A glance at successful people reveals a simple truth‎:‎ successful people employ successful habits‎.‎ Yet in schools‎,‎ amongst all of the information and all of the skills that are taught‎,‎ few concern how to employ and internalize these key habits of success‎.‎ These skills are expected‎,‎ even demanded‎,‎ but are rarely taught‎,‎ at least not with the attention of whatever else is deemed critical learning‎.‎ The Missing Link seeks to place such skills as persistence‎,‎ self‎-regulation‎,‎ decision making‎,‎ time management‎,‎ organization‎,‎ and even the skill of appropriate ‎"‎work‎-place social skills‎"‎ into the strata of critically important learning‎.‎ The Missing Link was written to help professional educators ‎(‎as well as parents and others‎)‎ employ straight‎-forward ways to teach success skills without adding to the enormous burdens they already shoulder‎.‎ This book is a guide to teaching critical success skills in powerful ways by infusing them into the curriculum that is already in place‎.‎ Teachers ‎(‎and parents‎)‎ just do what they usually do‎,‎ but with a different focus to change outcomes and children‎'‎s lives for the better‎.‎