The Pyramid of Success
Block 1: Industriousness
"There is no substitute for work. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning."Industriousness means to work energetically, hard-working, and diligent. Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning. This is a great way to start if you want success because lazy people leave everything to the last minute. Most of the time, if you have a project that is due and you do it in the last minute you will feel rushed and you end up to no good. For instance, teachers are grading bases on your effort, if you work hard then you'll get good grades. Having a careful plan for a project means it'll do it in time and it will come out good and you won't be stressing because you don't know what to do. As for in a job your boss expects you to do good work, that is the only way to get a raise because a job doesn't want people who give them semigood work. It is where everything begins.
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."Enthusiasm is in which you infuse the hard work with inspired power that all great competitors have. Your heart must be in your work. Your Enthusiasm represents those you work with or who work. It is the term that transforms Industriousness into something of great extent of your success, it is the engine that powers all blocks of the Pyramid.
Block 3: Friendship
"Comes from mutual esteem, respect and devotion. Like marriage it must not be taken for granted but requires a joint effort."
Having a good friend affects u and in school performance, too. Children tend to have better attitudes about school and learning when they have their good friends there.Teachers notice the subtle impact of friendships, good students tend to hang out with good students. Grades matter, projects and assignments are always done and achievement is a common thread. The carefree students hang out with other carefree students.In this group, doing well in school can even be ridiculed. It isn’t easy making a best friend these days. A number of obstacles can get in the way as kid tries to cultivate strong friendship bonds aka, a best friend.
Block 4: Loyalty
"To yourself and to all those depending upon you. Keep your self-respect."
Loyalty means a commitment to the goals of your team. Try to keep your promises and do your fair share of the work. Also being true to someone or just being true in general. The power of Loyalty is the reason why John Wooden placed it in the center of the Pyramid's foundation. For example, if your friends tell you to go to the park with them and you promise and said ok , then the day comes and you don't go, your friends will be upset and they will not trust you anymore and you broke your promise. So this makes you not loyal to your friends and that you don't keep your promises.
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. "
Cooperation is the process of working or acting together to the same end. Cooperation can be used in the workplace and can make the difference between success and failure for many businesses. In a cooperation workplace, individuals voluntarily engage in open communication. Management and low levels employees work together and try to keep arguments to a minimum. Workers are proactive in the sense that they try to prevent problems before they have a chance to occur. Cooperation is not always an easy thing to achieve in the workplace, but it is worth the effort because it leads to a more way to speech and productive operation.
Block 6: Ambition (For noble goals)
Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. It is also one of the important blocks of the pyramid because it encourages you to achieve/ complete something with hard work. For example, you write on your life planning goals journal a goal, you will be excited to achieve that goal because you are being Ambition, and once you complete it you go on and move to next goals and start writing them down.
Block 7: Self-Control
"Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgement and common sense are essential."
Self- Control is so important because it gives you an aspect of inhibitory control, is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior in the face of a desire to do something. For example, let's say you have to caught a flight but u have a fear of flying so you need to assemble all of your courage and self control to be calm during the flight. This can boost your confidence and give you the ability to control yourself when you are in tough situations.
Block 8: Alertness
"Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve."
Alertness is when you are alert like aware of you and your surroundings. This can help you stay or be open- minded about yourself or others, you will be excited to learn and improve. For example, if you are in a group project and the teacher explains the directions, you have to be alert and aware of what the teachers is saying because without being aware you will never finish that group project, that's why is it ever important to be alert. Helps you focus and be happy to learn new stuff and to improve on them.
Block 9: Initiative
"Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it."
Initiative is an individual's action that begins with a process, often done without direct managerial influence. This can help you a lot in your future by beginning with a process on your own with no other help for you can learn from your mistakes, for you can make your own decision, think alone, and to never be afraid of failure, but learn from it. For example, an employee might take the initiative to come up with a new product or service that the company could offer. So the employee did it all by himself/herself so he/she made her/his own decisions.
Block 10: Intentness
"Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations and being determined
and persistent."
What this means is to achieve goals that are in your reach. An whenever you fell discouraged focus on the achievement of that goal. Do not fall into temptation to risk you from not achieving that goal properly. Be motivated and try your hardest and when trying to achieve your goals. Focus concentrate and don't become discouraged.
Block 11: Sincerity (keeps friends)
Sincerity is the quality of being free from pretense, deceit, or hypocrisy. This can help you in your future because you can keep your friends and friends really help you in your life. For example, they are by your side when you need them and help you in the future.
Block 12: Adaptability (to any situation)
Adaptability is the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions. This can really help you because it shows that you are not afraid of trying something new. For example, in math class you learn how to solve a problem but with that one method and then the teacher shows another method to solve the problem and tells you if that method doesn't work do the other one. This is when you need to have adaptability to show you are able to adjust to new conditions.
Block 13: Condition
"Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated."
Condition the state of something, especially with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order.
This block is the work to quality and working, it's an important block because this is where you have to work and show your skills and what you capable of doing. For example, you have a essay that is due in 1 day you will need to use this block to work and work to finish that essay but don't take to much pressure and focus on what your doing.
Block 14: Skill
"A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail."
Mastery of the skills you need in your job requires learning and it is why leaders and those who are high achievers are lifelong learners. Skill is a ongoing process in life, but that's why you need to practice to get better.
Integrity simplest form is purity of intention and it also kinda related to reliability. When we have integrity we are not going to do anything that will be demeaning to anybody else either on or off the court. When you use Integrity as a character term is defined as the quality of being unimpaired or an adherence to moral principles.
Block 24: Faith (through prayer)
Believe and Achieve. Positive belief.
Faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something, The expression “just have faith, it will work out” is used by people to encourage and comfort someone facing serious problems or stressful situations. Faith is very important because you need to trust and have confident in someone or something. For example, you have a group project and you need to trust you team to get it done and help.
Block 25: Patience (good things take time)
Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. Patience in life can make them reach out for the stars. With patience you can avoid making hasty decisions. Life is not about living in the future or in the past. Life is about accepting the present moment. Patience is an important tool in overcoming frustration. Patience allows us to suspend judgment long enough to make informed decisions, thus paving the path to a happy and peaceful life.
Final Reflection:
The Pyramid of Success really help out people who played basketball and to show them about Patience and many other terms that are great. But the Pyramid of Success isn't just applicable to basketball it's also relevant to the business world, marriage and even health struggles. We need to set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations and being determined and persistent. John Wooden was a living legend. He was also one of the most successful basketball coaches of all time and he lived a simple life focusing on personal excellence, personal integrity, love, and balance.
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. "
Cooperation is the process of working or acting together to the same end. Cooperation can be used in the workplace and can make the difference between success and failure for many businesses. In a cooperation workplace, individuals voluntarily engage in open communication. Management and low levels employees work together and try to keep arguments to a minimum. Workers are proactive in the sense that they try to prevent problems before they have a chance to occur. Cooperation is not always an easy thing to achieve in the workplace, but it is worth the effort because it leads to a more way to speech and productive operation.Block 6: Ambition (For noble goals)
Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. It is also one of the important blocks of the pyramid because it encourages you to achieve/ complete something with hard work. For example, you write on your life planning goals journal a goal, you will be excited to achieve that goal because you are being Ambition, and once you complete it you go on and move to next goals and start writing them down.
Block 7: Self-Control
"Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgement and common sense are essential."
Self- Control is so important because it gives you an aspect of inhibitory control, is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior in the face of a desire to do something. For example, let's say you have to caught a flight but u have a fear of flying so you need to assemble all of your courage and self control to be calm during the flight. This can boost your confidence and give you the ability to control yourself when you are in tough situations. Block 8: Alertness
"Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve."
Alertness is when you are alert like aware of you and your surroundings. This can help you stay or be open- minded about yourself or others, you will be excited to learn and improve. For example, if you are in a group project and the teacher explains the directions, you have to be alert and aware of what the teachers is saying because without being aware you will never finish that group project, that's why is it ever important to be alert. Helps you focus and be happy to learn new stuff and to improve on them. Block 9: Initiative
"Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it."Initiative is an individual's action that begins with a process, often done without direct managerial influence. This can help you a lot in your future by beginning with a process on your own with no other help for you can learn from your mistakes, for you can make your own decision, think alone, and to never be afraid of failure, but learn from it. For example, an employee might take the initiative to come up with a new product or service that the company could offer. So the employee did it all by himself/herself so he/she made her/his own decisions.
Block 10: Intentness
"Set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations and being determined
and persistent."
What this means is to achieve goals that are in your reach. An whenever you fell discouraged focus on the achievement of that goal. Do not fall into temptation to risk you from not achieving that goal properly. Be motivated and try your hardest and when trying to achieve your goals. Focus concentrate and don't become discouraged.Block 11: Sincerity (keeps friends)Sincerity is the quality of being free from pretense, deceit, or hypocrisy. This can help you in your future because you can keep your friends and friends really help you in your life. For example, they are by your side when you need them and help you in the future.
Block 12: Adaptability (to any situation)
Adaptability is the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions. This can really help you because it shows that you are not afraid of trying something new. For example, in math class you learn how to solve a problem but with that one method and then the teacher shows another method to solve the problem and tells you if that method doesn't work do the other one. This is when you need to have adaptability to show you are able to adjust to new conditions.Block 13: Condition
"Mental-Moral-Physical. Rest, exercise and diet must be considered. Moderation must be practiced. Dissipation must be eliminated."Condition the state of something, especially with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order.
This block is the work to quality and working, it's an important block because this is where you have to work and show your skills and what you capable of doing. For example, you have a essay that is due in 1 day you will need to use this block to work and work to finish that essay but don't take to much pressure and focus on what your doing.
Block 14: Skill
"A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail."Mastery of the skills you need in your job requires learning and it is why leaders and those who are high achievers are lifelong learners. Skill is a ongoing process in life, but that's why you need to practice to get better.
Block 15: Team Spirit
"A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all."
This block shows selflessness which is the opposite of selfishness. I mean by this that you are eager to sacrifice personal glory or gain for the greater good, namely, the welfare and success of your organization, your team, your group.
Block 16: Honesty (in thought and action)
"Honesty is the best policy." (Ben Franklin)
Honesty can help you in the future and in your everyday lives because it shows if people can trust you or not and if you give them your honesty you can have trust and make new friends that will help live your life and help you threw it. And it will help you in school a lot for example, the math teacher finish explaining the notes and ask the class is there any questions and you want to ask a question but you don't do it, you have to be honest and raise your hand to ask that question or else it will prevent you from learning and you are just not gonna get it and then when the test comes you are gonna be clueless.
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)
Resourcefulness is an important key to success because it gives you the ability to find out clever ways to overcome difficulties quick. With this you can do stuff you always wanted to do and become what you wanted to become. For example, you have a project due in 2 days you need to be Resourcefulness to get what you need to get done, so you need to find some ways to finish this by tomorrow and quick.
Block 18: Poise
"Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation."
Being Poise is the most important part of success because it is you, your future, and your life. And also be a graceful and elegant bearing in a person. Because it will help in the future and affect your life in a good way.
Block 19: Confidence
"Thorough preparation breeds confidence" Gerald Bell in
"The Carolina Way"
Confidence is a great way to success because it is about yourself and if you don't care about yourself and don't feel that you can do the impossible such as your goals. You need to fix that now and then it will help you in many problems. For example, you have to presentation for school but you don't feel confidence that your going to do well, you are going to do bad because you don't think positive have faith in yourself.
Block 20: Reliability (creates respect)
Reliability is the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well. Trust is very important because you need to have people who trust you for they can help you get to the future you always wanted trust is a big deal with it comes to your future and career.
Block 21: Fight (determined effort)
Fight is not the kind of fight of physical this kind of fight is more like work, hard work because in order to be successful you need to fight for it not physical but work hard for it. For example, you want to get in to a college you really want to go to, you need to fight to get in show them you really want to go in that college and prove them wrong, hard work pays off.
"A genuine consideration for others. An eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all."This block shows selflessness which is the opposite of selfishness. I mean by this that you are eager to sacrifice personal glory or gain for the greater good, namely, the welfare and success of your organization, your team, your group.
Block 16: Honesty (in thought and action)
"Honesty is the best policy." (Ben Franklin)
Honesty can help you in the future and in your everyday lives because it shows if people can trust you or not and if you give them your honesty you can have trust and make new friends that will help live your life and help you threw it. And it will help you in school a lot for example, the math teacher finish explaining the notes and ask the class is there any questions and you want to ask a question but you don't do it, you have to be honest and raise your hand to ask that question or else it will prevent you from learning and you are just not gonna get it and then when the test comes you are gonna be clueless.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)
Resourcefulness is an important key to success because it gives you the ability to find out clever ways to overcome difficulties quick. With this you can do stuff you always wanted to do and become what you wanted to become. For example, you have a project due in 2 days you need to be Resourcefulness to get what you need to get done, so you need to find some ways to finish this by tomorrow and quick.
Block 18: Poise
"Just being yourself. Being at ease in any situation."
Being Poise is the most important part of success because it is you, your future, and your life. And also be a graceful and elegant bearing in a person. Because it will help in the future and affect your life in a good way.Block 19: Confidence
"Thorough preparation breeds confidence" Gerald Bell in
"The Carolina Way"
Confidence is a great way to success because it is about yourself and if you don't care about yourself and don't feel that you can do the impossible such as your goals. You need to fix that now and then it will help you in many problems. For example, you have to presentation for school but you don't feel confidence that your going to do well, you are going to do bad because you don't think positive have faith in yourself.Block 20: Reliability (creates respect)Reliability is the quality of being trustworthy or of performing consistently well. Trust is very important because you need to have people who trust you for they can help you get to the future you always wanted trust is a big deal with it comes to your future and career.
Block 21: Fight (determined effort)
Fight is not the kind of fight of physical this kind of fight is more like work, hard work because in order to be successful you need to fight for it not physical but work hard for it. For example, you want to get in to a college you really want to go to, you need to fight to get in show them you really want to go in that college and prove them wrong, hard work pays off.
Block 22: Competitive Greatness
" Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge."
Coach Wooden's states, “Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge.”
He never mentioned being competitive in association with winning or being a great competitor in association with being a winner. For John being a great competitor was not about winning or losing. He had a much higher standard. He also described competitive greatness this way: “The next and last block in the structure just above poise and confidence is competitive greatness. This is the ability to be at your very best when your very best is needed….". Competitive greatness is enjoying it when things are difficult!
Block 23: Integrity (purity of intention)
" Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge."
Coach Wooden's states, “Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a difficult challenge.”
He never mentioned being competitive in association with winning or being a great competitor in association with being a winner. For John being a great competitor was not about winning or losing. He had a much higher standard. He also described competitive greatness this way: “The next and last block in the structure just above poise and confidence is competitive greatness. This is the ability to be at your very best when your very best is needed….". Competitive greatness is enjoying it when things are difficult!Block 23: Integrity (purity of intention)
Block 24: Faith (through prayer)
Believe and Achieve. Positive belief.
Faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something, The expression “just have faith, it will work out” is used by people to encourage and comfort someone facing serious problems or stressful situations. Faith is very important because you need to trust and have confident in someone or something. For example, you have a group project and you need to trust you team to get it done and help.
Block 25: Patience (good things take time)
Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. Patience in life can make them reach out for the stars. With patience you can avoid making hasty decisions. Life is not about living in the future or in the past. Life is about accepting the present moment. Patience is an important tool in overcoming frustration. Patience allows us to suspend judgment long enough to make informed decisions, thus paving the path to a happy and peaceful life.Final Reflection:
The Pyramid of Success really help out people who played basketball and to show them about Patience and many other terms that are great. But the Pyramid of Success isn't just applicable to basketball it's also relevant to the business world, marriage and even health struggles. We need to set a realistic goal. Concentrate on its achievement by resisting all temptations and being determined and persistent. John Wooden was a living legend. He was also one of the most successful basketball coaches of all time and he lived a simple life focusing on personal excellence, personal integrity, love, and balance.
