Be a Good Patient.
Louie Bernstein
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If you’re wondering why everything you try to succeed at takes so long, I have the secret for you.
And I’ll give it to you by providing an example, along with the three things you’ll need to succeed.
You may have heard of the college basketball coach, John Wooden. He won the NCAA National Basketball Championship 10 out of 12 years, in the 1980’s. A feat that has not been equaled since.
But he didn’t just step on the court and start winning. John Wooden coached for 14 years before coming to UCLA, and it took another 15 years before he won his first championship.
That’s 29 years before winning the prized trophy. He was 54 years old at that time. John
Wooden wasn’t born a great basketball coach - just like you aren’t born the best in your field.
But what he knew was that to accomplish anything great, regardless of your talent level, you need three things:
You can have all the talent in the world, but without consistent, daily effort and a determined attitude, not much will happen.
Now, just add that third ingredient, Patience, to become a successful leader in your business or industry.
I’m probably not the best messenger to talk about patience. I have the attention span of an insect. But what I do know and understand is that nothing worthwhile comes quickly.
Accomplishment requires patience.
Having founded and run a bootstrapped business for 22 years, I understand the pressures, financial and personal, that can make having patience tough.
If it was easy, everyone would do it.
It requires showing up every day doing the un-fun, repetitious parts of the job. The parts that when stacked up day-after-day and year-after-year, make you the best you can be.
So, here’s your Action Item and Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Are you frustrated because your goals and dreams aren’t happening quickly enough?
Patience is not only a virtue, it’s a requirement for success.
It took John Wooden 54 years to become an overnight success.
If these ideas resonate with you, I have 148 previous Sunday Starters on other topics that are designed to help you and accelerate your success. You can find them below.
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Remember, one hand washes the other and together they get clean. Thank you for watching or reading. Have a really rewarding week and I’ll see you next time.
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3 周Louie Bernstein. Embracing a patient mindset is crucial for meaningful growth and long-term success. Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
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3 周That's a good prescription for success.
Roy Williams - very successful basketball coach at Kansas and UNC - tells the story that every time he passes a certain small town in North Carolina, he always stops by to pay his respects to the high school there. The reason is that, in his first year year of coaching high school basketball, that particular high school is the only team his team beat - giving them two wins for the year. He says without those two wins, he would have stopped coaching but that was enough to keep him going - and becoming a better and more successful coach.