Motivate Your Team! Cheer Up A Friend! Inspire Yourself!
Motivate Your Team! Cheer Up A Friend! Inspire Yourself!
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| Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13 | Issue 753 |
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"SELF-CONTROL IS THE KEY TO MISTAKE MANAGEMENT" John Wooden Video Clip (1 min. 4 sec.): Coach Wooden defines Skill. "If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything." — John Wooden
"A mistake can be valuable if you: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, and then forget it." — (Thanks to Chris Bradley for the recommendation.)
These ideas align directly with John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, specifically with the block of Self-Control.
Making mistakes is not the challenge—managing them is. To effectively manage mistakes, you must have self-control, which is a key block on the Pyramid of Success. Coach defined it this way: "Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential."
The Pyramid’s Second TierThere are five tiers on The Pyramid of Success. Coach described the second tier of his Pyramid "as the qualities needed for the control and direction of your mental faculties". He created four Pyramid of Success blocks necessary for this: Self-Control, Alertness, Initiative, and Intentness.
It was his contention that you must have self-control first before the other three qualities can reach their potential. That is why self-control is essential if you are going to properly manage mistakes.
Self-Control is the gateway.
Mistakes Come From DoingIf you are doing anything meaningful, mistakes are inevitable. When mistakes happen, Coach Wooden cautioned us: "If you lose self-control, everything will fail. If emotion takes over, reason usually flies out the window."
Coach added: "The people who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything. Mistakes come from doing, but so does success. The individual who is mistake-free is probably sitting around doing nothing—and that’s a very big mistake."
Most people don’t fail because of mistakes; they fail because of their reaction to them. Coach Wooden advised: "You may not be able to control what happens, but you can control how you respond to it.".
A MISTAKE IS VALUABLE IF YOU RECOGNIZE IT, ADMIT IT, LEARN FROM IT AND FORGET ITThis quote from Coach Wooden summarizes and gives instruction to some of his key ideas regarding how to deal with mistakes (they require Self-Control:
1. Recognize It:
2. Admit it:
3. Learn from it:
4. Forget it:
Don't make a second mistake because you're thinking about the first."
Control Yourself FirstCoach Wooden admired and studied Gautama Buddha (500 BC) who said:
"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one —himself. Better to conquer yourself than others.
When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat."
With Self-Control no mistake will slow you down.
Reflect on this idea of Self-Control. How are you doing? Write it down. Share it with someone on your team.
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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