A Ten-Part Book to Maximizing Your Potential

About the Book

Two things you should know about this book are the fact that if you have ever wanted an answer to breaking out of your poverty, low self-esteem, or addiction, you will find it here. I have drawn on my experience of spending many years dealing with these issues for solutions as to how they can be successfully conquered. I am a living testimony that where the mind and spirit leads, the body will follow, and that we can always do better than we know. Secondly, when I decided to publish this book, I made up my mind that I wasn't going to try and sell it to anyone who isn't tired of being "sick and tired" and who hasn't reached the point that they can't go on doing the same old thing, expecting different results. I know that when people get sick enough of meeting with failure and disappointment you won't have to go looking for them with a cure; they will come looking for you. I am convinced that as bad as things are for many of us that our suffering is working to drive us to God and the solutions He has enabled concerned people to develop. This book is for those who want to do something different than they have always done to get something different than they have always had. It may hurt the sale of this book, but I don't encourage you to buy it if you are not ready to do some serious work on the problem areas of your life and are tired of making excuses for your life not getting better if you are not doing anything to make it better. This book is not for your shelf; it is to be used in fixing anything broken in your life, mind, or spirit.

About the Author

Danny has been certified by Toastmasters International as a competent public speaker (1991, East Moline). He received his GED from the Chicago City Colleges (1981) and obtained a certificate in graphic arts from Southeastern Illinois College (1987). He is a former member of the Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party. He spent twenty years in prison and ten in Elgin Mental Health Center. While in the hospital, he wrote over eight hundred poems, three books of daily meditations, and numerous speeches and Afro-centric anecdotes. He also acted as a mentor for younger consumers while there, leading his own peer-support groups and chairing GROW for four years (2003-07). He has been clean of all illegal drugs and alcohol for fourteen years. If you ask yourself why you should listen to somebody like him who has so many mistakes in his background, he would tell you that in order to talk about something, you have to have been through something. It is undeniable that he has been through a lot. His desire is to give back to those he took so much from in the past by sharing his experience and joining the fight to make our community a better place where lives can be celebrated and not lost. His mission is to be the most infectiously optimistic and exceptionally giving person possible and to inspire others to be equally optimistic and giving. Danny is not one who believes you can't make it because you have some strikes against you; he is one to tell you that, "Anything you can conceive and believe you can achieve" (Napoleon Hill). I am happy to share my testimony with anyone at no charge, just call and invite me to your function. If you would like to schedule a workshop covering sections of this book, at a small service fee of $50 plus the cost of any books purchased by workshop participants at your school, club, business, organization, church or special cultural event, you can contact me at Dannyrelc7963@gmail.com. You can also like me on Facebook and post comments on my page.