Living Happily Ever After: Creating Trust, Luck, and Joy

by Marsha Sinetar

Introduces creative adaptation, an innovative approach to coping with the adversity and problems of life, explaining how a positive attitude toward change and challenge can enhance one's life

235 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

I began my professional life as a first-grade teacher, and quickly fell in love with the whole wide world of learning -- particularly learning how to learn, and how to love learning. Our favorite authors must share that love. My published biographical notes show that I moved through the ranks of public instruction- including administration, curriculum design, and more--, then followed the Divine prompt to start my own leadership firm -- mostly for the private sector, Fortune 500 types. I still serve in an advisory, ombudsman-"sounding board" fashion, still love that work, sensing that, in a way, we're somehow all just kids at heart, living in a lesson world, and learning our greater strengths, capacities, wisdom every day.

Writing developed as I matured. As did my pen-and-ink art, etchings, graphics and such. Although I have a good formal education, it's clear that when we love what we do -- be it parenting, truck driving, technology, theology, crafts, or cooking -- we'll learn what we need in surprising, often self-governing, intuitive ways. The older I get, the more I trust that "small, still voice" within to guide my own learning-- academic or otherwise.

Reviews

[Shavawn M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living Happily Ever After is a book that can (and will) change your life, if you read it when you are ready and open to its message. It has been 'calling me' from the shelf in the living room for a few weeks now. Whenever I looked at its spine, I would have this feeling that I should pull it down and finally read it. (I am a big believer that we read books at the right time.) Note: I've had this book for over twenty years without so much as cracking it open even once. I needed to read it right now. That much is quite clear. Sinetar's notion that we can learn to creatively and resolutely solve our own problems, while at the same time creating trust and luck and joy in our lives, is completely resonant with my experiences over the past year. If I'd read this book at 35 (when I bought it) instead of 55, I am not sure I would have understood the answers I got from it. I am reminded of Rainer Maria Rilke's admonition that sometimes we have to 'live the questions' before we can 'live our way into' the answers. I am thankful that Ms. Sinetar wrote this prescient, life-affirming, life-altering book. I highly recommend it.

[Fran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Early skills and strategies, mastering the basics, relishing challenges and slaying our demons are just a few ways the author gently coaxs us toward the understanding that change is possible. My personal book is filled with pages of highlighted inspiration to help me look at my life from a different, more positive point of view.