What a Difference a Year Makes: How Life's Unexpected Setbacks Can Lead to Unexpected Joy

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How Life's Unexpected Setbacks Can Lead to Unexpected Joy
Sometimes what feels like an end is actually a beginning. And that's when the real work starts. On a crisp winter evening in February, I came home from a weekend trip to Arizona hoping to find my wife. Instead I found a sticky note on the countertop.

Unexpected Joy, Part 2
I don't remember the following week clearly. I must have gone to work, I must have eaten something, but maybe I didn't. The night before the meeting with her attorney, I felt a little more hopeful.

Unexpected Joy, Part 3
I've always said that I am someone who needs to have an epiphany before I make a major decision in my life. In this case, it was caused by the death of my grandmother-my mother's mother, who was one of my very best friends.

The next star of ABC's The Bachelor, and the funny guy who stole America's heart on The Bachelorette shares hard-earned advice and wisdom on how life's unexpected setbacks can lead to unexpected joy.

One Thanksgiving weekend Bob Guiney came home to find a white Post-it(tm) note from his wife informing him that she wanted a divorce. On top of his broken heart, he suffered a series of physical injuries, gained forty pounds, and fell into a deep depression. For the first time in his life, he found himself at rock bottom, unsure of how to pick up the pieces.

What a Difference a Year Makes looks, month-by-month, at a devastating year and the wise words and lessons drawn from uncles, aunts, parents, and his best friend: Grandma. "On paper," he writes, "I looked like a failure-no football career, no music career, and a divorce. But actually I'm doing better than I ever have in my life."

With the honesty and humor that have made Bob America's favorite bachelor, he explores the simple but valuable life lessons that helped him return to vitality and optimism. The result is a witty and warm book that will touch and inspire anyone who has ever suffered a broken heart.

Bob Guiney, known as the funny guy from ABC's The Bachelorette, may not have won the Bachelorette's hand, but he won America's heart. With five appearances in one month on The Oprah Winfrey Show (a record for any guest in the history of the show), Bob will be the next Bachelor on ABC's hit series to air in October and November. He co-owns a branch of a mortgage company in Detroit, Michigan.

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