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Identity: Your Passport to Success
- By Stedman Graham, Stuart Emery, Russ Hall
- Published Feb 17, 2012 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2012
- Dimensions: 5-3/8" x 8-1/4"
- Pages: 224
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-287659-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-287659-9
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Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham and Associates, a leading management and marketing firm. Graham lectures and conducts seminars for businesses and educational organizations worldwide. His 10 books include two New York Times best-sellers, You Can Make It Happen and Teens Can Make It Happen, which illustrate his proprietary Nine-Step Success ProcessTM.
Features a foreword by John Maxwell and afterword from Steven R. Covey.
Have you ever thought about the connection between knowing who you are and success? Identity can serve as your greatest asset. Enduringly successful people know who they are, are clear about what matters to them, have established powerful identities, and create value in the world.
In this book, the process for discovering and understanding your identity is brought to life through Stedman Graham's personal experiences and the stories of individuals who've resolved their questions of identity, building a life that matters to themselves and those around them.
Take control of who you are. Take control of your life. Achieve lasting success.
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller!
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Stedman Graham. Frankly, all I knew about the guy was that he was Oprah's significant other. Turns out, there's a lot more there. For starters, he's a damn good writer. Who knew? Second, he's an extremely well organized thinker, smart enough to synthesize a sort of business plan for a successful life. Why not? We tell businesses to write a business plan. Why not individuals? Graham even provides a nine step outline, starting with identity. It's important to be honest. The identity piece is always the hardest, he says. Inspirational stories by notables such as John McCain, Jim Keyes, Steve Jobs, Ben Kaufman and others help us. Jobs puts it this way: "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice." Mariane Pearl (Danny Pearl's widow) says "Identify the values that bring out the best in you, and live by them." Her section was so inspiring that I ordered her book, A Mighty Heart. As for Graham, I only have myself to blame for missing the real substance that hidden...
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There are many books out there selling the route to personal success. In this book, Graham suggests that the route lies in knowing oneself, maintaining a positive attitude and not giving up; nothing new, just a different take from another self-help guru. This book is a good pick me up, but the nine steps discussed are not groundbreaking proposals. For someone not sure of who they are, where they are going or how to get there, this is a valuable book. For everyone else, there may be something else out there in the genre better suited for you.The best third-party quote in the book, and actually a good summary, was the following: An old Cherokee told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is anger, jealously, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth." The boy thought about it and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?"... Read more
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I was really excited about this newest offering from Stedman Graham. He is someone I have been quite fond of since reading what he had to say about building your brand some 7 years ago.In the new book IDENTITY we are able to go along this journey of finding not just who we are but what we are supposed to be doing and what's next. Graham takes you not just through his own experiences but those of individuals who are highly respected that found their way and give up the blueprint of how we can do the same. The title was intriguing to me as well, mainly because of who Graham's significant other is: none other than Oprah. He knows from personal experience the importance of knowing what your own purpose is and not allowing it to be tied to someone else or something that is not real. Another great thing about this book is that it invites you to add your own voice to its pages, answering questions that will help you to not only identify the work you were... Read more |
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Table of Contents
Foreword by John C. Maxwell xv
Introduction 1
The connection between knowing who you are and success • How to think of your identity as your personal brand • The greatest gift somebody can get as a human being • If you don’t have a strong identity, you don’t have a choice
Chapter 1: You Have a Choice 7
Living with a race-based consciousness • The first step to freedom • Why you need a process for becoming successful • Getting the gift of choice • Taking a deep, hard look at yourself
Chapter 2: Knowing Yourself Should Be Easy. It Isn’t. Why Is That? 23
Are you letting everybody but you decide who you are or should be? • Who do you see when you look in the mirror? • Write a ten-word want ad for yourself • How to become more attractive to others
Chapter 3: What Do Your Personal Values Have to Do with Your Identity? 41
The correlation between your identity and how people relate to you • Why growing up disadvantaged can give you strength • Being different can make you more interesting • How a willingness to change makes you gifted and successful
Chapter 4: Can Your Attitude Affect Identity? 61
Why it’s your decision to be who you are • From college drop-out to #1 entrepreneur under 30 • mophie, kluster, and quirky--Profile in Success
Chapter 5: Can People’s Identity Change? 73
To be successful in any of the roles you take on in your life, you have to fill the role with the spirit of your real self, your passion, and your values • Steve Jobs--Profile in Success • Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice
Chapter 6: Do You Transform Your Own Identity? Or Is It Owning Your Identity That Transforms Your Life? 99
How you always have options and sometimes don’t know it • What matters to you can change over time • How your identity evolves • Why when you bring value to the world around you, you feel good about yourself--you feel successful
Chapter 7: When Identity Must Deal with a Life Crisis 123
Whether change is planned or unplanned, there’s always opportunity for you to prepare for it • How to identify the values that bring out the best in you and live by them • Why, when you are not moving forward, you’re not even standing still; you’re really going backward
Chapter 8: Friendship, Teamwork, and Your Identity 143
Why you will find it’s good for you to be around people who have the same values as you • If you have a dream, you need a team • How the people with whom you connect as you strive toward your success can help you, or can get in your way
Chapter 9: Persistence and Your Identity 157
Come to think of yourself as a work of art in progress • Body by Jake--Profile in Success of a fitness guru • Why you’ve got to have mentors to hang out with who are winners • What to do when people bet against you • How it’s about being loyal to your values and your vision
Chapter 10: Adjustments and Tune-ups for Your Identity 169
The Wizard of Oz and You • Why the successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do • How it happens that as you become clear about who you are and show it to the world, opportunities for success will start to find you
Chapter 11: Bringing It All Together--Committing to Your Vision 185
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating--in work, in play, in love • Lessons in success and transformation from a North Vietnam prisoner-of-war camp • Your Nine-Step Success Process
Afterword by Stephen R. Covey 199
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