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RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World
by Simon T. Bailey

“Simon is an original voice that stimulates you to know you’re brilliant. You have unlimited potential and you will be vastly better after reading this book.”
  -Mark Victor Hansen, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Simon T. Bailey, the author of RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World (Collins/January 1, 2008/$19.95, hardcover), found himself on the bottom at age 32–burned out, dropped out, and certain his life would lead nowhere. An African American, Simon convinced himself that his race was holding him back. “I believed my color was my curse,” he says. “I believed that if my skin were white, my hair blond, and my eyes blue, I would be accepted. I resented my parents and wished I had been born into a white family.” It wasn’t until he met a mentor who encouraged him to let his inner energy shine forth that he turned his life around. “You weren’t born to fit in,” this sage told him. “You were born to be brilliant.”

Simon went on to acquire expertise in leadership, sales, and customer service over a successful career at Hyatt Hotels, Walt Disney World Resort, and the Disney Institute. He ultimately left Disney to found The Brilliance Institute, an organization dedicated to building the world’s most valuable resource–people. Today his clients encompass executives, Fortune 500 companies, and national associations in the United States and abroad.

RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE is Simon’s transformational guide to unlocking your potential. It is centered around the metaphor of a diamond: Each of us is a rough-cut, unpolished diamond, unremarkable to ordinary eyes; yet within lies enormous potential that’s been trapped over the course of our lives. Borrowing a jeweler’s terminology, Simon explains that the key to assessing and releasing that potential lies in the “Four Cs”:

- Clarity, a measure of a diamond’s purity, represents your thoughts–your profound insights into who you are and why you do what you do.

- Color represents your beliefs about yourself and the world around you.

- Cut symbolizes action. Just as a diamond will forever remain a rough stone unless the cutter acts upon it, so to will your brilliance remain locked up unless you take specific action.

- Carat represents the size of your thinking–the possibilities you see for yourself.

Each of the Four Cs encompasses several “facets”–principles, concepts and suggestions–that are crucial to discovering the gem within. These 15 facets form the core of the book, and are supported with “Personal Appraisal” exercises; “Diamond Polishing” action steps; “A Gem for You” quotes which sum up the essence of each facet; and the real-life experiences of “Living Diamonds.”

Just as no two diamonds are the same, varying in color, luster, brilliance, and many other qualities, neither are any two of us, but a skilled diamond cutter and polisher uses the same techniques to bring out the best in each gem. The techniques revealed in RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE will benefit all those who…
 - seek a deeper spiritual meaning to life
 - have hit the wall professionally, personally, physically, or emotionally
 - sense the potential to do something great, but don’t know what that might be
 - desire to discover their unique contribution to the ever-changing global workplace
 - long for authentic relationships
 - feel unfulfilled in their career
 - miss the fun and excitement of life
 - find themselves consistently discouraged
 - want to stretch and grow as a person

With proven success at organizations like Hudson Group, McDonald’s, Verizon, Wells Fargo, Chase, and many others, Simon T. Bailey has amply demonstrated the effectiveness of his method. With RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE, he is now able to help anyone who wants to create lasting change and let their brilliance shine.

Title: RELEASE YOUR BRILLIANCE: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World
Author: Simon T. Bailey
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
Price: $19.95, hardcover
Pages: 208
Illustrations: 15 black-and-white charts/graphics; 1 black-and-white photo
ISBN: 978-0-06-145187-4

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Comments from Readers:

“Whether you have made a few simple New Year’s Resolutions or you have a dream buried beneath a lifetime of disappointments, Simon T. Bailey’s book, Releasing Your Brilliance should be on your ‘essential list’ of books to read. This book will challenge you as you have never been challenged before.”
- Michelle K. (read full review here)

“The book was an easy read that engages the reader - you don’t want to put it down. The “personal appraisal exercises” are well thought out and of great assistance to the reader. They make you think about yourself and your goals that ‘motives you to get you on the right path toward releasing your genius’.”
-Jan

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