Rashid Shahriar Nafi

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What Is Your Priority: Making a Living or Making a Life? Craig Impelman May 16, 2018 Coach John Wooden had a clear set of priorities: faith, family and friends. He strived to have a balance between his personal and professional life. He believed that imbalance in one or the other creates vulnerability in both. This excerpt from How to be like Coach Wooden by Pat Williams depicts a clear picture of how this approach manifested itself for Coach on a day-to-day basis: “During his years at UCLA, John Wooden saw to it that his wife, Nell, spent as much time with him as possible. ‘Nellie always went to games with me,’ he said, ‘and I wouldn’t leave her to go scouting or anything of that sort, unless she could go with me.’ “Coach made it a point ‘not to bring any problems home with me. I wanted to put my family before my career.’ “His wife Nell often said that she could never tell, by John’s demeanor at home, how things were going with the team. ‘I couldn't tell if he had a good practice