Get Off Your Assets!

GET OFF YOUR ASSETS! is the exciting and uplifting new book by Desi Williamson, highly successful entrepreneur and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, civic organizations, correctional institutions, and trade associations. Born into poverty, disadvantage, and squalor, Williamson took his destiny into his own hands, rose above his dire circumstances, and found extraordinary success. GET OFF YOUR ASSETS! shows readers how to follow his example, step by step, to realize their professional and personal goals.

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You can use your past either as a crutch or as a launchpad to a brighter future.
--Desi Williamson

Wisdom is often perceived as a dividend of age. But when the very young acquire wisdom, its usually a dividend of tragedy. If the greatest hardships offer the greatest lessons, consider how terrible must be the cost of wisdom to a young child.

Desi Williamson was just eleven when he made the wisest and most difficult choice of his life: to leave home. When he packed his clothes in brown paper grocery bags and walked out the door, leaving behind a destructive family life, he took a stand that would alter his destiny. Since that moment, this remarkable man has unflinchingly learned a lesson from each of the many hardships hes endured, and then used those lessons to launch himself far above the poverty and squalor into which he was born.

Now a highly successful entrepreneur and public speaker, Williamson has developed those same lessons into a powerful new book, GET OFF YOUR ASSETS: HOW TO DEAL WITH THE CHALLENGES OF LIFE-AND WIN! (Andrews McMeel Publishing, January 2002, $24.95). The book is a lively hybrid of the autobiographical, the motivational, and the instructional in which Williamson weaves together stories from his own past, inspiring messages of encouragement, and surprisingly practical how-tos for building a better life. The book is peppered with exercises that encourage the reader to explore techniques as they are presented, and a workbook-style Action Guide" in the back of the book leads the reader through a comprehensive, easy-to-follow program for setting and achieving goals.

Among the concepts illuminated in GET OFF YOUR ASSETS:
- The power of purpose
- Setting achievable goals
- Dealing with change
- Discovering core values
- The power of choice
- Investing in oneself

Ultimately, Williamsons story is not one of tragedy, but of triumph. He has achieved such stellar financial and professional success that Fortune 500 companies send their top executives to learn from him. At a time when motivational speakers and writers seem to be a ubiquitous commodity, Williamsons universal accessibility sets him apart from this crowd. His message is poignant and useful to both the disadvantaged and the elite because, having lived at both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum, hes learned that hardships are a common reality for both.

GET OFF YOUR ASSETS! is funny, moving, sometimes deeply personal, often startlingly candid, and always grounded in practical, accessible advice for bringing dreams to life.

ABOUT DESI WILLIAMSON:
Desi Williamson forged his career in sales and marketing before founding his own real estate investment firm and Impact!! Seminars Unlimited, which delivers his strategies for personal development, sales, and leadership to Fortune 500 companies, civic organizations, correctional institutions, and trade associations.

GET OFF YOUR ASSETS! How to Deal with the Challenges of Life-and Win!
By Desi Williamson
Andrews McMeel Publishing
0-7407-2013-9
January 2002
$24.95, Hardcover, 6 x 9, 224 pages