Decisions: A Young Man’s Guide To Avoiding The Middle & High School Traps is a motivational, self-help, activity filled book. This book is designed to help male youth and adolescents reach their full potential by avoiding many of the traps that prevent them from being successful. Topics covered include: programming yourself for success, improving decision making, the relationship between peer groups and success, persevering through obstacles, improving intrinsic motivation, time management , the consequences of poor decision making, delinquent behavior, incarceration and gang involvement. Decisions is a powerful resource for  parents, community  organizations and mentor programs seeking a way to reach youth in a constructive and supportive manner. Decisions' accessible writing style helps ensure the concepts being taught are easily absorbed by the reader and helps facilitate healthy  parent child communication/relationships. This powerful book is filled with self-help exercises and short inspiring stories that help male adolescents and youth make the critical mental transitions to shake off mediocrity and overcome obstacles.  “I have always been a firm believer in the saying, if  you fall, do a few push-ups and get up stronger.  Learn from your mistakes and become a better person because of them.” -Patrick Phillips

DECISIONS: A Young Man's Guide To Avoiding The Middle & High School Traps

Parenting & Relationships

PHILLIPS, PATRICK

Parenting

Educational Empowerment Group, LLC

Purchase a signed copy at www.mrphillipsthechangeagent.com Decisions: Young Man’s Guide To Avoiding The Traps is designed to help youths and adolescents reach their full potential by gaining an awareness of—and successfully avoiding—many of the common traps and pitfalls that may prevent them from being successful in school and in the community. Decisions makes no assumptions about what prerequisite skills and understandings participants may have, which is why the it is designed to provide young men and women with practical, useful strategies and concepts that can immediately be implemented during, and upon completion of, the program. Topics covered within the book include character development, entrepreneurship, college and career readiness, programming yourself for success, improving decision making, the relationship between peer groups and success, persevering through obstacles, improving intrinsic motivation, time management, the consequences of poor decision making, bullying, delinquent behavior, gang involvement, and the residual effects of both positive and negative decisions. This program is well suited for schools, youth programs, mentor organizations, and in-school suspension programs, and it may serve as an alternative to out-of- school suspension or juvenile detention. Learn more at www.MrPhillipsTheChangeAgent.com.

Decisions: A Young Man's Guide To Avoiding The Traps

Education & Teaching

Phillips, Patrick L.

Schools & Teaching

Postsecondary education can be an economic equalizer. However, for many college students, their ability to climb the socioeconomic ladder is stifled by the inability to successfully complete a postsecondary education. Successfully navigating the college experience requires strategic planning and intentionality. The Intentional Student is structured in three phases: The Prerequisites, The Process, and The Exodus, to mimic the college experience and empower readers with practicable strategies to not only survive but thrive academically, socially, and professionally as part of the college experience. Topics covered include:- Studying Intentionally - Maintaining SAP- Time Management- Be Real with Yourself- The Intentional Student - The Parking Lot Student - Credit/Mismanagement - Being Strategic about Your Major and Employment- Academic Professionalism - College or Technical School- Building Community on Campus- Building Community off Campus - Building Rapport with Instructors - Disbursement/Mishandling- How to Choose a College - Importance of Professional Organizations

The Intentional Student: 17 Strategies To Survive & Thrive In College From Day 1

Higher & Continuing Education

Jam loves adventure and learning new things. Jam and his dad loved shredding on their skateboards, but their desire for a new adventure was inspired while riding on the beltline. During the ride, Jam and his dad saw people riding electric skateboards. Unlike their regular boards electric skateboards could ride so much faster. But were Jam and his dad up to the challenge of riding skateboards that could go 30 miles per hour?

The Adventures of Little Jam: And The Electric Skateboard

Children's Books

Phillips, Patrick Lamar

Phillips, Jamison

Action & Adventure

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