Is There More To Life Than Just This? 10 Simple Steps for Solving Your Mystery Questions of Life and Unlocking Your Happiness

By Vince Guaglione

“Is there more to life than just this?” 

How many of us have asked ourselves this question, or something similar, at least once during our lives?  How often have we looked for the answers, found none, then came away with even more questions than when we first started?  How many times have we thrown our hands up in defeat and said, "I give up! This is just the way life goes and this is how it's always going to be," and have wondered why this cycle seems to repeat? 

Once you entertain the possibility that there may actually be more to life than you think, and refuse to settle for what you believe to be your status quo, you start down a rabbit hole: one that is both interesting and confusing at the same time. 

If you've ever asked yourself any of the following questions:

“What do the things I really want always seem to elude me?”
“Why aren’t I having success in my life?”
“What is going to make me happy?”
“Why does everyone else seem happier than me?”
“Is there more to life than just this?”

you have started down a path that seems to have no end in sight. But there is a way forward.

Questions such as these make us take pause.  Over time, they weigh us down, gradually tugging at us until we feel that we need to do something to effect change.  But how do we do make that change?  And to take this one step further, once we are able to answer these questions, are there steps we can put into practice to achieve this desired change?  

This book will give you the tools you need to identify, understand, and process your mystery question of life, and provide simple but powerful strategies that, when put into practice, will aid you in both resolving your specific questions and enhancing your level of self-awareness, making solving any future questions that much easier when they arise.

To get at the answers to life questions as difficult as these takes work, but the 10 steps presented in this book will demystify the questions and simplify the process, and will give you the tools you need to realize positive change as you continue your journey through this thing we call life. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vince Guaglione
• Release date: Sep 12, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386766438

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Is There More To Life Than Just This?

10 Simple Steps for Solving Your Mystery Questions of Life and Unlocking Your Happiness

Vince Guaglione

Text copyright ©2017 Vincent P. Guaglione

All Rights Reserved

For

those who refuse to settle for being satisfied with the status quo

Acknowledgements

Thanks goes out to Korine, Jasper, Andrew, Heather, Mel, and the entire crew at Starbucks Brier Creek. This is my fifth year contemplation my mystery questions of life from the friendly confines of the promenade, and the warmth and friendliness you have shown me as I have put my thoughts to paper never go unnoticed.

As always, I would like to thank my copy editor, A.D. Reed. Not only does he correct my grammar and punctuation, but he provides great insight in helping me become a better writer.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 – The Mystery Questions Of Life

Down The Rabbit Hole

How We Become Aware Of Them

Why Do They Bother Us So Much?

Where Do They Come From?

What They Really Mean

2 – How Do These Questions Make Us Feel When We Think About Them?

3 – A Shared Characteristic: Deep and Thought Provoking

4 – Your Goal

5 – The Steps

Step 1: Define Your Question

Step 2: Get Specific With It

Step 3: Think Back To When It First Started

Step 4: Ask Why This Is Bothering You

Step 5: Become Fully Aware Of Your Emotions

Step 6: Embrace Those Emotions Fully

Step 7: Examine Your Life

Step 8: Do Some Research

Step 9: Make A Plan

Step 10: Execute

6 – The Aftermath

7 – Summing It Up

About the Author

Introduction

This is it! Or so I thought. These three simple words held the key to everything I thought I knew about myself, my life, and, most of all, my personal fulfillment. A project I had just completed, for which I was now patting myself on the back, turned out to be so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that to this day, I can’t even remember what it was that I had worked on. But at the time, it was my holy grail.

What was significant was that, in my mind, it represented the final, essential step I could take that would at least allow me to feel the way I wanted to feel about myself. This incredible sense of accomplishment would validate me, and would also give me that sense of gratification that I’d been seeking for as long as I could remember. This moment was my springboard into a life of contentment and bliss. It couldn’t have been any simpler.

Having snapped that final piece of my life’s puzzle into place, I sat back, let out a sigh of exhilaration, and basked in the moment—the moment I thought would last forever. But minutes later, the excitement wore off and I found myself in the exact same place I had been before I started. It was all too familiar territory, and it cast a looming shadow of despair on my