rick pitino biography

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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:

Building your self-esteem is the first step

The next idea that he has changed of mine is the idea of role models. I have always been the one to choose a great superstar as a role model, but they are not the people that I plan to mimic my life after. I need to find somebody that is doing something at the level that I want to achieve in the field that I want to enter, that person is the role model that I need.

Next is a fault that I have, Always be positive. He explains that if you are not positive, you can not achieve the goals that you have set. You must discipline yourself to be positive. "We can control our moods" he explains that if you believe that you are mad you will be mad, and the same with being positive. If you always look at the glass as half full then you will always have more to take from it. Next he says is to cut loose all the disruptive people around you, they will be the ones that drag you into the abyss that is failure. You must just remember to be positive even in the worst times. This he says is accomplished by living in the present. Most of your anxiety is from the past or the future, if you live in the present then you can feel safer.

The art of communication, without it you will have no success. You must remember that sometime, your goals are not those of the person that you are talking to, you must explain your goals thoroughly. Explain what you want and need from the player you are talking to. Then you must be able to verbally confront your problems as soon as they arise. Confront them properly, because most problems between two people either are do to misunderstanding or if you react poorly, can lead to many more problems. Remember that even if you are the boss, nobody responds well to "because I told you so". You must properly reinforce the behavior that you want.

The last major problem that I have always had, that he dealt with, is the establishment of good habits. I have never been the person finishing my work more than two days early. I hate to wake up early. I dread doing the bad, or boring things. I am a terrible procrastinator and most of the time I am not organized in any way. This chapter explained a lot to me. It showed me how his teams organization and overall good habits have made them all winners.

The final step, the tenth step, is the surviving of success. You need to remember there is no end point. You need to continue your success to become truly successful. Your goal is to fix what went wrong, because nothing and nobody is ever perfect. "If your not getting better, you're getting worse".

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Approximate Word count = 1828
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

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