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Terry Orlick is a professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and founder of the innovative Journal of Excellence.

Œuvres de Terry Orlick

Cooperative Sports and Games Book (1978) 93 exemplaires
Embracing Your Potential (1998) 17 exemplaires
Every Kid Can Win (1975) 5 exemplaires
Psyched: Inner Views of Winning (1986) 3 exemplaires
Spelen zonder winnen (1980) 2 exemplaires

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Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
In this recent edition of "In Pursuit of Execllence", Dr. Terry Orlick presents his formula for just that - pursuit of excellence. He relies heavily on his experience with world class athletic achievers, but more importantly extrapolates a guide for all seeking their apex. I found myself many times in this reading reflecting on my own life parallels of focusing on goals, positive reinforcement, controlling distractions etc, to achieve what at some times seemed unachievable life goals. This is however, not a book to be taken lightley. Orlick guides you through others challenges, demonstrates how focus and re-focusing when coupled with well applied action leads to success. You have to do it yourself. In a world of distractions, Orlick's guide is a much needed resource. Executives, athletes, leaders of all sorts and the great doers of our modern world could all benefit from reading this guidebook to achieve their greatest success. A must read.… (plus d'informations)
 
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difreda | 5 autres critiques | Feb 8, 2016 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
Becoming the best that you can be and helping others to be the best that they can be is the theme throughout this interesting book. Discovering excellence, focusing for excellence, creating excellence and living excellence are the chapter titles, and within each chapter heading are the components of how to achieve each point of excellence. An example under Living Excellence are such chapters as Confident and Composed, Balanced, Consistent, Coach-able, Team-Oriented, Self-directed, Adaptable, and Positive Transitions. Interested yet?? Hopefully, you will be, because regardless of how you view excellence, all of us want to be better at life. In the appendix is a wonderful, truth-telling list of Questions and in the end "how will you attain these goals"?

This is a book for those who truly want to excel and are not satisfied with 'good enough". Many try to better themselves but without a plan and a goal outlined, they stumble and forget the focus. Both practical
and inspirational, IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE is a guide to daily living and motivation as well as a road map to long-term achievement.

This would be a wonderful gift to any graduate, anybody striving to achieve and for everyone's library for continual reading as a reminder of the next step to happiness in the pursuit of their goals.
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bakersfieldbarbara | 5 autres critiques | Feb 7, 2016 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
Terry Orlick's advice for winning and having a positive outlook reminds me of my running coach back in high school. I think In Pursuit of Excellence could've been his bible. Naturally, as a 17-year-old I didn't appreciate the lessons nearly enough. We spent what seemed like an unnecessary amount of time drawing up race plans—actually writing them down in a notebook—and doing visualization drills. I now see the value, but back then all I wanted to do was run.

In this book, the author has a tried-and-true formula for success, but since most of us have never competed on the level of the audience he's speaking to, I'm guessing all the planning, visualizing, self-evaluations and pep talks he preaches won't make much sense to the casual reader. Terry Orlick is straightforward and completely un-cynical with his methods. I admire him for that. And he gets results. That's what matters most.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Daniel.Estes | 5 autres critiques | Jan 22, 2016 |
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
In Pursuit of Excellence - a book on goals and motivation, but geared to those that are athletic. There are a lot of good ideas and examples in the book, and I enjoyed reading the book. Looking for some ideas on how to change your life - this may be just the book you're looking for.
 
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CharlesSvec | 5 autres critiques | Jan 12, 2016 |

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