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Simon T. Bailey - Release Your Brilliance

Monday, 04 February 2008

Release Your Brilliance - a transformational guide to unlocking your potential.

Simon T. Bailey

Here's what one of the reviewers on Amazon.com had to say about Simon T. Bailey, the author of Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World (Collins), "Life changing, motivational books are only effective if a connection is made between the author and reader. The reader must believe what the author is sharing and then make changes in their own personal life. Through "Release Your Brilliance," Simon Bailey has connected with the reader as a real person, sharing his own personal story and using symbolism that is understandable to all readers in order to share the knowledge he has gained through his own life experiences."

In our Success Strategies edition of Total Picture Radio, you'll find a "real person sharing his own personal story." Simon left his job at Disney, cashed in his 401k, (all of it), and mortgaged his home to pursue his passion.

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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.

Leadership Insertion – A Need to Be Seen
(The following is from Simon's Blog)
"I was talking with an executive the other day and we got into a discussion about the crisis of the stock market, subprime mortgage industry, and real estate industry. One of the comments he made was that leaders are inserting themselves into more meetings to protect their turf and to ensure their name doesn’t magically appear on the workforce reduction list. There are some leaders so worried about their jobs that they launch an “I need to save my job” campaign and insert themselves into meetings to gain visibility. They are convinced that if the right people see them their neck will be saved. Suddenly, they are asking their team members to do a ton of reports to justify their existence. Furthermore, they are creating projects to justify that their area is super busy. You know the drill…everyone is drinking water out of fire hoses. And of course, inquiring minds want to know where’s the brilliance? Here’s the deal – when you are competent, confident, connected, and committed, you don’t have to insert yourself. Why? Because you are like a cheetah that is flexible and nimble in the midst of change. Insertion only becomes necessary in a culture where political gamesmanship is the order of the day. Nevertheless, remember that according to the book of wisdom, the race is not given to the swift or to the strong but to the one that endures until the end. Could that be you?"

Resources:

Simon's web site

Simon's Blog
Release Your Brilliance web site

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