Marilyn Schott was a highly successful Senior Vice President of a Commercial Real Estate Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to the Sarasota area of Florida in 1999 after a life threatening illness of nearly a year long treatment. Her surgeon told her that she was really going to get to known herself with the next year ahead. This really infuriated Marilyn as she was already a successful person and knew herself well. However, once the treatments began, she soon found herself with extra time on her hands when she would have to wait up to three hours for her oncologist, who she was happy to do since this doctor was the best of the best. Marilyn found herself journaling a lot, reading a lot of self-help books, and implementing ideas. Marilyn learned about writing about your day before it ever began as if the day was already over. She wrote about the week before it ever began as if it were already Friday. She filled her journals with what went really well and how could she have created something even better. The year 1998, she ended earning more in her real estate business and ended up making more money in her speaking and training business that the previous 6 years since she had officially began operating her training business. In 2004 and 2005, Marilyn published her findings with Insight Publishing from Sieverville, TN. One of them being, Happiness is a Decision of the Heart; the other Career Developement Strategies that Work. The training business came as a result of her success with real estate and in 1987 was named "Who's Who in Real Estate" quite a deal in conservative Cincinnati with her being only one of many half dozen women in commission only in commercial real estate. Marilyn had a number of groups talk about journals, the selection, color, feel, topics, etc. and found that many liked writing about their lives via the decade of their life. When asked to write for 10 minutes on decade one, two, or three, most people wrote about decade two and talked frankly about that being one of the most difficult times of their lives by being taunted about their flaws or supposed flaws. The journalers were quite interested to learn this. Also, researchers learned that when men and women slow down their thougts which run between 400 to 700 words a minute, to 75 to 125 words a minute, they found that people were more likely to write from their hearts, not from their heads. They also found when a person had been traumatized by an event or tragedy or molestation, that the person was more reconciled of the situation a year later than the people who had merely talked to a counselor or psychotherapist. Read this book and learn what you didn't know you didn't know. You will find yourself quite surprised by this practice.