There are plenty of people who live their lives taking pleasure in belittling or controlling others. This may be a little bit of a cliché but if you don’t, who will? Key points: Vision; Art of War; choices; don’t make a scene.

Investigation into the things we need to get over, in order to get closer to who we are. The main message here is that things are never as bad as we think they are and much of our worry is overrated and generated by outside influences.

Chapter Two - Psychosis Shmycosis – Just as there is a name for every medical ailment there is a name for every mental ailment and they seem to multiply daily. Key points: Myriad of afflictions, depression, over medicated America; meditation; psychological attacks

Chapter Three - The Gift - In prioritizing the numerous psychological attacks we face as part of today’s society, I looked first to the gifts that we often receive on a daily basis.

Guides reader to look around and get closer to what they think and feel about the current realities of their world

This area is perhaps the strongest application of, and need to understand, the I’m OK You’re Not mind set, for if handled improperly these relationships can cause significant detriment to you personally now and well into the future. Key points: Room full of jerks; quote; Reactional Analysis; people types;

Chapter Six – Transitions - We all go through transitions, both good and bad. Good transitions lift our spirits and we are assured that the light at the end of the tunnel is near. There is, unfortunately, always another tunnel, the tracks that lead to the tunnels are always laid by others; Key points: The Secret; death and dying; marriage and divorce, jail, hormonal transitions; leaving the nest;

Religion can be linked as the cause of several wars. Yet wars do not all contain blood shed and carnage, they can also be waged through oppression, ridicule or isolation as in war of words, war of wills, or war of beliefs. Why is one belief or one person, superior to another?

Examines the emotional turmoil that may result from our thoughts of, or dealings with, those in authority and politics.

Provides reflective guidance into recurring cycles of unhappiness.

Stories about bosses, interchangeable for our purposes with the word customers, are not hard to generate, both good and bad. This chapter examines the realities of these relationships. Key points: Attila the Hun; Dilbert; Good worker gone bad.