I have confession to make. I greatly enjoy going to a book store, ordering the largest coffee offered – one laden with chocolate – and sitting down with a half-dozen books. Books I will be unlikely to purchase. I take many notes. I save money, I save trees. – JDW
Success is a great deodorant. – Elizabeth Taylor
Allow me to synopsize Success Is A Choice: Ten Steps To Overachieving In Business And Life by Rick Pitino.
1. Build self-esteem. Become your own best friend. How do you expect anybody else to like you, if you don’t like yourself?
2. Set demanding goals. Make the results worthy of your efforts. Make the results worthy of your efforts. I repeated that on purpose.
3. Always be positive. I promise you: you will positively be amazed how much your life will improve when you eschew negativity.
4. Establish good habits. And eliminate bad habits. It is just as easy – often easier – to do things right.
Especially the first time. Ha! Listen to me, my father would be so proud to hear that.
5. Master the art of communication. Coach Pitino refers to this skill as “the highest form of intelligence.”
Cannot help thinking, all this time, I’ve been speaking the wrong language. Like a knucklehead.
6. Learn from role models. Find people who are behaving as you wish to behave. Then act that way.
7. Thrive on pressure. Pressure is the best stimulus. Nobody becomes a hero when there is no danger. And you are safe until you’re not.
8. Be ferociously persistent. Too many of us quit just before our next victory. Never, never, never give up. Never.
Not kidding. That’s how the crazy people win.
9. Learn from adversity. Pain and defeat are excellent teachers. I’m still back thinking about “our next victory.”
If you were a winner, would you know? And what would that look like?
10. Survive success. Which basically seems to mean, go back to step #2 and start all over.
Postlogue.
https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2019/04/24/christian-dawkins-rick-pitino-ncaa-corruption-trial