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You are going to find great enjoyment, direction, and Zing!, in reading this book. It provides an immediate positive charge to your attitude and outlook on life, because it is packed with the punch of collective voices spoken by one dedicated educator, and difference maker. If you want to take your life and leadership to higher levels, this book will teach you not only why, but how to override competing forces to positively influence others.

How to Zing! Your Life and Leadership is a practical guide for individuals dedicated to making the world a better place, one person, company, neighborhood, or organization, at a time. In a unique approach, Nancy Hunter Denney has studied ideas, principles, laws, practices, and even a few fish tales, from leadership and motivational experts around the country to arrive at twenty-one insights necessary for Zing! – a term she uses to symbolize positive influence, energy, and charisma.

Whether for personal, family, community, or professional use, the anecdotes and examples provided in this book will hit a personal cord. Nancy speaks directly to you – the reader – as if you were seated next to her. Her optimism in the future is apparent, as is her challenge to your leadership and life potential.

Throughout every page, Nancy asks tough questions, tells great stories, and guides you down a path of higher character, happiness, and clarity of purpose. With this understanding you can plant positive seeds of hope, love, encouragement, and faith.

As a result of reading Zing! you will be encouraged to not only live your life for a greater good, but will possess the most significant tools needed to start, re-direct, or continue, your work. Nancy has given you literally hundreds of tips, skill-building lessons, and opportunities for self-introspection, designed to jump start more productive attitudes and behaviors.

God has given us all special gifts, but they are not for us alone. Our gifts are meant to bless the lives of others, and that’s what making a difference is about. My friend, Nancy Hunter Denney, has done a super-fantastic job of discussing leadership as the process of making a difference. Enjoy.

—Keith Harrell
Author of Attitude is Everything 10 Life Changing Steps to Turning Attitude Into Action