Let It Rip: Life Lessons Learned Through Sports

by Mike Deegan

Nearly a decade ago, Coach Mike Deegan began his journey to add value to people's lives as part of his own personal development. As an athlete and coach, he observed the strong parallels between sports and all phases of life (internally, professionally, and at home). After several years of compiling his observations, he hit send on a weekly newsletter shining the light on these lessons with a goal to help people get on their own path to living their best life.

Let it Rip explores his path for continuous and never-ending improvement. Including his relationship with failure, forming the right team and life at home with family. Mike's authentic and vulnerable style carry the reader through an experience that is both valuable and entertaining. Any person that has experienced sports either through playing, coaching or watching will find value in these pages.

Take the journey with Mike as he wrestles internally with leading a life of purpose and meaning while being a coach and collegiate athlete, a business owner, husband, and parent of four. Mike's journey has resonated with Fortune 500 CEO's, professional sports executives, coaches of all levels, teachers, stay-at-home parents, and current athletes. The lessons that sports teach us about life are all around us and when your moment arrives, be prepared to "Let It Rip!"

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 22, 2019

Reviews

[Ben Federici · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great individual nuggets of information all throughout this book. Coach Deegan organizes it by topic so it can be read cover to cover or in small pieces skipping around. Definitely a book I will keep around to refer back to in the future.