Are you looking for a vehicle to break through the roadblocks and detours that have sidetracked you on life's highway? "One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity By Following Your Dreams" presents the inspiring stories of 16 people who have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in order to live into their dreams. Through their powerful stories, these dreamers share a road map guiding the reader to discover how to live their life with vision, courage, determination and passion. Incorporating holistic self-assessment tools and self-motivational techniques, "One Door Closes" will help you to develop the skills to take 100% responsibility for your life, as you clarify and set your goals-and then use the power you already have within to achieve those goals. Enhance your sense of worth as an individual Learn why it is important to check in with yourself periodically as a blueprint for a more satisfied and productive career and personal life Identify your true passion Discover how to reach your dreams AND be inspired!

Using personal stories of failure and rejection from celebrities such as Michael Jordan, Robert Merrill, Elton John, Ed Asner, Carol Burnett, Katarina Witt, Walter Cronkite, and others, this encouraging book illustrates how painful experiences can change lives for the better--how setbacks can open the door to new opportunities.

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to accept the father who has walked out on his family.

When One Door CLOSES Another Door OPENS Doors speak of opportunities, chances or possibilities. We hit good fortunes when good doors open. The difference between struggling and being favoured is DOORS. We all pray for seasons of open doors when heaven smiles on us and we enter the arena of celebration.

Follow my journey from joy to despair and back to joy. It was 1986. I'd been a single mother for five years, super-bonding with my daughters Emily and Elizabeth, ages twelve and six. I was a school librarian, taking courses toward administrative certification. I had good friends and a social life of sorts. I swore I'd never marry again. Enter Dan, recently separated with two young sons. Romance and passion exploded and we became a Brady Bunch family. Then the Northwest Flight 255 crashed outside Detroit, and my world fell apart. Building another life was my biggest challenge.

When One Door Closes is Christopher J. Scarver's fifth book. It is unique, because it combines his original poetry with some of the special quotes that helped him navigate through rough times in hell. They brought light into his little corner of the dark underworld of the American prison system, a system that commonly crushes so many fallen American citizens.With this book, Mr. Scarver seeks to help newly incarcerated men and women, young and old, to understand the darkness created by closed doors and give them the encouragement to use their time as an opportunity to grow into someone better than they were before those doors closed, so that they will be prepared and equipped to open new and better doors, windows, hearts, minds, etc. Though intended for imprisoned citizens, it can actually help anyone who is going through hard times.

A Liverpool boy from the same cohort as John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, Peter Sissons was destined for great things. Then he was caught on the wrong side of rebel lines during the Nigerian Civil War and shot through both legs his blossoming career as a war reporter came abruptly to an end. But another door was about to open, and Sissons went on to guide a generation through every momentous event of the last forty-five years. Surprisingly funny, dramatic and often poignant, When One Door Closes is the bestselling story of Britain's most distinguished newsreader and reveals what he really thinks about the state of the British media, global affairs, Climategate and the workings of the BBC.