Book excerpt: We make choices every moment of our lives. We choose what to eat, what to wear, how to spend our time, what TV we will watch, with whom we will spend time. We make hundreds of choices each day as we meander through our lives. But there is another choice we must make each day - perhaps not so evident, but nevertheless one we are required to make every day when we wake up: "Will we choose the Life we live, or, by default, live the life that comes?