If you don’t know, you better ask somebody, are words frequently uttered by Steve Lockett, a man of impeccable taste whose uncanny ability to sense trouble is without peer. “Tale-tell Steve,” as he is know to friends, is a purist in every sense of word. Not one to sugar coat his words, when Steve talks, everybody listens.

A graduate of School of Hard Knocks, Steve’s life is based on shrewd principles immortalized in Lockett Code of Ethics. 1) If you are unhappy about certain parts of your life, stop whining. Instead, do something to make it more joyous and less stressful; 2) Mind your own business and stay hell out of mine; 3) I don’t take directions, I give directions; 4) Believe none of what you hear, none of what you see and try like crazy to figure out truth; 5) Think success. Think happiness. Think prosperity and forget rest of bull crap; 6) Life is a trip and I intend to make mine a fabulous safari with an adventurous journey. With a philosophy like that, it’s no wonder I was intrigued when he relayed to me secret to happiness 24 hours, seven days a weeks. After hearing his secrets I decided to add a few of my own. So I began this chapter, with two words, Life sucks. That is a statement everyone has uttered at some point in their lives. But is it life that sucks, or fact that we suck joy out of life?