Be Limitless: A Professional Development Workbook for Living and Leading Beyond Limitations

by James Arthur Williams

This book provides 18 life lessons utilized by Dr. Williams to shift his paradigm from a high school dropout to an academic scholar, with six college degrees (two doctorate's). Dr. Williams employed these lessons to unmask from a life of limited expectations to become a limitless being who played professional football, who became a professional actor, who traveled the world as an international speaker, who tenured at the University of Tennessee, and who wrote multiple books. Dr. Williams shares his philosophy to unmask and to live one's full potential while embracing unconditional love, joy, and peace during the journey.

70 pages, Paperback

Published June 5, 2020

About the author

Dr. James Williams lives in Knoxville, TN, where he serves as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Williams also serves as the president/owner of UnmaskYTP consulting. He has a loving wife (LaToya) and four beautiful children (Jocelyn, JasBrianna, Tia, and Jay). Dr. Williams has published 9-refereed articles on hospitality leadership and education, and 17-refereed poster and scholarly presentation proceedings on leadership, human resource management, benefits of youth sports participation on the development of leadership skills, importance of soft skills, business ethics, and emotional intelligence. He graduated from Park University (BS in Management/CIS), Central Michigan University (MS in administration), and Iowa State University (PhD in Hospitality Management).

Dr. Williams wrote an amazon bestseller From Thug to Scholar: An Odyssey to Unmask my True Potential, which explains how individuals become masked (e.g., adopting lifestyles and beliefs to appease others rather their unique qualities) and how to remove their masks to reach their God-given potential to limitless opportunities. Dr. Williams is an energetic and passionate speaker who provides personal anecdotes, critical thinking theories, and thought-provoking solutions to incite his audience to self-reflect and find their unique identity—an identity that leads them to their true passion and purpose in life. Dr. Williams has performed as a Keynote speaker for graduations, prisons, businesses, churches, numerous school systems, sororities/fraternities, sports camps, university athletic coaches/leaders; and he has won numerous speech competitions in through his Toastmaster’s International affiliation.