As the head of an organization in Belgium known as Bond Zonder Naam. "Organization Without a Name", Phil Bosmans reaches out to people who have problems they find dilficult or impossible to cope with. And as an extension of this personal counselling service, the telephone answering service which he established handles up to 600 calls daily from people who simply need those fen comforting words, gain some sympathethic understanding, or put back into their lives an overall sense of order and perspective.

Such wonderful results were achieved through this service that there emerged a definite need for his positive thoughts on life, so universal, so true, to be set down on paper. Editions of Cive Happiness a Chance have been published in Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian and Spanish. This is its first South-East Asian edition. A phenomenal number of 250,000 copies were sold in Germany alone, and it outsold all other Dutch books of this century.