Choose Your Life: A Travel Guide for Living

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." ~ James Lane Allen Karen Gedig Burnett is the author of four children's books that teach life skills. In "Choose Your Life" she now focuses on problems teens and adults face on a daily basis. Making life easier is something we all can appreciate and this book is filled with tips on how you can find the most positive view of problems you are facing. This book will help you understand your relationship with co-workers, family and friends. It is written in a conversational style and the illustrations make the book a fun read. Some of the main topics include: handling pressure from external and internal sources, how to say NO and mean it, adjusting the messages you play in your head and making the best decisions to keep your power. "Will your life be full of peace or turmoil? Will you respect yourself and others, or will you be critical and judgmental? Will you live with love and appreciations or turn towards anger, resentment, jealousy, and hate? Will your thoughts and actions lead towards a sensed of purpose and feelings of success?" ~ pg. 259 Each chapter begins with inspirational quotes and there are quotes sprinkled throughout the chapters. This book is helpful if you keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Karen Gedig Burnett shows you how to handle negative emotions like anger. She also explains why it is a bad idea to waste your time and energy on what you can't control. There is a helpful section on meditation and tips for releasing negative emotions. "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." ~ Jack Handey ~The Rebecca Review

Choose Your Life is very well written, easy to read and grasp book on everyday issues everyone faces. The book is easy to understand and follow for all ages and covers challenges we all deal with. I personally found this book helped me with issues I have tried to work out on my own and never could quite pin down and understand. Thank you to the author for sharing her insight with the world to guide so many others.