Live the Best Story of Your Life: A World Champion's Guide to Lasting Change

Bob Litwin has done an outstanding job of generalizing the lessons he’s learned from coaching and playing competitive tennis to living a life. These lessons are integrated with his own story of personal rebirth born out of the tragic loss of his first wife. The combination of concrete exercises (he lists 33 Personal Coaching Sessions) enhanced by his personal story makes his Live The Best Story of Your Life a compelling read. Litwin’s basic thesis is a simple one: often the stories which we tell ourselves about ourselves prevent us from achieving our goals or just plain old make us unhappy. Put your Old Story in writing, he says, and get to know it. Then write your New Story as the person you would like to be. His 33 Personal Coaching sessions are the tools which you can use to enable yourself to change. As Litwin is careful to point out, not all 33 Sessions will resonate for every individual in every situation. If a particular Session does not resonate, move on, he says, maybe the next one will. My particular favorites were Celebrate Your Successes/Shrink Your Failures and Fake It ‘Til You Make It. If you’re thinking about making a change, this book is a good place to start.

This allows anyone to see how you can write your own amazing story. In real time through the book you begin using the tools. I am grateful for the lessons and take a ways from this story.As I was finishing the book I was thinking of my friends and colleagues that I would share the messages with.I will be looking in the rearview mirror to continue to see how far I have come knowing there are many new stories ahead. Thank you for a wonderful read.

BEST BOOK! HIGHLY RECOMMEND! I bought this to help me improve my tennis game, but it improved my life! I do not like "self help" books but a friend recommended this book, to help me with my mental tennis game, but it helped me with so much more! GET IT!

This man is a genius. He filled in the missing link to all the self help for change out there. This process is profound and very effective. I will be sharing it with others. I love Anthony Robbins and agreed with his philosophy of you need a new story/blueprint. But I could not find the specifics of how to do it. This is very detailed. Excellent. Buy it, you won't regret it.

This is a top notch resource for anyone navigating any form of change in their daily live's. Does not matter if one is navigating a change in one's game plan for their sport, work or, with their diet. Not only is the author's thinking profoundly simple to understand (& easy to read), but any reader will likely come away with the feeling that you are literally building up an internal cheer leading system of resources to apply and help you rethink many of our assumptions that inhibit change and improvement in our lives. Finally, the author deserves high praise for enunciating a well thought out balance of advice to assist one in re-thinking our emotional reactions to change and the physical daily (small) steps that are easy for all of us to take to incorporate if one wants to reset their internal compasses.

I met Bob several years ago and found his advice on writing a New Story to be sound, relevant, and standing the test of time. When I read that he was putting his words of wisdom in a book, I placed my order even before the publisher's ink had dried. I highly encourage readers to add this book to their libraries or give it to anyone they care about, Bob makes positive, lasting change simple yet effective. His story is compelling and his guidance is needed in today's complex world where people need practical solutions to effect positive change.

I have to recommend this book like my hair is on fire. The lessons that Bob tells in this book are life-altering. Bob knows what winning looks like and what comes from both winning and losing. Bob has experienced a wide range of emotions in his life and he puts those to work for the benefit of all of us mortals. I have been looking forward to this book for months. I am very happy that we all can have the benefit of Bob's life's lessons. I must admit that I have met Bob in "real life" and he is all this book represents plus 10X. Bob is personable and sincere and you can tell when you are with Bob that he cares more about improving your world than anything else.

As a coach as well, I have read many books on habits and working with people. I love Bob's straightforward, compassionate and smart approach. There are great stories and coaching experiences that really make a difference in both the coach's life and the client's life. This book is definitely one of my top best coaching books because it's real and authentic in its voice.

What an awesome book - so good that not only was I compelled to download the E version, but shortly afterwards the hard and audible copies too!Bob Litwin, former ITF seniors world No.1, combines his years of tennis and business performance coaching experience in an accessible and inspiring way to help the reader understand what's really important to them, and begin creating the process of living out the best story of the rest of their lives.As a player and coach myself I loved the tennis references throughout the book, but this book is not just for tennis guys like me.Find out what's important to you, why it's important, and how to get what you 'really' want by reading the book.

Wise and enjoyable read. Packed full of deep and practical tools. And excellent self-coaching manual that you can pick up and use

Excellent book with realistic tasks you can undertake which is rare with these type of books!

Great book that I've enjoyed working through and will return to every week. Highly recommended!

It's a self-help book that emphasises on who you want to be instead of what you want. Author - Bob Litwin introduces concept of story telling. Your current state is Old Story while the story which is required for you to be New you is the New Story. New story is something which may seem irrational, out of reach at beginning but it is something where you want to be.In order to bridge the gap between your Old Story (current state) and your New Story (place where you want to reach) , Bob provides you with 33 tools that can possibly help one realise it's new story.Though the broad concept of story telling is new, tools that Bob provides are known to most of us. I found the book to scratching the surface of mindfulness, kaizen and teachings which are well entailed in Bhagvad Gita.Over all a good read but not something exceptional.