Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day - "47 Hearts"

Today’s entry of my Hockey Tips blog is a bit unusual. It has nothing to do with hockey, training, or equipment. It is not about fantastic stick handling skills or unbelievable saves. It is not about great moves or great hits. It is about dreams, your dreams and how to go about reaching them. If you are an athlete striving to succeed and advance, if you are the one who dares to dream big – today’s post is for you. A few days ago I was recommended a book that totally changed my perspective on why one has to have a dream, care about something with passion and devotion, and live your life in a way to actually making this dream to become a reality. This book is called “47 hearts”. This book is so powerful, that I decided to leave my review of “47 hearts” on Amazon website. This book changed my life, it will change yours. Here is the review I posted:

“47 hearts” gives you a unique perspective of the author, pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian, in his pursuit of helping underprivileged children to receive life-saving heart surgeries. But it is much more than that. Through his own experience he dares us, his readers, to dream big, to follow our dreams, to stay the course when things are not going as planned, to cherish our small victories and to look forward to a big prize. Truly inspirational, the book is filled with lessons of personal experience that give you desire and motivation to devote your life to something you really care about and find a balance and happiness in the process. “47 hearts” is not a “read it and forget it” kind of a book, it is something to read and reread many times until you truly embrace these lessons. If you are a dreamer looking for a guide to help you along the way, to motivate you when you are in doubt, to embrace the challenge, this book is for you.

You can buy this book through Amazon here:

All of you (I hope) know that tomorrow February 14th is Valentine’s day. I bet, not too many of you are aware that tomorrow is also a Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day. When we talk about heart disease, most people believe that it affects only old people. Unfortunately, it is not the case. Many kids are born with heart problems and their precious lives can only be saved with surgeries. These surgeries and postoperative procedures are quite expensive. All profits from “47 hearts” book sales go to sponsor a child’s heart surgery.