
With the addition of Coach Wooden, the camp became a tremendous success for the next 22 years. In those 22 years I never once asked Coach to come speak again. Every year he phoned me to find out when he was scheduled to teach at the camps.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thy self."
Coach Wooden never had an unlisted phone number. He was available to everybody (for free). He was committed to being available to visit with anyone who wanted to meet him.
Motivational speaker and author Anthony Robbins interviewed Coach Wooden and asked: Coach,I have interviewed several wealthy people who are not particularly happy. What advice would you give them?
Coach’s response was: "They should find somebody to help."
I always felt as if Coach got up every morning and said to himself let me see how many people I can help today. I have never known a happier person.
"Do not run after happiness, but seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you." - James Freeman Clarke
Who will you help today?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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The Painter When my hair is thin and silvered, an' my time of toil is through, Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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