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