Sports Success

Swing for the Fences draws on lessons from America's greatest pastime to create a manual of practical tools for winning at the game of life. Navigating life's challenges is never easy, but Greg Bancroft's thoughtful and humorous writing will teach you how to give yourself a break and "suck less". In a clear, engaging style, Swing for the Fences guides you through being successful at home, at work, and in relationships. In the end, it's not just about the home runs; it's about how you approach stepping up to the plate.

Here's a fact you just can't escape - you need huge reserves of mental toughness in just about every sphere of life to achieve personal and professional goals. This book will guide you through the notion of mental toughness for peak performance. You will learn more of what it takes to rise above adverse situations, unforeseen circumstances and challenges in pursuit of your ambitions.

Can a martial art improve your life? Neko Ryu Goshin Jitsu goes farther than other martial arts. Its philosophy and principles describe a way of interacting with the world. A way compatible with Christianity, Stoicism, and Buddhism. Its principles are practical. They apply to individuals, families, and nations. This short book isn’t about “moves”. You won’t learn throws or joint locks here.

Horseheart offers a simple, concise, and unique approach to horsemanship. This book, written for equine lovers ranging from the casual enthusiast to the seasoned expert, explores the four horse personalities and reveals the secrets of how to quickly and efficiently connect with each one. With a splash of humor, farrier Tim Prindle also demonstrates how horses can help us learn about ourselves and facilitate growth in our own lives.

With contributions from more than three dozen professional fighters (including 11 world champions), Protect Yourself at All Times will prepare any up-and-coming boxer for the challenges he will surely encounter from the business of boxing. The Protect Yourself at All Times campaign was founded by Adrian Clark to further protect fighters outside the ring. The focus of this movement (and book) is to educate and inform the fighters on topics such as taxes, contracts, retirement, and guarding their money.

Most books on teaching the martial arts, pertain primarily to one’s wallet. The Broken Rice Bowl is a book which appeals to one’s heart. It is not a quick fix to anything. Rather, it is the telling of a tale of one man, on the quest for making better human beings through individuals stories across time. In The Broken Rice Bowl, such stories focus on what makes for a less-than-worthy teacher, and how to avoid such pitfalls with common sense and technical know-how.

The Empty Cup provides listeners with the eight keys to developing a proper mind-set for success in their martial arts training. Presented in the form of parables, these life lessons are analyzed and explained in a way that is easy to understand. Accompanied by real-life examples from the author’s 35 years of experience in the field, The Empty Cup is a must-listen for everyone who is serious about martial artists, regardless of rank, style, or lineage.

Mental Toughness: Achieve Goals and Conquer Life with an Elite Mindset is a handy guidebook that was specifically designed to help you master mental toughness. From teaching you about the concept of mental toughness, where it originated from, and how it can benefit your life, to helping you with building your mental strength and overcoming any challenges you may face, this audiobook has it all! Mental toughness is the one skill that you need to transform yourself from a liability to an asset.

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A wonderful how to book that focuses on motivation of a young man in American basketball: Everyone has had a failure, or two or even three.... We often equate failures with negative connotations that the person is lazy, they didn't try hard enough, they aren't educated and so on.... Motivation is not usually the outcome in this situation.

Metti insieme uno dei volti più noti del telegiornalismo italiano, un filosofo francese di successo e il simbolo del tennis internazionale. Il risultato? L'audiolibro "I silenzi di Federer" di André Scala edito da Volume Audiobooks. Un saggio raffinato e illuminante su Roger Federer scritto da un filosofo e scrittore francese, acuto nell'analisi e nella sua capacità di valorizzare del campione svizzero persino la comunicazione non verbale e quella intra-personale.

I learned a great many things on the hiking trails of America. One of the most important is that we all climb mountains. Every. Single. Day. I thought I was just hiking mountains. What I was really doing was learning valuable lessons that I could equate directly to life. Hiking thousands of miles over perhaps hundreds of mountains all over the United States teaches you a lot. With that said, you don’t have to be a hiker to enjoy any of these revelations.

The use of analytics in sport is now well embedded. Marginal gains, the bedrock upon which the cycling coach Dave Brailsford built his greatest successes, are cornerstones of most sports nowadays. But, until recently, that did not apply to the biggest sport in the world. Not in soccer. It was as though this simplest of sports is too complicated for statistics. Or that only one statistic counts, the number of times the ball hits the back of the net. "The only statistic that counts", there’s an often used and annoying stock term.

This audiobook is about developing winners - providing salespeople with the secrets sports professionals have used over the years to help them win in highly competitive environments. For example, most top golf pros are all virtually equal skill-wise - you couldn’t pass a sliver of paper between their ability, yet only one of them can win each week. Only one can triumph. So what is it that separates them - if not their skills? The answer to this question is as simple as it is profound; it’s all about how they think!

Dive into the world of bass fishing mastery with the "Bass Fishing Success Bundle." This comprehensive audiobook collection brings together expert knowledge and practical tips to elevate your bass fishing game. Together, these audiobooks provide a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to improve their bass fishing skills.

With the exciting sport of fencing steadily becoming more mainstream in the UK and US and around the world, parents are spending thousands each year to help and encourage their children to train and excel in this unique Olympic sport. Fencing can be a mysterious world to the uninitiated, and parents and young fencers will have many questions about the sport, the fencer's potential, and the do's and don'ts. From Last to First aims to answer all these questions and many more.

The men’s basketball team from a small private high school finds itself struggling through a dreary season, when their coach is called away to attend to a family member’s illness. Enter a wise and mysterious janitor, who not only accepts the reins of leadership for the team during that absence, but soon becomes a mentor to the team, especially to a talented young man named Matthew who is essentially raising himself after he and his father moved into town following the loss of his mother.

The Power of Ten is a daughter’s interpretation of her dad’s teachings while training her for a squash tournament. On winning the tournament, Anushri decides to follow her other passion for writing. She decides to pen down the rules for success. The book is divided into 10 rules that have been segregated into the 10 commandments for success.

This will give you an energy boost when you need it! Athletes have an undeniable power and a firm mindset. Successful athletes have become who they are because of what occurs in their minds. With the right determination, personality (or lack of it), skill to adjust, or speed and readiness to learn, you can speed up the outcomes of your performance and find more completion in the process.

Arnold Palmer taught world-class pro golf instructor Brad Brewer how to play golf. But that was just the beginning. For more than 30 years, Palmer taught Brad how to live. As a businessman, a father, a celebrity, a philanthropist, and a friend, Palmer showed those around him that true success has nothing to do with the final score - and everything to do with how you play the game.