the pyramid of success

The Pyramid of Success

John Wooden

25 blocks

Block 1: Industriousness

"There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning."

    I have not heard of or read about any individual anywhere who achieved real success without working extremely hard. In fact, the great successes we all know about are individuals who almost always have greatly outworked their competition.

Block 2: Enthusiasm

"It is the engine that powers all blocks of the Pyramid. It is why I chose Industriousness and Enthusiasm as the cornerstones of my Pyramid of Success. It is where everything begins."


Block 3: Friendship
"Comes from mutual esteem, respect and devotion. Like marriage it must not be taken for granted but requires a joint effort."

Block 4: Loyalty: "To yourself and to all those depending upon you. Keep your self-respect."

To yourself and to all those depending upon you. Keep your self-respect.Loyalty something any good person needs weather it being for friendship or a relationship loyalty is always needed. Knowing that someone has loyalty to you is something great but one little mess up and you could lose it and once you loss someone's loyalty you can pretty much never get it back fully. So if someone had given their loyalty to you don't over do it because it's a great thing to have. Loyalty is a gift so enjoy it and don't overuse it because soon you won't be able to have it and people will have less self-respect for you. 

Block 5: Cooperation

"With all levels of your co-workers. Listen if you want to be heard. Be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way. "

Block 6: Ambition (For noble goals) 


Block 7: Self-Control

"Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgement and common sense are essential."

Block 8: Alertness

"Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.


Block 9: Initiative
"Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it."
 For me, Wooden is an example of how someone you have never met or known personally can be a mentor to you through their words, their values, and their principles they lived by.Be persistent. Be determined. Be tenacious. Be unrelenting. The road to achievement is rocky, hard, and long. Things easily achieved are rarely long-lasting or significant.

Block 10: Intentness

"Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations and being determined and persistent."
Intentness is the thing that keeps a person reaching for the next achievement to make each possibility a reality.Realizing that the road to their achievement could be difficult and certain adversity may force you to change the method of attack. You may have to go around, under, over, back up, look the situation over.But you must not quit. Be intent persistent and determined to reach your realistic objective.



Block 11: Sincerity (keeps friends)

“Sincerity may not help us make friends, but it will help us keep them.”-John Wooden 

Block 12: Adaptability (to any situation) Adapting to change is a life skill and a leadership imperative. As a leader you need to be flexible and adaptable, steering change and responding to change. You also can help others face and adapt to change, too.

Block 13: Condition
"Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated." 









Block 14: Skill
"A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail."
Skill is the ability to do something well like expertise.The skill of the applicant was high had years of experience working. Soft skill are the skills that apply to every job. These are your people skills interpersonal skills, communication skills, and other qualities that enable you to be successful in the workplace.

Block 15:  Team Spirit

"A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all."
Team spirit is the block on the Pyramid of Success. Coach Wooden defines team spirit as “a genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all. If you think of the human race as your team, having team spirit means helping your fellow man to succeed in life. Feelings of camaraderie among the members of a group, enabling them to cooperate and work well together.

Block 16: Honesty (in thought and action)
"Honesty is the best policy." (Ben Franklin)

Honesty is the quality of being honest.Honesty is going to take you places in life that you never could have dreamed and it’s the easiest thing you can practice in order to be happy, successful and fulfilled. Honesty is part of the foundation of my core values and principles. Honesty cuts through deception and knifes its way through deceit and lies. Honesty leads to a fulfilling, free life.Honesty is not just about telling the truth. It’s about being real with yourself and others about who you are, what you want and what you need to live your most authentic life. Honesty promotes openness, empowers us and enables us to develop consistency in how we present the facts. Honesty sharpens our perception and allows us to observe everything around us with clarity.

Block 17: Resourcefulness (proper judgment)
 “Make the most out of what you have.” (Anonymous)
"If you have a dream, if you have something you've always wanted to do, look within yourself because that is where resourcefulness resides; and go for it. (Jennifer Witterick)
Being resourceful is extremely important to making progress in life.The ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties. Many like to complain and find fault rather than being resourceful with what they have.

Block 18: Poise
"Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation."

















Block 19:Confidence 
"Thorough preparation breeds confidence" Gerald Bell in

 "The Carolina Way"





Block 20: Reliability (creates respect)
Being a honest man is to be true to yourself and others around you. Trust is gained through honesty for example telling the truth and not lying to yourself and others. When others trust you as a person you are now a reliable person who people can trust and respect. A reliable person holds a great responsibility and must accomplish what is necessary.




Block 21: Fight (determined effort)












Block 22: Competitive Greatness
" Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge."









Block 23: Integrity (purity of intention) Integrity in its simplest form is purity of intention. Its keeping a clean conscience. But it is also a composite of some of the other mortar qualities in the pyramid. To some extent integrity contains a bit of reliability.A healthy helping of honesty and a portion of sincerity. I believe that the component of purity of intention is important enough to give integrity the status of mortar in its own right. 



Block 24: Faith (through prayer)
Believe and Achieve. Positive belief.

Faith is confidence or trust in a particular system of religious belief, in which faith may equate to confidence based on some perceived degree of warrant. 

Block 25: Patience (good things take time)
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

freelance post

Today is a good day because we get out early today. I'm going to to hang out with friends and go eat then just walk around and do other stuff. Its almost my birthday its on January 26.

10 key post

10 KEY PERSONAL POWER

Key 1: Clarity

"Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do or have in life.  Have a sense of direction and know where you’re going.  If you do not have clear specific goals in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do."

Key 2: Competence

"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."
       Competence is the ability to do something successfully or efficiently. The quote says, "If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."  This quote means that if you do things good then opportunities will come your way. This quote also means that the harder you work at doing something the better you will get at doing it.

Key 3: Concentration

"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself “Is this the best use of my time?” before you start anything."

     Concentration implies, first, an ability to release one’s thoughts and emotions from all other interests and involvements, and second, an ability to focus them on a single object or state of awareness. Concentration may assume various manifestations, from a dynamic outpouring of energy to perfectly quiescent perceptions.


Key 4: Common Sense

• Train your mind
• think things through
• listen to your intuition
• learn from setbacks

Key 5: Creativity
"Except the fact that every human being is a genius.  The hallmark of creativity is asking questions.  The people who are most creative ask the most questions."
    Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. the experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy. Creativity is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. Creativity involves two processes: thinking then producing.

Key 6: Consideration
"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine your success in life."
"Develop the people skills you need to become a better communicator.  Take courses in listening, speaking, etc."
"If you were to learn one new word a day, within 5 years, you’ll be the best educated person in history."


Key 7: Consistency
"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."

Be consistent in your relationships, your family, friends, your boss, your work.  Be the person that people can depend upon.  That if you say you’ll do something you do it.."

Key 8: Commitment
"No success is possible without commitment.  The ability to commit yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success."
"Become totally absorbed in your work.  Be totally committed."

Key 9: Courage

"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."

Key 10: Confidence

"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again ."
 Confidence is like you don't believe what other people say about you.


Reflection 
  This wold benefit me by using these 10 keys because it would help me susses full in life.Plus these keys could help me in school right now.

school break days

      The things i did over the break is i went out with my friends to look for something for are parents for Christmas. I went ice skating at LA Live with my friend Charisma.It was really fun. I didn't know who to ice skate. It was really hard. I always fell a couple of times but i had really fun. I want to again. My Christmas was good i got 2 shirts, shorts, 2 neck less, speaker and money. My New Years i spend time with my family. It was really fun but my cousin Mona and her didn't come witch sucks cause then i would had more fun but its fine. Then on the last week on Friday my friend Sam invited me to go to Six Flags.It was really fun but it was really pack.I only got on 1 ride and it took 1 hour and something and they told me it only takes like 20 mins. so that means that it was pack that day. But i had fun. Most of my break I didn't really do much i just stayed home and clean and walk my dog. 


              

Class Evaluation

    

     The things i like about the class is that we get to learn about coding and its a relaxing class.The things i don't like about the class is nothing i really like the class. I don't have recommendation for improving the class.The highlight about this class is we get to learn how to create games on scratch and coding.I did my every best in this class because i did every thing that he told us to do and for the flash care machine i got 100% in both exam.I am reading and writing in my life planning goals journals.I really like writing in it.I am committed to be a CTR person .

Innovation of Election Vehicles

The new private players in urban transportation have learned to be careful about appearing to oppose public transit at least, most of the time.  Uber is making a point of supporting some of the biggest transit tax proposals in the country.  Lyft wants you to know that they’re “friends with transit.”  These companies know that they rely on an urban, educated political base on people who can figure out for themselves that shifting lots of people from big vehicles into small ones is not the way to improve congestion, emissions, or pretty much anything that matters.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1:Be Proactive

"Habit is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first. It says, "I am the captain of my life.I can choose my attitude.I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny' not just a passenger."

Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."(Jake Welch)

So, what do you want to be when you grow up? That question may appear a little trite, but think about it for a moment. Are you--right now--who you want to be, what you dreamed you'd be, doing what you always wanted to do? Be honest. Sometimes people find themselves achieving victories that are empty--successes that have come at the expense of things that were far more valuable to them. If your ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step you take gets you to the wrong place faster. 

Habit 3: Put First Things First
"Organize and execute around priorities."
Habit 3 is Personal Management, the exercise of independent will to create a life congruent with your values, goals and mission. The fourth human endowment, Independent Will, is the ability to make decisions and choices and act upon them. Integrity is our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves. Management involves developing the specific application of the ideas. We should lead from the right brain (creatively) and manage from the left brain (analytically).

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

"Think win-win or no deal."

Win-win sees life as a cooperative arena, not a competitive one. Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying. We both get to eat the pie, and it tastes pretty darn good! 

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
"Diagnose before you prescribe."
When another person is speaking, we usually "listen" at one of four levels: ignoring, pretending, selective listening, or attentive listening. We should be using the fifth, highest form of listening emphatic listening.Active or reflective listening is skill-based and often insults the speaker. Emphatic listening is listening with intent to understand the other person's frame of reference and feelings. You must listen with your ears, your eyes and your heart. Emphatic listening is a tremendous deposit into the emotional bank account. It's deeply therapeutic and healing because it gives a person "psychological air."Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, and to be appreciated. Emphatic listening is risky. It takes a great deal of security to go into a deep listening experience because you open yourself up to being influenced. You become vulnerable. In order to have influence, you must be influenced.

Habit 6: Synergize
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)"
The essence of synergy is to value and respect differences, to build on strengths and to compensate for weaknesses. The author says that many of us haven’t actually experienced synergy in our family lives or in other interactions. We’ve been shaped into defensive and protective communications or into believing that life or other people can’t be trusted. Therefore we have a tendency to not open up to this highly effective principle which requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Habit 7:  Sharpen the Saw

Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional

As you renew yourself in each of the four areas, you create growth and change in your life. Sharpen the Saw keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the other six habits. You increase your capacity to produce and handle the challenges around you. Without this renewal the body becomes weak, the mind mechanical, the emotions raw, the spirit insensitive, and the person selfish.