Dr. Stuart Atkins,
a behavioral scientist, consulted with and developed
Self-improvement programs for Fortune 500 companies, small business, churches, government, hospitals and universities. He created the Life Orientations® Method, LIFO® for short, to help people improve personal effectiveness, relationships, and manage stress. This program has been used by over 8 million people and 20,000 organizations worldwide. He taught personal effectiveness, communication, leadership, and human factors in management at UCLA and the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science.

"I have read a lot of helpful stress books about health and getting rid of stress with yoga, exercise or meditation. But this book takes the next step and helps you get rid of the problems that cause stress in the first place."

"The solutions techniques work with all kinds of problems. What helped very much was the chance to actually work the techniques on my own problems after I read about them."

"I liked being able to learn to tolerate some of my stressful problems when they couldn’t be solved right away—or at all."

"It opened my eyes when I read about the four temptations. Who would have thought you could create your own stress when you help too much, do too much, over think problems, or try pleasing too many people."

"I never realized how much of my stress came from people rubbing me the wrong way. Like my husband and me, we have different ways of doing things. We learned why we get stressed with each other--even though there’s lots of love. Now we know what to do."