The 7 Minute Solution - Time Strategies to Prioritize, Organize & Simplify Your Life at Work

Zusatztext “This fast-moving! practical book is loaded with great ideas you can use immediately.” Informationen zum Autor Allyson Lewis Klappentext Lewis shows how tiny daily choices--and fast and easy shifts--create lasting life improvement. With a scientific basis in how actions change the brain, she provides ideas, strategies, and tools that can easily be implemented. What emerges is an accessible, clever, and highly actionable guide to tackling sometimes overwhelming challenges in manageable chunks, 272 pp.The 7 Minute Solution INTRODUCTION For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. —P ROVERBS 23:7 K ING J AMES V ERSION THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, the wise King Solomon wrote, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” In the Middle Ages, scientists and philosophers believed that the soul resided in the human heart. The idea made sense: when we are sad, our heart aches; when we are physically or emotionally energized, our heart pounds. During a recent sermon, my pastor, Dan Reeves, illustrated the connections among our thoughts, our hearts, and our lives. As he took the stage that Sunday morning, the familiar sound of a human heartbeat filled the darkened auditorium. Boom-boom . . . boom-boom. A video of a beating human heart appeared on the overhead screen. Boom-boom . . . boom-boom. “The human heart is designed to pump the perfect amount of blood needed to meet the exact demands of your body at the exact time,” Reeves said. “When resting, your heart pumps slowly. When exercising, your heart rate increases to the perfect level to meet your needs. You are not consciously thinking, ‘I’d better make my heart beat.’ Rather, your heart changes its output based on the demands you put upon it at any given time. Like your heart, your life is ready to deliver exactly what you ask of it.” With the rhythmic heartbeat in the background, he asked a question I hope you’ll answer now: “What will you ask of your life?” What a powerful point, “Life is ready to deliver exactly what you ask of it, what will you ask of it?” In this book, I will encourage you to look deeply at your life. Do you know what you really want most out of life? How would your life be different if you made the best use of your mind? Your nutrition? Your sleep? Your learning? Your time? If you want a more meaningful life, are you asking for your life to deliver its very best? Reeves continued his sermon by picking up a large rock that sat next to the pulpit. The dirty mass measured about twenty-four inches wide, fifteen inches across, and four inches high. It had to weigh almost thirty pounds. As he held the rock, he described the difficulty he’d had carrying it into the building. Unable to hold it and open the door at the same time, he’d had to put down the rock, open the door and brace it with his foot, bend over, pick up the rock, place his back against the door, and maneuver his way inside. From there, he had carried the rock about a hundred yards, wrestling with yet another door. Finally, sweating with exertion, he had placed the boulder on the stage, taking care not to damage the wooden floor. The rock seemed to grow heavier in his hands as he recounted the story, and his arms were visibly straining to hold on to the rock. “We aren’t designed to carry heavy rocks all day,” he said as he carefully put it down. “I can no longer feel my fingers. My arms are aching. There are simply some things in life we were not meant to carry. What do you need to change in your life? What do you need to put down?” Then he added, “My body and my strength allowed me to carry the burden of the rock. Unfortunately, like so many people, I was straining...

Product details

• Authors: Allyson Lewis
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9781451628234
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-2823-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career