Download or read book Rise Up Against All Odds written by Thandi Boshoma and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody suffers adversities; Superheroes bounce back. Rise Up Against All Odds arouses you to reclaim the Superhero in you during the turbulence of adversities. Adversities make us feel like it is the end of the road and leave us discouraged, confused, shocked, defeated, hopeless, deprived, rejected, depleted, petrified, disempowered, betrayed, humiliated, undignified, destitute, insecure, wiped-out, powerless, frustrated and depressed. The book applies the BRAVE system, which is an acronym for Boldness, Resilience, Authenticity, Vision, Enthusiasm to help you navigate and deal with adversities. It equips you to face the headwinds of adversities while remaining solidly grounded applying Boldness. It enables you to emerge stronger and powerful applying Resilience. It teaches you to become true to yourself and your purpose despite the prevailing circumstances applying Authenticity. It navigates you to limitless possibilities to carve a trajectory of success for yourself applying Vision. No matter how gusty the intensity of your adversity, the book will energise and propel you to reach greater heights applying Enthusiasm. The book compels you to defy the odds and use your adversities to advance. Instead of seeing adversities as obstacles, you will view them as springboards to leap off to a world of abundance. You will learn how to rewrite your life's storyline using your adversities to create a life with new meaning of richness, greatness, prosperity, liveliness, worthiness, empowerment, confidence, and fulfilment.
Download or read book Rise up Against All Odds written by Thandi Boshoma and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody suffers adversities; Superheroes bounce back. Rise Up Against All Odds arouses you to reclaim the Superhero in you during the turbulence of adversities. Adversities make us feel like it is the end of the road and leave us discouraged, confused, shocked, defeated, hopeless, deprived, rejected, depleted, petrified, disempowered, betrayed, humiliated, undignified, destitute, insecure, wiped-out, powerless, frustrated and depressed. The book applies the BRAVE system, which is an acronym for Boldness, Resilience, Authenticity, Vision, Enthusiasm to help you navigate and deal with adversities. It equips you to face the headwinds of adversities while remaining solidly grounded applying Boldness. It enables you to emerge stronger and powerful applying Resilience. It teaches you to become true to yourself and your purpose despite the prevailing circumstances applying Authenticity. It navigates you to limitless possibilities to carve a trajectory of success for yourself applying Vision. No matter how gusty the intensity of your adversity, the book will energise and propel you to reach greater heights applying Enthusiasm. The book compels you to defy the odds and use your adversities to advance. Instead of seeing adversities as obstacles, you will view them as springboards to leap off to a world of abundance. You will learn how to rewrite your lifes storyline using your adversities to create a life with new meaning of richness, greatness, prosperity, liveliness, worthiness, empowerment, confidence, and fulfilment.
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Scott Brown and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Massachusetts senator who was elected to succeed the late Edward Kennedy recounts the story of his neglect- and abuse-marked childhood, military and career successes, and unexpected entry into politics.
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Scott Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s death in 2010—but, as he reveals in a compelling memoir reminiscent of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue and Clarence Thomas’s My Grandfather’s Son, his experiences with struggle and achievement go back a lifetime.
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Jorma Ollila and published by Maven House. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling memoir, Nokia's legendary CEO Jorma Ollila presents a riveting account of the inner workings of the company that created the global mobile revolution. CEO from 1992 to 2006, Ollila led Nokia from near catastrophe to become the world's leading mobile phone manufacturer. He built a company where visionary thinking and courageous decisions were combined with exceptional creativity and first-rate engineering, leading to phenomenal growth. Follow Ollila's personal and professional journey, where you'll learn about the fine line between stratospheric success and disastrous failure. His stories are filled with lessons about the nature of leadership, the importance of shared values, and the need for strategic thinking. Ollila offers a uniquely clear picture of life as a CEO, with many insights into how business is conducted at the highest levels. He is especially upfront about working with his executive and management teams as well as encounters with figures such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and George Soros. He offers poignant as well as illuminating stories of hair-raising risks and huge successes, but also of poor judgment and bad decision-making.
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Brad Christerson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious institutions continue to be among the most segregated organizations in modern America. This book looks at the problems faced by integrated churches & examines the development of integrated religious organizations.
Download or read book Moving Up Against the Odds written by Jack Andrews and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relentless written by Josh Wood and published by Influence Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how one man's relentless and inspirational healing journey defied all medical odds. Josh Wood's destiny forever changed in a split second on 25 June 2000. A healthy 18-year-old, Josh had his whole life ahead of him when a snowboard jump went horribly wrong and he brutally crashed onto an asphalt road at a mountain ski resort. Left a quadriplegic and told by doctors that he had less than a 3% chance of recovery, it was as if he had died. Medical prognosis stated he would never get out of bed, and that at best he would be relegated to an electric wheelchair motioned by mouth controls. Four and a half months later, Josh not only got out of bed, but he defiantly walked through the doors of the very rehabilitation centre that told him it would not be possible. Josh's life journey didn't end on 25 June 2000. He turned the impossible into the possible and was 'twice born' from that day onward. Presented with a new life, he also had a new and powerful message to take to the corporate world, the medical world, the sports world, and every school, institution, hospital, and street corner from which he could be heard. Josh's message is about the power of self-will, the resilience of the human spirit, and the value of being relentless in a quest to never give up.
Download or read book Siya Kolisi written by Jeremy Daniel and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Siya Kolisi leads the Springboks out onto the field at the Rugby World Cup in September 2019, it will be the crowning glory of an incredible journey that began on the impoverished streets of Zwide, a township outside Port Elizabeth. As the first black South African to captain a Springbok rugby team, Kolisi's remarkable story is unique and deserves to be heard. His mother was a teenager when he was born. She left him in the care of his grandmother who brought him up until she died (in his arms) when Siya was twelve. He found love and acceptance playing junior rugby with the African Bombers club until his talent was spotted by the prestigious Grey High School who offered Siya a full scholarship that changed his life. He adapted well to the posh private school, but it was on the rugby field where he excelled. Siya was rewarded with a call-up the SA schools team and a contract to join the Western Province rugby union. Author Jeremy Daniel tracks Siya's journey from running wild on the streets of Zwide, through some crucial games in high school, into the Western Province rugby set-up and his fight to become Springbok captain. He goes deep inside the systems that identify junior talent, the characters who shaped his journey and the moments where he showed who he really was. Siya never forgot where he came from, and ultimately adopted his mother's other two children after she died when he was in high school. His life has not been without controversy, and his marriage to a fiery young white woman was a lightning rod for racial politics. But he is a shining beacon of hope for South Africa, he is massively popular and there is a huge appetite from the public to know about his life and to support him as Springbok captain.
Download or read book BraveHearts written by Bud Withers and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational and touching story of Gonzaga's rise from college basketball obscurity to near mythic status as everyone's favorite underdog, this book was penned by acclaimed college basketball writer Bud Withers, who has covered the Zags since it all began. In dramatic fashion he reanimates the events of the last few years, adding flesh to the personalities and summoning the details, great and small, that make up this unforgettable story. Readers will meet players such as Blake Stepp, a blue chip high school recruit who selected Gonzaga because of what it wasn't; Dan Dickau, who became a first-round NBA pick in 2002 after becoming Gonzaga's first All-American player in the history of the men's basketball program; Dan Monson, the former coach who instilled a fearless attitude among the players and began Gonzaga's storied run; Mark Few, the current coach who has continued and expanded upon the program's great success; and Father Tony Lehmann, the school's longtime chaplain who died in March 2002, who was the inspirational leader of the basketball team. This book is a must read for any college basketball fan wanting to know more about Gonzaga, the team that makes deep runs into the NCAA tournament almost every year without compromising on the small-school values that still separate it from the basketball factories it terrorizes each March.
Download or read book Beating the Odds written by Nichola Garvey and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high-stakes story of Australia's largest private bookmaker Alan tripp, a man some call a genius and others call a criminal, became the world's most successful private bookmaker. He was Australia's most convicted SP bookmaker and was the prime target of gaming and vice squads around the country in the 1980s. Yet he would eventually sell his businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars. this is his story. Starting-price bookies, although illegal, were long a feature of Australian life, giving punters the opportunity to have a bet away from the track. But with the rise of the tAB, police were ordered to stamp out all other off-course bookmaking in order to protect the state governments' monopoly. Alan tripp, the biggest SP bookie in Australia, was their number-one target. His punting clientele ranged from the high society of Sydney to the underbelly of Melbourne, and included Prime Minister Bob Hawke, media baron Kerry Packer, gangsters Lewis Moran and Alphonse Gangitano, and underworld figure Mick Gatto - as well as many leading trainers and jockeys of the day. tripp's life quickly became a rollercoaster of high-stakes gambling, with the dual threats of bankruptcy and prison never far behind. In a fearless and thrilling narrative, Nichola Garvey recounts the drama and intrigue of the life of Alan tripp, the billion-dollar bookie who beat the odds.
Download or read book Cornbread Fish and Collard Greens written by Khafre Kujichagulia Abif and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khafre K. Abif has been thriving with HIV for 24 years, and is a father of two college aged young men. He holds a masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Africana Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Abif is the Founder/Executive Director of Cycle for Freedom, a national mobilizing campaign founded in 2010, to reduce the spread of HIV among African Americans and Latinos. During the 75-day campaign, Cycle for Freedom will engage fourteen (14) African American and Latino communities along the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route by developing strategies designed to increase HIV testing, and confront HIV-related stigma, homophobia, and lack or mis-education. www.cycleforfreedom.org Abif is one of five men in the inaugural class of The HEALTH (Health Executive Approaches to Leadership and Training in HIV) Seminar Program, a year long program designed to enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities for assuming leadership/management positions in the field of health with a particular focus on HIV for the next generation of African American MSM leaders and community based organizational practices. Abif also serves as Community Educator/Test Counselor for ONE Life of Pittsburgh, PA, as well as the Georgia HIV Prevention Community Planning Group. He formerly served on the Pennsylvania HIV Prevention Community Planning Group and was the Community Co-Chair for the New Jersey HIV Prevention Community Planning Group where he ensured PIR for the group. As a librarian, Abif managed Childrens Services for Brooklyn Public Library and was the first recipient of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Dr. John C. Tyson Emerging Leader Award. As former Director of the Langston Hughes Library for the Childrens Defense Fund (CDF) at the former Alex Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, Abif was responsible for meeting the librarys mission to serve as the intellectual commons of the movement to Leave No Child Behind. Publications include co-editing with Teresa Y. Neely, In Our Own Voices: The Changing Face of Librarianship, and is contributing author in the anthologies Poor People and Library Services, and Handbook of Black Librarianship. Forthcoming work includes Raising Kazembe, and Fall to Grace. Visit Abif at TheBody.com http://www.thebody.com/content/art60852.html
Download or read book Larry Holmes written by Larry Holmes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Larry Holmes, the reader will experience the uplifting odyssey that took Larry Holmes from a boxing nobody to a world champion. Holmes is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions of our time and held the title for more than seven years. But his rise to the top was hardly an easy one. He began his life as one of twelve children raised by a single mother in Cuthbert, Georgia, and had to struggle in poverty for the first sixteen years of his life. His road to champion-from which he would net $40 million-was one requiring doggedness and extreme courage, qualities that led people to dub Holmes "The People's Champion." Also featured in the book is an insider's look at Holmes relationship with Muhammad Ali, his views on the state of boxing in the 1990s-including the Mike Tyson situation, his fights with Don King, and his ratings of the top boxers today. Larry Holmes is a champion in every sense of the word. He has risen to every challenge he faced-from poverty to ridicule to naysayers-and his life story is both inspiring and moving.
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Wendy Beech and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn and be inspired by the fascinating true stories behind 10leading lights in black enterprise today . . . * While she won't share the formulas for her world-renowned hotsauces, Vivian Gibson, CEO of The MillCreek Company, is glad toimpart her recipe for transforming a passion for cooking into amultimillion-dollar enterprise. * He went from sleeping in Central Park to heading a major filmproduction and syndication company. Get the details on how FrankMercado-Valdes's love of classic black films led to the creation ofthe African Heritage Network. * At only 34 years old, Alonzo Washington is head of his own comicbook publishing empire. Find out how this committed politicalactivist used his genius for cartooning to promote minority causesand make a fortune doing it. Discover the compelling true stories of how these and seven otherAfrican-American men and women beat the odds to become some oftoday's most successful black entrepreneurs.In a series of intimateprofiles, journalist/author Wendy Harris details the paths theytraveled, the obstacles they overcame, and the important lessonsthey learned along the way about what it takes to succeed inbusiness.
Download or read book Succeeding Against All Odds written by Serena Richards and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you really want to spend your whole life working for someone who undervalues you? You deserve more. All you need is the right mindset. The rest will come by itself. This book will teach you the fundamentals of succeeding in any area of life, and remember only this: "Whatever problem you may have, there will always be a solution for it" If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. We have only one life. Our time is limited, and the sad thing is that most people realize that they should've changed when it's too late. Don't let that moment come, and take action now. "Either you run the day or the day runs you" - Jim Rohn
Download or read book Winning Against All Odds written by Kevin Parker and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were given a second chance at life, what would you do with it?Kevin Parker got that chance when he nearly died from a drug overdose, losing his leg in the ordeal. He made the decision to fight back against addiction, beginning a spiritual journey of self-development. Along the way, he became a coach and a public speaker to inspire others to overcome their own struggles.In Winning Against All Odds, you will discover the secret to unlocking the true warrior within: If you can turn your biggest weakness into your greatest strength, you will become truly unstoppable.
Download or read book Against All Odds written by Aline Hanna and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Poetry was compiled by my late father, George Matthews, who in his teenage years enlisted in the Army in World War One. He was sent to France and seriously wounded. He did not talk much about the War, veterans are not inclined to talk about their experiences and all the horrors they endured, but he did tell me he remembered the shell hitting the trench in which he was. He remembers running for cover but when he was found he was thought to be dead. He was not however, and possibly due to the delay in finding this out, gangrene had set in and he had to have his right arm and left leg amputated. During his stay in hospital in London he underwent thirteen operations, and right up until he died at the age of 62 there were still pieces of shrapnel embedded in his body. He was the most wonderful father to me and we shared many things including his love of music and flowers. He had a wonderful bass voice and sang in concerts many times. He was the most courageous man I have ever met, nothing daunted him, he even walked without the aid of a cane or crutch. He had, however to learn to write with his left hand and by way of practice gathered up this collection of poetry. His book was discovered years after his death and because of the effort it must have been for him to do this, I thought I should try in some way to compile this collection in book form. His writing was so clear it took no effort on my part to make a copy. I have included some words I wrote after he died expressing my love and admiration for him called The Dearest One I Knew. I hope you enjoy the variety of his work and on next Armistice Day, spare a thought for men like him who survived the horrors of war and still do, but face life with courage and fortitude. Aline Hanna (Matthews)
