A Life Worth Living

This is review #5 in my free book review series. I enjoy personal development books and websites. I like it when I’m encouraged to think and look at things in a different way. So when I had an opportunity to review “A Life Worth Living”, by William F. Giruzzi, I seized it.

This is a rather short book at 114 pages, that revolves around the main theme of our thoughts creating our situations.  Therefore my review will be somewhat short as well. The beginning of the book starts with an example asking us to draw a line between two points on a piece of paper. Most everyone draws a straight line. Even though the pathways between the two points are actually unlimited, everyone draws the same path.

So why were we limited to this one path, when so many exist? These limitations seem to exist in our minds. These same limitations in our minds limit the way in which we choose to live our lives.  This concept, I enjoyed, because I do believe, that how we think, affects our actions, and our actions are what create our circumstances. So far, I’m in agreement.

Then it gets even better and talks about how people spend 30 or 40 years working in jobs that they say they hate. They complain at work, and complain about going to work, and dream about, quitting time, weekends, and vacation time. Then the author asks, “why people continue doing something they don’t really enjoy for such a long periods of time”? Why would they choose this? Then a light bulb goes off, they must of thought they had no choice at all.

Which makes a nice point about how the choices we choose create our way of life. Each chapter builds with examples, from illustrations to short stories that emphasize new points and concepts along this line. There are also exercises and questions at the end of each chapter to help the reader discover their own thought processes.

Then things get a little more complicated when the concept of a creating a new paradigm is introduced. Saying that what we are experiencing now is our life in this design. This design of life that was created by our thought processes and those before us.

I love the concept of our decisions creating the life we currently have, and changing our thoughts can change our lives, or even better, we can use our thoughts to create the life we want. But, I get a little lost when Giruzzi starts speaking of creating a new paradigm. A paradigm, so that our way of life is designed so that good things happen naturally for people.

From the middle on this is the main point of the book. And that all sounds well and good. But I almost feel like I’m missing a concept. Good things happening naturally for people sounds great. Giruzzi emphasizes this new paradigm several times.  I almost feel like I am missing part of the puzzle, or he is intentionally leaving out part of where he is going with this.

Over all this book poses some thought provoking questions and creates some nice points that I agree with. The good things happening naturally for people plan sounds nice but didn’t quite resonate with me for some reason. But it’s a quick read, and getting people to think differently and open their minds is a good thing. It’s possible that my life experience is so different than Giruzzi’s that his new paradigm doesn’t work for me, or maybe I’m just reading too much into it.

If you read the book you can decide for yourself. You can find out more about William F. Giruzzi and A Life Worth Living at his at A Life Worth Living Now.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Related posts:

1. Living Life
2. The Power Of Less
3. Making Better Decisions
4. Personal Development For Smart People By Steve Pavlina – Book Review #2
5. Why Worry? The Adventures of Bay Bob A Loo Bop