"No matter what your current achievements or future aspirations, the advice in this book can save you years of hard learning"--Back cover

Coming-of-age is complicated by coming-out in personal essays leavened with humor, generosity, and all the awkward indignities of growing up.

Lots of people go through their entire life and never find answers to the questions they've always wondered about. Wolff shares a guide, a sort of "Here's something you may have forgotten or never even thought about" kind of written friend, whose only purpose is to help readers see their lives and those in it a little differently.

If I Only Knew Then, What I Know Now covers the life experiences and promises of Australia Williams. It tells the story of a young woman active in her church and academically set to excel. Yet her path changes and this promise of a wonderful life turns into a quagmire of pain and deceit because of the choices that she makes due to her naivety. Lois Dais-Kelley has captured the essence of how a person goes through the various stages; wonder and excitement, betrayal and deceit; and then she shows how if you reconnect with the Lord, He will place you on the right path.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash. Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am—that so many women are—is just the best time of my life." Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self—and all of us—that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose—not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."

If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now gives eye-opening and revealing answers to an age-old question: ?What do I wish someone had told me when I first became a born-again believer that could have helped me from falling and crawling in my Christian walk?? It is a discussion on many different fronts, challenging believers to move from stale, stagnant Christianity toward a more stable, mature, and meaningful relationship with the Lord.The principles in this book can be used every day by everyone who is a new creature in Christ, from a newborn babe up to the most seasoned veteran in the spiritual battle for the cause of the gospel. There is something to be learned by everyone, appealing to both the young and old in the faith who name Jesus Christ as their Savior.

There is strength and promise within these pages to inspire any reader seeking to find quality of life. Join us on our journey as we courageously share our heartfelt stories about what we have learned through life lessons and trial and error. If I Knew Then What I Know Now is a compilation of our experiences, things we have done, observations we have made and what we have discovered. "I am honored to have been chosen to be a part of this amazing quality of life project. This book is a testament to a single radiant Spirit who, years ago, visualized and set a goal to help more than one million people live a better Life. Doreen lives the mantra of "People Helping People," and this book intensifies her vision and her dream. The stories written in If I Knew Then What I Know Now came straight from the souls of people wanting to help other people while, unknowingly, helping themselves in the process. These heartfelt stories will give you courage and inspiration to explore your own life-while loving and accepting others even more.Thank you, Doreen for your vision and for your tenacity. I'm one of your biggest fans " Love, Rebecca L. Norrington, Happiness Specialist P.S. You have already changed the world with this book.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-changing guide to finding your direction—and your passion—in a world of seemingly limitless options “For those who want to find their passion . . . a step-by-step guide for restructuring one’s life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.”—Ellen Kreidman, author of Light His Fire and Light Her Fire If you suspect there could be more to life than what you’re getting, if you always knew you could do anything—if you only knew what it was—this extraordinary book is about to prove you right. No matter what your age, no matter how “unattainable” your dreams, you can create and live a life you love. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was reveals how you can recapture “long lost” goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams forever. You will learn: • What to do if you never chose to be what you are. • How to get off the fast track—and on to the right track. • First aid techniques for paralyzing chronic negativity. • How to regroup when you've lost your big dream. • To stop waiting for luck—and start creating it. A life without direction is a life without passion. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was guides you not to another unsatisfying job but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart’s desire.

Making the best choices in every aspect of our lives is of the utmost importance. In this manuscript, I would like to share with you, the readers, some examples of difficult areas in our lives in which we face that are most challenging such as, raising children and teenagers, choosing the right mate in marriage, dealing with depression, finding forgiveness, suffering, drug and alcohol addiction, control issues, etc. The decisions we make can affect our lives for decades and sometimes generations. It is my hope that after reading this manuscript, you will begin reflecting on how you respond to life's tests, trials, and misfortunes. Furthermore, it is my hope that following such reflections, you will consider just how important is every decision you make. It is my sincere intention for all the readers of this book to gain insight into finding wise responses early on by doing the right thing before we make mistakes.