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A successful businessman, community activist, and Oprah Winfrey's boyfriend, Graham has written a plan for all who want to improve their lives. His nine-step plan involves increasing self-awareness, creating a vision, developing a plan, understanding and following personal values, taking risks, managing responses to those risks, building a support team, making wise decisions, and forming a total commitment. Although his plan may be most applicable to people focusing on business and career goals, Graham notes that this plan can also be applied to other aspects of life. In fact, he emphasizes that all aspects of one's life must be healthy and looked after for any to flourish. As in most self-help books, much of the text is repetitive. However, Graham's holistic approach is unique, and his examples?his own and those of many other African Americans?