No matter what you look like or where you live, we all spend our lives searching for the same thing.

Today we have an epidemic of people wasting time and money by searching for happiness in all the wrong places. The Whens is revolutionary because its simple message can teach us where to find happiness now.

Who are your Whens? To meet them, all you need to do is complete the following sentence: I'll be happy when . . .

Chances are you have no trouble coming up with a whole page of answers. But every answer is the same: Happy when instead of happy now.

The Whens are the brain child of my husband and emerging children's book author Steve Hanson. The idea came one night while we were both chatting about how I thought I'd be happy when I lost 30 pounds, but I actually wasn't. I felt confused and annoyed that a belief I had had since childhood (thin people were happy), wasn't true. At first I thought I was the problem -- maybe I hadn't set my goal weight low enough -- but that's when it hit us: it wasn't the goal weight but rather the whole system that was wrong. That's when my husband reached for his notepad and penned The Whens.

In our classic book, The Whens are monsters that come in all different colors and sizes, just like our "I'll be Happy Whens...". Our book encourages you to be brave enough to step off their trail and search for what actually gives you a long lasting smile in life.

When Steve first read me his book, I was excited by how he had condensed and simplified a very complicated idea about being happy now so that it could be accessible to young (and busy) people alike.

The next person to read the book was my sister, Louisa, who got goose bumps everywhere. She felt it could be a life changing book if only it had the right images. That's when she devoted almost a year of her spare time to create the perfect pictures, even though that often meant staying up until one am after long days of caring for her three children.

The Creative Voyagers are excited about The Whens because it's a great starting point to talk to older children about the best ways to find their own happiness. Hopefully this is a concept that can help people change the direction of their life to a much happier path.

Copies of The Whens are available at www.CreativeVoyagers.com.

- Natasha