From Sports to Life challenges the conventional view of youth sports, urging coaches, mentors, and educators to redefine success beyond the scoreboard. This transformative guide reveals how sports can be a powerful vehicle for holistic youth development-physically, emotionally, socially, and mentally.Drawing on insights into adolescent brain development, the book explores how intentional coaching can cultivate essential life skills, including resilience, leadership, and emotional r...

**From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement.“Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence on how we learn and which paths we take in life.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes**...

A top leadership consultant says: Stop trying to motivate people! Find a powerful alternative to the carrot and stick in this science-driven guide.It's frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn't work. You can't motivate people—they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways. In this book, Susan Fowler builds upon the latest scientific research on the nature of human motivation to lay out a tested model and co...

How do you get someone else committed to reaching their fullest potential? It’s a question that challenges new managers and seasoned executives alike, echoes through coaches’ heads as they watch a gifted athlete underachieve, and keeps parents up at night.Igniting the Third Factor, Peter synthesizes his life’s work into the five core practices exceptional leaders use to ignite the Third Factor in themselves and others -- whether it’s in the locker room before a gold medal ...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Carol Dweck's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Mindset includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles...

In all facets of life, most people strive for success.This could mean getting a promotion to vice-president, making the high school basketball team, having your children grow up to be good citizens, or getting the family together for holidays.Many of the elements of success are likely to include recovering from failure, short and long-term goals, perseverance, focused concentration, coping with adversity and keeping confident despite obstacles.To be successful requires many of these attrib...

The author and professional coach teaches readers to find greater happiness through gratitude in this book of personal stories and practical advice.Before he became a successful author and professional coach, Mike Robbins was a professional baseball player. But at twenty-three years old, he suffered an injury that ended his promising career as a pitcher. Instead of quitting, Mike took stock of the good things in his life and began a new path....

A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller " blends the latest in mindset research . . . to present the most comprehensive mindset framework to date" —Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself and Build a TeamSuccess Mindsets helps natural achievers, stalled professionals, and business executives unlock greater success in their life, work, and leadership."Mindsets" is a word that is used qu...

Carrots and sticks are costing you your best people. Here's the leadership science that actually works.Most leaders aren't bad at motivating people—they're just using a model that neuroscience has already disproven. Built on decades of research and field-tested with organizations including Microsoft, NASA, CVS, and Mattel, this book replaces outdated reward-and-punishment thinking with a practical, proven process called “optimal motivation.”What you'll find...

New, updated edition 2017. Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., Certified Professional Coach with over 20 years experience gives you the step-by-step method to stop sabotaging your own success, how to stop other people from undermining your success, stop reacting to everyone else and start intend your own course of action. Claim your personal power once and for all! Includes workbook exercises to help you get out of your own way.Here's what you'll get:How to Handle ChangeThe Crucial Ele...

Today, more than 68 million children and adolescents participate in sport programs in the United States. Yet despite the growth and popularity of highly-organized athletic competition, controversy still swirls around the role that adults, particularly coaches, play in the world of youth sports. Coaches not only occupy a critical leadership position in the athletic setting, but their influence can extend into other areas of life as well.Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches is a practi...

It is often said that 80% of what happens to us in life is based upon how we think.Initially, I wrote this as a letter to read to our children when they graduated from high school.I thought of this bookas I was driving down the road, takingour childrenfrom practice to practice and game to game.After we got past "how was your day?"There were many times with periods of awkward silence.Neither one of us knew what to talk about.This was a very difficult time for me.I am used to speakin...