He walks us through how to stop making excuses, how to develop confidence, as well as how to generate ideas and create a life environment that will make us successful. His talk is heavy on attitude and how negative attitudes will block our goals and positive attitudes foster actions to accomplish them. While some people might say Schwartz’s advice is cliché, he zooms in on thinking and how it colors our future-either for better or worse. The Magic of Thinking Big delivers three hundred pages of life-changing advice. To date, Holtz has achieved 102 of the 107 goals, including having dinner at the White House, being on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, coaching a team to a National Championship, and becoming coach of the year. It provided the guiding force his life needed. After reading it cover to cover, he made a list of 107 life goals. And that was the day Lou Holtz began making history. His wife, Beth, gave him a copy of this book. He recalls that it was the lowest point in his life.
One month later Marvin Bass resigned to coach an expansion team for Canada’s Continental League and at 28 years of age, Holtz was unemployed.
Holtz and his wife spent every last penny they had on a down payment for a house and moved to South Carolina with two kids and a third on its way. In 1966, Lou Holtz was hired by Marvin Bass to coach with him at the University of South Carolina. Let me start with an example of the impact this book has had. Originally published in 1959, Schwartz’s book remains in print, guiding those of us who dare to go after our dreams. In light of this, I’ve chosen to showcase The Magic of Thinking Big, by David J. They steer behaviors, work plans, and creative journeys.
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