There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.
Interpretation
Success is less about the end goal and more about the journey and progress made along the way.
This quote emphasizes the importance of focusing on progress rather than fixating solely on the end results of success. Nick Saban suggests that acknowledging and valuing the steps taken towards achieving a goal can lead to greater fulfillment and ultimately contribute to achieving success itself. This perspective shifts the mindset from a results-oriented approach to one that appreciates the learning and growth that occurs throughout the process.
In practice
A motivational speaker could use this quote during a seminar on achieving career goals.
I don't want people to think I'm not happy when we win - I am. But there's a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, 'This is it - we conquered the world.' We didn't. We just won a game.
I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.
When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.
Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
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