Mary Jesse, author of Real World Guide To Happiness, and President and CEO of the publishing company, Hexagon Blue, has written a very practical guide to assuming control and responsibility over your own life.

This sixty-four-page book is packed with paragraph after paragraph of common sense: some are reminders of life lessons that had been all too soon forgotten and some are fresh methods of dealing with the many stressors that life offers. The book is easy to pick up and read, with each idea set off by a summarizing thought. The reader will feel both a sense of comfort and encouragement as the pages are turned.

While there are no earth-shattering new ideas here, there is plenty of down-to-earth common sense, which is rare enough in our times. Additionally, Ms. Jesse takes the reader to quiet task about accepting responsibility for one’s own actions and feelings, about being responsible for one’s own well being.

The Real World Guide To Happiness is a welcome addition in a genre that is often self-assuming and grandiose; the reader will find none of either here, just a pleasant reading experience.