Author's Note vii
Foreword ix
Chapter 1 Dare To Be Different 1
Chapter 2 What Makes Them Different? 6
Chapter 3 Control The Controllables! 13
Chapter 4 Who Will Answer? 19
Chapter 5 Dream Big, Believe Big, Become Big 23
Testimonial: Desmond Howard 28
Chapter 6 What Does Success Look Like? 31
Chapter 7 The Demon On Your Left Shoulder: Self-Defeating Attitudes and Behaviors 38
Chapter 8 The Angel on Your Right Shoulder: Self-Supporting Attitudes and Behaviors 47
Chapter 9 Creating Your Ideal Self 58
Testimonial: Michelle McMahon 63
Chapter 10 Only an Assertive You Can be a Successful You 66
Testimonial: Emily Line 71
Chapter 11 The 100 Percent Challenge 75
Chapter 12 Adapt or Die! 80
Chapter 13 Your Sport Is What You Do, Not Who You Are 85
Testimonial: Michael Parke 91
Chapter 14 What Do You Do When You Lose Everything? 93
Testimonial: Warde Manuel 96
Chapter 15 A Matter of Trust 98
Chapter 16 The Two Kinds of Love 102
Chapter 17 Get Out of Your Own Way! 106
Testimonial: Cooper Marody 112
Chapter 18 Swot Yourself 115
Chapter 19 Commit, Improve, Maintain 120
Testimonial: Jonathan Satovsky 124
Chapter 20 How to Create Bad Habits … And Good Ones 127
Chapter 21 It's Perfectly Okay Not to be Perfect 130
Chapter 22 The Value of a Short Memory 134
Chapter 23 A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem 137
Chapter 24 Faith-Based and Solution-Focused 140
Chapter 25 Fear, Courage, and "Buck Fever" 142
Chapter 26 Expose Your Vampires to the Light 147
Testimonial: Ann Welch Braun 150
Chapter 27 … By Its Cover 153
Chapter 28 The Team, The Team, The Team 157
Testimonial: Erik Campbell 161
Chapter 29 One More Team … and the Ultimate Challenge 163
Testimonial: Waleed Samaha 167
Chapter 30 Say Thank You (And Then Shut Your Mouth) 170
Chapter 31 Whispers and Bricks 174
Chapter 32 Facing the Challenge of Public Speaking 176
Chapter 33 When You're Interviewing Someone, Let them Tell You Who they Are 178
Chapter 34 When You're Being Interviewed, Turn It Around! 181
Chapter 35 If You Happen to be a Golfer 183
Chapter 36 Please Remember These Seven Things 188
Testimonial: Steve Hamilton 190
Chapter 37 The Challenge: 192
Dedication and Acknowledgments 195
About the Authors 197