Valerie Alexander

Success As a Second Language: a Guidebook for Defining and Achieving Personal Success Valerie Alexander

Publisher Marketing: The Ultimate Guidebook for Personal Success If you weren't raised speaking Greek, would you expect to leave home and instantly be fluent? What about Swahili? Dutch? Japanese? Which begs the question: If you weren't raised being groomed for success, how would you know how to achieve it now? You would need to learn Success step-by-step, like you would any foreign language. That is the purpose of Success as a Second Language: A Guidebook for Defining and Achieving Personal Success. Using this book as your guide, you will learn: How to discuss your goals and achievements in a way that inspires and engages others How to avoid falling into the "Failure Spiral" while pursuing success How to plan your days, months and years to stay on the Success track The nouns, verbs and adverbs of Success Success in the past, present, future and "past imperfect" tense How to use -- and not use -- the word, "No" to advance your goals Key phrases in your new language, and How to work past the setbacks that happen when learning anything new Reading this book is the first step in your journey towards the success you seek. With time, effort and an unwavering commitment to yourself, you can be fluent in Success, as if it was the language spoken in your home. Contributor Bio:  Alexander, Valerie Valerie Alexander is an author, speaker, coach, filmmaker and creator of the acclaimed ."..as a Second Language" book series, the first of which, "Happiness as a Second Language: A Guidebook to Achieving Lasting, Permanent Happiness," is an Amazon Top Seller in the Happiness and Self-Help categories. Valerie can be reached through her website, SpeakHappiness.com. Valerie started her career in the Silicon Valley where she worked on some of the most important transactions of the Internet era as a securities lawyer, an investment banker and an Internet executive. As a screenwriter, Valerie has worked with Joel Schumacher, Catherine Zeta Jones, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ice Cube and others. She co-wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short film, Making the Cut, as well as more than 50 commercials and public service announcements. Valerie received her B. A. from Trinity University and her J. D. and M. S. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. In the spring of 2010, she was invited back to Berkeley Law to teach the legal ethics seminar, "Representation of Law in Film." Valerie lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer-producer Rick Alexander, and their ill-mannered German Shepherd, Pepper.