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 is one half of the book and CD set HELP AND HOPE. The CD, PIECE OF THE PUZZLE (12 Songs of Hope) - available separately - is Christopher's fifth CD. It's a fully-produced album featuring a dozen of his most popular original songs, celebrating human strength, insight and heart. By turns funny, inspirational and always thought-provoking, Piece of the Puzzle reminds us that no matter what the challenge, we can prevail. The songs and CD can be sampled or purchased at christopherkent.com or through your favorite online music outlet. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In addition to being an award-winning songwriter and long-time performer, recording artist and songwriting teacher, Christopher Kent is a professional writer who has authored more than 150 published how-to, science and general-interest articles. HELP AND HOPE is his first book and CD set.