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A Better Life Ahead

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Has life pitched you so many curve balls that you wonder if you're playing baseball or volleyball? Have you received so many lemons that you could start a lemonade company? Are you searching for a rope that will aid you out of a hole? Well, help is on the way. In Mark Schwartz's book, A BETTER LIFE AHEAD, suggestions for improving the quality of your life are just a few chapters away.

Within the pages of Schwartz's motivational guide are stories, advice, and adages, all intended to help the reader improve their current station in life. What he offers are mere suggestions, nothing more, nothing less. If you are looking for real answers, step-by-step programs, clinical observations, or a deeper understanding of why you are where you are, look somewhere else. (This point is also mentioned in a disclaimer at the beginning of the book.) Most of what is included in A BETTER LIFE AHEAD is common sense, although it is motivational in nature. Schwartz's positive voice saturates the work, and he does offer motivation, just as his subtitle promises. The main point throughout this book is that if you want help, you need to help yourself.


Reviewed by Natasha T.
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

A Better Life Ahead: A Motivational Guide To Living A Better Life by Mark Schwartz is a self-help book to taking control of one's desires and learning how to set out and really try for the career, happiness, and health that everyone deserves. It was his brother's suicide that provided the motivation for Mark Schwartz to write A Better Life Ahead in the hope that others could be thereby persuaded to turn their lives around and avoid his brother's self-inflicted fate. Practical wisdom for dealing with depression, breaking from the past, keeping one's focus, surviving stress and much more fill the pages of this slender (114-pages), direct, meaningful, and strongly recommended self-improvement advice guide.

I found this book to be very helpful during my current job situation dilema. It touches on everything from career choices, education, relationships to coping with stress and depression. It is a warm, honest written from the heart book that is clear, to the point and easy to read.