Motivational category: 14833 books
Rowing the Atlantic
Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was,...
Win Forever
Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
"I know that I'll be evaluated in Seattle with wins and losses, as that is the nature of my profession for the last thirty-five years. But our record will not be what motivates me. Years ago I was asked, 'Pete, which is better: winning or competing?' My response was instantaneous: 'Competing....
Leading
Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
From the winningest soccer coach ever, best known for 27 triumphant years with Manchester United, comes the book that decodes the key tools he used to deliver sustained success on and off the field.
After an astonishing career-first in Scotland, and then over 27 years with Manchester United...
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?
Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Could Confucius hit a curveball?
Could Yoda block the plate?
Can the Dalai Lama dig one out of the dirt?
No, there is only one Zen master who could contemplate the circle of life while rounding the bases.
Who is this guru lurking in the grand old game? Well, he's the winner of ten World Series...
Resilience
Faith, Focus, Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Resilience. It’s not just the title of Alonzo Mourning’s stirring memoir; it’s the stuff he’s made of. Whether petitioning himself into foster care as an eleven-year-old, tirelessly studying his way onto the dean’s list at Georgetown University, making it as an all-star center in the NBA,...
How Champions Think
In Sports and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
America’s preeminent sports psychologist delivers a groundbreaking guide to success in all aspects of life—not just sports—from business to relationships to personal challenges of every variety.
Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to...
by Michael Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
A gently humorous story of a family's search for their dream home in the South of France.
Un Amico Italiano
Eat, Pray, Love in Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert
When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no...
by Ian Usher
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
When Ian Usher put his "life" up for sale on eBay in 2008, he had no idea where life's adventure was going to take him next.Asked many times in interviews, "What will you do once you have sold your life?", his usual glib response was, "Anything I like, really!"But what did he really...
by Ian Usher
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
When Ian Usher put his "life" up for sale on eBay in 2008, he had no idea where life's adventure was going to take him next.Asked many times in interviews, "What will you do once you have sold your life?", his usual glib response was, "Anything I like, really!"But what did he really...
by Guy Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Guy Thatcher walked the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route, hoping to discover the reason for the compulsion that drove him there. What he found instead was the timeless land of northern Spain, beauty, silence, mountains and plains, rain and relentless sun, snow in May, heartbreaking...
The Kindness Diaries
One Man's Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Kindness Diaries is now trending on Netflix!
Follow the inspirational journey of a former stockbroker who leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. He sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage motorbike, determined to circumnavigate the globe surviving only on the kindness...
It's Not About the Pom-Poms
How a 40-Year-Old Mom Became the NFL's Oldest Cheerleader--and Found Hope, Joy,
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
A forty-year-old cheerleader? When Laura Vikmanis, a single mom in Ohio, told friends that she wanted to be an NFL cheerleader, they said it would never happen. But she proved them all wrong. . . .
Laura Vikmanis has got spirit . . . and pom-poms, too! But before she stepped onto the field as the...
by Alan Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
FORGET LEXINGTON!”“I dug a deep hole in the back of my mind to place a shoebox of all the bullying memories that happened to me growing up in Lexington, Massachusetts. By making this hole and burying these memories, I hoped to forget what had happened to me and move forward with my life....