How to get Back Up after a defeat (loss, illness, broken relationship, dream, finances, meltdown, etc.)
1. Pray for wisdom
2. Pray for strength
3. Pray for friends
4. Pray for forgiveness
5. Pray for a new start
6. Pray for balance
7. Pray for attitude
8. Pray for the ability to help other
9. Pray for joy and wonder
10. Pray for your story
Pete Maravich Assembly Center
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
10 Qualities of a Successful Coach
The qualities of a successful coach
1. Communicator
2. Listener
3. Open minded
4. Loyal
5. Sees the big picture
6. Finds the positive spin
7. Thick Skinned
8. Understands team concept
9. Passionate
10. Doesn’t worry about the time spent but the time invested
1. Communicator
2. Listener
3. Open minded
4. Loyal
5. Sees the big picture
6. Finds the positive spin
7. Thick Skinned
8. Understands team concept
9. Passionate
10. Doesn’t worry about the time spent but the time invested
Monday, March 2, 2009
Worry wastes time
"Worry wastes time, steals energy and prevents you from accomplishing your goals. There's no reason to worry about something you can or can not fix."
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Appropriate quote
Heard someone say this statement,
"Life is Messy."
Even when we want things to go well on our path we still have to realize that there will be steps along the way that are not pleasant. It's how you deal with those messes that determines your happiness.
"Life is Messy."
Even when we want things to go well on our path we still have to realize that there will be steps along the way that are not pleasant. It's how you deal with those messes that determines your happiness.
Three things each person should do
1. A person must be authentic, no masks.
2. Act with Honesty and Intergrity, don't be a cheater.
3. Be truthful in all things, even when we sin and make human mistakes
2. Act with Honesty and Intergrity, don't be a cheater.
3. Be truthful in all things, even when we sin and make human mistakes
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Great story about Michael Jordan
This is from James Malinchak on one of his recent emails. Mr. Malinchak does a great job of explaining Jordan's discipline and ability to prepare.
Picture this...its Game 7 of the NBA Finals and your team is playing on the road at your opponents place. There's 00:01 second left on the clock and your team is losing by 1 point. You're at the free-throw line to shoot two shots - this is literally win or lose time and the ball is in your hands. If you make both free-throws, your team wins their first ever championship. If you miss both, your team loses the championship.
How would you feel?
Would you be nervous? Would you be distracted by all of the opposing fans screaming, stomping and waving their hands trying to rattle you and break your concentration? How do you handle an uncomfortable situation like this?
That's the exact situation I posed to basketball legend Michael Jordan when I spent 4-days with him. Me, Michael and about eight others were sitting around talking and I asked him that exact question after describing the above scenario: "Michael, how do you handle an uncomfortable situation like this, whether it's in basketball, business or life?" After asking it, you could literally hear a pin drop as we waited for MJ's answer. I thought he would say something like he would try and focus on saying positive affirmations, thinking positive thoughts, etc.
However, Michael replied by saying, "That's easy! That situation wouldn't bother me because I would have already disciplined myself to make sure I had already prepared for success in that, or any other situation!"
WOW!
Not the answer I was expecting but it's very profound when you think about those two words that most would simply skim over: (1) Disciplined; and (2) Prepared.
Most people are not DISCIPLINED to PREPARE themselves for success! It was stated best by Sun Tsu in The Art of War: "Every battle is won before it is fought!" Every speaking, writing, training and coaching business-battle should be won BEFORE you encounter it.
Two key words: DISCIPLINE and PREPARE! I've found those two words are what separate the successful person from the mediocre person.
Picture this...its Game 7 of the NBA Finals and your team is playing on the road at your opponents place. There's 00:01 second left on the clock and your team is losing by 1 point. You're at the free-throw line to shoot two shots - this is literally win or lose time and the ball is in your hands. If you make both free-throws, your team wins their first ever championship. If you miss both, your team loses the championship.
How would you feel?
Would you be nervous? Would you be distracted by all of the opposing fans screaming, stomping and waving their hands trying to rattle you and break your concentration? How do you handle an uncomfortable situation like this?
That's the exact situation I posed to basketball legend Michael Jordan when I spent 4-days with him. Me, Michael and about eight others were sitting around talking and I asked him that exact question after describing the above scenario: "Michael, how do you handle an uncomfortable situation like this, whether it's in basketball, business or life?" After asking it, you could literally hear a pin drop as we waited for MJ's answer. I thought he would say something like he would try and focus on saying positive affirmations, thinking positive thoughts, etc.
However, Michael replied by saying, "That's easy! That situation wouldn't bother me because I would have already disciplined myself to make sure I had already prepared for success in that, or any other situation!"
WOW!
Not the answer I was expecting but it's very profound when you think about those two words that most would simply skim over: (1) Disciplined; and (2) Prepared.
Most people are not DISCIPLINED to PREPARE themselves for success! It was stated best by Sun Tsu in The Art of War: "Every battle is won before it is fought!" Every speaking, writing, training and coaching business-battle should be won BEFORE you encounter it.
Two key words: DISCIPLINE and PREPARE! I've found those two words are what separate the successful person from the mediocre person.
Monday, February 23, 2009
The Power of Self Discipline
"THE POWER OF DISCIPLINE" by Brian Tracy
“Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.” – Brian Tracy
Why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, live happier lives and accomplish much more in the same number of years than the great majority?
I started out in life with few advantages. I did not graduate from high school. I worked at menial jobs. I had limited education, limited skills and a limited future.
And then I began asking, “Why are some people more successful than others?” This question changed my life.
Over the years, I have read thousands of books and articles on the subjects of success and achievement. It seems that the reasons for these accomplishments have been discussed and written about for more than two thousand years, in every conceivable way. One quality that most philosophers, teachers and experts agree on is the importance of self-discipline. As Al Tomsik summarized it years ago, “Success is tons of discipline.”
Some years ago, I attended a conference in Washington. It was the lunch break and I was eating at a nearby food fair. The area was crowded and I sat down at the last open table by myself, even though it was a table for four. A few minutes later, an older gentleman and a younger woman who was his assistant came along carrying trays of food, obviously looking for a place to sit. With plenty of room at my table, I immediately arose and invited the older gentleman to join me. He was hesitant, but I insisted. Finally, thanking me as he sat down, we began to chat over lunch.
It turned out that his name was Kop Kopmeyer. As it happened, I immediately knew who he was. He was a legend in the field of success and achievement. Kop Kopmeyer had written four large books, each of which contained 250 success principles that he had derived from more than fifty years of research and study. I had read all four books from cover to cover, more than once.
After we had chatted for awhile, I asked him the question that many people in this situation would ask, “Of all the one thousand success principles that you have discovered, which do you think is the most important?”
He smiled at me with a twinkle in his eye, as if he had been asked this question many times, and replied, without hesitating, “The most important success principle of all was stated by Thomas Huxley many years ago. He said, 'Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.'”
He went on to say, “There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work.”
Taken from Simple Truths website to pass out to my players
“Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.” – Brian Tracy
Why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, live happier lives and accomplish much more in the same number of years than the great majority?
I started out in life with few advantages. I did not graduate from high school. I worked at menial jobs. I had limited education, limited skills and a limited future.
And then I began asking, “Why are some people more successful than others?” This question changed my life.
Over the years, I have read thousands of books and articles on the subjects of success and achievement. It seems that the reasons for these accomplishments have been discussed and written about for more than two thousand years, in every conceivable way. One quality that most philosophers, teachers and experts agree on is the importance of self-discipline. As Al Tomsik summarized it years ago, “Success is tons of discipline.”
Some years ago, I attended a conference in Washington. It was the lunch break and I was eating at a nearby food fair. The area was crowded and I sat down at the last open table by myself, even though it was a table for four. A few minutes later, an older gentleman and a younger woman who was his assistant came along carrying trays of food, obviously looking for a place to sit. With plenty of room at my table, I immediately arose and invited the older gentleman to join me. He was hesitant, but I insisted. Finally, thanking me as he sat down, we began to chat over lunch.
It turned out that his name was Kop Kopmeyer. As it happened, I immediately knew who he was. He was a legend in the field of success and achievement. Kop Kopmeyer had written four large books, each of which contained 250 success principles that he had derived from more than fifty years of research and study. I had read all four books from cover to cover, more than once.
After we had chatted for awhile, I asked him the question that many people in this situation would ask, “Of all the one thousand success principles that you have discovered, which do you think is the most important?”
He smiled at me with a twinkle in his eye, as if he had been asked this question many times, and replied, without hesitating, “The most important success principle of all was stated by Thomas Huxley many years ago. He said, 'Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.'”
He went on to say, “There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work.”
Taken from Simple Truths website to pass out to my players
Saturday, February 21, 2009
John Croyle
These are notes from a talk from John Croyle who runs the Big Oaks Children home in Gadsden, AL
Four things he tells the kids that come to his ranch (www.bigoakranch.org)
1. I love you
2. I will never leave you
3. I will stick with you
4. There are boundaries
They all ask do you really love me?
The mark of greatness-loving someone else
What a kid hears repeatedly he will eventually believe it
Do you impact or inspire
Four options you have with kids and your gifts
1. Invest
2. Spend
3. Waste
4. Hoard
The first has eternal value the rest have no eternal value
Croyle wants his kids that come and live at the ranch to be able to say "There was a day I knew he believed in me."
Kids also need:
Emotional support
Trust
Security
Four things he tells the kids that come to his ranch (www.bigoakranch.org)
1. I love you
2. I will never leave you
3. I will stick with you
4. There are boundaries
They all ask do you really love me?
The mark of greatness-loving someone else
What a kid hears repeatedly he will eventually believe it
Do you impact or inspire
Four options you have with kids and your gifts
1. Invest
2. Spend
3. Waste
4. Hoard
The first has eternal value the rest have no eternal value
Croyle wants his kids that come and live at the ranch to be able to say "There was a day I knew he believed in me."
Kids also need:
Emotional support
Trust
Security
Thursday, February 19, 2009
German Proverb
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost!"
German Proverb
German Proverb
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Quote by Micheal Jordan
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” Michael Jordan
Most of the information I have read about Micheal Jordan was that he constantly worked hard enough to get ready for the big moment. He knew it took hours and hours to prepare to get ready for that moment to shine.
We talk to our players all the time about setting themselves up for success by how hard they work in the classroom and on the court.
How much do you expect of yourself?
Most of the information I have read about Micheal Jordan was that he constantly worked hard enough to get ready for the big moment. He knew it took hours and hours to prepare to get ready for that moment to shine.
We talk to our players all the time about setting themselves up for success by how hard they work in the classroom and on the court.
How much do you expect of yourself?
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