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8 Steps to Overcoming Adversity is not so much a self-help book as it is a book of stories—stories from Chris Greco’s own life and how he used those stories to connect to us the readers, to his own family, and, maybe most importantly, to himself.
Connect with the Stories
The wonder of stories is that each of us who shares in them can connect to them and make meaning out of them in our own unique ways. We don’t have to follow a template to benefit from the stories that Greco offers up to us. We can apply them to our own circumstances in our own ways.
Reflect and Take Action
At the end of each chapter, Greco offers a practical “Step in Action” to help readers connect in their own lives to the stories and ideas presented in the chapter. These actions offer suggestions for thinking and doing, not assignments, and that’s what makes them work so well with the stories. They are action steps designed to be interpreted by each unique reader.
For ANYONE WHO STRUGGLES
Many people including fellow CEO’s, parents, athletes, business professionals will appreciate the book because it is a supportive invitation to think about their effective and ineffective responses to meeting life’s difficult moments and to actually come up with a plan to do things a little better next time around.
Gratitude is given, God is Good
A sparkling thread that Greco weaves throughout the whole book is that of gratitude—gratitude to his Mother, his siblings, his teachers and coaches, and to everyone else who appeared in his life at just the right moment and in just the right way to point a direction and to offer support. He is also open about the importance of his relationship with God.
This book is a fast, page turning read, and will get you thinking and doing differently too—whether you are young or old.