Welcome to the Time of Your Life: Twenty-One Lessons for the Twenty-First Century

Welcome to the Time of Your Life : 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Will Keim

Viaticum Press

College life presents many difficult challenges including choices about alcohol consumption. Beer, Booze and Books provides information about alcohol in a non-judgmental and informative manner appreciated by college students.

Beer, Booze and Books: A Sober Look At Higher Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Matthews, Jim

Addiction & Recovery

The Way of Love for a World of Hurt refers to the story/teachings of Jesus. I have identified forty-eight teachings of Jesus and have matched them with forty-eight teachings in the Tao Te Ching. These lessons face each other on pages and are followed by my reflections, thoughts, and synthesis. I believe some of Jesus parables are so earth shattering and perspective altering that they are really paradigms, totally shifting the way we look at ourselves, others, and the world.

The Tao of Christ: The Way of Love for a World of Hurt

Forword by Steve Kerr Five-time NBA Champion 
In 1997, I was fortunate enough to live out every basketball player’s dream. With five seconds left in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, I took a pass from Michael Jordan and knocked down a wide-open jump shot to beat the Utah Jazz and win the championship. I can remember everything about the moment: Phil Jackson drawing up the play in the timeout; Michael Jordan telling me he was going to pass the ball to me; watching the ball in midair after I released it, everything seemingly frozen in time. But what I remember most vividly, and what will stay in my mind forever, is the roar of the crowd as the ball swished through the hoop. 20,000 fans at the United Center created a din that night that still gives me goose bumps just thinking about the moment. 
But what if the fans hadn’t been there? What if nobody cared about basketball and no one bothered to watch it on TV or attend the games in person? My ‘moment’ wouldn’t have been such a big deal. I would have made the shot, high-fived my teammates and gone home. No glory, no fame, not much excitement. Just the same feeling your average pickup basketball player feels making a shot down at the YMCA on a Sunday afternoon. 
Fans are the lifeblood of college and professional sports. Without the fans, there would be no games. It’s the intensity of the fans—the passions and the fire—that makes sports so entertaining and so fun. Some of my best memories as a sports fan are watching two teams in which I had no interest battling for a game in a sold out, frenzied arena. I cared about the outcome only because of the amazing atmosphere that the fans had created. 
Unfortunately, it’s also that passion and intensity that can create some horrible moments for fans and athletes alike. In 1988 when I was a senior at the University of Arizona, I was verbally assaulted before a game by fans in the Arizona State University student sections who stood and mocked me about the death of my father, who had been killed in a terrorist attack in Beirut four years before. 
I was so shocked and sickened that I sat through the rest of the warm-up session, crying on the bench as my teammates consoled me. The story became public, and a week or so later I received an unsigned letter from one of the students who had been mocking me. The writer of the letter apologized, but tried to justify his actions saying, "Do you know how painful it’s been to see Arizona athletes being so cocky after beating us over the years?" 
I know as a fan how painful it can be when your team loses. 
I remember crying when my beloved Dodgers lost the World 
Series two years in a row to Reggie Jackson’s Yankees in the late ’70s. My son Nick is the biggest Cubs fan on earth (boy is he in for some pain), and I watch him cry when they lose a big game. I feel for him, but I’m also reminded of how awesome sports are. The passion they elicit among fans is incredible, and that passion provides for so much entertainment. It makes for civic pride, the camaraderie amongst friends, for pride in one’s alma mater. It makes for inspiration, determination and effort. How many kids out there are inspired to do great things after watching a frenzied crowd cheer on an athlete, or a team? 
But I don’t care how painful a win or a loss can be. It’s still just that—a game that is either won or lost. And it’s important for every fan to remember to keep that perspective. Yes, we love sports and we want our teams to win, but not at the expense of our care for each other as human beings. I believe that the vast majority of sports fans do understand that perspective. My hope is that those who don’t will eventually get it. Cheer hard, with passion, and hope your team wins. But if they lose, always remember that it’s just a game.

Fan Etiquette: How Did the Burning Desire to Win Become the Desire to Burn?

Keim, Will

Sullivan, Eileen

Mental Health

"Behind every successful and happy individual is a clearly defined sense of purpose. 'How to Zing! Your Life and Leadership' is based on the belief you exist to serve a greater good. Inspirational strategies, laws, principles, lessons, habits, and a few "fish tales" are merged into 21 insights on how to maximize your charismatic potential and enhance your ability to influence others. This book will help you become a more effective leader and live a more productive life."\n"A must read for all current and future leaders." 
-William D. McGarry, President, Anna Maria College\n"Nancy Hunter Denney has successfully summarized the essential skills of life and leadership. Her "do-it-yourself" reflective exercises are unique and add great value to the 'Zing!' appeal of this book. A definite read if you are seeking to make greater connections." 
-Diane Darling, CEO, Effective Networking, Inc.\n"I strongly encourage you to read this book and take to heart its lessons on what it means to be a person of value; to yourself, your family, community, state, nation, and world. My associates and I will be using this book to make the case for a character-driven life." 
- Will Keim, Ph.D., Founder, The Character Institute\n"'Zing!' is full of vitality, spirit and Hunter Denney's wonderful ability to observe life with fresh eyes. Her insights are right on target." 
-Diane Willis, President, Lee\Willis Communications\n"Few authors today have such a profound grasp of what makes someone a true leader. 'Zing!' will zap your life into high gear if you follow its guidance." 
-Gary Tuerack, President, The Society of Success and Leadership

How to Zing ! Your Life & Leadership (21 Insights on Maximizing Your Influence)

Nancy Hunter Denney

Curtis Zimmerman has a "Masters in Life" from the School of Hard Knocks. I received my Ph.D. only because I could throw a curve ball. Neither of us were the sharpest pencils in the box. We were, however, tenacious. We wouldn’t quit and we were like junk yard dogs in pursuit of success. Curtis became one of America’s most respected mimes, entertaining million on television, at Universal Studios, and on Carnival cruise lines. I finished my Ph.D. (Thank God) at Oregon State and have lectured to more than 2 million students from 1500 campuses in every state in America. 
"Never give up. Never ever give up," said Jim Valvano. Never give up on yourself, your campus, city, state, nation, or world. Never give up. Maya Angelou has stated, "A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing in nothing." 
You must believe in yourself, in your potential, in your ability to change, and do great things. 
This is a book about hope and possibilities. We want you to know that it is also tempered with realism. Some of you may breeze through some of the chapters because you already have the subject wired.

The Keys to Success in College and Life

Zimmerman, Curtis

Book by Curtis Zimmerman, Will Keim, Nora Vitz Harrison

Keys to Success in College and Life, 2nd Edition

Education & Teaching

Curtis Zimmerman

Nora Vitz Harrison

Schools & Teaching

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