Whether you have a few simple goals or you have a dream buried beneath a lifetime of disappointments, Simon T. Bailey’s book, Releasing Your Brilliance should be on your ‘essential list’ of books to read. This book will challenge you as you have never been challenged before.
In this book, Mr. Bailey states he will identify “four steps necessary to transform your life and reveal your genius to the world”, as the subtitle states. Simply put, he delivers.
Using an analogy between your life and a diamond, he takes you on a journey from a diamond in the rough to a priceless stone with blinding brilliance. It is an incredibly ingenious comparison, which I cannot possibly do justice to by summarizing. Instead, allow me to summarize what you can expect from this book.
You will accept the fact that you are a uniquely gifted individual, and the world is at a loss because you are not sharing your talents. Don’t worry, even if you don’t believe this, you will. He will help you identify your unique gifts, appreciate them, and foster a desire to share them to achieve success and fulfillment in life. After you have this new gift-sharing enthusiasm, you will not want to be the only brilliant diamond on the block. He will teach you how to touch and encourage everyone in your life, including your spouse, children, friends and any associations you have with a particular company or organization. As I stated, this book is a journey, not a pep talk, so now the work begins. In this book, Mr. Bailey dismantles every negative thought that holds you back from having a brilliant, successful and fulfilling life. He provides all the tools necessary to align all areas of your life to your dreams, including your spirituality, finances, career, family life, and friendships. You will learn how to rework your daily routines in a way that will get you on the fast track to success. Last but certainly not least, you will achieve. Your only limit is how big you dream, and then he shows you how to dream bigger.
It sounds fabulous, doesn’t it? It is.
I received this book during the pre-Christmas rush, while I was sick and suffering from a bad case of wintertime blues that so frequently kills my momentum. This book did more for me than antibiotics and Vitamin D. It made me realize the momentum I thought that I had was actually negative thoughts that were inhibiting me from reaching my dreams. This book made me realize that I, not my lack of opportunities, was my biggest obstacle to achieving my dreams. I have not read a more inspiring book since Rick Warren’s A Purpose Driven Life, which taught that everyone is gifted, loved and necessary. However, unlike that book, Release Your Brilliance takes it a step further by giving you all of that, along with the tools necessary to “do it”!
This book is a tool, it’s an essential companion to life; it is the combination to the lock that is holding you back from the brilliant success you were created and destined to be. Simon T. Bailey will pick you up, shake you out of that funk called failure and throw you in the direction you need to go. The primary tool he employs to do this is his exceptional insight. He is what this book claims to be able to make you: a brilliant genius that is sharing his brilliance with the world. He also employs a combination of thought provoking questions, inspiring quotes, exercises, and real-life stories from people that have applied the concepts and principals of this book to achieve success and fulfillment. He provides you with all the tools you need to change your life, and in the event that you need more, he has a website with more resources: www.ReleasingBrilliance.com
This is a brilliant, brilliant book. Having read it, dog-eared it, highlighted it, underlined it and taken copious amounts of notes on it, I have but one parting word to say about it, the meaning of which you will have to read the book to understand: EUREKA! I hope you will read this book and understand why saying that one word invigorates my soul.
By Michelle K.
