The OneDay Contract, Rick Pitino
The OneDay Contract, Rick Pitino
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The One-Day Contract
How to Add Value to Every Minute of Your Life

Author: Rick Pitino, Eric Crawford

Narrator: Rick Pitino, Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2013


Synopsis

A life-changing guide to achieving your goals, by the 2013 NCAA champion college basketball coach and #1 New York Times bestselling author.

Rick Pitino is famous as one of the most dynamic and successful basketball coaches of our time, leading the University of Louisville Cardinals to the NCAA basketball championship in 2013, and is renowned for writing the #1 New York Times bestselling success and leadership book, Success is a Choice.

In his new book, The One-Day Contract, Pitino details his key to success, on the court and in life: to focus on making the most of each day, by creating a contract with yourself. Coach Pitino was able to turn Louisville into NCAA champions by applying this idea to everything he and the team did-every practice, every recruiting visit, every game preparation, every scouting report, every instruction that he gave players and coaches, and everything he did himself. Each day became just as important as reaching the national championship, and so, by honoring the one-day contract, he and Louisville moved through adversity toward their goal.

In this inspiring and practical guide, Coach Rick Pitino illustrates how to set your own one-day contract, and follow through to honor it for each day, each goal, and each interaction with another person. Pitino shows how to:

- Establish focus as a discipline in everything you do: planning, strategy, priorities, and career advancement.

- Discover the true key to success: not ambition, not wealth, not power, but humility.

- Use technology wisely-but don't let it replace personal connection with the people you work and live with.

- Own up to your problems, tell the truth and they will become part of your past. Lie and they become part of your future.

- Make small changes and add value to every minute of your life.

The One-Day Contract will reshape the way you approach your job, your goals, and your life.

About Rick Pitino

RICK PITINO is the head basketball coach at the University of Louisville. He won the NCAA Championship in 2013 with the Louisville Cardinals and the 1996 NCAA Championship with the Kentucky Wildcats-the only basketball coach to win national titles at two different universities. He will formally enter the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013. Pitino also was head coach at Providence College during its remarkable NCAA tournament in 1987, and in the NBA as head coach of the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics. He has written five business and leadership books, Rebound Rules, Lead to Succeed, Full-Court Pressure, Born to Coach, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Success is a Choice.ERIC CRAWFORD is an award-winning sports journalist in Louisville, Ky., where he writes and appears on the air for WDRB Television. He spent twelve years at the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper, including six years as senior sports columnist. His work has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists, and has appeared in numerous newspapers as well as online for ESPN, The Sporting News and CNN.

About Eric Crawford

ERIC CRAWFORD is an award-winning sports journalist in Louisville, Ky., where he writes and appears on the air for WDRB Television. He spent twelve years at the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper, including six years as senior sports columnist. His work has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists, and has appeared in numerous newspapers as well as online for ESPN, The Sporting News and CNN.

About Peter Berkrot

Peter Berkrot is an audiobook narrator, stage, screen and television actor, and acting coach.  He has narrated over 100 works that span a range of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, thriller, and children’s titles. His audiobook credits include works of Alan Glynn, Eric Van Lustbader, Nora Roberts and Dean Koontz.  In film and television, he appeared in Caddyshack, America's Most Wanted, and Unsolved Mysteries.  He performs in regional and New York theaters and directs the New Voices acting school.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on January 21, 2022

Giving yourself a one day contract is very motivating. Will you show your worth everyday? Or will you get fired? I believe Rick writes a very helpful book that is immensely practical. If you live on a one day contract, you will constantly be reflecting on each day, each hour, each minute of your lif......more

Goodreads review by Robert on October 20, 2015

The book is called the One-Day Contract. The idea itself seems intriguing enough on its own: treat each day as if you are on a one-day contract. How would that affect how you approach each day? Would it change your mindset if you knew you’d have to earn the next day’s renewal of that contract? Would......more

Goodreads review by Max on May 13, 2025

Didn't have a good reason to read/listed to this one, kind of fell into my lap after listening to Success is a Choice. This one has better content in my opinion, but still sense it's a bit of a cash grab after Pitino won the national championship with Louisville -- I can't hold it against him, perso......more

Goodreads review by Tammy on May 27, 2023

3.5. Started this one with my husband on a long car ride and finished it up while doing gardening chores. I am not a sports follower married to a UK fan so this would not have been a typical choice for me. I know very little (good or bad) about the author. I thought it had some good sound advice. No......more

Goodreads review by Connor on January 17, 2023

Very informative perspective from a successful basketball coach…kinda awkward hearing about his recruitment tactics and discussing the 2013 National Championship win knowing that following this book being published, the Louisville recruit prostitution scandal and Adidas scandal broke and they were f......more


Quotes

“So much more than another Armani suit, Pitino has done a job of psychology and salesmanship that should serve as a how-to manual for his profession.” —Chicago Sun-Times on Success Is a Choice

“Pitino's track record is extraordinary . . . his personal style is also winning.” —Time on Success Is a Choice