Synopses & Reviews
From Americas favorite football player turned morning talk show host—a man who makes just about everything look easy—a mélange of stories and motivational advice to inspire the reader to turn up the heat and go from good to great in pursuit of their personal ambitions.
Michael Strahan spent his childhood on a military base in Europe, where community meant everything, and life, though idyllic, was different. For one, when people referenced football they meant soccer. So when Michaels father suggested he work toward a college scholarship by playing football in Texas, where tens of thousands of people show up for a weekend game, the odds were long. Yet he did, indeed, land a scholarship and from there a draft into the NFL where he scaled the leagues heights, broke records, and helped his team win the Super Bowl as a result of which he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. How? By developing “Strahans Rules”—a mix of mental discipline, positive thinking, and a sense of play. He also used the Rules to forge a successful post pro-ball career as cohost with Kelly Ripa on Live!—a position for which he was considered the longshot—and much more.
In Wake Up Happy, Michael shares personal stories about how he gets and stays motivated and how readers can do the same in their quest to attain their life goals.
Here are a few of “Strahans Rules”:
1) Listen to other people, but dont take their opinions for fact. Have your own experiences. Draw your own conclusions.
2) You cant change other people but you can change how you act around them. Usually, thats more than enough.
3) Dont pre-judge. Help can—and will—come from the most unexpected places. Be open to everything around you.
Inspiring and chock full of advice that will help the reader make significant strides toward pursuing his or her dream, Wake Up Happy is a book no one, young or old, male or female will want to miss.
Synopsis
From Americaand#8217;s favorite ex-football player-turned-morning talk show hostand#8212;a man who makes just about everything look easyand#8212;a melange of stories and motivational advice to inspire the reader on how to turn up the heat and go from good to great in pursuit of their personal ambitions.andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;Michael Strahan spent his childhood years in Europe, the youngest child in a tight-knit community on a military base. From there he became a Hall-of-Fame, legendary football player in the NFL and then started an incredible broadcast career, which puts him in contact with all of America every morning. Improbable? Yes. Impossible? Nope. And heand#8217;s here to tell how he did it.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;In andlt;iandgt;Wake Up Happyandlt;/iandgt;, Michael shares his personal game plan for gettingand#8212;and stayingand#8212;motivated so you can attain all your life goals. Hereand#8217;s just a sample of the patented Strahan wisdom:andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;1) Grit, desire, and discipline are free and the only equipment you need to start just about any endeavor youand#8217;ll set out to do.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;2) Show me the baby, not the labor. No one wants to hear you complain about how hard something is. Do the work, stay focused, and remember there are no excuses.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;3) Sometimes youand#8217;ll catch the big fish, and sometimes you wonand#8217;t, but without a line in the water you donand#8217;t stand a chance.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;4) Each step, each day, each moment is an opportunity for something good to happen even if something bad happened just before it. But the key is this: anything can happen, good can and does follow bad, as long as you donand#8217;t give up.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;5) True love should multiply the joy in your life, not diminish all the love you already have.andlt;BRandgt; andlt;BRandgt;6) What you do will always matter more than what you ask for, so lead by example.
About the Author
NFL legend Michael Strahan made his name on the football field, setting the record for single season sacks in 2001 and being inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014, but his star has shined brighter and for longer than his 216 history-making games with the New York Giants, which included a win at Super Bowl XLII. In 2008, he joined the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show as a commentator, and in 2012, he beat a competitive roster of candidates to replace Regis Philbin as co-host of the wildly popular Live! with Kelly & Michael. In April 2014, he joined Good Morning America as a special cohost, and Barbara Walters selected him as one of her 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014.Veronica Chambers was an editor for The New York Times Magazine, a culture writer for Newsweek, and a senior associate editor at Premiere magazine. Her work has appeared in Vogue and Glamour, among many other publications. She is also the author of a critically acclaimed memoir, Mama's Girl. In 2000 she received a fellowship from the Japan Society to spend several months researching in Japan. She fell in love with the country and has returned for extended stays every year since.