Book excerpt: Your Life Is Like A Paper Bag In a concise, inspiring, and sometimes-humorous fashion, Your Life Is Like A Paper Bag teaches us everything we need to know if we are to cope successfully with the challenges of life: big and small, work and play, relationships and ourselves. Written from an Adlerian perspective, Paper Bag is hopeful and encouraging. Using a deceptively simple analogy, Your Life Is Like A Paper Bag empowers us to radically alter our responses to the challenges of daily living. It encourages us to make the choices and take the actions necessary in creating a life that we find meaningful and fulfilling. It gently leads us to the answers we are seeking and provides a language - paper bag language - for couples, parents, counselors and supervisors to use in teaching, training and sharing.