Success Is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

By Rick Pitino and Pitino

Book Overview

Rick Pitino is the hottest coach in America. Famous for his remarkable successes with the basketball teams he has trained, Pitino is a widely admired master at transforming lackluster, underachieving players into lean, competitive winners. Off the court, Pitino has taken his message to the corporate world, each year teaching thousands of people in companies across the America how to apply his wildly successful coaching strategies to business. Now, in "Success Is a Choice," Pitino is ready to let everyone see what his players and those in his seminars have been exposed to for years: the warmth, humor, and road-tested motivational techniques that will help them to develop mental toughness, enhance their self-esteem, and learn how they can exceed their own potential. No matter how you spend your time--in business, teams, classrooms, or just everyday living-- "Success Is a Choice" will be your own personal coach, urging you on to achieve peak performance.

How does Pitino motivate people? There's no question that he has immense personal charisma and superb coaching strategies. Yet what sets him apart--and makes him the envy of his colleagues--is his ability to spur his people on to achieve far more than is expected of them. His core belief, honed through his coaching in a variety of situations for over twenty years, is that everyone can achieve things they never thought possible. He maintains that most of us continually undersell ourselves, routinely settle for less than we deserve, and grow conditioned to thinking that we can't attain the goals we set for ourselves. Beginning with the four elements crucial to any achievement--Togetherness, Esteem, Attitude, and Mental Toughness(TEAM)--Pitino systematically overturns this negative conditioning and replaces it with ten concrete steps to building a winning life. This remarkable author, with a terrifically compelling message, will make "Success Is a Choice" one of the biggest business/self-improvement audiobooks of the year.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767901320
• ISBN13: 9780767901321
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

This book is a SUCCESS!!!!

Rick Pitino is a genius at getting the maximum effectiveness from people regardless of obstacles. Having his exact philosophies on my home bookshelf is a joy and provides instant motivation on days where I feel lazy, unmotivated or unfocused. Everyone occassionally needs a jump start and Coach Pitino is a walking kick in the butt. But what's important is that he conveys the "Why's" of his messages, meaning that there is purpose to his ideas and that is what makes you remember each step because they really do provide the framework for deserving success. Lots of people like to think they know everything it takes to be truly successful, but ironically very few of us actually are. This honest, gut-checking book will definitely be a constant reminder and functional compass to make sure any reader is pointed in the right direction. I can't recommend it highly enough. Now I'm going out to get the CD!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Must Read for any teen with dreams and goals

I am a Drum Major of my High School band and I read the book in two days. The information he spoke about on communication and self esteem has helped me to work on my communication skills with my band and helped me to understand my motivations and the things that I need to change...Superb, easy to relate to. AMAZING!!!!

One of the best I've read in a while.

A good book. Very easy to read, but full of real meat. You can put it down and come back to it later and get right back into it. I found myself taking notes to refer to later. Really terrific.

This is more than a book...it is a way of life.

Pitino, the master of motivation and hard work writes an absolutely brilliant guide to achieving success in every aspect of life and business.

Exceptional ideology for motivating yourself and others.

The age old ideology that our success and happiness ultimately depends on what we think, while obviously nothing that we haven't heard before, is masterfully explained by Coach Pitino in this highly motivational book. The book is full of sound principles that can be used in any walk of life. While the underlying theme that success is a choice is simplistic and easily understandable, actually choosing a positive attitude in your everyday life is one of those things that is easier said than done, and the inspirational stories that Pitino tells from his experiences in the book are fuel for anyone's motivational fire and help make choosing and maintaining the positive attitude that is necessary for success an easier choice to make. I would rate this book right up there with the best self-help books of all time like those by Dale Carnegie and Stephen Covey.