If you're like most people, you can't afford to charter a yacht to the Bahamas on a moment's notice, nor can you take a week off work to attend a soul-cleansing spiritual retreat. So how is the busy, everyday, hard-working person supposed to find joy and passion in life?

This is exactly the problem that Neil A. Panosian has spent most of his life trying to solve. A bartender and postal worker, the author felt uncomfortable with the rampant negativity in the world today and wanted to turn this discontent into something constructive-something the average person could use to increase their...