Rick pitino
Rick pitinoSuccess is a Choice
By Rick Pitino w/ Bill Reynolds
The book that I read is about a great coach, and an unbelievable motivator, Rick Pitino. Pitino is most remembered for his incredible years as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. In 1996 he led them to a national championship and in 1997 he led them to the final round. After that year he decided that he was going to make the jump to the professional basketball league, and to coach one of the greatest organizations in the history of basketball, the Boston Celtics. Pitino is married and has a child and currently lives in Boston, Mass. Over his years as coach he has sent numerous players into the NBA and what he is even prouder of is the fact that he sent them prepared into the game of life.
To identify just four ideas is impossible, being that the book itself is based on what he calls the ten steps to overachieving in business and in life. The ten steps are:
1) Build your self- esteem
2) Set demanding goals
3) Always be positive
4) Establish good habits
5) Master the at of communicating
6) Learn from good role models
7) Thrive on pressure
8) Be ferociously persistent
9) Learn from adversity
10) Survive your own success
Building your self-esteem is the first step to achieving. The first part that you must remember is that you are in control. You are the one that will be deciding how good you are, or if you deserve to win. He talks about one of the first players that he coached in college and how he blamed his lack of success on every other reason except the fact that he wasn't working hard enough. Remember, first you must have the reason for your high self esteem before you can show it. You have control over what you are going to accomplish, everybody has doubts about how good they are, that is just simply how life is. You must also remember that you can build your self-esteem at any level, it is never too late to accomplish your goals.
The next part is to set demanding goals. What you must remember is that you are setting your goals, not getting ready for a genie to pop out of a lamp. If you just went 0-22, do not set your goal to win the national championship; instead set your goal to achieve a .500 season. According to Pitino, you have two types of goals, behavior changing goals, and level goals. Your behavior changing goals is a personal goal, this is when you frame a personal weakness and try to frame your goals around fixing them. The other is just your goal that will lead to your dream. These are short-term goals that lead into each other. He also reminds us not to set your goals to low. If you reach your goal too easily, you become lazy. He says not...
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