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About the Book
The purpose of this book is to help the reader live a more resilient life. The book presents 35 proven life lessons. Each lesson includes an example from the author's own life and a description of how he applied it.
The word resilience means the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties. While there are many stories about running in this book, the book is about more than running with your feet. It is about running a resilient life.
In the words of the author...
The book includes a collection of personal stories about how I used simple life lessons, personal data and a particular way of tying them together to achieve a degree of resilience in overcoming many of the difficulties I faced in my life. The book is not a technical book. But it does explain just enough about a particular way of thinking for the reader to understand how I used it in my quest for resilience. The lessons presented should not be viewed as a recipe for human resilience. They are lessons that worked for me in achieving a degree of resilience in my life. My running stories provide examples of the "how." Runners may want to dig deeper into the details of these stories. If you are a non-runner, I suggest you think about the life lesson first in the context of your own life. Then read enough of the running story to get the idea. It's the idea I hope you take away and hopefully find a way to apply to your own life. Lastly, this book is also about the "why." Without the why, the how would never have happened.
What people are saying about this book...
McMahon states that “everyone faces adversity in life. Resilience is about what we are going to do when it happens.” My experience as a USAF Officer included that approach …Many of the golf highlights you see on TV are recovery shots…not the boring down the middle, on the green and two putts. While that’s what we strive for, inevitably we falter… This book is about one man’s journey to understand and know what he is going to do when the unthinkable happens in his life.
Bruce Bedford, Retired Middle School Mathematics Teacher, Golf coach and USAF Officer
This book was a refreshing read given the current climate of our lives today….It provides an array of lessons…relating an engaging description of Paul’s journey in competitive running. You do not have to be a runner to glean some obvious and not-so-obvious lessons on how to overcome the obstacles thrown in your path. I highly recommend this quick read. It gives you pause to think about the circumstances to allow you to keep running your own life.
John Troy, Retired and Aging Human
I found this book packed with good information for any active person. It is full of factual details along with common sense lessons that are put in such a way that make it accessible to anyone….as a practicing Chiropractor, I would recommend it to my patients.
Dr. Jay Levine, Chiropractor
You can listen to a free sample of the first 5 minutes of the book (click preview at site below), and purchase an audible version of the book at Audble.com.
You can purchase the book in multiple formats including paperback and hardcover at Amazon.com starting December 15, 2024
About the Author
Paul E. McMahon has been an independent performance consultant and coach since 1997. His current interests include individual, team and system performance, with a focus on cybersecurity and resilience. Paul’s clients include the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and numerous US DOD contractors. Paul has provided his expertise collaborating with the US Defense Acquisition University (DAU) in developing multiple Secure Cyber Resilient Engineering (SCRE) courses to train the US DOD acquisition community in the skills needed to develop next generation cybersecure and cyber-resilient systems. Prior to his independent work Paul was a software developer, and architect working for companies including Link Simulation and Lockheed-Martin.