CONFIDENCE - JOHN R WOODEN'S PYRAMID OF SUCCESS #14

CONFIDENCE

Block #14 of John R. Wooden's Pyramid of Success

"There is perhaps no stronger steel than well-founded self belief: the knowledge that your preparation is complete, that you have done all things possible to ready yourself and your organization for the competition, whatever form it comes in. This is Confidence. 

Confidence cannot be grafted on artificially. Real abiding Confidence, like Poise, is earned only by tenaciously pursuing and attaining those assets that allow you to reach your own level of competency- the potential you have within. For me those personal assets are contained in, and provided by, the blocks of the Pyramid of Success that I have described previously. 

Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn into arrogance. Arrogance, or elitism, is the feeling of superiority that fosters the assumption that past success will be repeated without the same hard effort that brought it about in the first place. Thus, I have never gone into a game assuming victory. All opponents have been respected, none feared. I taught those under my supervision to do the same. This reflects Confidence, not arrogance. Arrogance will bring you down by your own hands. We see it happen all around us in all areas of life all the time.

Success requires Poise and Confidence. Both are attained through proper preparation. Acquiring the personal characteristics and values of the Pyramid. I believe, constitutes proper preparation. 

When you have made the effort to prepare to the fullest extent of your ability-and do not underestimate the great challenge of proper and complete preparation-you will reap the crowning block of the Pyramid of Success; namely, Competitive Greatness."

John R. Wooden

Tomorrow is the final block of the Pyramid of Success!

With Love, 

Whitney