Issue 703 - Reach Your Potential


Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13	Issue 703
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REACH YOUR POTENTIAL John Wooden Video Clip (1 min. 54 sec.): "Coach Wooden is asked how he met his wife, Nellie?" I have been told on occasion the Pyramid of Success is too complex. I have also been told it is a great poster. It is in my opinion : A Sequence of 16 Steps To Reach Your Potential. Any of these steps are beneficial but executing one skill before the preceding one will prevent you from reaching your potential. For example, a positive attitude (#4) without a plan (#3) is just a positive approach and will not get you the best result. Hope this helps: 1.Proper Mindset: Learn from others, but don’t compare yourself. Measure success by your effort and capability. Worrying about others will be a constant distraction. Stay grounded whether praised or criticized. "Never try to be better than someone else but always be learning from others." – Joshua Wooden 2. Pursue something worthwhile. Work toward something you genuinely believe in. Success requires purpose. 3. Do it the right way. Plan carefully. Pay attention to detail. Take no shortcuts. Give your best effort every time. "Don’t mistake activity for achievement." – John Wooden 4. Keep a positive attitude—and spread it. Create a positive environment for those you work with. "Things turn out the best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden 5. Help others and build friendships. You can’t reach your potential alone. 6. Be considerate, honest and reliable. Be someone others can count on—at work, on the team, and at home. That's a good way to start your journey! Click here for personal development exercise: Issue 703. Click here for Printable Poetry: Issue 703. Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman www.woodenswisdom.com Follow @woodenswisdom	COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE The Real Successes You think that the failures are many, You think the successes are few, But you judge by the rule of the penny, And not by the good that men do. You judge men by standards of treasure That merely obtain upon earth, When the brother you're snubbing may measure Full-length to God's standard of worth. The failures are not in the ditches, The failures are not in the ranks, They have missed the acquirement of riches, Their fortunes are not in the banks. Their virtues are never paraded, Their worth is not always in view, But they're fighting their battles unaided, And fighting them honestly, too. There are failures to-day in high places The failures aren't all in the low; There are rich men with scorn in their faces Whose homes are but castles of woe. The homes that are happy are many, And numberless fathers are true; And this is the standard, if any, By which we must judge what men do. Wherever loved ones are awaiting The toiler to kiss and caress, Though in Bradstreet's he hasn't a rating, He still is a splendid success. If the dear ones who gather about him And know what he's striving to do Have never a reason to doubt him, Is he less successful than you? You think that the failures are many, You judge by men's profits in gold; You judge by the rule of the penny— In this true success isn't told. This falsely man's story is telling, For wealth often brings on distress, But wherever love brightens a dwelling, There lives; rich or poor, a success. Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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