Souls of Steel: How to Build Character in Ourselves and Our Kids - Rilegato

Pat Williams is senior executive vice president of the Orlando Magic basketball team and a popular speaker averaging over 100 appearances per year. He served as general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers for 12 years. He has also been affiliated with the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks. Pat has published a total of 20 books. He lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife Ruth and their 19 children. You can read more about Pat's work at www.patwilliamsmotivate.com.

Pat Williams has shown us what traits are vital for effective leadership and how to developthose skills in our children. In SOULS OF STEEL, he focuses on one specific trait: Character. He explains why character matters and why so many young people today think issues like character, integrity, morality, and truth are relics of a bygone era. After extensive polling, Williams determined that an entire generation of young people has been steeped in the postmodern thinking that truth is relative and with no absolute truth, character issues such as truthfulness and integrity are no longer important. Tragically, even kids from Christian families have been heavily infected by these attitudes.In order to raise our kids to be people of character, we need to understand how they think and why they think that way. We must then show them how being a person of character will make a positive difference. In order to do this, Pat Williams explores these vital character qualities:Integrity, Honesty, Diligence, Patience, Responsibility, Self-Discipline, Courage, Faith.Williams shows us that the kind of character our children develop will determine what kind of adults they will be.He shows us that to be individuals who contribute positively to our world they must have SOULS OF STEEL