Navigating the Awkward Years: Useful Ideas and Concepts for Dealing with Life in High School and for Life after Graduation - Softcover

Horner, Randall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595529305 ISBN 13: 9780595529308

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Are you a young person who is concerned about your future? Do you wish you understood more about what goes on in school, in your relationships and friendships, and in your own life? Do you ever feel like other people make all of your decisions for you because you don't have the knowledge and/or the strength to make decisions for yourself? Are you someone who does well in school, but has no idea what to do in your life or your career? Perhaps you are a young person who answered 'yes' to all of the previous questions, and you are interested in gaining the knowledge and insight that will help you with everything. If you are like most young people, you have had all of these questions in your mind at one time or another. Since these questions are a lot to deal with, you may have a good answer for one of them, but you are still missing the answers for the others. A worse possibility is that you may have none of these answers and you have told yourself that you will figure it all out later. Worse than that, you may drift through your life and never gain the understanding you need, accepting a life that has less opportunity and less happiness than it should really have. The truth is that your life has the potential for great opportunity and happiness. Understanding yourself and the people around you is the key to making good decisions and gaining the opportunities and the happiness that result. Gaining the understanding you need is much easier than you think.In 'Navigating the Awkward Years', Randall Horner provides the knowledge and insight that you need to reach your best. After an introductory chapter, the second chapter helps you to truly begin to understand yourself based on your own knowledge, beliefs, and ideas, combined with your own attributes and gifts that lead you toward your true goals and desires in life.The third chapter, entitled 'How to Think', helps you to develop your own decision making processes based on whether or not a decision fits

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About the Author

Randall Horner wrote Navigating the Akward Years when he returned to high school as a substitute teacher after a long career in the area of banking and finance. One of the teachers at the school encouraged him to write a book based on what he saw in the career world and his knowledge of the things young people need to be successful today. As he began work on the book, Mr. Horner lost his vision due to a tumor in his head. Surgery was successful in removing the tumor and restoring his vision. He wrote most of this book during his six week recovery from surgery. He dedicated this book to his two daughters who are soon to start high school, and to any young person with an interest in understanding themselves better and preparing for their future. He currently lives and writes in St. Marys, GA,

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595529305
• ISBN 13: 9780595529308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64