Yes You Can! How to Be a Success No Matter Who You Are or Where You're From, Vol. 1

"Yes You Can ! How to Be a Success no Matter Who You Are or Where You're From" is a practical guide on how to get off the couch and take control of your life to realize your dreams. Filled with stories of people who have made it, author and entrepreneur Bill Townsend takes you on a journey to discover how to become successful in career, life, relationships, or anything you set your mind to accomplish.

Yes You Can is filled with stories of everyday people who have turned their lives around to become successful. The result of over 1,300 interviews and surveys with business owners and successful people, Townsend takes you through dozens of examples of people from broken homes, immigrants, single mothers, and other backgrounds and shows you how they started living lives of significance.

The book, also available for Kindle, is ideal for people of all levels, whether a high school student getting ready for his first job or her first year in college, or a 28 year old wondering if he's in the right career, or a 45 year old second guessing whether he's made the right decisions. It even highlights seniors who refuse to retire and shows how they can do more than wait around for their Social Security checks.

As James Kellahin, multi-award winning television director/ producer/writer says,

"Sorry, Harvard, you don’t need an MBA to rock the world.

“Yes You Can” is more than a “look what I did” memoir or an ego trip about business. Don’t let the simplicity of Bill’s presentation fool you. Buy the ticket. Take the journey.

You’ll travel through Bill’s experience and discover stories of others who have created successful lives, careers, and relationships. No matter who you are, you can use these pages to take control of your life and become more successful immediately.

Here’s the director’s advice. Own your own future. Take two chapters a day and change your life.You’re the next great story. Get started living it. Ready? OK. And, Action!"

If you need motivation or a push to help find your true calling, Yes You Can is worth reading.

Some of the people profiled in Yes You Can include:
Jack Welch - former CEO of GE
Norman Vincent Peale - motivational speaker
Joseph Hardy - founder of 84 Lumber Company
Edward Ryan - founder of Ryan Homes
Mike Nelson - VP Advertising at Yahoo!
Bob Davis - former CEO Lycos.com
Ben Bassi - CEO of CommonPlaces
Joseph Curtin - violinmaker and recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"
Anne Akiko Meyers - world-renowned concert violinist
R. Douglas Andrews - Six Sigma expert
Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft
John Paul DeJoria - founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems
Dan and Frank Carney - founders of Pizza Hut
Davre Davidson, founder of ARAMARK
Frank Federer - corporate turnaround professional
Charles Lindbergh - aviation pioneer
Sol Linowitz - Chairman of Xerox
Kemmons Wilson - founder of Holiday Inn
Ron Popeil - inventor of Showtime Roisserie and the Pocket Fisherman
Ed Smalis - founder of Smalis Corp.
Rocky Blier - Hall of Fame running back from the Pittsburgh Steelers
and more.

Yes You Can! was awarded the inaugeral Vision Award by the American Institute of Attitudinal Psychology, recognizing it as the year's best self-help book.

BILL TOWNSEND is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in the launch of more than a dozen companies over the past two decades. He is currently the Chairman of Amati Foundation, a global nonprofit serving the education and classical music industry.

He serves on the boards of directors at Newegg.com, the multi-billion dollar Internet retailer and YourOffers, a leading personalized marketing provider to the retail industry. He also serves as an advisor to ANM Soft, an e-commerce platform company and New West Symphony, the outstanding orchestra based in Southern California.

His background in entrepreneurship includes being part of the founding management team at Internet search engine Lycos, which in 1996 undertook a $300 million initial public offering in a NASDAQ record of 8-months.

Townsend was cofounder of YouthStream Media Networks (now Alloy), the largest publicly-held young adult marketing and media company in America. His management skills have been utilized at companies like GeoCities (now Yahoo!), Deja News (now Google and eBay), NewsAlert (now DowJones), IntelliQuant, Really Easy Internet (now Hey, Inc.), Solidus Networks, Cyber Operations, Supermodel.com, Ocean Technology, Hawk Defense, Cyber Operations, and sixdegrees.com, the intellectual property behind LinkedIn.

He is the creator of Predictive Mind, a method for overcoming challenges and improving career, life, relationships, and more through pre-determination of events and reactions.

He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Baylor University, Loyola Marymount University, University of Texas at Austin, University of New Orleans, Digital Hollywood, Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE), SIMBA, Camp Internet, and Violin Society of America Annual Convention.

Townsend's numerous media appearances and interviews include NBC Nightly News, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, People, Baylor Magazine, The Strad, News8Austin, KDKA TV Pittsburgh, The Young and The Restless, and ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

He earned his MBA at Baylor University and BA at College of Wooster.

He has been previously published in Harvard Business Review and Hoof Beats Magazine and is the author of the Internet’s first Children’s Advertising Guidelines.

This is his first book.