#Advice May 26

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“Free ADVICE is often overpriced” is a quote attributed to Charles E. McKenzie.

Well today I am having a 50% off sale and sharing ADVICE I was smart or lucky enough to listen to in my life. This is all part of the Coach4aday 30 Day Life Lesson Challenge

ADVICE stories

• God has a wonderful plan for your life but it is not your plan-Received that gem from my wife after ten years of being an assistant college basketball coach. She spoke this to me after I failed again to land an interview to become a head basketball coach. I had tried repeatedly but ten years as an assistant I still had not been interviewed let alone be offered a head coaching job. When I accepted that God was in charge within two months I was offered a job before I even applied.
•  You can’t turn down something that hasn’t been offered to you–This was my dad attempting to keep me grounded during those ten years of attempting to go from Assistant to Head Coach. I would get my hopes up and debate whether I would accept the job if offered. I was so naïve.
• Pay yourself first–Lacey Gane was the Director of Athletics at UNC Pembroke (then Pembroke State) he brought me in his office and locked the door. He said you are not leaving until you fill out this paper for deferred compensation. It was my first week on the job. I was making $833 a month but decided to withhold $25 a month. The rest of my career when I got a raise I took part of that increase and added it to my monthly deduction. That strategy paid dividends when I got to retirement age.
• “If you want people to donate money ask them for advice-if you want people to give you advice ask them for money”-Heard this from Wendell Staton who got it from Tom Childress
• A meeting is no more than 60 minutes long and has a written agenda-if it is longer than that call it a workshop, conference, retreat, or a BS session but don’t call it a meeting. –One of my many mentors Ray Pennington
• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results-College Health Professor at East Carolina-Lionel Kendrick
• You are never more open on the basketball court then when you first catch the ball-be prepared to shoot–Chuck Daly
• SW-SW-SW-which means Some Will-Some Won’t -So What-Heard at an Amway Rally-just means you only have control over you–not anyone else.

Will close with a response I give people that I stole from Zig Ziglar when asked how am I doing.

“I am fabulous but working on improving”

So there is your list of free ADVICE. Hope you won’t deem it overpriced.