The Ten Balloons: Principles of Leadership, Life and Love captures the spirit of what it means to take an intentional look at your life. This real life approach to a balanced life is practical and personal in outlining steps for creating personal purpose statements in ten areas of life.
Mike’s story telling approach to life brings great inspiration and motivation in the areas of family, career, relationships, education, finances, health and adventure. This multi-generational topic is designed for youth who like personal challenges and adult audiences of all ages.
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Not Yet Dead is a remarkable memoir of incredible persistence, overcoming the status quo, and reinventing one’s self. Nygren takes a heartfelt look into his fifty-year journey of sometimes outrageous adventures in coaching, leadership, and discipling of both teens and adults.
Through his account of teaching in a recently desegregated school, experiencing the “hard-knock life" as a child of the sixties, struggling with faith, turning abandoned buildings into after-school programs, and driving a van full of teens through monsoon rains on one of his many international mission trips, Nygren answers the question, “What happens when the world says ‘retire’ and we are not yet ready?” making it truly essential reading for anyone concerned about the hope and future of young people.
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My Story Isn’t Over!
In this inspiring new book, Mike Nygren shares his adventurous journey of life, leadership and love. It will definitely make you think about things that you do, or maybe don’t do but wish you would. It will challenge your memory of the past and hopes for the future.
The over-arching theme of the book evolves around the belief that the best thing that we can do for relatives and friends is to make certain there is some written record of who they were, and what they did to impact the world with their lives. Mikes journey provides vision and encouragement for any coach, teacher parent or grandparent and the decisive role they play in the lives of others.
As a teacher, coach, pastor and motivational speaker Mike has devoted his life’s energy inspiring and motivating thousands in meeting some of society’s greater needs. Throughout the book Mike highlights and celebrates wisdom he has received, words that have influenced him, and the adventures, and yes misadventures he has shared locally, nationally and globally with students and adults.
In My Story Isn’t Over Mike shares his humorous and unorthodox approach to teaching and coaching, He brings to light some secrets of his leadership mindset through what he often calls historical fiction!
It is hard to record the story of the thousands I have partnered with, traveled with and adventured with throughout my life, but My Story Isn’t Over will be an attempt to honor and celebrate many!
Authentic Teen Leadership. Finally a leadership book for teens and those who coach teen to be leaders. In Mike Nygren’s book Authentic Teen Leadership, teens will find inspiration as well as practical guidance in the art of leadership. Aside from inspiring stories and real-world advice, readers will find unique questions throughout the book that help them work through their own leadership journey.Rarely teen leaders (Age 13-19) are given the tools, experience, and coaching they need to be successful. Nygren points out that teen motivation and potential has been limited by the failure of adults to see the urgency of equipping students in their earlier years. Nygren believes there is a deep need in today’s world to unlock the power and greatness of teens. The book takes students through three key stages of learning to be a leader: becoming worth of followers, thinking like a leader, acting like a leader. Written with honesty and empathy, the book addresses some hard and uncomfortable issues of leadership.