<h2>Believe That Your Best is Good Enough</h2>
<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="alignright" />All of us worry about having positive outcomes in our personal and professional lives. This worry stems from many sources, chief among them being the doubt surrounding our best efforts being good enough. All of us suffer from daydreams or nightmares of striving mightily and falling just short of the prize.</p>
<h2>Learn from John Wooden’s Wisdom</h2>
<p>My late, great friend and mentor, <a href="https://coachwooden.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John Wooden</a>, was fond of saying, &#8220;Assume that your best is good enough.&#8221;  Coach Wooden was far from an overoptimistic Pollyanna-filled dreamer. He was a realistic, down-to-earth man who achieved the highest goals imaginable by putting the right people in the right places and expecting them to perform at their best. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2010/08/pure-positivity-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Pure Positivity by Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":244,"date":"2010-08-03T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T18:33:11","slug":"pure-positivity-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/08\/pure-positivity-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Positivity by Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Believe That Your Best is Good Enough<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/>All of us worry about having positive outcomes in our personal and professional lives. This worry stems from many sources, chief among them being the doubt surrounding our best efforts being good enough. All of us suffer from daydreams or nightmares of striving mightily and falling just short of the prize.<\/p>\n<h2>Learn from John Wooden\u2019s Wisdom<\/h2>\n<p>My late, great friend and mentor, <a href=\"https:\/\/coachwooden.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Wooden<\/a>, was fond of saying, &#8220;Assume that your best is good enough.&#8221;  Coach Wooden was far from an overoptimistic Pollyanna-filled dreamer. He was a realistic, down-to-earth man who achieved the highest goals imaginable by putting the right people in the right places and expecting them to perform at their best. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/08\/pure-positivity-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Pure Positivity by Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover how to believe that your best is good enough by following the tips from John Wooden, Jack Nicklaus, and other successful people. 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