Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune

Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune presents a powerful set of ideas and strategies designed to help you avoid 10 of life’s biggest pitfalls, both practical and psychological – pitfalls that can sideline you and undermine your efforts to create the life you’d like to be living. A compendium of real-life stories and examples, combined with the latest research (along with 15 illustrations, tables and charts), Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune shows what can go wrong in life; why it often does; and how you can avoid missteps, or recover from them if you’re already caught on the Wheel of Misfortune. Using the ideas in this book, you can become a passionate, effective, adaptable and caring person, in good times or hard times – while creating the life you want.

Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune presents a powerful set of ideas and strategies designed to help you avoid 10 of life’s biggest pitfalls, both practical and psychological – pitfalls that can sideline you and undermine your efforts to create the life you’d like to be living. A compendium of real-life stories and examples, combined with the latest research (along with 15 illustrations, tables and charts), Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune shows what can go wrong in life; why it often does; and how you can avoid missteps, or recover from them if you’re already caught on the Wheel of Misfortune. Using the ideas in this book, you can become a passionate, effective, adaptable and caring person, in good times or hard times – while creating the life you want.

Christopher Kent is a long-time singer-songwriter and recording artist; he is also a professional writer and editor who has authored more than 150 published how-to, science and general-interest articles. Staying Off the Wheel of Misfortune is one half of "Help and Hope" — his first book and CD set. As a young musician Christopher spent four years touring North America, Europe and Japan with the American Boychoir, where he received intensive training in voice and music theory. In high school and college he taught himself to play guitar and began writing songs and performing in local venues. During this time he also began writing essays and short novels and developed a lifelong interest in human behavior, leading to a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Haverford College. After college he moved to New York City where he continued to nurture his twin interests in music and writing. In the ensuing years he became a winner of the New York Songwriters’ Competition, held at that time by the major music publishers of New York, and performed in clubs throughout the region; he also taught a highly praised songwriting course for five years. Meanwhile, he helped pay the rent by creating educational materials for several companies, eventually becoming a staff writer for two science/medical trade magazines. Christopher has previously released two albums and two CD singles, most recently an original Christmas carol called Songs of the Season. He is currently working on his second book & CD set, as well as a how-to songwriting book based on the course he taught in New York. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Lynn. (To learn more about Christopher, sample some of his articles, read lyrics and hear some of his previous recordings, visit christopherkent.com.)