YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN: A NINE STEP PLAN FOR SUCCESS

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Summary: make it happen
Review: Forget about Oprah for minute. Stedman Graham, the business man and civic minded leader, stands on his own feet and his advice is extremely valuable. Graham's book is an inspirational look into his own life and if you are serious about changing your life and career this is one book you should definitely pick up and study. I'd rank this along side Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie's books.

Kimberley Lindsay Wilson, author of Work It! The Black Woman's Guide to Success at Work.

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Summary: Average, at best
Review: Stedman's approach to motivating his readers is one all to common. I found this book only to be full of cliches - pointing out the obvious and reinforcing it like a nagging schoolteacher.

This book lacks creativity - it is completely unoriginal and provides no means of inspiration to those whom read it.

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Summary: Practical nine-step
Review: This book is very valuable and can be useful guideline to you if you still cannot find out your right direction in life. Stedman Graham??s nine-step could probably help you to find out because those nine steps are clear and easy to follow.

Stedman Graham successfully put abstract ideas (how to succeed) into concrete instructions (the 9-step) with examples. It lets us more easily to understand what to do and how to do in order to be a successful person. Also, those nine steps are really practical in the reality and suitable for everyone who want to be outstanding.

In this book, Stedman Graham likes encouraging us to ask ourselves questions. It is good because it helps us to make sure that we are in the right track and really moving forward to success. Besides, although Stedman Graham is an American and most examples are happened in America, his concepts are also applicable in Asian countries, such as china.

To sum up, I think it is worthwhile to spend some time to read this book and find out our own objective in life and then plan to achieve it.

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Summary: An Inspiring Book For Anyone
Review: You Can Make It Happen by Stedman Graham is a book based on improving your life by using a nine-step process that Graham developed himself. Even though this book is intended to be inspirational and motivational, I recommend it for anyone, not just people who are going through rough times and need motivation. The book was quite easy to comprehend and definitely serves it purpose. Graham used examples of his life to show the reader that he truly understands the feeling of despair, loneliness, and lack of motivation. Once Graham establishes confidence with the reader he begins to offer truly inspirational solutions and once again uses examples of his life to show that it is possible to become successful, self-motivated person.

In You Can Make It Happen, Graham describes various scenarios where lack of motivation plays a key role in the situation. What really intrigued me about You Can Make It Happen is that for every scenario Graham offered an easy to understand solution that made sense. This makes the book not only interesting and helpful, but makes it great.

For example, Graham mentions in many occasions his frequent insecurities while playing basketball professionally. He often thought that he was not playing well and suffered lapses of confidence. These lapses caused him to not take certain shots when he was open and things of that nature. Finally he concluded that he had to solve this problem. What he did is, he took shots before practice that he knew he could make. This would get him on a role and before he knew it he was making most of his shots. This gave him confidence that he needed for the game and told him that he could make the important shots in the game. So his good shooting would continue on to the game. These are the types of simple solutions that Graham gives to problems throughout the book. He emphasizes that us humans make problems seem much bigger than they really are.

Some more reasons why I feel the book is so great and Graham wrote such a great book is its clearness on messages Graham tries to get across. Graham sometimes uses techniques that at first I thought were strange, but as the book goes on I understood more and more. For example, Graham gives the reader reasons why people often get depressed and tells the reader that this is the mentality of a quitter. By calling the reader a quitter I thought Graham was going a bit too far but then I realize that Graham uses such a strong word because it wakes the reader up. The biggest reason I think this book is so great is because of its helping nature. You Can Make It Happen was written specifically to help people who suffer from low self-esteem and lack motivation but I recommend it for anyone who wants to be successful in life. This book shows you how to push yourself when you think you have nothing left in you. This book is for achievers and those who want to be. The book teaches you how to set goals for yourself but most importantly how to stay on track to achieve your goals.