Download or read book Born Beating the Odds written by Kozhi Sidney Makai and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered how and why it is that storms seem to sink your boat while others' rise? If you were honest, could you say that you overcame obstacles instead of them overcoming you? Have you been discouraged by the sheer volume of things not going your way and your dreams turning into nightmares? If you responded yes to just one of these questions, you're not alone. Discouragement, disappointment, and several other negative emotions hide like a cop on the highway, waiting to pull us over and give us a ticket. In Born Beating the Odds, Dr. Kozhi Sidney Makai helps you see that your past trials and disappointments are merely stepping stones leading to your personal and professional growth. In his natural caring and supportive tone, Kozhi reminds you that you can change your pain to power and your disappointments to drive. As the title suggests, you were born beating the odds and he provides insights into raising your boat in the storm, taking back your dreams, and becoming a resilient overcomer.

Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Emmy E. Werner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists, pediatricians, public health professionals, and social workers. Werner and Smith trace the impact of a variety of biological and psycho-social risk factors and stressful events on the development of these individuals, most of whose parents did not graduate from high school and worked as semiskilled or unskilled laborers. Incorporating vivid case study accounts with statistical analysis, the authors focus on both the vulnerability and the resilience of those who overcame great odds to grow into competent and caring adults. They trace the recovery process through which most of the troubled adolescents in the cohort—those with histories of delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and mental health problems—emerged with improved prospects in their twenties and early thirties. Identifying both the self-righting tendencies that enable high risk children later to adapt successfully to work, marriage, and parenthood, and the conditions under which professional and volunteer care is most beneficial, Werner and Smith offer concrete suggestions for effective intervention policies.

Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Eddie Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management. Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Eddie Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 Billion under management. Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Brandon Lang and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing true story of one of the world s greatest sports...

Download or read book Paths to Success written by Charles C. Harrington and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statisticians tell us that impoverished backgrounds are decent predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions. While the authors reveal consistencies between pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites.

Download or read book This Book Beats the Odds written by Danielle S. Hammelef and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes a variety of trivia facts based on the mathematical odds of strange events or conditions happening from day to day"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Patty Rowland Burke and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to inspire and empower, Beating the Odds highlights real-life success stories of technical women who made it. This book explores critical turning points that make or break careers and provides tools for putting insight into action — both for women and organizations supporting them.

Download or read book I Beat The Odds written by Michael Oher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.

Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Cheryl Kroll and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating the Odds profiles eight hidden barriers to college success affecting a significant number of students worldwide. Each barrier is defined in easy-to-read, nonclinical language and includes a detailed discussion of causes, symptoms, professional approaches to treatment, and a variety of highly effective self-help strategies. Author Cheryl Kroll also includes specific exercises for implementing her suggestions. As the first of its kind, written specifically for todays college students, Beating the Odds should prove to be an invaluable resource for any young adult struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities, high stress, or low self-esteem.

Download or read book Be There for Kids written by Hari Prasad Bangalore, Kalpana Prasad Bangalore and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 There are exalted and higher purposes to parenting. Why is the Creation interested in partnering with you in parenting and in your child? What is routine parenting? What is non- existing parenting? How to avoid negative parenting, hyper parenting or blind parenting? How not to feel the stress of parenting? What is special about 21st century parenting? Become the conscious and mindful parents. All explained wonderfully. There are plenty of real-life examples. Book is filled with stories which make you understand spiritual and practical aspects of parenting and motivate yourself to take the higher path of parenting. There is a lot of parenting the parent! Book 2 This is for parents as well as for children of 12 and beyond. The parents can break the book by simply splitting the book at the end of book 1 and lo and behold! The book 2 of 130 pages is ready for children. If you already have children who are beyond 12 years, you can spiral bind book 2 separately and give it to them. There is a separate cover page for book Exclusive and Unmissables in these 2 in 1 Book: 1. Exclusive 7 stages of parenting 2. 9 point charter of parents’ daily blessings for children. The best gift you can give your children is to constantly bless them. Instead of getting very anxious with some concern, just keep BLESSING them. You will not even be aware how powerful your blessings can be. They truly work wonders and miracles happen 3. Exclusive meditation tips for children 4. Develop 3D memory with few minutes daily practice 5. Wonderful sets of practical and doable tips for parents and separately for children 6. Special 15 point attributes for building the profile of the child 7. Two separate list of more than hundred tips to empower parents and children 8. Food for soul – 24 soul stirring and motivational bed-time stories

Download or read book House of Lies written by Martin Kihn and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Liar's Poker comes a devastatingly accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the wonderful world of management consulting. Once upon a time in Corporate America there was a group of men and women who were paid huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong and how to improve themselves. These men and women promised everything and delivered nothing, said they were experts when they were not, sometimes ruined careers, and at best, only wasted time, energy, and huge sums of money. They called themselves Management Consultants…. Welcome to the world of Martin Kihn, a former standup comic and Emmy® Award-nominated television writer who decided to “go straight” and earn his MBA at a prestigious Ivy League university. In HOUSE OF LIES, he brazenly chronicles his first two years as a newly-minted management consultant: featuring his struggles with erroneous advice, absurd arrogance, and bloody power struggles. Hey, it’s all in a day’s work— and it pays really well!

Download or read book The Long Shadows written by Andrew Erlich and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Shadows: A True-Life Novel The Long Shadows is a fascinating true-life novel about Jacob Reuben Erlich, who, at 8 foot 6, was among the tallest men in the world. Best known by his stage name, Jack Earle, he would overcome crippling shyness, depression, temporary blindness and the physical challenges of a giant's frame to earn widespread acclaim during his career as a silent film star, circus performer, artist, poet and vaudevillian. Drawing on ten years of research culled from family lore, newspaper archives, historical documents and the recorded recollections of Earle's contemporaries, author Andrew Erlich weaves a fascinating bio-fictional account of a remarkable man and the cast of colorful characters who knew him. Along the way, we learn a great deal about courage, character, and one man's unique perspective on a broad sweep of history that encompassed the Great Depression, the immigrant experience in turn-of-the-century Texas, silent films, life in the circus, the modern art movement and the domestic anti-Semitism that accompanied the run-up to World War II.

Download or read book From Abba to Zoom written by David Mansour and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of memories for anyone born in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s features more than three thousande references on everything from television shows to dolls, and features such entertaining lists as "best toys" and "all-time coolest singers." Original.

Download or read book This Is Me written by Finn Foster and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finn is an EMT, podcast host, and entrepreneur who is passionate about generating an Impact whilst helping people. He currently lives in Orlando, FL and is studying to become a Nurse. We have the power to become the individual we want to become. Becoming aware of your growth, your potential and zeal to overcome is one of the greatest feelings. In a world of 7 billion people, there are endless moments that we can celebrate our breakthroughs. Become comfortable with who you are. This Is Me is a fundamentally diverse book that break barriers, empowers people to become the best version of themselves. Vulnerability inspires change.

Download or read book Unexpected Expectations written by Leonard M. Wapner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpected Expectations: The Curiosities of a Mathematical Crystal Ball explores how paradoxical challenges involving mathematical expectation often necessitate a reexamination of basic premises. The author takes you through mathematical paradoxes associated with seemingly straightforward applications of mathematical expectation and shows how these

Download or read book Wings To Fly written by Stephen T. Scott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your daily lift off to soar to greater heights. 365 readings to accelerate your successful performance throughout the year.