RULES TO LIVE BY
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Make each day your masterpiece.
3. Help others.
4. Drink deeply from good books.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings.
In his book A Game Plan For Life, coach John Wooden tells about how his father mentored him and gave him a rule for life. Upon graduation from grade school, his father, Joshua Wooden, gave him a gift of two dollars and a small card with a poem on one side and seven rules for living on the other. The rules cited above have stayed with Coach Wooden all his life.
Wooden led the UCLA basketball team to ten national championships. The rules have helped him in teaching the game to the young players. For example, when one team member scored, the player knew he was to point to another player who helped him make the basket, by passing the ball or making a block. Wooden says that this wasn’t about deflecting praise, but sharing the moment with all the team members. They work as a team.
Wooden also is a committed Christian and respected the players different faith orientations. He allowed them and encouraged them to be true to their faith, whichever way they believed. It made them better persons for life and better players on the basketball court.
A Game Plan for Life
By John Wooden and Don Yaeger
2009
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