Happiness Now, If You Want
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Most of the paragraphs you are reading or considering "doing" are generally short. Since receiving chemotherapy the first time, I find it very difficult to concentrate on lengthy reading material. Throughout all you take in, there will be a few simple challenges like "why don’t you try" or "here is what you might do." My writings will assist you toward reducing much of your personal stress and perhaps allow you to now begin to bring some peace into your life. Please realize that you and only you are able to help yourself, more than any other being. Friends, relatives, and advisors may look to assist you with your endeavors to handle your personal demons. Use all the advice you can, lean on the shoulders of your loved ones but most important, make yourself the instrument of your own health as well as your future happiness . . . DO IT. Speaking of "do it", allow me to introduce you to the Reverend Cecil, who heads a gigantic Methodist congregation in San Francisco. At this time his congregation feeds well over 3000 homeless persons each day and conducts more then 36 self-help programs, which include teaching classes for non-readers. In l997, Cecil was asked to be the guest speaker at the Miami annual "Faith In The City Program" and he accepted. So you can see, Cecil did things. At this "faith" meeting, along with the general public in attendance, were 12 members of the clergy consisting of ministers, priests and rabbis. Cecil told this faithful group that much of today’s religion problems had to do with themselves, the members of the clergy. He said that most of what is done today by religious leaders is to talk, plenty of talk, BUT YOU DON’T DO and Cecil roared, "Ya’ gotta’ do!" So I roar to you, "YA GOTTA DO in order to help yourself." I’ve done it and have gotten much of the goodness and fun back into my life. You can also and you will slowly sense that it is happening.
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About the Book
Mr. Mitchell’s book is somewhat unique since it encompasses a humorous and positive approach to assist persons suffering from emotional fears, stress and depression. His writings have come about by having had cancer of the throat twice in the past ten years, cancer of the prostrate, three angioplasties, the loss of his mother as well as having suffered with depression for two years. WHAT you can do and HOW to do it comes from his own experiments and experiences. This has enabled Ray to prepare a positive approach for others to handle their own health and emotional situations via a step by step method of overcoming their anxieties. There is a great emphasis for the reader to “HELP THEMSELVES” in order to repair much of their emotional damage and allows them to find a way of achieving “Happiness Now.”
About the Author
As my tale unfolds, you will discover personal things about me as well as some of my beliefs. These findings will reveal causes and effects related to my emotional and health problems over the past ten years. By drawing upon these experiences, I have outlined in some detail, necessary and important information enabling you to guide and help the most important person in your life, YOU. In my earlier years, I was a life and health insurance representative holding a professional CLU designation. This designation is a Chartered Life Underwriter degree, which took me four years to earn attending the University of Miami. In seeking new employment, I began answering local newspaper job ads calling for licensed insurance men. These companies would furnish me with names of people to call upon in order to sell them a policy. It had been more than fourteen years since my insurance days and so I was not prepared for the new way sales were made. You no longer went to someone’s home in order to get to know them personally and discuss their family needs. You did not have to draw charts and then present programs for life insurance covering a child’s education or for taking care of the family until their college was completed. Today it seems to be what costs less – here is the application – give me the check. I had never been a heavy closer, meaning it was not my nature to be able to "make the sale" on the first visit. Nothing had changed. Most of my adult life, I was self-employed but on a few occasions, I did work for a salary. One of my last salaried positions was managing commercial real estate holdings owned by a group of attorneys. I was solely responsible for the daily operations of more than $21,000,000.00 worth of shopping centers and apartment complexes.