The Yo-Yo Principle: A Common Sense Guide to Creating a Life of Success After College - Hardcover

Congratulations! You made it! So, what are you going to do with your life? Have you really thought about it? You've got some big choices to make. That's what life is really about, choices. Having choices, making choices, ignoring choices, and creating choices. The life you are about to create is about you making the choices, not life making them for you. It is also about realizing when your choices are limited and learning to work with what the world presents to you. This book will help you realize the right choices for you.

David Pollard is an author, organizational consultant, accomplished public speaker, nationally recognized sculptor, and award-winning winemaker who teaches the path to a successful life as a living example of what can be achieved in life. He has bachelor's degrees in business administration and management information systems and was invited by this college to teach an entry-level computer course before even graduating. Among his many accomplishments, David was a pioneer in the sport of snowboarding, selling Burton Snowboards from his freshman dorm room back in 1981. Twenty-six years later he still hits the snow on a board every winter. He is also an accomplished hang glider pilot. As a winemaker, David has won nine medals in international competition for his red wines and sparkling wines in just the last three years. As a sculptor, he has shown and sold his human figurative works in some of the most important art show in the U.S., with collectors from Oregon to North Carolina. As a professional speaker, David has presented a wide range of material over the years to groups ranging from arts organizations to youth groups as well as corporations. David has been mentoring entry level yo-yos in the corporate world since 1987, when he administered his first corporate training program for 16 green college graduates.