Happiness lies in engaging in worthwhile activities.  But there is only one person who for certain can tell what will make one happy—oneself.

     The precepts given in this book are really the edges of the road: violating them, one is like the motorist who plunges off onto the verge—the result can be wreckage of the moment, the relationship, a life.

     Only you can say where the road goes for one sets his goals for the hour, for the relationship, for the phase of life.

     One can feel at times like a spinning leaf blown along a dirty street, one can feel like a grain of sand stuck in one place.  But nobody has said that life was a calm and orderly thing: it isn’t.  One isn’t a tattered leaf nor a grain of sand: one can, to greater or lesser degree draw his road map and follow it.

     One can feel that things are such now that it is much too late to do anything, that one’s past road is so messed up that there is no chance of drawing a future one that will be any different: there is always a point on the road when one can map a new one.  And try to follow it.  There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

     It can be said without the slightest fear of contradiction that others may mock one and seek by various means to push one onto the verge, to tempt one in various ways to lead an immoral life: all such persons do so to accomplish private ends of their own and one will wind up, if one heeds them, in tragedy and sorrow.

     Of course one will have occasional loses trying to apply this book and get it applied.  One should just learn from these and carry on.  Who said the road doesn’t have bumps?

     It can still be traveled.  So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.

If one keeps the edges on the road, one can’t go far wrong.  True excitement, happiness and joy come from other things, not from broken lives.

     If you can get others to follow the road, you yourself will be free enough to give yourself a chance to discover what real happiness is.

The way to happiness is a

high-speed road  to those

who know where the edges are.

You’re the driver.

Fare well.

As part of being on the road to happiness, you will need to help others get on the road themselves.  One of the best strategies to accomplish this is passing out The Way to Happiness booklets to family members, friends, associates, employees or customers in one of the following ways: Order 12 Free Booklets Order Booklets with Customized Covers

Besides applying the skills of The Way to Happiness and getting others to do the same, you may find additional skills would be helpful for others as well as yourself.  Select the area where you would like more skills.

DrugsIntegrityParentingRelationships Workplace Study Stress

Drug Withdrawal: Skills dealing with taking harmful drugs including…

      • How drugs can leave a person damaged long after they’ve stopped taking them.

      • The harmful effects drugs have on both the mind and the individual himself.

      • Effective tools to help someone withdraw safely from drugs.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online course: Answers to Drugs. More on this course

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Restoring Integrity: Skills to restore your integrity lost by promiscuity, stealing, doing things that are illegal, not keeping your word, etc., and its bad effects including…

      • Loss of self-respect or sense of personal value.

      • Withdrawal from a relationship.

      • Severe damage to a relationship.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online life skills course: Integrity and Honesty. More on this course

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Parenting Skills: Skills to help children grow to be happy, successful adults including…

      • Knowing what children most need from their parents.

      • How to swiftly heal the upset when children get angry.

      • Raising children to be happy, healthy, intelligent and self-confident in life.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online course: Children  More on this course

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Relationship Skills: Skills to help improve relationships including…

• The three elements that bring about an understanding of anything.

• How you can improve relationships with anyone.

• The precise tools you need to increase your understanding with anyone.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online course: The Components of Understanding.  More on this course

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Workplace Skills: Skills to help you be effective in the workplace including…

     • The cause of difficulties, uncertainties and failures at work.

     • Why you get tired from handling people all day and what you can do about it.

• Steps you can take to overcome exhaustion and regain your enthusiasm for work.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online course: Tools for the Workplace.  More on this course

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Study Skills: Skills to help you effectively study so that you can apply what you learned including…

     • The first roadblock to overcome so you can successfully learn anything.

     • The three barriers to study that can prevent your understanding of a subject.

     • How to learn and fully understand any subject you choose.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online course: The Technology of Study.  More on this course

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Stress Management: Skills to help you effective deal with suppression and the emotional ups and downs that it can cause including…

     • Why someone who is doing well in life can suddenly do poorly or begin to fail.

     • Twelve identifying characteristics that will help you choose your friends and associates wisely.

     • Tools you can use to help relieve another’s burden of suppression, so they can be happy again.

You can acquire these skills with the free, online course: Cause of Suppression. More on this course

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Definition of Terms for This Lesson

broken: destroyed, damaged or badly hurt, as if by breaking.

engaged (in): involving oneself or becoming occupied (in); participating (in).

fare well: used to express good wishes on parting.  Fare means to get along or experience good forture.

map: plan, sketch or draw out, especially in detail as if on a map.

plunges: falls or gets thrown suddenly and uncontrollably (downward).

tattered: torn and ragged.

verge (definition 1) : either of the two edges or borders on a road, usually paved.

verge (definition 2): the extreme edge of something such as an extreme limit beyond which something stated will happen.