Your Life Sucks

The in-your-face, no-hype guide to getting happy… Your life sucks if… • You routinely make someone or something more important than you • The life you are living on the outside doesn’t match who you are on the inside • You say yes when you mean no • You try to fix other people • You’ve forgotten to enjoy the ride When your life sucks, it’s a wake-up call. Now self-help guru and bestselling author Alan Cohen invites you to answer that call, change your course, and enjoy the life you were meant to live. In ten compelling chapters, Cohen shows you how to stop wasting your energy on people and things that deaden you–and use it for things you love. With great humor, great examples, and exhilarating directness, Why Your Life Sucks doesn’t just spell out the ways in which you undermine your power, purpose, and creativity–it shows you how to reverse the damage. Here is an encouraging but loud-and-clear reminder that in every moment we generate our own experience by the choices we make, and that today is the best day to begin your new life.

We live in strange times. Most of us hate our jobs, our parents are sending us friend requests on Facebook, and Memes are the only form of entertainment that truly make us happy. Life sucks; get used to it is India’s first Anti-Self-Help book! While regular self-help books want to look into your eyes, hold your hand and tell you that the universe is waiting to reward you in beautiful ways, Life sucks; get used to it is more like a spank on the bottom that encourages you to accept the harsh realities of life, with some tough love, of course. This BS-free and no-nonsense handbook provides you with actionable tools you can use to bring about a change in your life. Somewhere among the brutal truths, life lessons, humorous puns, profound sarcasm and profanity-laden thoughts, you might just end up finding the answer to living your best life and making your place in this big, bad world.

From New York Times best-selling authors Michael I. Bennett, MD and Sarah Bennett--a book for teens that shows readers that we all deal with crap in our lives and how to laugh at some of the things we can't control. Being a teenager can suck. Your friends can become enemies, and your enemies can become friends. Your family can drive you crazy. School and teachers can be a drag. Your body is constantly changing. And everyone seems to tell you to "just be you." But just who is that? With their open and honest approach, father-daughter team Michael I. Bennett and Sarah Bennett's book is sure to appeal to teenagers and show them they aren't alone in dealing with fake friends, with parents who think they're "hip," and even how high school isn't everyone's glory days. Young readers--and their parents--are sure to find this no-nonsense, real-life advice helpful, and it will help them realize that it's okay to talk to their parents and other advisors around them about big issues that might be uncomfortable to discuss.

As technology races ahead, what will people do better than computers? What hope will there be for us when computers can drive cars better than humans, predict Supreme Court decisions better than legal experts, identify faces, scurry helpfully around offices and factories, even perform some surgeries, all faster, more reliably, and less expensively than people? It’s easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do. While we’ll still need high-level decision makers and computer developers, those tasks won’t keep most working-age people employed or allow their living standard to rise. The unavoidable question—will millions of people lose out, unable to best the machine?—is increasingly dominating business, education, economics, and policy. The bestselling author of Talent Is Overrated explains how the skills the economy values are changing in historic ways. The abilities that will prove most essential to our success are no longer the technical, classroom-taught left-brain skills that economic advances have demanded from workers in the past. Instead, our greatest advantage lies in what we humans are most powerfully driven to do for and with one another, arising from our deepest, most essentially human abilities—empathy, creativity, social sensitivity, storytelling, humor, building relationships, and expressing ourselves with greater power than logic can ever achieve. This is how we create durable value that is not easily replicated by technology—because we’re hardwired to want it from humans. These high-value skills create tremendous competitive advantage—more devoted customers, stronger cultures, breakthrough ideas, and more effective teams. And while many of us regard these abilities as innate traits—“he’s a real people person,” “she’s naturally creative”—it turns out they can all be developed. They’re already being developed in a range of far-sighted organizations, such as: • the Cleveland Clinic, which emphasizes empathy training of doctors and all employees to improve patient outcomes and lower medical costs; • the U.S. Army, which has revolutionized its training to focus on human interaction, leading to stronger teams and greater success in real-world missions; • Stanford Business School, which has overhauled its curriculum to teach interpersonal skills through human-to-human experiences. As technology advances, we shouldn’t focus on beating computers at what they do—we’ll lose that contest. Instead, we must develop our most essential human abilities and teach our kids to value not just technology but also the richness of interpersonal experience. They will be the most valuable people in our world because of it. Colvin proves that to a far greater degree than most of us ever imagined, we already have what it takes to be great.

In this insightful and easy to read book, the Author draws on her experience as a therapist and shares how subtle differences in the way you process difficult events can determine how well you heal, and how much it affects you down the road. The book is aimed at anyone who is living a life they are not happy with, but feels powerless to change.

Struggling with life sucks. Being unhappy sucks. Being alone sucks. I was alone, unhappy and struggling with just staying alive when I was just in my early teens, but I discovered that regardless of how I started out in life my start had nothing to do with how I would end up and I would like to share my journey with you. I wrote this book to make a difference in the lives of those who think their life sucks. I believe my book has a universal message that can provide the answers to living a life filled with joy, peace, love and happiness. What's the mystery to happiness? There's no magic or secret formula! For many people their life doesn't suck. They are happy at peace with themselves and enjoying their life to the fullest. "So what special gift did they get that many other people have not.... ....maybe including you?" "How come they get to stand at the front of the short line and you seems to always be at the very end of the longest one?" That's my goal is for my book. To share some information with you so that you not only stand at the front of the line but the line is actually one that you have created for yourself so you are always first in line. To be happy. My message is personal and universal and can provide proven strategies on obtaining happiness including: Making Decisions Conquering the fear of failure How negative thinking fuels unhappiness The Power of subconscious programming Blame and entitlement afflictions Creating positive relationships Improving communication skills Getting what you want Using basic human behavior traits for a happier life Coping with stress and worry I originally wrote the book to pass along some of my life experiences to my grandchildren who seems to be struggling a bit with the challenges of growing up and becoming young adults. My hope was to give them some simple lessons that they could immediately incorporate into their daily living to allow them to take on' whatever challenges their where facing. They loved it and encouraged me to spread the word to others of all ages who are finding life a tad tough. My book is a series of short sections (chapters) where I share my perspective on living a society that can present many roadblocks and obstacles to achieving life of peace, joy and happiness. Why would my perspective be worth reviewing? Well I started out in life as an abused kid, with one parent, living in poverty and found myself on the streets by the time I was fourteen. My life really sucked! But I managed to survive and become a happy person who is surrounded by many blessings. If I can figure out how to be happy from my start in life, I am confident that those who think their life sucks now can turn their sucked up life into one of serenity. I think my life journey has something to offer everyone. So Life Sucks. Get Over It!' It's a great read for anyone who has anything to do with relationship with others (happy people too). Whether it be at home, at work or any other environment, being happy has a lot to do with how you perceive yourself and the world around you.

Is This as Good as It Gets? Personal crises and disappointments have led many to the pessimistic conclusion that "my life sucks." Underneath the contemporary slang are universal and timeless questions about the human condition. People of every age, in every kind of circumstance have wondered to themselves and others: Will my life ever be better than this? Is this as good as it gets? This book is an honest and compassionate look at the real struggles we face in a broken world where bad things do happen. Dr. Ramon Presson, a licensed marriage & family therapist for 30 years, describes his own significant personal struggles, including hospitalization for depression. Using the letter that Paul wrote to the Philippians from prison, Presson shares that hope and joy are possible even when life disappoints. Full of practical suggestions for how you can live with purpose and meaning right in the middle of your everyday struggles, this revised and updated edition of When Will My Life Not Suck? is a hopeful treatment of human suffering from someone who has personally lived it and counseled others through the wilderness.