Stop Missing Your Life has the potential to be an engaging self-help book. The introduction started off in a way that I could gain something from what the author had to say without it being too "instructional". But the first chapter falls into that "here's what I'm going to teach you" trap that seems to be carte blanche in self-help books to justify to readers how they're going to fix their life. If the rest of the book is more like the introduction it could be a really interesting and engaging book.