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"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Lou Holtz
Meet Lou Holtz, the motivational miracle worker who revitalized the Notre Dame football program by leading the legendary Fighting Irish to nine bowl games and a national championship. During his twenty-seven years as a head football coach, Holtz garnered a 216-95-7 career record. Each new assignment brought a different team with different players, but, invariably, the same result--success. How did he do it? By designing a game plan for his players that minimized obstacles while maximizing opportunities.
Now he wants to pass his game plan on to you. In Winning Every Day, you'll discover ten strategies that will drive you to the top of your professional and personal life. Coach Holtz will reveal how you can acquire the focus and commitment it takes to be a champion. It won't be easy; it takes sacrifice to be the best. But now you'll have a proven winner alongside you in the trenches. Winning Every Day demonstrates how you can elevate your performance while raising the standards of everyone around you. Follow Coach's strategies and winning becomes habitual. You will learn to welcome sacrifice as you dedicate yourself to excellence. He will show you how to clearly define your short-term and long-term goals, to develop an unwavering sense of purpose without compromising flexibility.
Through it all, Coach Holtz will help you discover the courage you need to live a life of unremitting triumph. You couldn't have a better guide. He will provide you with the strategies he has shared with Fortune 500 companies, groups, and organizations. Voted the top motivational speaker two years running by a survey of speakers' bureaus, Coach is going to present you with all the Xs and Os, the basics of his game plan for success in life and business.
Synopsis
Following a phenomenal coaching career at Notre Dame, Lou Holts has become one of the country's most sought-after motivational speakers. Here he presents his winning philosophy for finding success in business and in life.
Lou Holtz is the Motivational Miracle Worker Who in his 11 years at Notre Dame turned the football program around by bringing the team to 9 bowl games, 100 wins, a 23-game unbeaten streak, and a national championship. But his philosophy for success is not only useful on the playing field. He is also one of the top motivational speakers in the country, helping businesses and groups everywhere achieve success in their own arenas.
Winning Everyday contains the same recipes for achieving goals that Holtz used to motivate his players. With a tough but tender style, Holtz offers his theories to everyone who could use his or her own private guru, explaining his five crucial steps to success and sharing his tried and true mottoes like "W-I-N: What's Important Now", and "Leadership is not a popularity contest". Peppered throughout are personal and professional anecdotes that illustrate how his winning philosophy helps people accomplish their professional, financial, personal, and spiritual goals.
About the Author
Lou Holtz is a studio analyst for CBS Sports on
College Football Today and travels the country widely, giving motivational speeches to Fortune 500 companies.
Holtz began his coaching career at the University of Iowa in 1960 as an assistant coach and held head coaching positions at the College of William and Mary, North Carolina State, the University of Arkansas, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Notre Dame, becoming one of the top fifteen winningest coaches in college football history. He also served as head coach of the NFL's New York Jets.
Holtz was born in Follansbee, West Virginia, and received a B.S.S. degree in history from Kent State University and an M.S. in education from the University of Iowa. He authored the New York Times bestselling book The Fighting Spirit, which chronicled Notre Dame's 1988 championship season. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife, Beth. They have four children.