Danielle LaPorte takes the idea and the all-American ideal of success and turns it around and around until it gives up its many secrets. She is a popular motivational speaker, strategist, publicist, coach, and former news commentator whose website WhiteHotTruth.com is extremely popular.

Blending attention-getting graphics, practical worksheets, Buddhist insights, business tips, fascinating quotations, and razzle-dazzle energy and excitement, this is the kind of book that can change peoples' lives and perspectives.

You have a dream: bring it alive with your passion, creativity, and perseverance. Make it happen; no one else will do it for you.

"Being genuine is the foundation of integrity — often inconvenient and not always painless — but the only way to go if you're here to really, truly, fully live," LaPorte reminds us.

Here are Four Precepts to Pave the Way for You:

1. "Be strategic with your desires.
2. Leverage your contradictions.
3. Say no to resentment and yes to inspiration.
4. Make ease a metric of success."

LaPorte's advice to freedom seekers and fear tamers: "Let's turn up the heat on your desires. Because when you set your own light free, you become a veritable force of nature."

Myths are shattered here and broken into little pieces. LaPorte doesn't worship at the altars of balance, being well-rounded, or competency.

If you ask the burning questions, face forward and practice visioneering, you will begin to see that you are more centered and less fearful. "No" will make way for "yes," LaPorte predicts.

Now, try these four gems on for size and see how they fit: you'll find they blend in with all that has gone before.

"Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one."
— Pablo Neruda

"Give until it hurts."
— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"That's why we're here —
to make a dent in the universe."
— Hugh MacLeod>

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
— Margaret Fuller