Stop Improving Yourself and Start Living Author:Roberta Jean Bryant Stop improving yourself? What an un-American idea! What kind of a person would suggest such a thing? The author is a veteran self-improvement junkie. There is more to life than perpetual self-improvement, more to living than the frantic pursuit of recovery. Integration is the goal. When you give up the illusory purs... more »uit of happiness through self-improvement, you begin to experience the enjoyment of freedom. It is important to know the difference between true recovery and temporary self-improvement. The whole point of this book is not to perpetuate the joyless quest for self-improvement, but to encourage you to upgrade the quality of your daily life as you help yourself to the freedom of creativity, joy, and well-being.« less