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    Stepping into Greatness: Success is Up to You!
    Stepping into Greatness: Success is Up to You!
    Stepping into Greatness: Success is Up to You!
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    Stepping into Greatness: Success is Up to You!

    By Daniel Gutierrez and Elizabeth Fayt

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    Fully realize your gifts and become your greatest self with this “journey of personal transformation that leads to success beyond wildest dreams” (Janet Bray Attwood, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Passion Test).

    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 ourselves and realizing that a lot of the negative things we assume about ourselves just aren’t true. Accepting your greatness is about self-love, self-acceptance, self-realization, and ending the struggle and doubt with yourself.
     
    What we believe and perceive—whether good or bad—is the core of our inner power. Transformation comes from harnessing that power to work for us. It creates our reality, our vision, our purpose, and our ultimate success.
     
    To become the “master of your fate” you must take responsibility for your choices. Your life, your loves, your passion, your work—all of it can empower you in a way that inspires, encourages, and lets you rise to greater things.
     
    Success is just waiting to happen—and all you have to do is take that first step with “this great book full of common sense that, step-by-step, helps the reader into leadership” (Don Miguel Ruiz, MD, New York Times–bestselling author of The Four Agreements).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781614480761
    Stepping into Greatness: Success is Up to You!

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      Stepping into Greatness - Daniel Gutierrez

      WE ALL HAVE A STORY…SO WHAT?

      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

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