It's Not over until You Win!: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to be - No Matter What the Obstacle

In It's Not Over Until You Win, Brown offers a powerful and inspirational plan to help people overcome any obstacle in their lives and to attain whatever they want.
Illustrated with thought-provoking examples and exercises, this book enables readers to determine and live by a set of values, experiment with failure as a formula for success, take life beyond set limits, and more.

A self-styled graduate of "Hard Knocks University," Brown makes his personal experiences engaging in a way that authors with only academic learning rarely can. In a clear, conversational voice, and with refreshing humility and humor, he writes about life as an African American male abandoned at birth and adopted by a single woman who raised a total of seven such children; about growing up in the Special Education classes of a Miami ghetto school; about rising to fame and fortune as a motivational speaker. He discusses his phenomenally successful PBS special and his high-rated but short-lived syndicated TV talk show; his first book, Live Your Dreams! and his relationship with his wife, singer Gladys Knight. Brown's difficulties with what he sees as "the sleaze trend in television," and his show's quick cancellation, occurring simultaneously with his mother's slow and painful death, triggered his own fall into despair and subsequent rebound to what he calls living "dynamically." While not addressing issues of serious family dysfunction or of mental and/or emotional problems (except by offering firm advice to "get away from toxic people"), Brown delivers an energetic and inspiring pep-talk for overcoming more universal hard times, such as losing a job or a loved one. Part autobiography, part self-help workbook, this volume successfully translates Brown's natural charisma from the podium to the page.
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If you've got potential, inspirational speaker Brown can help you reach it.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Motivational speaker Les Brown, author of Live Your Dreams (1992), which sold more than 130,000 copies in hardcover, returns to familiar territory as he once again tells readers how to overcome obstacles and find success. Speaking from experience, Brown details his own dances with despair, occasioned most recently by the death of his mother and his unhappy experience as a television talk-show host. The loosely organized text moves haphazardly from topic to topic, covering the usual subjects: relationships, careers, illness, and death. It is on the latter subject that Brown is most effective as he describes his mother's last illness and the family's reaction to it. Brown guides readers through the grieving process and shows them how to acknowledge the significance of death in their lives. There's not much here that differs from what one would find in any self-help tome by any of the big names on the inspirational circuit, but Brown has an easy, colloquial style that pulls along his familiar messages. Expect aggressive marketing to stimulate the already eager audience. Ilene Cooper