Stepping into Greatness: Success is Up to YOU - Softcover

Gutierrez, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614480753 ISBN 13: 9781614480754

Verlag: Morgan James Publishing, 2012

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No Matter Where You Stand Today, Your Next Step Can Be Into Greatness
Are you ready to make your life a success? Let author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker Daniel Gutierrez guide you to the greatness you've always dreamed of.
“Accepting your greatness means taking a good look at yourself,” Daniel says. “Most of my life I ran from who I was, and wanted to be something I wasn't. I wanted to be taller, faster, better looking, whiter---everything but me. Over time, however, this is what I’ve learned: accepting your greatness means to transform your way of thinking.
"Stepping into Greatness" is about understanding that you are created in the image of greatness, and that is enough. It is about looking deep inside at the hurt and the pain and realizing that a lot of the things we assume about ourselves just aren't true. I wasn't a failure, although I had failed many times.
Accepting your greatness is about self-love, self-acceptance, self-realization, and ending the struggle and competition with yourself.
What we believe, what we think, what we perceive---whether good or bad---is the core of our power and within us. Harnessing that power to work for us is what transformation is all about. It creates our reality, our vision, our purpose, and our ultimate success.  
Yes, we have lived lives of joy and pain, lessons and disasters, rewards and temptations. Yes, we have met people who inspire us and others whose moral compasses do not align with our own. To become the “master of your fate” or the “captain of your soul,” we must take responsibility and accountability for the experiences and choices within our journey.
Your life, your loves, your passion, your work---all can bring the joy that propels you forward in a way that inspires, encourages, and aspires to greater things. Success is waiting to happen….just take that first step into your greatness now.

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Daniel Gutierrez is an international business consultant, radio personality and renowned motivational speaker who has inspired people to make positive changes that lead to success. Leveraging his experience, his infectious humor, and his deep belief that there is greatness in each of us has helped transform individuals all over the world.
When Daniel shares his real-life stories that come from the heart, his appeal breaks the boundaries of many professions, ages and cultures. People identify with the pitfalls and celebrations, the tragedies and the successes, the heartaches and the search for inner peace.
Based in Los Angeles, Daniel has been listed and has been the Cover Story in Latin Business Magazine’s “Top 100 Hispanics” along with other extraordinary individuals such as Actor, Edward James Olmos, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and CNN’s Soldedad O’Brien. Daniel was featured in the documentary film Luminous WorldViews as one of eighteen world renowned thought leaders in the area of transformation and leadership. Serving as President of PRIMER, a prestigious national leadership organization based in New York City and Most recently Daniel has partnered with National Hispanic Corporate Council in Washington DC to host their Groundbreaking Live Webinar Series “Return on Learning” Right to your Desktop!  Focusing on two segments “Leveraging Affinity Groups” and “Conversations with the C-Suite.”, Daniel now invites you to step into your greatness.

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Stepping into Greatness

Success is Up to You!

By Daniel Gutierrez

Morgan James Publishing

Copyright © 2011 Daniel Gutierrez
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-61448-075-4

Contents

Dedication, 
Acknowledgments, 
Foreword by Elisabeth Fayt, 
Preface, 
The End of the Story: The Choice, 
Part One WE ALL HAVE A STORY ... SO WHAT?, 
Chapter One Boy From Midlothian, 
Chapter Two You Can Run, but You Can't Hide, 
Chapter Three Fake It 'Til You Make It, 
Chapter Four Never Forget the Smell of Chorizo in the Morning, 
Chapter Five A Look at the Man in the Mirror, 
Chapter Six Accepting and Stepping into My Greatness, 
Part Two MOVING MOUNTAINS AND MAKING IT HAPPEN: Diaries Of A Man On A Mission, 
Chapter Seven Diary of a Man on a Mission, 
Chapter Eight The Agony and the Ecstasy of Living Your Dreams, 
Part Three EMBRACING YOURSELF AND YOUR INHERENT GREATNESS: You Can Do It, Too!, 
Chapter Nine Success is Believing in What You Cannot See, 
Chapter Ten Duplicating Success and Learning from Failure, 
Chapter Eleven Self-Leadership, 
Chapter Twelve Never, Never, Never Give Up, 
Chapter Thirteen Building on Greatness, 
About the Author, 

CHAPTER 1

Boy From Midlothian

Sometimes I wondered if God was somehow trying to challenge me. It seemed that He was trying to mold me into a beautiful vase, even when I would have settled for being an ashtray.

— D.G.

My father came home drunk, as he often did, one night when I was five. It was my younger brothert's birthday, but instead of candles and presents, what I remember is his one hand around my mothert's throat, while the other brandished a knife.

"It'll kill you, perra!" he screamed at her, while my brother and sister sat silently shaking on the couch. I felt paralyzed. I stood there like a statue while my mother screamed for me to call the police. I couldnt't — I didnt't know how to use the phone. I was powerless to help my mother. All I could do was cry and beg for him to leave her alone. Eventually, alerted by a neighbor, the police arrived and hauled him off. That was the last time I saw him alive. Within a year, he died in a car crash in Florida.

That night, so long ago, would be one of the most formative events of my young life. I was helpless, and it terrified me. That night, I decided something about myself: I was a failure.

Later on, when things got Though, I would check out. It'd quit instead of seeing things through. Truth be told, on my darkest days, I can still hear a little voice in the back of my head, and I can clearly imagine myself — a skinny, little, terrified boy — unable to help the woman who cared for me the best way she could. My mother was my life, and I had been useless.

Until a certain age, much of the success I achieved was not borne of a desire to win, but was the result of a fear of failure. It was that fear that drove me until, slowly but surely, over a long period of experience, trust, and maturity, I came to accept my own greatness as a man, as a Latino, and as a human being.

That little voice in the back of my head, the one that said I was no good at anything, the one that sounded like a freight train rushing between my ears, finally began to diminish when I realized that I was created by my God to achieve. I could never get rid of the voice completely, but I sure could ignore it and do my utmost to continue onward and upward.

* * *

Reaching your dreams is about having faith that what you hold true in your heart will manifest itself with hard work.

— D.G.

My mother was a migrant worker in Dixon, California, so we spent a lot of time out in the fields. We were very poor. She raised the three of us for a long time on welfare and government cheese (a source of mockery now, but something we needed to survive). Sometimes the queso, frijoles, tortillas, and huevos were all we had for weeks on end. In retrospect, I see that my mothert's life must have been terribly difficult, more difficult than my young mind was able to comprehend, and she worked very hard to provide for us, all on her own much of the time. Yet I never, ever heard her complain. She had an amazing ability to endure adversity — something I still strive to replicate every day.

Back then, Dixon was a very small town in the agricultural-based Central Valley. We lived in a shabby, green, two-bedroom house, which my mother kept immaculate. After a day doing manual labor in the hot sun, she would work just as hard when she came home, cooking and cleaning before she was finally able to rest — briefly. She probably slept less than five hours a night, even on weekends.

A giant fig tree in the front yard lent some much-needed beauty to the depressed surroundings there at the edge of town. My brother and sister and I used an abandoned cemetery as a playground. We were close as children, but as adults, we would all go our own ways in an attempt to escape the memories of our upbringing. As kids, though, we knew we were lucky to have each other because no matter how bad it got, we had each other.

Until the age of six, I didnt't speak English very well, and I spoke it with a heavy accent, which provoked ridicule in school. I hated being taunted.

I loved to smile, though, which often got me in trouble. Aching for attention, It'd act up in class and It'd usually be called out for talking. It've always had a very distinctive and loud voice, so even when I was whispering, I could be heard over the other kids. I remember the principal telling my furious mother that he didnt't understand how such a quiet kid could get into so much trouble. It made me angry to be singled out at the time, but later in life, that loud distinctive voice would be recognized as a talent instead of something to be ashamed off. I really just wanted to be liked; I was looking for the validation I wasnt't getting at home.

I also sensed that some kids' parents didnt't want me around because I wasnt't the right color. Even at such a young age, I had a strong tendency to focus on the negative. I was already very cynical; I had a perpetual feeling of not knowing what I was supposed to do, how I was supposed to act, or why I had even been born. Beyond my mother, I had no real role models in my life. I was winging it most of the time, and rules in general made very little sense to me.

On the outside, I was fairly quiet; but on the inside, I was full of roaring turmoil. What overshadowed everything else was my own self-doubt, especially after my mother declared me to be the "man of the house." At the age of seven, she sat me down and declared that she expected me to take a larger role in caring for my siblings. Above all else, I was forbidden to get sick. No one had the time or energy for that. I took my job seriously, though it was crushingly intimidating. All I really wanted was to be a regular kid with a regular family. What I wanted was to go fishing and camping like the dads on TV did with their sons. I wanted someone to love me and care for me. These childhood fantasies would fall woefully short of reality.

When I was ten, my mother moved us from California to Texas, along with a man shet'd met — my future stepfather. I was enrolled in a new school in a new state, and felt like an outsider all the way around. I was never very popular throughout middle school, and my acne limited my interaction with girls. My situation was made more difficult...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Morgan James Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1614480753
• ISBN 13: 9781614480754
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
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