Strive to be Happy!: Awaken the Sleeper Within to Create a Happier Life

A step-by-step guide designed to help the serious traveler on the journey of life to identify his or her life goals, to create a plan for achieving them, and to begin putting those plans into effect. It is written in plain, every-day language, and is broken down into bite-sized, easy to digest chapters that provide essential background information, as well as easy-to-understand strategies to help the reader get through his or her current crisis, successfully. The book is divided into a number of segments. It begins with The Basics, which suggests a primary life goal of personal happiness and reviews the underlying principles of human development. Next comes Tips on Types, which explains and expands on the psychological type theory of Carl Jung, popularized by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Who Am I?, which follows, uses a brief quiz game to identify the reader's personality type. This is followed by another short, game-like segment, What Do I Want?, that helps to clarify values. How Can I Get It? is a detailed blueprint for personal development. Mutual Support outlines the skills needed to nurture long-term, mutually supportive relationships. And, finally, We Need to Talk! teaches specific, essential communication techniques.

Frank Losik has been a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist for over twenty years. He is an experienced problem-solver who specializes in working with clients who are temporarily overwhelmed by some sort of life crisis. He has worked with a wide variety of clients in many different settings from private practice to state prisons to at-risk high school students. He began his study of counseling and psychology while working through his own personal crises of divorce, career change, custodial and non-custodial parenting, step-parenting, and remarriage. He strives to achieve two goals with his clients: the first is to relieve their current pain and suffering; the second is to empower them to develop the skills to resolve future problems on their own.