I’m excited to announce that Relentless Optimism, my latest book in the Sports for the Soul series, is here! This book addresses an important topic that affects every area of a person’s life: attitude. Specifically, this book tackles the topic of positive thinking… – How can you use “positive thinking” to change your life for [...]
Darrin Donnelly
The first self-improvement book I ever bought was called, Winning Every Day by Lou Holtz. I was in college at the time and Holtz had recently retired as head coach at Notre Dame. I bought the book more because I was a fan of Notre Dame Football and Coach Holtz and less because I was [...]
The difference between winning and losing—in sports, in business, and in life—usually comes down to the way you think. Big achievers think much differently than everyone else. They embrace a positive attitude while most people (consciously or not) develop a cynical attitude. Positive thinking works. Study after study shows that optimists are generally happier, healthier, [...]
No coach in history has influenced more leaders than John Wooden. The winner of ten national championships as UCLA’s basketball coach, Wooden’s success philosophy goes beyond sports and leaders from all walks of life have embraced the lessons he taught. At the center of Wooden’s philosophy is one important rule that the legendary coach repeated [...]
Buck O’Neil is an inspirational baseball legend. A star player and manager for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, O’Neil would eventually become Major League Baseball’s first African-American coach. Despite growing up in the era of segregation and having to fight ugly racism and unfair oppression [...]
Tim Brown is a nine-time pro bowler, a member of both the College Football and Pro Football Hall of Fame, and he has the fifth most all-purpose yards in the history of the NFL. With those incredible credentials it’s hard to believe that halfway through college at Notre Dame, Brown seemed to be on the [...]
