To Live and Love Your Life: Prioritizing to Have Fun

By Marco Pertici

This book represents a very exciting part of my personal journey and has been written to better understand our existence on this blue planet. This book has also been written with the desire to share my personal ideas with others and to start a dialogue in the hope of improving our everyday lives.

The three sections of the book all have the same goal which is to define as well as eventually find happiness. The first part of the book explains how to organize your life with the prioritizing process and describes the human needs, wants, and hopes. The second part explains how to maximize flexibility and minimize stress to find happiness, and the third part explains our existence on earth and the rationale behind the meaning of life.

This book obviously represents my personal understanding of life and will hopefully help some individuals who are looking for a refreshing way to look at our brief passage on earth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Feb 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490754888

Marco Pertici

Passionate about life and driven by his Italian father’s curiosity and tenacity, Marco is a very positive individual thanks also to his sensitive and pragmatic French Canadian mother. An active childhood in a cosmopolitan environment just north of Montreal led to a bachelor of science in architecture at McGill University. He’s always looking for an exciting and suitable lifestyle and travels around the world, and ten wonderful years in the Rockies got him to a peaceful and outdoorsy community in the Columbia Valley. Even though he’s far from his father and sister, Marco makes the most out of life in a gorgeous mountain setting and continues to grow on this exciting journey.

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Contents

Acknowlegments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 To Live Your Life

Chapter 2 To Love Your Life

Chapter 3 Your Life

ACKNOWLEGMENTS

Writing and publishing this book has been a very enriching experience. Thanks to a lot of kind people who have helped me along the way, the entire project turned out to be extremely pleasant.

I would especially like to thank my editor and my illustrator who have been key to the quality of the end result. Anne Champagne’s editing experience and knowledge brought some very interesting modifications to the book. The editing process just like the design of the cover both ended up being very enjoyable and constructive team efforts. Shannon Robinson’s artistic flair and imagination brought a whole new light to the original sketch for the cover of the book.

I would also like to thank the CKCA who helped me financially with a very welcome grant to allow the book to be published.

PREFACE

My life is my wealth and is precious to me and that is the reason why I want to take good care of it. My hunger to satisfy and fulfill my existence has pushed me to become very inquisitive and it is that curiosity that has driven me to develop concepts aimed at understanding our existence on earth.

This book results from the will to explain and understand better all of those concepts about life and represents my love for life and my desire to improve our quality of life. The pyramid, the triangle and the loop illustrate the three main components of the book and will, hopefully, help you find happiness in your life.

Needless to say, the ideas put forward obviously reflect and remain my own perspective and understanding of the world. Those concepts might not jibe with your own vision of things but will hopefully still reach, in some way or form, some individuals looking for a different way to approach day-to-day living.

INTRODUCTION

This book is meant to be a celebration of life and is about improving our existence using the endless potential we all have as human beings. It is not meant to have religious connotations and personal religious beliefs will not be discussed. This book will rather concentrate on the universal search for happiness and for a better life.

The question of the existence of a god or of some superior power is irrelevant. Here is a great way to put it which clarifies this point: It is pretentious to say that there is no god and also pretentious to say that there is a god.

This book will focus on humankind and on enjoying ourselves. The title To live and love your life represents the different sections of the book. Firstly, To live, as in how to live your life, will explain the human needs, wants and hopes as well as the prioritizing process. Secondly, love, as in how to love your life, will explain how to be flexible and avoid stress to have fun and find happiness. And finally, your life, as in your life and existence, will explain our existence on earth as I see it and the rationale behind the meaning of life.

Chapter 1

TO LIVE YOUR LIFE

This first chapter represents the foundation of the book and will explain how to prioritize. The prioritizing process will help you organize your life to make the most out of it. In order to organize your life to enjoy it to the fullest, you have to