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Issue 700 - Character Starts With Consideration


Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13	Issue 700
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CHARACTER STARTS WITH CONSIDERATION John Wooden Video Clip (1 min. 21 sec.): Coach Wooden is asked about coaching at UCLA so many years before winning a championship. Qualities like honesty, loyalty, courage, humility, and integrity are all part of good character but without true consideration for others we can head down the wrong road. We can be loyal to the wrong cause. We can follow rules fairly and still miss the spirit of fairness. We can be kind when it’s easy but absent when it’s hard. We can say thank you but live without real gratitude. With consideration for others, we will not miss the mark of good character. Consideration is thinking about how our actions, our words, even our smallest habits, affect others. When we put others in our heart first, good character follows naturally. When Coach Wooden was asked how he would like to be remembered he said: "As a person who was considerate of others." Here are some of my favorite thoughts on consideration for others: "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington "Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights." - Coach Wooden "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion." – Abraham Lincoln "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself." - Confucius "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." – Seneca Click here for personal development exercise: Issue 700. Click here for Printable Poetry: Issue 700. Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman www.woodenswisdom.com Follow @woodenswisdom	COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE A Prayer God grant me kindly thought And patience through the day, And in the things I've wrought Let no person living say That hate's grim mark has stained What little joy I've gained. God keep my nature sweet, Teach me to bear a blow, Disaster and defeat, And no resentment show. If failure must be mine Sustain this soul of mine. God grant me strength to face Undaunted day or night; To stoop to no disgrace To win my little fight; Let me be, when it is o'er, As kind as before. Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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