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<B>Author lives life to fullest</B><P>
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<FONT SIZE=4><B>By Mat Herron</B><BR></FONT>Features Editor
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A certain Thoreauvian philosophy surrounds Greg Anderson's new book, Living Life on Purpose.<P>
The title alone conjures up the woodsman's belief of living deliberately, sucking out the "marrow" and freeing one's life of complex routines, gluttony and materialism.Glancing through the new book, which Anderson is supporting on a 10-city tour this year, quotes from famous writers such as naturalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. are scattered throughout the pages, offering life inspiration to those who, like Anderson, have almost lost theirs. In December 1984, Anderson was stricken with a lung cancer that had spread to his lymphatic system. Diagnosis: 30 days to live.
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Four-and a half hours before his appearance at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, the chairman of The American Wellness Project and author of The Cancer Conqueror, the writer talks about overcoming illness and finding a mission to life.
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Mat Herron: What jobs did you have before you started writing?
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Greg Anderson: I worked for Westinghouse Electric, and from there worked in a television ministry, and then I got cancer. It was after that whole thing that I totally changed what I was doing, and that writing resulted from that change in the way I live life.
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MH: What was running through your mind when you found out you had cancer?
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GA: Fear. Pure, unadulterated fear. I was overcome by it. Also some self-pity: "Why me?" . . . I was and am one of those people who put that whole mind-body connection to work for me; I am a firm believer in it. It's not just an issue of mind and body, it's also an issue of life and health, what I call wellness. That's where this book comes in.
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MH: How did you come up with the title, 'Living Life on Purpose'?
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GA: Through research. After I started on the road to recovery and realized that I would live, I started gathering the results of interviews. Most of mine were done from my bed over the phone. I kept hearing a lot of things: "Change your lifestyle, watch what you eat, exercise," and all that.
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I kept hearing people say, "The reason I got through serious illness was because I had this sense of purpose in my life and I wasn't yet done with my mission." . . . This whole idea of people having a purpose, not a goal, not just "Oh, I want this, that and the other," but a purpose, is something that contributes to health, to life, to longevity, and that's where it came from - living life on purpose.
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MH: Why should college students read your book?
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GA: College students tend to focus on career. That's a bit of a generalization. This book focuses on contribution; the two are not necessarily the same. I can only tell you this: I believe you will get more satisfaction and do better career-wise when (you focus) on contribution, making the shift from career to contribution.
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<B>Photo: </B><b>INSPIRATIONAL</b> Author Greg Anderson gave words of advice to people at Joseph-Beth Booksellers last night.
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<B>STEPHANIE CORDLE</B> Kernel staff<BR>
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