Your Masterpiece
Author: Scott Fite

Coach John Wooden was one of the most successful athletic coaches the world has ever seen. As the head basketball coach at one of the United States top universities, UCLA, Wooden compiled a record of 620 wins to 147 losses. Even more incredibly, Wooden¡¯s teams won the US national championship 10 out of 12 years, including a string of 88 straight victories with no losses, and seven championships in a row.

How did Wooden achieve such success? I believe one reason was his relentless pursuit of excellence in himself as well as his team on a daily basis. One of Wooden¡¯s most quoted sayings is ¡°Make each day your masterpiece!¡± Making each day a masterpiece requires drive and commitment. Not just living through the day at a mediocre level, but committing oneself to making it an exceptional day! A Picasso or Rembrandt day. A Michelangelo day! A day committed to achieving more. To raising the bar on personal excellence.

We can all commit to making each day a masterpiece! Whether we are in sales, athletics, business, or government. Whether we are moms, spouses, friends, adventurers, builders or educators. We can all commit to living each day as if we are creating a fantastic work of art! Imagine how different your life could be if you committed each day to creating something powerful and wonderful!

People are creating masterpieces all around you. Look around. Olympic athletes work daily to achieve great dreams. But masterpieces can be made at all levels of life. Just this week, I was talking with a friend who is a stay at home mom. She was creating spider cookies for her daughter¡¯s birthday. She described with pride the work it required to really make them incredibly special! The carefully detailed bodies. The complicated and delicate little eyes. The licorice sticks fashioned into crinkly looking spider legs. I asked her several questions about her motivation for spending so much time to make a small event in life turn out so beautifully. Her response was that she tries to do everything in her life superbly! She gets it! She is making masterpieces!

As a personal success coach, I see many people standing there with all the paint, the canvas, and the talent to create great masterpieces. My challenge is to help them get to work! To help push them. To be a starter motor for their personal engines. The potential energy in all of us is enormous. The actual energy we expend tends to be only a small fraction of that.

So many of us live day to day at a hum drum level. Never really pushing ourselves to be excellent! The end result is living life at 10% of our potential, rather than 90-100%. How can you do everything in your life superbly? How can you take it to the next level? What difference would it make in your current situation if you did?

We are all here to elevate ourselves. Coach Wooden was onto something powerful! We are only dancing on this earth for a short while. Compared with the immensity and enormity of eternity, we have relatively few days of life. Don¡¯t waste a single day! Achieve great things! Fill your life gallery with beautiful daily achievements and accomplishments! Push yourself to make each and every day your masterpiece!








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This story was authored by Scott Fite, who specializes in Peak Performance Coaching. Stop by his website at http://www.lifedesigncenter.com for more peak performance information and to sign up for a free newsletter.

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