Ergebnis für "The Strength Within" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

In 1979, I was three months pregnant with my second child and in excruciating pain, pain I’d been dealing with every day for almost 15 months. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t stand, I couldn’t sleep. It was cancer. After 40 years since diagnosis, I’m still here.... Yes, I’ve survived a lot, but I’m just like anyone else. The strength is within us all. You just have to reach for it. There is light at the end of the tunnel, even when you can’t see it. You just have to keep going, especially when it seems like you have nothing left.

Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African-American coach. How is it possible for a coach—especially a football coach—to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family?

Leadership and motivational strategies from Pat Fortenberry, a small-town girl from humble beginnings who built one of the top direct-sales organizations in the country and made more than $16 million in the process. In More than Makeup, Pat teaches skills for managing, motivating, leading, and inspiring a sales organization as well as self-improvement tools that can help anyone become a stronger leader and a better sales person.

The author Michael Nascimento tells of his amazing story of playing football and running track in college despite nine fractures in his lower back that he sustained when he was hit by a drunk driver at the age of 14. After nearly a year and a half of rehabilitation, that included wearing a large plastic brace around his torso for 16 weeks, one of the nine fractures never healed and would stay with him indefinitely.

Staying hopeful in the face of terrible despair and loss and experiencing a remarkable transformation, the listeners learn about the author’s tremendous efforts in life. The listeners are given an extraordinarily ordinary novel built on a series of events that display the humane struggles of people and their undying desire for self-fulfillment and accomplishment against life’s unfair constraints