John Wooden: Pyramid of Success

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.  
John Wooden

 12 Lessons in Leadership

 1. Good values attract good people
2. Love is the most powerful four-letter word
3. Call yourself a teacher
4. Emotion is your enemy
5. It takes 10 hands to make a basket
6.  Little things make big things happen
7. Make each day your masterpiece
8. The carrot is mightier than a stick
9. Make greatness attainable by all
10. Seek significant change
11. Don't look at the scoreboard
12. Adversity is your asset




 Pyramid of Success

Faith and Patience run through

Top
 Level (1) 
Competitive Greatness

"Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day."


 Level 2

Poise

"Be yourself. Don't be thrown off by events whether good or bad."

Confidence

 "The strongest steel is well-founded self-belief.  It is earned, not given."


 Level 3

Condition

"Ability may get you to the top, but character keeps you there - mental, moral, and physical." 

Skill

"What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all."

Team Spirit

 "The star of the team is the team. 'We' supersedes 'me'."


 Level 4

Self-control

"Control of your organization begins with control of yourself.  Be disciplined."

Alertness

"Constantly be aware and observing.  Always seek to improve yourself and the team."

Initiative

 "Make a decision.  Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all."

Intentness

 "Stay the course. When thwarted try again; harder; smarter. Persevere relentlessly."



Bottom (5)

Industriousness

"Success travels in the company of very hard work.  There is no trick, no easy way."

Friendship

 "Strive to build a team filled with camaraderie and respect: comrades-in-arms. 

Loyalty

"Be true to yourself.  Be true to those you lead."

Cooperation

"Have the utmost concern for what's right rather than who is right."


Enthusiasm

Your energy and enjoyment, drive and dedication will stimulate and  greatly inspire others

 

 

Coach John Wooden's lesson on shoes and socks

By Claudia Luther June 04, 2010

One of Wooden's most famous players, Bill Walton, recalled his first days at UCLA on the basketball team.

Walton related the shock that he and other new players felt when the first thing Wooden did was sit them down and teach them how to put on their shoes and socks. 

Doing this properly, Walton said, was the initial lesson for "everything we would need to know for the rest of our lives."

Coach Wooden demonstrates his famed socks-and-shoes lesson:

"You know, basketball is a game that's played on a hardwood floor," Wooden said. 

"And to be good, you have to ... change your direction, change your pace. 

That's hard on your feet. Your feet are very important. 

And if you don't have every wrinkle out of your sock or you will get blisters."

Wooden: "Now pull it up in the back, pull it up real good, real strong. 

Now run your hand around the little toe area ... make sure there are no wrinkles and then pull it back up. 

Check the heel area. 

We don't want any sign of a wrinkle about it ... 

The wrinkle will be sure you get blisters, and those blisters are going to make you lose playing time, and if you're good enough, your loss of playing time might get the coach fired."

 

"Now put it in wide, now pull it up," he said. 

"Now don't grab these lines up here, go down, eyelet by eyelet ... each one, that's it. Now pull it in there ... Tie it like this... "

"There's always a danger of becoming untied when you are playing," he said. 

"If they become untied, I may have to take you out of the game — practice, I may have to take you out. 

Miss practice, you're going to miss playing time and not only that, it will irritate me a little too."

 "You gonna remember that?" Wooden asked. "I hope you never get any blisters."

 Link: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/wooden-shoes-and-socks-84177.aspx