Product Description

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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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #129961 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
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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

Ingram
The author of several books on mental training shows readers how to achieve excellence in performance as well as excellence in living.

About the Author
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When the first-ever all-women's team was selected for the America's Cup, the athletes were told they could select anyone in the world to work with them on strengthening their mental game. They chose Terry Orlick.

Around the world, athletes, coaches, teachers, and performers know Terry Orlick as ""the best"" in his field. He has led the applied fields of mental training for excellence and quality living for the past twenty-five years. Terry has more experience working directly one-on-one with great performers on enhancing the consistency of their performance and the quality of their lives than anyone in the world. He has worked with thousands of Olympic and professional athletes, great surgeons, astronauts, top classical musicians, opera singers, dancers, performing artists, trial lawyers, business executives, mission control personnel, and others engaged in high stress careers.

Terry is president of the International Society for Mental Training and Excellence and has received the highest award for excellence in teaching. He is the author of more than twenty highly acclaimed books and has created innovative programs for children and youth to develop humanistic perspectives and positive mental skills for living. He knows what it takes to get the best out of ourselves, to give our best to others, and to embrace our lives.

Customer Reviews

Terry Orlick's book Embracing Your Potential
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.