Embracing Your Potential [Paperback]

Terry Orlick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 1998

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The drive to be #1 in a professional field or on a playing field is a powerful source of motivation for many people. Others place a higher priority on becoming a better person. Embracing Your Potential explains how to achieve excellence and balance in both the performance and personal domains of life.

Author Terry Orlick labels these two domains as the ""Gold"" and ""Green"" zones. The Gold Zone includes the visible, tangible achievement markers, such as career advancement, win-loss records, and financial status. The Green Zone involves relationships and intellectual, spiritual, and cultural pursuits. Orlick argues that ""going for the Gold"" need not-and should not-require sacrificing the growth and development of the Green, and that the two zones can be nurtured simultaneously.

Both inspirational and practical, Embracing Your Potential shares insights and quotes from elite athletes, performers, and people in highly demanding jobs. It also features 30 exercises that can help readers make meaningful, lasting changes to boost their performance and enrich their lives.

Embracing Your Potential applies to people from all walks of life that want to excel and yet enjoy every day in the process.

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Editorial Reviews

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"""Go for the 'Gold' and the 'Green!' Terry Orlick will inspire and guide you to achieve the very best possible in all walks of life. I recommend this book to everyone who is striving for excellence and greater meaning in their lives."""
Bonnie Blair
5-time Olympic gold medalist speedskater
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""Go for the 'Gold' and the 'Green!' Terry Orlick will inspire and guide you to achieve the very best possible in all walks of life. I recommend this book to everyone who is striving for excellence and greater meaning in their lives.""
Bonnie Blair
5-time Olympic gold medalist speedskater

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 edition (March 20, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880118318
• ISBN-13: 978-0880118316
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #764,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Terry Orlick, PhD, is a world-renowned leader in the applied field of sport psychology, mental training, and excellence. A former gymnastics champion and coach, Orlick has served as a high-performance coach for over 34 years to thousands of Olympic and professional athletes in more than 30 sports. He has served as a performance-enhancement consultant and mental skills coach in several Summer and Winter Olympic Games, as well as a consultant for various professional teams and leading business corporations.

Former president of the International Society for Mental Training and Excellence, Orlick has authored more than 20 highly acclaimed books. He has created innovative programs and books for children and youth to develop humanistic perspectives and positive mental skills for living, including Cooperative Games and Sports (2006, Human Kinetics) and Feeling Great: Teaching Children to Excel at Living (2004, Creative Bound).

Orlick, a graduate of Syracuse University, the College of William & Mary, and the University of Alberta, is a professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and founder of the innovative Journal of Excellence. He holds distinguished service awards from numerous Olympic and education associations, as well as certificates of merit from governments, universities, sport organizations, and schools for distinguished service to the community. He has given lectures on the pursuit of excellence in virtually every corner of the world. Orlick lives with his family at Meech Lake, Quebec.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terry Orlick's book Embracing Your Potential, May 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Embracing Your Potential (Paperback)

Terry Orlick's book Embracing Your Potential explains how to achieve excellence by balancing your life at work and away. Through the process of self-discovery and allowing yourself to embrace life, anyone can achieve their full potential. The book does a very good job at instilling these values. Some of which were expressed through interviews and quotes from Olympic and professional athletes. Orlick also supplies questions and exercises at the end of some chapters, which gave the reader more of an interactive experience. Even though most of Orlick's advice seems like simple common sense, it's delivered in a concise and compact manner to provide people with busy schedules an easy read. More importantly the book provides meticulous advice on reaching for and achieving excellence.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be The Best You Can Be, December 23, 2005

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embracing Your Potential (Paperback)

Embracing Your Potential includes thirty exercises to help readers discover their essential needs and motives and make lasting changes to enrich their lives. The author encourages balance between achievement and career advancement on one side and the relationship, intellectual, spiritual, cultural and recreational side of our lives.