Empower Your Self: A Framework for Personal Success

In Empower Your Self, author Alan Fine provides the reader with the tools to take a personally fulfilling journey through life. Fine helps the reader explore the concepts of personal balance, refinement, and fulfillment. Moreover, Fine delivers a step-by-step framework coupled with challenging insights into personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability.

The book is separated into three sections: The first section discusses "The Dimensions of Success": Health, Companionship, Respect, Purpose, Time, and Money; the second section discusses the personally qualities required to achieve personal balance among these Dimensions of Success and how to acquire those qualities; the last section of the book presents a personal planning framework that the reader can use to compose a personal fulfillment plan (somewhat like a business plan tailored for personal use). Interspersed throughout the book are strong messages of ethics and integrity.

For more than a decade, Alan Raymond Fine has been successfully facilitating and implementing change in corporations in pursuit of developing, achieving, and maintaining renewed growth and success. He has extensive experience in coaching executive on leadership and management, in facilitating strategic planning efforts, and in solving strategic and operational problems in every functional area of the common business organization.

Currently, Alan Raymond Fine is a Senior Vice President, Investment Banking, at Mesirow Financial. This is a diversified financial services firm with more than 850 employees and $3 billion in assets under management. In addition, Mr. Fine also serve on the faculty of the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, through the departments of Strategic Management and Organization, and Information and Decision Sciences. In addition, he is also coordinating the Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at the Carlson School of Management. Mr. Fine was voted by the students and recognized by the faculty as the 1997-98 and 1998-99 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year for the Carlson School of Management.