Conversations Beyond Science and Religion A Contract with Life

Published: Nov. 10, 2014, 5 a.m.

b'Without vision the people perish, and without goals there is nowhere to go. \\xa0But to reach any goal -- whether getting a better job or \\xa0reaching enlightenment --- it helps to have a plan: a way to get from here to there. \\xa0In his new book,\\xa0My Life Contract, this week\\u2019s guest, Joel Fotinos, distills bookshelves of self-help advice and gives a straightforward method to defining and then reaching your goals.\\xa0 You enter into a contract with Life. This contract, like all deals, is two-way: you do your part and Life does its. \\xa0And the beauty is that the contracting party -- namely, Life itself -- has an unlimited supply of energy and is asking us to reach higher than we ever imagined. \\xa0Listen in as Philip and Joel probe this new approach to achieve want we want, while leaving an important job to a higher power.
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