For My City: My Life as a Basketball Influencer is a deeply personal memoir chronicling Ricky Goings' journey from the basketball courts of Washington, D.C., to becoming a key figure in the world of grassroots basketball. Raised in Northeast D.C. in a family with a rich basketball lineage, Ricky's early life was shaped by the game, as well as by the lessons imparted by his father, a local playground legend. However, his path was anything but easy. From enduring personal tr...

From the unforgiving streets of Baltimore's toughest housing projects to the relentless fight for custody of his three sons, Just A Dad is a raw, emotional, and inspiring memoir about resilience, fatherhood, and triumph against all odds.Corwin Melvin grew up in Cherry Hill, a neighborhood marked by poverty and adversity, where dreams often felt out of reach. Raised by a single mother, Corwin learned the value of strength, perseverance, and unwavering love. These lessons be...

Let's face it. Some people just don't listen, don't care, and aren't willing to compromise. And you probably work with some of them. The incomprehensible supervisor. The person in the next office who chats more than works. The customer who, by the way, isn't always right. For all those co-workers who drive you crazy, there's a solution.The bestselling author of Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People turns her insightful eye to the workplace, showing readers how they ca...

Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter ones learn from others’ mistakes—and successes.John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Leadership Gold with you. After nearly forty years of leading, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don’t have to. Each gold nugget is contained in one of twenty- six chapters designed to be a six-month mentorship from the international leadership expert. Each chapter contains detailed applicatio...

Whatever your vocation or aspiration is, you can increase your impact with Maxwell's simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others.America's leadership expert John Maxwell and renowned author Jim Dornan teaches that if your life in any way connects with other people, you are an influencer. Learn the tactics to interact more effectively with people, and watch your organizational success go off the charts!In Becoming a Person of Influenc...

Motivated people advance further and faster in their careers, earn more money, are more productive, experience more satisfying relationships and are happier than the less- motivated people around them. But true motivation cannot be faked or forced.In the same way that each person has a different fingerprint and a distinct combination of DNA, every individual is hardwired with a unique motivational matrix. Grounded in eight years of research with more than 100,000 people, this book ...

Secrets of Discipline presents the keys to effective discipline in a clear and understandable format. Learn how to raise and teach children without all the deal making, arguments and confrontations. Learn how to set appropriate limits, teach courtesy and respect, deal effectively with defiance, and prepare children for independence. Many parents and teachers are wondering what has happened to discipline in today's world. How did children end up with all of the choices and all of the power?...

In this companion to Attitude Is Everything, mega–successful motivational speaker Keith Harrell gives you practicall, step–by–step guidance on putting a good attitude to work in order to get ahead in life.Keith Harrell has taken his place among the motivational greats of the world. Regularly inspiring Fortune 500 companies with a 100 percent satisfaction rate, his message is simple yet powerful: attitude, whether positive or negative, has the power to impact on an ...

Are you scared of failing? Do you often get scared of doing something because you are afraid to fail? In this book, you can find some of the top lessons and strategies which will guide you and help you overcome the fear of failure.

“There is a reason this book is titled beside every successful man rather than behind him. It is about taking the best part of the progress women have made and combining it with age-old wisdom to create a more satisfying future for both you and your husband. The wives who were the models for this book are not put-upon ‘little women.’ They didn’t abandon their own ambitions and desires by helping their husbands achieve theirs. They fulfilled them. Their service isn’t the same thing as subse...

The world we live in demands more great leaders. Whether in business, education, government, healthcare, non-profits, our families or communities, the single most important ingredient for success is leadership. We need leaders who can bring diverse groups of people together to manage change, solve problems and embrace a new, better vision for the future. As the business world has shifted from the command and control style of leadership to a coaching culture, the skills needed to thrive as ...

This e-book contains 25 specific recommendations for promoting responsibility with young people from the ages of two years and older. Each page contains one specific technique that will show you how to have young people WANT to do what you would like them to do while at the same time reduce your stress, help you become more effective, and improve your relationships. Promoting responsibility in the young is something nearly every parent wants, yet few parents have a thorough understanding o...