The challenge for today's modern coach is to push players without risking burnout, inspire them without bullying, and discipline players without constantly yelling. While no two coaches have the exact same approach to motivating their team, there are certain leadership skills coaches can develop to get the most out of their team, no matter the sport or the skill level. In The Art of Motivation for Team Sports: A Guide for Coaches, Jim Hinkson provides coaches with details and tips on how to motivate their team throughout the season. While most coaching books cover individual leadership or specific practice drills, this book focuses on how to motivate the entire team through setting goals, planning practices so as to keep players engaged and improving, pregame and postgame speeches, building quality relationships, and redefining success as more than just winning. In addition, this book includes team-building exercises and team behavior and value goals, stressing the importance that coaches not only create a successful team but also develop quality people who will excel outside the athletic arena. The many practical tips and keys to coaching success provided in this book were built from Jim Hinkson's years as a professional athlete and fine-tuned from his decades of coaching experience. A clear and comprehensive resource, The Art of Motivation for Team Sports will be invaluable to coaches at the youth, high school, and college levels.

Wouldn't it be great if life came with an instruction manual? The good news is there is one - and it's filled with simple, practical (and enjoyable ) lessons to help us understand why we're here and what life is all about. For example: "This life on earth is a gift. It is fun. It is a training ground, a diversion, a vacation. It is an exercise in re-learning all that you already know. It is a way to express all that is good - joy, peace, love, gentleness, power, poise, wisdom, confidence, blessings, hope, and security. You have chosen this set of circumstances so you may grow. So do so. Laugh and love and live joyously. Be confident of your good and simply accept it. The physical world will change according to your will if you will just believe." That statement is from the gentle voice of wisdom speaking through Jack Armstrong's highly acclaimed book, Lessons from the Source: A Spiritual Guidebook for Navigating Life's Journey. The refreshing, reassuring perspective on life found in Lessons from the Source can help us meet life's challenges and build a foundation for our own personal belief systems. Readers have responded enthusiastically to Lessons from the Source, calling it: "A common sense, everyday guide to enjoying life's adventure." "A personal, one-on-one coaching session with God." "A condensed, user-friendly version of A Course in Miracles." "Comforting, non-dogmatic guidance for living a peaceful, joyous, and loving life." "Bite-sized nuggets of wisdom that are perfect for daily devotionals." Received and transcribed through the same form of channeling as A Course in Miracles and Conversations with God, Lessons from the Source offers a concise, easy-to-understand presentation of profound spiritual principles - a new interpretation of ancient wisdom for life in today's world.

HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED AND CONVICTED MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES for crimes ranging from drunk driving to theft-by-deception and armed robbery, our protagonist is finally convicted in U.S. District Court of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and sentenced to five years in federal prison. Case closed, end of story. So lock him up and be done with it, you say? Ahh, were it only so simple ... See, the U.S. Parole Board, in its infinite wisdom, granted the moron's request for parole, whereupon the moron violated the terms thereof by absconding (how could he resist?) and a nationwide warrant was issued for his arrest as a fugitive. Join this somewhat-less-than criminal mastermind and the ladies he weds on the run -- and provides for by conning small businessmen out of their hard-earned cash and scamming fast-food from restaurants in order to survive -- while traveling from coast to coast and hiding out in Denver, San Jose, Albuquerque, Minneapolis, Chicago and New York City. It was a really great ride while it lasted This is a true story of life on the run from the law. As such, it is serious in nature, but also laugh-out-loud funny, at times...depending on which side of the law you're on, of course: )