The author challenges anyone, anywhere and in any circumstance to rise above their humdrum existence. Life is to be lived to its fullest and we must input our greatest efforts in achieving our championship status! Perseverance patience and passion are the driving elements on the journey to the champions podium! There is no task too daunting, no journey too demanding, no valley too dangerous and no obstacle too difficult to defy a true champion!

As father, coach and mentor, Wayne Bryan helped his twin sons become the world's #1 tennis doubles team. His winning philosophy has always been simple: focus on playing before learning, motivate early and often, and most of all, have fun. Now Bryan has distilled his proven formula for success into a unique book that shows parents how to help their kids become champions in athletics, the arts, academia - and just about anything else they chose to undertake. Concise and accessible, this guide is packed with Bryan's trademark energy and common sense tips designed to inspire success.

Non-Fiction / Self-Help / Parenting / Mentor / Education / Bible / Spiritual a Raising Champions is a tool that will help parents and mentors achieve two goals with one action. The book focuses on the most powerful influencer of the future of the human race...parents and mentors. The issues our youth are grappling with today are the result of the environments parents have created or environments parents allow to exist around the youth they are ordained to protect. Rampant evidence of spiritual bankruptcy, moral decay, low academic performance, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse and a lack of initiative and a solid work ethic are byproducts of poor parenting and a lack of a spiritual foundation. The power to change the course of lives of future generations of youth is in the hands of parents and mentors. Most parents are struggling to keep their head's above the water is true. The conditions the parents and mentors live and work under, breed a climate of complaining and bitterness and is modeled before our youth as the primary example of behavior on a daily basis. a * What a parent does is more powerful than what they say * Parents with unachieved goals, raise youth with unachieved goals * The commercial retail industry's goal is to create spend-a-holics * You are charged to raise you children...not entertainers * Parent's change the environment...you change the children * The tools in this book can change your life in 60 seconds! a Take your God given, rightful place as a parent or mentor andayou canasave your life and the lives ofayouths you have been entrusted to Raise into Champions.

Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.

Separated or divorced with concerns of the impact on your children? This informative and insightful book easily summarizes common issues with the hard fought lessons of an experienced family law attorney who has seen it all, both as a litigator and as a divorced parent. The lessons in this book will help you maintain the mindset necessary to provide the guidance and leadership children need in chaotic times. What’s best for your children, how to deal with an uncooperative co-parent, how to best communicate with your child when emotionally charged ... these scenarios are laid out in plainspoken and easy to understand terms. Accept that you have no control over your ex, and realize that you can control your reactions differently. Changes in perspective will have significant impact on your children. Every child can be a champion!

To raise it means you've won it, and to win it means you've survived an epic journey fraught with peril and untold adversity. The highly anticipated sequel to "Raising Stanley" has arrived. Ross Bernstein, the best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, including "The Code: Football's Unwritten Rules" "and" "Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Honor," interviewed more than 100 current and former NFL players and coaches who all had one thing in common--they were all champions.

The story of how Tiger Woods changed his life, his game and the way America views golf.

"Raising Doctors on a Patients Salary" is a book written by Dr. Jesse McGuire, that tells the story of two ordinary parents with average incomes, who nurtured two exceptionally gifted children all the way through two of the most prestigeous Medical and Dental schools in the nation, their socio-economic status, notwithstanding. This book addresses the problems, challenges, and triumphs of raising children, particularly as it pertains to keeping children of all academic levels motivated, inspired, and on track. It also addresses the financial costs, and personal sacrifices associated with sending not one, but two children through Medical schools in these tough economic times.

Fund raising in the United States is big business. Some 350,000 nonprofit organizations employ an army of fund raisers, all competing for their share, employing the latest technology in computerized direct mail and telemarketing. The American public is swamped with appeals on behalf of this cause or that, as ever more ambitious financial goals are set. Equally intense are demands on active citizens to staff fund-raising drives; a 1987 survey found that 48 percent of Americans engage in some sort of volunteer work. Popular philanthropy, financed by organized, high-pressure fund raising, is uniquely American. This classic history of fund raising in the United States, first published in 1965, has been out of print for the last twenty-two years despite continuing demand. It covers the role of fund raising from the seventeenth century to the present, with emphasis on mass secular fund raising in the twentieth century (religious fund raising is excluded). It documents techniques and problems that are central to the profession today, as well as events and persons on the cutting edge. As both Cutlip and Schwartz indicate in this new edition, since 1964 the climate for philanthropy has been conditioned by two factors-public policies and public perception. Reduction in federal grants to charities and changes in tax policies have increased the gap between needs and resources. Public perception is also a problem, as the result of rampant scandals. Competition for the philanthropic dollar is keener than ever; but the picture is not all gloomy. Schwartz outlines nine positive trends. Among them is increasing interest in philanthropic studies in many areas of academia, including history, sociology, economics, public policy, behavioral sciences, social work, and American studies. There is also increasing interest overseas, as American approaches to fund raising become an example for other nations.