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Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World [Hardcover]

Simon T. Bailey
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December 26, 2007

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

Release Your Brilliance provides the combination to the vault where your brilliance is kept. After struggling for thirty-two years with disillusion, defeat, and despair, author Simon T. Bailey cracked the code to personal transformation, turning his life around and becoming a highly successful entrepreneur, respected family man and community leader. Using the metaphor that we're all diamonds in the rough, Simon shares the four key steps to cut and polish the gem that is you in order to reawaken your genius, reignite your internal light, and release your potential. He guides your transformation with interactive tools such as Personal Appraisal exercises, Diamond Polishing action steps, and true stories of Living Diamonds. Join the thousands of individuals and organizations worldwide who've sat down with Simon and learned to create lasting change and release their brilliance!


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About the Author

Simon T. Bailey is an internationally celebrated speaker, author, and consultant and a Catalyst for Brilliance. He quit his high-paying, successful career at Disney to found The Brilliance Institute based on his deceptively simple—yet remarkably powerful—idea that, inside, we all have an inner brilliance that wants to be released. Simon is a fresh voice who has taught more than a quarter of a million people around the world the same transformational system he used to reshape his life. He lives in Windermere, Florida, with his wife and two children.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: HarperBusiness (December 26, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061451878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061451874
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #424,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Simon T. Bailey has a visionary ability to identify brilliant potential in people and organizations and ignite that brilliance into action for amazing results.

An internationally known speaker, author and consultant, he inspires individuals to take charge of change and transform their lives from the inside out. A thought leader and fresh voice in the businesses world, Bailey connects the dots between individual and organizational brilliance. He challenges and teaches businesses and organizations to clear obstacles to brilliance in their cultures, processes, and people, thereby achieving higher levels of engagement, retention, and productivity ' and a brilliant bottom line.

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars
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4.8 out of 5 stars
I highly urge you all to read Simon's book! Svetlana Kim  |  12 reviewers made a similar statement
Mr. Bailey, you are brilliant! peacelovebooks  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
The "personal appraisal exercises" are well thought out and of great assistance to the reader. Book Marie  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Release Your Brillance January 29, 2008
Format:Hardcover
From the beginning of this book we are reminded that each of us is born brilliant. Not just OK, and not just special but brilliant like a polished gemstone.... a diamond. The problem with us lies not in the fact that we are born brilliant; the problem lies in the fact that we tend to let our brilliance die down and dim as the years go by.

Much causes our brilliance to lose it's glimmer, outside sources dim its beauty, others cause us to become less of an eye-catching jewel, but according to author Simon T. Bailey, that does not have to happen. That is not something that we have to put up with in our lives.

Our brilliance can be as bright and free from imperfections as we grow older as it is when we are young. The author knows of what he speaks. He spent much of his life struggling to find the brilliance within and it was only with deep introspection and study that he came up with the concepts within this book, concepts that are easily added to ones life to rediscover and maintain that brilliance that lies within us.... some of us having it lying dormant for years.

I would suggest this book for anyone who doubts his or her brilliance in life. For anyone who feels their brilliance dimming and who desires the help and guidance to find that brilliance once again and let it shine from deep within. It is a book well worth reading and one that will aid the reader in discovering that which I suspect has been buried for a long time. I know it did me. And lest one feel this review is but one woman's opinion, may I mention, I received not one but two of these books as Christmas gifts from well wishing friends and relatives. Obviously Mr Bailey is doing something right and is reaching far more readers than just myself.
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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars We are all diamonds in the rough January 1, 2008
Format:Hardcover
Using a diamond metaphor, the author describes our personalities and talents as a gem that can shine brilliantly, if properly cut and polished. Many people fail to see their full potential, because their innate gifts are hidden inside a rough stone that needs to be carefully prepared for it to achieve its full potential. This book describes the author's approach to unleashing the potential within each person.

While this book does provide some insights into what it takes to achieve success in our lives, much of the advice is terribly generic, lacking in the specifics that would make it truly useful. Perhaps understandably, the author leaves the discovery of the specifics up to the reader to discover, noting that there is no simple, magical cure-all that will release one's gifts. Instead, it requires a great deal of honest self-reflection and hard work to redirect our lives toward achieving our potential. How helpful this advice is probably depends a great deal on the reader and his or her circumstances. This book didn't speak to me personally, but might be just the answer to help others.

[This review is based on a pre-publication Uncorrected Proof Copy]
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Release Your Brilliance January 30, 2008
Format:Hardcover
Eureka! I have discovered my brilliance. It was there all the time, but Simon's words in "Release Your Brilliance" gave it a voice. I find I am engrossed with his words of wisdom that were written just for me. I have discovered I have a talent for words, so I am completing a journal. It describes my current illness. In June 2007 my eyesight was failing in my left eye and I was diagnosed with a stroke. I am legally blind. That rocked my world. I am a registered nurse, the caregiver, and I am learning how to accept assistance. A MRI showed an aneurysm in my brain. WOW, too much information for me to handle. To make a long story short - I found a brilliant surgeon and have had two successful surgeries. My left eye continues to be a source of distress but I have come to this conclusion: Nothing, not even this set of difficulties, will determine my destiny! I now have the power to shine. I am active in church, I make jewelry (this is my passion) and I am healing physically and better still -- spiritually. There are not enough words to describe the effect your book has had on me. I am in awe of your brilliance, and your words. Thank you for allowing me to go on this journey, with your help and the tools to become the brilliant diamond God meant me to be.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing read! December 31, 2007
Format:Hardcover
Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life And
Revealing Your Genius to the World

By Simon T. Bailey

A Book Review by Jan Coad:

I have been fortunate enough to have attended and even been a facilitator in programs that help people realize their potential and live their dreams. I have been through both Pacific Institute and The Edge Learning Institute programs through my previous employers. Both were wonderful programs.

When I was offered to review a book by Collins Publishers I selected Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World, by Simon T. Bailey.

Through my experience with the previous programs, that have been given in many fortune 500 companies, I have a good understanding of the importance of positive affirmations and writing down appraisals of your life, etc. I was very pleased with Simon Bailey's book and it couldn't have come at a better time in my life. I recently ended one career in Higher Education Administration and am struggling to enter another - becoming a published author.

The book was an easy read that engages the reader - you don't want to put it down. The "personal appraisal exercises" are well thought out and of great assistance to the reader. They make you think about yourself and your goals that 'motives you to get you on the right path toward releasing your genius'.

At the end of each chapter there is a "Gem for You". It can be difficult to really examine your goals and motives and reading these was a nice reminder that you are worth the work that you are going through. My personal favorite was: "When your motives are authentic, you attract what's in your highest good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a practical no-nonesense guide to success!
I heard Simon T. Bailey speak at a conference and was immediately struck by his energy and no-nonesense approach, This book allows me to revisit the tips he mentioned and... Read more
Published 8 days ago by Audrey Goins Brichi
5.0 out of 5 stars Lifechanging!
My first comment to myself : I wish I had read this book many years ago! It is so enlightening, delightful and motivating as we take a look at the wonder of our unique, personal... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Peggy Stubbs
5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ FOR COLLEGE AGE STUDENTS
I was inadvertently introduced to this book, Release Your Brilliance, on a flight returning from a college road trip with my son. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Tmclark
5.0 out of 5 stars Book review
This is a great book. I suggest that every read this book. It has some great information in it about changing your life and following your dreams.
Published 17 months ago by Natasha
5.0 out of 5 stars Get Ready To Release Your Brilliance
I have read many self help books. Many of them contain great advice but the advice is easy to forget and the book soon gathers dust upon my shelf. Read more
Published 19 months ago by JSiouville
5.0 out of 5 stars Shame to freedom
This book has open the close doors of my heart to true freedom ,I am a child of living God who set me free from verbal,emotional and sexual abuse. Read more
Published 23 months ago by RUTH
5.0 out of 5 stars Gina Pero
Simon's motivational spirit and Release Your Brilliance have helped me tremendously throughout my life and career. Read more
Published on June 15, 2011 by Gina Pero
5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing my genius
Wonderful book that you must read over and over. Very inspiring, I went to high school with Simon, he is an excellent speaker.
Published on January 4, 2011 by Mrs Shan
1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new in this book
If you need to know how special you are, how great things CAN be, read the Bible, people! I couldn't get past the first 10 pages of him treating the reader like someone who's... Read more
Published on December 27, 2010 by Maroon Bulldog
5.0 out of 5 stars Motivational and Inspiring...
Mr. Bailey spoke at my college graduation, and I purchased this book as soon as I left the event. He has been through the same types of hardships that I have experienced myself,... Read more
Published on July 17, 2010 by peacelovebooks
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