Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 4 | Issue 168 |
Craig Impelman Speaking | Championship Coaches | Champion's Leadership Library Login | |
THE FUTURE MAY BE WHEN YOU WISH YOU HAD DONE WHAT YOU ARE NOT DOING NOW
This favorite quote of Coach Wooden's is designed to cause us to think about how we are approaching our lives on a daily basis.
There have been many articles written where older people are interviewed, and talk about what regrets they have about the way they did things when they were younger.
This advice is passed along to younger people, with the hope that they will live a happier, more productive life now, rather than later.
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As a result of my research I compiled eight areas of life people most commonly had regrets about.
Then, using the Pyramid of Success, I put together some advice from Coach Wooden on these most common areas of regret. This issue will address the first area people have regrets about:
1. I regret all the time I wasted.
In the Industriousness Block of the Pyramid of Success, Coach says worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning. In his book with Steve Jamison, Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success, Coach commented on how he valued time:
One of the very few rules I enforced from my first day of coaching until my last was as follows: “Be on time.” Players—even assistant coaches—who broke this rule faced serious consequences. Being late showed disrespect for time. I felt that one of the ways I could signal my own reverence for time was to insist on punctuality. And, to be punctual myself.
If a player appeared to be taking it easy during practice, not giving it everything he had, I told him sternly, “Don’t think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, I want you to do it right now.” This was another way of telling them not to waste time; to make this practice a masterpiece.
I believe effective organization of time—budgeting and managing time—was one of my assets as a coach. I understood how to use time to its most productive ends. Gradually, I had learned how to get the most out of a minute. In return, each minute gave back the most to our team. I was never the greatest X’s and O’s coach around. Never. But I was among the best when it came to respecting and utilizing time. I valued it, gave it respect and tried to make each minute a masterpiece.
Make Each Day Your Masterpiece. You have nothing without time. Treat it with great respect.
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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