One Day: A Story About Positive Attitude highlights that life's obstacles are made to be transcended. This book is a story about how young people dream of being like their favourite soccer players and one day through pursuing their dreams they become a role model for other people. Each successful player we know had to overcome different types of challenges, and so can our children who dream big. One Day reminds kids that falling is temporary and provides them with knowledge of the attitude they need to rise again and continue the pursuit of their goals. The winning mindsets of their favourite role models are outlined including believing in your dream, having confidence in your ability, working hard, having faith, and staying positive. Talent alone will not make you achieve your goals, but hard work, dedication, and positive attitude will.
This book is an attempt to address a gap in sports psychology literature by providing the concepts in a book youth will understand. Often in training programs mental attitude is overlooked; however, it is a critical component of winning the game and achieving dreams. After reading the stories of triumph from favourite players, it will be hard to find any excuse not to achieve your goals. Players have overcome poverty, adversity, making mistakes in a public way, family troubles, and disabilities to achieve their goals. One Day: A Story About Positive Attitude can be used as affirmations to be read with youth to help them believe in themselves repeating the messages until they believe them. While this book focuses on stories of soccer players the principles are relevant to achieving any goal.
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One Day, A story about positive attitude highlights that life's obstacles are made to be transcended. Each successful player we know had to overcome different types of challenges, and so can our children who dream big. One Day reminds kids that falling is not that bad, it is an indication of your progressive movement in attaining your goals and that a winning mindset does not give in to remain down. Talent itself will not make you achieve your dreams but hard work, dedication and positive attitude will. As a boys U13 soccer coach of Concordia High School in the Motsepe League, all the way from Theunessen, a small town in the Free State Province South Africa, I highly recommend to anyone this book that shows young talent that it does not matter who you are, where you live or come from for you to be successful. Didier Liango Greatness rarely comes as a result of a privileged upbringing- but rather, the courage to have a dream and the bravery to go out and achieve it. One Day, A Story About Positive Attitude teaches its readers exactly this concept- that no matter how difficult the circumstances one should still dare to dream. This book's stories about world-renowned football players who overcame great adversity and victoriously came out the other side speaks directly to the heart of humanity- regardless of sport or age! As a former U.S. collegiate soccer player, coach, and avid spectator of the most beautiful sport in the world, I believe this book communicates a crucial message that can positively impact the hearts and minds of our young developing athletes! It encourages those children who have everything in this world going against them, and inspires them to believe that there is hope if they are willing to work relentlessly for their dream. Football is a game of hope, a game of dreams, and a game of endless possibilities. What better way to teach kids these important lessons than through a game that brings the world together and brings kids together one field at a time. Then maybe, one day, a kid who reads this book and dares to chase after the deepest desire of their heart will be a spark that lights the fire of the next generation of athletes. Katie Woodal, Fmr. US College Soccer Player and Current Soccer Coach One Day, A story about positive attitude, provides the skills for success of young athletes; to stay positive, love the game, be confident and learn from their mistakes in order to succeed. The motivational stories about some of the best male and female football players in the world overcoming poverty, birth defects, health problems and family issues are sure to light the fire in any player. This is a great book for both parents and players regardless of which sports your child plays. LaTisha Klein - Baseball, Hockey, Softball and Swim Mom, USA Swimming Stroke and Turn Official, Youth Sports team president, hockey commissioner and softball coach.
