You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success

Jet, March 3, 1997

Noted businessman Stedman Graham offers an inspirational and practical program for achieving success and creating a better life in his new book, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan For Success.

Graham's program incorporates studies of a wide variety of successful people--ranging from civil rights and civic leaders to business giants to athletes and celebrities--as well as his own experience of rising above low self-esteem to build a thriving career as a former professional basketball player and an established business executive.

Graham, who is president and CEO of Graham Gregory Bozell, Inc., a state-of-the-art event/lifestyle marketing firm, headquartered in New York City, writes, "Like many people, I wasted a great deal of my life worrying about what others thought of me and how they perceived me. I still struggle with that, even though I have come to realize that it does not matter what others may think of you; what matters most is how you feel about yourself, and that you believe in the possibilities of your life."

Among the steps for success cited in Graham's book are: Create Your Vision, Develop Your Travel Plan, Pilot The Seasons of Change and Commit To Your Vision. He details each of the nine steps in the 270page book, which is scheduled for publication by Simon & Schuster on March 11.

Graham writes, "After years of struggling...I have come to understand that when you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life. And that is what this book is all about."