Yes You Can : How to Be a Success no Matter Who You Are or Where You're From

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

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!"

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. Bill 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, and Interminds. 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. His 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.