It Is ...What It Is

About the Book

Thank you for taking the time to read this book’s introduction or at least the first few lines. If you have bought my book, thank you and please enjoy, and if you are considering buying it, I hope you enjoy this free introduction. I also hope you will keep reading long enough for me to make the sale, and if you are lucky, you might even learn something new. If you have no intentions of buying and are just looking for free reading material, you can get lost. Just kidding! You are also welcome to read as much as desired.

People looking for a motivational book to make them feel good about themselves by telling them what I think they want to hear should keep on surfing or put the book back on the shelf. I am not a motivational speaker, and that’s not what this book is about. I refuse to tell people what they want to hear just to make them feel better. Instead, I like to tell people what they need to hear. If strong or truthfully blunt language offends you, turn around now before it’s too late because I like to tell it like it is, and I don’t have time to candy coat things or be politically correct. My Southern Baptist youth leaders will most definitely notice that I often use minor curse words throughout this book (if any curse word can really be considered minor). I apologize upfront for using the curse words, but sometimes, "golly gee, Wally" simply isn't enough. Just so you know, the following curse words are used to a small extent: darn, damn, hell, heck, ass, and crap (forgive me if I left any out). Depending on my mood at the time, these are as bad as my profanity gets in this particular book, and if you can stomach these, you are okay. This book will probably make you laugh, and it may even make you feel good about life. But these are not its goals.

It is each person’s responsibility to seek out the right answers to life’s challenges. Again, although I give my point of view quite frequently, this book is not about my opinion, what I think, or even how I feel about life. It is about “what is.” Each problem, question, or situation has a specific and predetermined solution, but many people are unable to find the correct solution because they have listened to others or they have simply followed what they have always thought to be true without learning the real truth on their own. You never know where the answer originated unless you research it for yourself, and sometimes, when searching for the answers, we just need to start from scratch. Again, just like every action causes a specific reaction, every question has an answer. There may be many different ways to describe the correct answers to life’s questions, but there is still only one correct and simple answer. Life was made to be simple; humans have complicated it. Most of us have probably heard the term “gray area” used in various conversations. Gray areas may exist, but at some point in the middle of the gray area black must meet white thus making everything either this or that. The concept of losing weight, for example, is so simple, but we have allowed ourselves to be suckered by the media, infomercials, and diet experts to the point that we don’t know what is right or what is wrong. These people may or may not have your best interests in mind so you have to ensure your best interests are secured. By the way, an expert is someone who takes something simple and makes it so darn hard that no one but the expert can understand it anymore. Anyway, no matter what the out of work actor on the infomercial says, there is only one way to lose weight: burn off more calories than you store. A calorie is a unit of energy, and you are constantly burning units of energy to keep your body going. If you don’t use all the energy you eat, your body stores it in fat. Your body does not store fat as fat, but it stores calories in fat. Once more, our body does not burn fat, it does not store fat, and fat will not make you fat.

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About the Author

Roger D. Key was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1967. In 1985, Roger enlisted in the Marine Corps where he completed two tours of Southeast Asia and spent seven months on the front lines of Desert Storm. Roger left the Marines to attend college in Fort Worth where he earned an Associate degree in Business Management. While in college, he worked as a security supervisor at the Fort Worth Zoo. In 1996, Roger became the marketing manager for Five Star Contractors, Inc. He was later promoted to vice-president of marketing and voted to their board of directors. Roger left the company in 1999 to become a freelance writer.