"What are you waiting for?" exclaims author Jim Donovan in the opening of his new book, This is Your Life, Not a Dress Rehearsal. "Do it now! Whatever it is you have been putting off, do it. This is your life; it's not a dress rehearsal!"

After reminding readers that life is precious, he sets out to show us how to make the most of it with ideas and techniques he has used in his own life.

Not just a teacher of remote philosophical principles, Jim Donovan is a person who has been there. He has been to the bottom and back and has sunk to some of the lowest points a human being can go - mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, and financially.

Today a speaker and successful author of the best seller, Handbook to a Happier Life, Jim has indeed "walked the walk." He used the principles taught in this book to bring him out of his despair - all the way to his current successful and happy life.