Debbie O'Connell.
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Golf Positive! Life Positive!: Lessons in Golf and Life
by Debbie O'Connell
Golf Positive! Live Positive! is a vibrant handbook of learning and development. Filled with colorful anecdotes, personal experiences and instructional guidelines, Golf Positive! Live Positive! provides an entertaining and energetic path to identifying, understanding and ultimately reaching your goals - both on and off the golf course!
Successful people—especially successful athletes—often have a tried-and-true plan. Nationally acclaimed LPGA professional and Golf Positive Founder Debbie O’Connell shares a proven approach that will inspire anyone to improve their game and dare to dream big.
Using CORE Triumph!™ —a four-step blueprint for success—O’Connell doesn’t just encourage readers to set lofty goals, she outlines each step toward creating an individual action plan. Whether you’re a golfer or someone who wants to wake up each morning excited for the day ahead, O’Connell shows how these steps, along with repetition and perseverance, can improve your game and your life.
Lower Your Handicap with Flow State Golf
by Debbie O'Connell
Lowering Your Handicap with Flow State Golf centers on the power of flow state—the optimal mental state where focus is effortless, confidence is high, and performance feels natural. While grounded in golf, the principles apply seamlessly to business and everyday life, showing how peak performance under pressure can be created in any environment. Debbie O’Connell not only explains what flow is, but teaches the specific triggers that allow you to intentionally enter flow state—quieting mental noise, staying present, letting go of outcomes, and trusting the process. By learning how to activate these triggers, readers can reduce stress, improve clarity and execution, and create consistent success whether they’re on the course, in the boardroom, or navigating daily challenges.
C-Suite Success
by Debbie O'Connell
C-Suite Success is a powerful collection of real-world leadership lessons from highly accomplished women who have risen to the top—and stayed there with integrity, confidence, and purpose.
Through candid interviews and deeply personal stories, Debbie O’Connell brings readers inside the journeys of influential executives who navigated career pressure, self-doubt, family demands, identity shifts, and pivotal life choices on their path to success. These women don’t offer textbook leadership theory—they share what actually works: how relationships became their greatest asset, how resilience was forged through adversity, and how growth-minded thinking, authenticity, and emotional intelligence shaped their leadership styles.
Grounded in behavioral science and performance psychology, C-Suite Success reveals the mental frameworks and habits that separate high performers from high achievers—while showing that progress has been made and that the path forward is clearer than ever. With additional “Lessons from the Field” stories and practical insights readers can apply immediately, this book serves as both inspiration and roadmap.
Whether you’re leading a company, building a career, or redefining what success means in your own life, C-Suite Success proves that the most powerful leadership advantage isn’t position—it’s mindset, relationships, and the courage to lead authentically.
If you’re ready to lead with confidence, clarity, and authenticity, this book is for you. Text “SUCCESS” to 727-339-0106 to join the email list for the launch of C-Suite Success.
Meet the Author.
Debbie O’Connell is a best-selling author, LPGA Professional, and internationally recognized mindset and performance expert who bridges the worlds of golf, leadership, and personal excellence.
Her acclaimed books, Golf Positive! Live Positive! Lessons in Golf and Life and 7 Principles for Lowering Your Handicap with Flow State Golf, blend proven performance psychology, neuroscience-backed mindset strategies, and decades of elite competitive and coaching experience. Debbie’s work empowers readers to build confidence, manage pressure, and perform at their best—on the golf course, in business, and in life.
With over 35 years as an LPGA Professional, Debbie has coached and inspired amateurs, executives, and elite performers to unlock flow state, elevate results, and create sustainable success. Her writing reflects her signature approach: practical, empowering, and immediately applicable.
Her next book, See Suite Success, launching in Q2 2026, features powerful stories and leadership lessons from highly accomplished executives, offering a roadmap for confidence, resilience, and authentic leadership at the highest levels.
Debbie’s mission as an author is simple yet transformative: help people conquer their mindset, lead with confidence, and live—and perform—positively.
We are very happy for Debbie and her publication of “Golf Positive! Live Positive!” Debbie’s competence, passion and proactivity are essential qualities to not only be a great golf professional but also a strong leader to influence the game of golf in a very positive direction. This book, about lessons in golf and life, is a great resource to support anyone looking to enJOY their game and life more.
Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson
Co-Founders of VISION54
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