Choosing Your Battles: Inspiration and Wisdom from a Navy SEAL on How to Win Your Battles and Ensure a Positive Outcome

By Don Mann and Kraig Becker

“This is really a book about negotiation . . . a timely reminder of the importance of choosing and sticking with a course of action.” —Heath Podmore, Founder & Head Performance Coach, Elevarlife Performance Training 

A former Navy SEAL and current motivational speaker and New York Times-bestselling author, Don Mann specializes in helping others achieve success in every aspect of life—personal and professional—by using techniques employed by Navy SEALs. In Choosing Your Battles, Mann zeroes in on finding ways to choose which battles are worth fighting, no matter what they may be. This volume includes three subsections dedicated to helping the reader cope with his or her doubts and worries:

• Drawing a Line in the Sand
• Fight the Good Fight
• Winning the Battle

Featuring practical advice, inspirational quotes, engaging stories, and interesting anecdotes, Choosing Your Battles will give readers the tools they need to triumph in the face of adversity.

“Don offers practical guidelines and helpful criteria for selecting which life battles to choose, how to establish your own rules of engagement so that you fight fair, and then how to stack the odds in your favor to win those battles. Highly recommend.” —Allen Wooten, Elite Obstacle Course Competitor and Triathlete

“Defining how you want to live your life and then focusing on how to do it, when faced with life’s continuing challenges is truly an exercise in Choosing Your Battles . . . Don Mann has provided vivid examples of how, and why, Choosing Your Battles will simplify and bring quality to your life. It is a potent read.” —James Hawes, author of Cold War Navy SEAL

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781510745780

Don Mann

Don Mann, a bestselling author and accomplished endurance athlete and mountaineer, played a crucial role in some of America’s most daring military missions for more than two decades. A former member of Navy SEAL Team Six who was twice captured by enemy forces, he now focuses his attention on inspiring others to achieve goals they never thought they could. As a sought-after motivational speaker and trainer, Mann addresses a wide range of audiences around the country―from major corporations to universities to professional sports teams―with a message that is equal parts inspiration and strategy. Mann’s other books include Inside Seal Team Six, The Modern Day Gunslinger, The U.S. Navy SEAL Survival Handbook, and the Thomas Crocker thrillers. He lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.