365 Days of Inspired Pickleball


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365 Days of Inspired Pickleball is a guide to becoming a better player and one who is compassionate on and off the court. Each day entry includes pickleball tips from the experts and inspirational quotes. The book tries to encompass all the amazing aspects of this game we love so much.What people are saying about Meganne's book: I've been playing PB for 3 years now, and I thought I had a pretty decent understanding of the game, but within 30 pages of Meganne's book, I discovered 10 new tips that I can't wait to try out.I also appreciate how Meganne integrated mindfulness practices into her advice. I've spent my life competing. This time I want my pickleball time to be about joy and compassion. Oh...and sometimes winning. -Kenny Loggins, singer, songwriter"Meganne's book is engaging, educational, and insightful! It's easy to read and a great resource for players of all levels."-Richard SalzbergUSAPA Pickleball Ambassador - Santa Barbara"This book is filled with great reminders for pickleball players of all levels. Not only does it provide practical advice for developing fundamental skills, but it brings out the feelings of why we all started playing in the first place - laughter and joy!"-Lauren Stratman, professional pickleball playerWe have thoroughly enjoyed reading "365 Days of Inspired Pickleball." This sport brings so many people together from four different generations onto the same court having a blast together. This book captures so much of what people love about the sport. It also provides little tidbits from those who love it on how to continue to improve your game, and many times just great advice for life! We are so thankful for the hard work that Meganne has poured into making this book happen so the rest of us can enjoy it!-Dave Wilcox and Tracy Wilcox- certified Pickleball Coaches, parents of 7 kids who all love and play pickleball!More about 365 Days of Inspired Pickleball: My book is intended to make you a better pickleball player. It is also here to open and expand your horizons so that your play is more compassionate. In my experience, it's handy to have all of these tips in one place. As you read this daily calendar of reliable hints, you will become a better player, guaranteed. I wish I had this book when I was learning to play pickleball. I wasn't a tennis player so I didn't know what to do. I watched and listened and slowly I grew. I value walking onto the court with helpful and inspiring things to remember. I focus on what I want to work on and the attitude I want to have with each player. If I don't, my game is more haphazard and sloppy. Better results come from focusing on certain truths.That said, you may notice that there are a few hints that contradict each other. There is no one way to play pickleball. You will find your own way and style. The sport is constantly evolving so that lots of dinking may be popular last year but this year the pros seem to be driving the ball more often. I've watched the best players in pickleball and observed their every move. This book comes from hours of listening, reading, watching, and playing with competitors. Here's a distillation of all the best.




History of Pickleball


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Are you curious about how pickleball came to be or how the sport got such a funny name? Do you know what caused pickleball to become the fastest growing sport in America and what people and events helped spark this growth? This first-ever book on the sports history has it all and more, enjoy the historic pickleball journey!




Girl Defined


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In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of women and girls of all ages, resulting in anxiety, eating disorders, and depression. One question we often forget to ask is this: What is God's design for womanhood? In Girl Defined, sisters and popular bloggers Kristen Clark and Bethany Beal offer women a countercultural view of beauty, femininity, and self-worth. Based firmly in God's design for their lives, this book helps women rethink what true success and beauty look like. It invites them on a liberating journey toward a radically better vision for femininity that ends with the discovery of the kind of hope, purpose, and fulfillment they've been yearning for. Girl Defined helps readers · discover God's design for femininity and his definition of a successful woman · uncover the secrets of lasting worth, purpose, and fulfillment · be equipped and empowered to live out a radically better vision for womanhood · gain personal insight through the chapter-by-chapter study guide




Pickleball Zen - The Inner Game


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The author takes us on an educational mystery tour through the more subtle side of sports instruction. Professional golfers employ two coaches, a swing coach and a "mind" coach. Now serious pickleball players can have their own "mind" coach. Let Coach Om bring Zen to your game. Other books teach you how to "play," this book will teach you to WIN. You will absolutely love to read and re-read this fun book that is part Star Wars, part Karate Kid, and part Wizard of Oz. Namaste. - De La Vista book club




I Dink, Therefore I Am


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Much to his own surprise, longtime newspaper humor writer Frank Cerabino has fallen under the spell of pickleball, the fastest growing sport in America. In this funny compilation of essays on the sport, Cerabino writes a personal story about his journey into becoming a pickleball evangelist. He lays out the charms and allure of this funny-sounding game that looks like ping-pong played on a small tennis court. And he invites the reader to pick up a paddle and discover, as he did, the joys of saying, "Zero, zero, two," every day. This book, Cerabino writes, is not a "how to" book on pickleball, but a "why to" book on the game. It serves as a perfect intro for a pickleball-curious reader and anyone looking to understand why pickleball is surging in its popularity.




The Unspoken Rules


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Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50 A Wall Street Journal Bestseller "...this guide provides readers with much more than just early careers advice; it can help everyone from interns to CEOs." — a Financial Times top title You've landed a job. Now what? No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted. The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules—the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize. The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error. Until now. In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as: How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities? How do I build relationships when I’m working remotely? How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy? The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.




Emerging Sports as Social Movements


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This volume examines the rise of an emerging sport as a grassroots effort (or “new social movement”), arguing that the growth of non-normative sports movements occurs through two social processes: one driven primarily by product development, commercialization, and consumption, and another that relies upon public resources and grassroots efforts. Through the lens of disc golf, informed by the author’s experience both playing and researching the sport, Joshua Woods here explores how non-normative sports development depends on the consistency of insider culture and ideology, as well as on how the movement navigates a broad field of market competition, government regulation, community characteristics, public opinion, traditional media, social media and technological change. Throughout, the author probes why some sports grow faster than others, examining cultural tendencies toward sport, individual choices to participate, and the various institutional forces at play.




The Art of Pickleball


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A cook. A speech therapist. A credit union executive. A fashion model-turned-cancer activist. A secretary. A homemaker -- all were mothers. Nineteen lives cut short -- women from all walks of life, hailing from every corner of the United States and a province in Canada. Some were homemakers with little or no formal education; others were career women with college degrees and accomplished resumes. Regardless of their backgrounds, all these women share one thing in common: an addiction to smoking that culminated in an array of illnesses and their untimely demise. Their stories, told by their surviving daughters, pay tribute to the mothers they lost, often at pivotal moments in the daughters' lives, and the legacy they continue to live with every day. A Breath Away offers a powerful anti-smoking message that goes beyond the statistics to today's generation of girls and young women, to think twice before lighting up.




The Three Bears' Christmas


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After taking a walk on Christmas Eve while their freshly baked gingerbread cools, Papa, Mama, and Baby Bear arrive home to encounter another "trespasser," who does not have golden hair but wears a red suit and leaves presents.




Dynamite Doubles


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