Living Within Yourself

About the Book

This book is about the personal paradigms in our lives—the powerful underlying concepts and perceptions that shape our future life and how these mold our attitudes toward commitment. The book holds out the promise that these paradigms can be adjusted through personal experiences and work on one’s self, including self-examination and the help of outsiders. Important relationship ingredients are covered in the book, including personal agendas that each partner has for entering the relationship and the importance of honestly sharing these agendas in both the premarital and postmarital phases of one’s relationship. The book claims that letting go of the past so that both partners are free to grasp the present and future is important. And the author describes in good detail his own experiences in this area and the struggles that one can go through until he or she can finally let go of past relationships and childhood attachments that impair the ability to let go and accept the present and reach toward the future. The book also deals with the matter of intimacy, its parameters, and why it is a vital bonding agent in relationships. It explains some of the common reasons why intimacy may not be fully achieved and what can be done about it in order to reach a fuller and richer relationship. Finally and, ultimately, the most important behavior that the book encourages everyone to learn is to live within themselves; that is, within their physical, emotional, intellectual, and financial boundaries in order to reach and enjoy contentment. If you are seeking answers to these questions and conditions for living more comfortably, this book is for you!

About the Author

The author is William R. (Bob) Jack. Bob is a native Californian, born January 4, 1941, in Santa Monica, California. Bob is married and lives in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife, Jane. He has two surviving children by his first marriage. James, who lives in Southern California with his wife, Nery, and two children, Chris and Niki; and his daughter, also Niki, who lives in Wyoming with her husband, Dave, with two children, Zach and Rick . Bob grew up in Southern California in the San Gabriel Valley area, not far from Los Angeles. Bob’s youngest son, Chris, was killed in a pedestrian accident in Bakersfield, California, at age twenty-three in 1997. Bob graduated from Citrus High School and Citrus College in Glendora, California, and received his BA degree in economics from California State University at Los Angeles. He later went on to earn an MBA degree from Azusa Pacific University and a master of science degree in advanced management from Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School. Bob’s career spanned forty years in the various management positions in the aerospace, petroleum, academic research, nuclear energy, and engineering fields. He spent the last twenty-four years of his career at a global engineering and construction company in Pasadena, California. He is presently retired and spends his time traveling and writing. Bob’s political works are frequently published in the Washington Times and Las Vegas Sun and are also published in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and the LA Times. Bob has authored two books. One about his son Chris named A Night in Darkness: The Drug Addicted Child and this book, Living Within Yourself.