There is one thing that everyone likes to do. It has been called everything; it has been overemphasized and deemphasized. At the Chatham Area Public Library, there are a variety of guides that can help you to do this more often. It is usually good to win.
Competitive sports is one area where many people enjoy winning, and a great many people are engaged in sporting activities. Skills training is one way to get the edge, and many books contain ways to improve upon these such as Winning Racquetball: Skills, Drills, and Strategies. Some are geared toward girls like Winning Soccer for Girls and Winning Volleyball for Girls. Winning Wrestling Moves will show you how to go to the mat, and Winning Bowling can help you be a kingpin. Winning Chess Piece by Piece is one of many guides to that intellectual sport, but for those who like to up the ante Casino Gambling for the Clueless: A Guide to Playing and Winning is a must read.
Other books address our collective success as a nation and a planet. For instance Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How takes on security, our nation’s and civilization’s. Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth’s Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Experience advocates bringing the man made habitat into mutual beneficial coexistence with the natural habitat. The family is the topic in Winning Them Over: How to Negotiate Successfully with Your Kids. Winning Scholarships for College: An Insider’s Guide shows high school students how to maximize their potential to be awarded scholarships for further education beyond just their grade point average. Making It All Work: Winning the Game of Business and the Business of Life demonstrates new principles that apply to professional and personal success.
Losing isn’t always bad either. Valerie Bertinelli attests to that in her new book Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound At A Time. Dump ‘Em: How to Break Up With Anyone From Your Best Friend to Your Hairdresser supplies techniques for losing unwanted baggage. Many times things that are lost by one person become found by another. Requiem for a Paper Bag: Celebrities and Civilians Tell Stories of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Found Items From Around the World is a collection of tales about thing that turn up in people’s lives.
There are many ways to be a winner; in business, in sports, in life. No matter what the challenge, the Chatham Area Public Library has all the tools you need to succeed. Knowing that makes you a winner already.
