Are you winning everyday? Maybe Lou Holtz can help...

A friend shared the book by Lou Holtz - Winning Every Day - The Game Plan for Success - and it is an easy read and has some basic and fundamental messages that can help you succeed in what ever you are doing.

The book is written by football coach Lou Holtz and it is full of short vignettes from his life in coaching.  During his time as a young coach he started to develop his personal philosophy and he did admit to borrowing some ideas.  In general I think you would enjoy reading the book as it is simple and to the point.

He offers up ten steps and the book follows along these steps.

The steps are

                The power of attitude

                Tackle adversity

                Have a sense of purpose

                Make sacrifice your ally

                Adapt or Die

                Chase your Dream

                Nurture your self-image

                Foster Trust

                Commit to excellence

                Handle with Care

 

As you read through the text it is clear that Holtz feels that you need to be responsible for your own actions and by your example you will be come a leader.  If you can not lead yourself, how can you lead others?

The best takeaway for me was the acronym - WIN - which means - what's important now?  Think about it for a little bit and it will show you that you need to focus on what's important now and by prioritizing and putting things in the right places you will be successful.

Do the little things well and the big things will fall into place.

What do you think?  Let me know your POV....