NEW BOOK: Building Champions

Ten years ago I sat down and created a file folder on my computer. It was named, "Book Research." I had an idea to begin writing a book. Needless to say I didn't get very far. Honestly, I probably wasn't very qualified or ready for the task. But this past summer I sat back down, reopened that folder and started writing.

I don't know that I feel any more qualified or ready even still today. In fact, ever since I pressed the APPROVE button on the publishing page I have had an overwhelming sense of "imposter syndrome." That's when a person has trouble internalizing an accomplishment due to a fear of being exposed as a fraud. I've always heard from others about how imposter syndrome can set in and paralyze your mind, but now I feel it first hand. All kinds of questions of doubt have entered my mind, like... Why would anyone want to read what I have to say? What makes me think I know anything about the subjects I've written about? Don't I realize that people who know me know I am no expert? And all sorts of other interrogating thoughts.

But I've come to learn that it doesn't take an expert to write a book. It just takes someone with stories to tell or observations to make that might help another person, even if just one. And that's why I published Building Champions. If there is one person on this earth that might pick up a copy of my book, read it and decide to change their life, then it was worth every second it took me to write the manuscript, lay it out in book format, design a cover, and publish it.

Let me say in advance, if you decide to buy my book, THANK YOU! Please feel free to leave an honest review on Amazon.com, and by all means, please contact me directly if you'd like to ever sit down and talk more in depth about any part of the book.

That is one of my hopes for this work, that it might become a conversation piece. That perhaps it will grant me opportunities to meet more people and speak to more teams about the many lessons I have learned through my own failures, lessons that have inspired me to jot down a handful of simple principles about how we can all CHOOSE to become a champion. You don't need luck. You don't even need to play a sport. Yes, it is a sports-heavy book. But it reaches beyond the field and the court, as I think you will see.

Thank you, again, and God bless you! I am hoping this will be just the first step in an exciting, new journey in relationships and coaching.