Coach Kay Yow became successful but along the way she discovered that living successfully was more important. Check out these four keys that enabled her to live successfully.
7. Be Persevering
When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.
Kites rise against the wind, not with it.
8. Be Persevering
When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.
Kites rise against the wind, not with it.
Don’t wallow in self-pity, just swish your feet
and get out.
Living successfully beats becoming successful.\n\n\n
34 years at NC State\nCoached USA to gold medal in 1988\none of only a handful of Div I women’s basketball coaches to reach 700 victories\n20 NCAA tournament appearances; one Final Four\n\nYet living successfully more important\n\nBegan with her faith\n\nMission stmt may have been: love and serve God and people with excellence\n\nMemorial\n\nMy own experience with Coach Yow\n
Story of writing book\n\nGathering stories...themes that ran throughout...principles she lived by\n\nValues that helped her to live successfully\n
One thing we all have in common: we all face obstacles and challenges in life\n\nCoach Yow masterfully taught her players how to view their obstacles as opportunities\n\nAs bumps in the road that would not keep them stuck, but rather propel them forward toward their goals.\n\nHad lots of sayings...\n
Power in her life wasn’t the words themselves but that she lived these sayings out\n\nNever more true than during 2006-07 season:\n\n• cancer back for 3rd time\n• leave of absence from team--difficult for they were her family\n• after being gone for 16 games, Drs. allowed her to return to sidelines\n• what happened next was one of the year’s best sports stories\n• Wolfpack won 12 of last 15 games, including victories vs. #1 and #2 teams in nation\n
Power in her life wasn’t the words themselves but that she lived these sayings out\n\nNever more true than during 2006-07 season:\n\n• cancer back for 3rd time\n• leave of absence from team--difficult for they were her family\n• after being gone for 16 games, Drs. allowed her to return to sidelines\n• what happened next was one of the year’s best sports stories\n• Wolfpack won 12 of last 15 games, including victories vs. #1 and #2 teams in nation\n
Power in her life wasn’t the words themselves but that she lived these sayings out\n\nNever more true than during 2006-07 season:\n\n• cancer back for 3rd time\n• leave of absence from team--difficult for they were her family\n• after being gone for 16 games, Drs. allowed her to return to sidelines\n• what happened next was one of the year’s best sports stories\n• Wolfpack won 12 of last 15 games, including victories vs. #1 and #2 teams in nation\n
this picture was taken after they beat their arch rival, #2 ranked UNC; Kay Yow court\n\nKhadijah Whittington: “there were so many times I felt like giving up, then I see Coach Yow and she never gives up”\n\nPerseverance is contagious -- when we see our obstacles as opportunities and refuse to give up, we inspire people around us to do the same.\n\nConsider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4\n\nNot only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Romans 5:3-4\n\nPerseverance is a key to living successfully\n
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it. Attitude is a choice and we’ll never live successfully without a positive attitude.\n\nAttitude determines altitude.\nWe’ll only rise as high as our attitudes take us\n\nHow can we maintain a positive attitude in the midst of life’s challenges?\n\nCoach Yow had another saying...\n
Intelligent Ignorance: those two words don’t seem to go together\n\nHow can we be intelligent if we’re ignorant\n
May 6, 1954\nLong believed impossible to run mile in under 4 minutes\nBannister ignored what people said was possible\n\nPerhaps unemployment has shaken your confidence—maybe you’ve bought in to what other people have said is impossible. Maybe you’ve started to believe those things yourself. \n\nWe all have old tapes that play in our minds that limit us from achieving our potential. \n\nWhat are the things that you need to stop believing today? What are the ways you need to apply intelligent ignorance to your situation?\n
When we’re in tough situations like searching for a job, we want to get through it as quickly as possible. \n\nYet we can gain so much from a willingness to be present every day to whatever situations life presents. \n\nI’ve heard many people say that walking through a time of unemployment was one of the best things to ever happen to them because of what they learned along the way. \n\nSo in the midst of doing the work necessary to find employment, I encourage you to be present each day to people and situations along the way that are important parts to the story God is weaving together. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n
Coach Yow was so good at this. I can’t tell you the number of stories that I’ve heard from people who knew her well and people she met one time...all of them have stories of how she was present in their lives. \n\nHow she took the time to talk to them. To listen to them. For some it was just one interaction, but it was life-changing.\n\nOne of the stories in Leader of the Pack -- The Gift of Time\n\nPart of being present is looking for water-cooler moments\n\n\n
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For the people in her life\n\ngratitude for her players -- hand signed birthday and Christmas cards every year\n\nwanted them to know that her gratitude for them went far beyond their on-court production\n\nCircumstances--good and bad\n\nEven with the suffering she went through -- the neuropathy in her feet, sores in her mouth and her fingernails falling off because of the chemo, she saw cancer differently than most.\n\nIn 2008, FCA instituted the Kay Yow Heart of a Coach award. Coach Yow spoke at the breakfast that year and I wanted you to hear a clip of what she she shared: SOUND BYTE\n\nShe went on to talk about the development of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, which to date has raised __________________ for cancer research; and then about how cancer actually expanded her influence...writing or speaking to someone about it every day.\n\nSome of the coaches I work with struggle to maintain their joy in the midst of the busyness of the season. The pressure to win along with all the details of running a team can leave you stressed out and joyless.\n\nBlessing Journal\n• when life is going well, being thankful keeps us humble\n• when life is hard, being thankful helps us find the silver lining\n
obviously there is nothing wrong with wanting to become successful\n\nIf we get to the end of our lives and we’ve become successful but we haven’t lived successfully, then we will look back with regret. \n
obviously there is nothing wrong with wanting to become successful\n\nIf we get to the end of our lives and we’ve become successful but we haven’t lived successfully, then we will look back with regret. \n
obviously there is nothing wrong with wanting to become successful\n\nIf we get to the end of our lives and we’ve become successful but we haven’t lived successfully, then we will look back with regret. \n
obviously there is nothing wrong with wanting to become successful\n\nIf we get to the end of our lives and we’ve become successful but we haven’t lived successfully, then we will look back with regret. \n
