Issue 704 - Reach Your Potential (Part 2)


Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13	Issue 704
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REACH YOUR POTENTIAL (PART 2) John Wooden Video Clip (3 min. 22 sec.): Coach Wooden is asked: "Tell us about the challenges you faced marrying Nellie." I have been told on occasion the Pyramid of Success seems complex. In my opinion it is a Sequence of 16 Steps to Reach Your Potential. Last week we looked at the first six steps Issue 703. Here are the next ten steps: 7. Cooperate with all levels of your co-workers. Be a great listener. Care more about finding the best way rather than having your own way. 8. Maintain self-control. Make good choices. Keep your emotions in check. "Discipline yourself so others don’t have to." – John Wooden 9. Be relentlessly curious. Ask why. Stay open-minded. Keep learning. "It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts." – John Wooden 10. Take action. Don’t wait for perfect circumstances to start something. If something isn’t working, don’t quit—try another way. Set realistic goals. "The people who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything." – John Wooden 11. Stay in shape—mentally, morally, and physically. Your performance depends on your condition. 12. Practice constantly and work with precision. Perfect practice builds mastery. "Be quick—but don’t hurry." – John Wooden 13. Be considerate of others. Do what’s best for the team, not just what’s best for you. "It’s amazing how much can be accomplished if no one is concerned with who gets the credit." - John Wooden 14. Be yourself. Don’t pose to please. 15. Keep things in perspective. Prepare well. Let preparation give you confidence and clarity. "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail." – John Wooden 16. Enjoy and seek difficult challenges. Be at your best when your best is needed. Always look for the advantage in the disadvantage. Be Patient! Click here for personal development exercise: Issue 704. Click here for Printable Poetry: Issue 704. Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman www.woodenswisdom.com Follow @woodenswisdom	COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE When Sorrow Comes When sorrow comes, as come it must, In God a man must place his trust. There is no power in mortal speech The anguish of his soul to reach, No voice, however sweet and low, Can comfort him or ease the blow. He cannot from his fellow men Take strength that will sustain him then. With all that kindly hands will do, And all that love may offer, too, He must believe throughout the test That God has willed it for the best. We who would be his friends are dumb; Words from our lips but feebly come; We feel, as we extend our hands, That one Power only understands And truly knows the reason why So beautiful a soul must die. We realize how helpless then Are all the gifts of mortal men. No words which we have power to say Can take the sting of grief away - That Power which marks the sparrow's fall Must comfort and sustain us all. When sorrow comes, as come it must, In God, a man must place his trust. With all the wealth which he may own, He cannot meet the test alone, And only he may stand serene Who has a faith on which to lean. Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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