Success should equal happiness. It's not about all the bling, expensive cars, big houses. It's about what's in your heart, and what makes you smile.

For a lot of us the words success, growth, and change can be extremely frightening! They can be some of the hardest roads we will go down in life, and you’ve got to want that success, growth, and change as much as you want the air you breathe!

My name is Charles Smith, and I have had to make some serious changes in my life to be in addiction recovery since 1993, and I have lived with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder since the age of six years old. I have overcome homelessness in the early 2000s and an orphan most of my life. All of this has not stopped the fire inside my heart though. In fact, it’s the fuel that keeps me going, because I never forget where I came from.

Over the past few years, I have written multiple self-help books, like Operation: T.I.P.P. Trauma-Informed Program Plus for people dealing with PTSD and Operation: Battle of a Lifetime for people in addiction recovery, and now Operation: Awaken for all of you! This book is for anyone wanting to be successful, to grow into the person you know in your heart you can be, and to change your life for the better....