Crunch Time The Eight Steps to Making Constructive and Self-Enhancing Decisions That Will Enable and Empower You to Achieve Your Goals and Live Your Dreams

Introduction I have devoted my professional and personal lives to enabling people to fulfill their potential, by giving them the tools to make wise, constructive, and self-enhancing decisions. It gives me incredible satisfaction to see the individuals with whom I've worked and/or coached enhance themselves and others by thinking and acting in constructive ways, so that they not only achieve their most cherished goals, but also develop valid, positive self-esteem in the process. And, as you will glean from what follows, the process or manner in which you reach your decisions is vitally important to your psychological and emotional well-being.There is no question that one of my good fortunes is that I have been able to identify talented individuals, early in their careers, and secure their representation. However, I have observed over and over again that talent alone is merely unrealized potential. Attaining sustained success in any endeavor takes more than just talent, ability, or heartfelt dreams'it requires rock-solid decision-making skills, based upon constructive and self-enhancing decision-making strategies. I was blessed, as a late-blooming child, to have loving parents'especially a mother? who believed in me, effectively counseled me, and never made me feel ?less than.' As a result of this support, my extensive athletic endeavors, and the creation and implementation of my Crunch Time Decision-Making Strategies, I have grown to be much happier and have achieved many of my goals and dreams. Due in large part to this good feeling and success, my life mission is to believe in and counsel others, so that they can achieve their most precious goals and develop legitimate high self-esteem. In the film Dead Poets Society, prep-school teacher John Keating, portrayed by Robin Williams, shares the following thought about life with his students: The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will that verse be? What you are about to read in Crunch Time is the heart and soul of my life's work and verse. I believe that if you take the time to reflect upon and absorb the material herein, it can and will make a very positive difference in how you write the future verses of your life's Introduction (continued) Decisions and Decision-Making: An Overview The keys to attaining your goals, fulfilling your dreams, and achieving inner happiness are: Making Constructive and Enhancing Decisions and Thereafter Acting Consistently with These Decisions for as Long as They Remain Constructive and Enhancing Every day, we're faced with all sorts of issues, choices, and decisions that affect our lives to varying degrees. Some decisions will change our lives forever. In some cases, just a few critical decisions can make a world of difference in a person's life. Other decisions are less profound, but still have an important impact on whether we eventually achieve our large and small goals. The act of making constructive decisions and doing positive things for ourselves makes us feel good about ourselves. This good feeling, in turn, propels and catalyzes us to do more and more enhancing things for ourselves. Conversely, destructive and self-sabotaging decision-making and behavior diminish the quality of our lives and'in our Heart-of-Hearts'make us feel bad about ourselves. Therefore, it behooves you to strive to rid yourself of unhealthy decision-making strategies and to develop, modify, and keep the enhancing ones, in order to become the wisest decision-maker you can be and thereby fulfill your positive potential. You are the result of your decisions! The state of your life and your inner happiness, in large part, are reflections of your decisions. Your decisions are your very precious opportunities'each and every one of them'to either raise the quality of your life and the lives of those around you, or to lLindner, Ken is the author of 'Crunch Time The Eight Steps to Making Constructive and Self-Enhancing Decisions That Will Enable and Empower You to Achieve Your Goals and Live Your Dreams', published 0000 under ISBN 9781592400980 and ISBN 1592400981.