This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Through ten key practices, Bill unpacks the searingly practical tools that helped him establish a focused, simplified, and rewarding life-and maintain it for the long haul.Your secret to a life of purpose, significance, and satisfaction begins with one word: 'simplify.' Embark on a journey you'll be glad you took, one that fills your days with peace and leaves a legacy for those you love. How long has it been since your days had breathing room, your schedule and finances were balanced, and your relationships were running on all cylinders? How long since you felt truly at peace, replenished, and connected to God?Maybe it's time to simplify your life.Bestselling author Bill Hybels knows from hard-earned personal experience: 'Simplifying is possible.' In this groundbreaking book, he shares about his own wake-up call when he recognized he was a slave to his schedule how he needed to catch his breath, realign his priorities, and make changes before it was too late. In Simplify, bestselling author Bill Hybels identifies the core issues that lure us into frenetic living-and offers practical steps for sweeping the clutter from our souls. By eradicating the stuff that leaves your spirit drained, you can stop doing what doesn’t matter-and start doing what does. What if your life could be different? What if you could be certain you were living the life God called you to live-and building a legacy for those you love? If you crave a simpler life anchored by the priorities that matter most, roll up your sleeves: Simplified living requires more than just cleaning out your closets or reorganizing your desk drawer. That’s where the danger lies: When we spend our lives doing things that keep us busy but don’t really matter, we sacrifice the things that do. until our breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected.

Sound familiar? Today’s velocity of life can consume and control us. It would also work well as a thematic sermon series, and indeed there are additional resources available. I’ve not settled on one myself, but it is certainly food for thought. This may be lifelong, or change over time. It might be equally overwhelming to tackle all ten areas at once!Īt the end Bill talks about finding a “life verse” – a biblical word of encouragement and challenge as a rallying call, and focus, for our particular life and calling. It is a book to take something from, and come back to another time. I have deliberately included this as I suspect at different stages of our lives there will be particular chapters that resonate. With helpful anecdotes (even allowing for the American context), he addresses ten aspects which he believes will contribute to a simpler and less stressful life, and in this instance it is worth delineating the chapters:įrom exhausted to energised: replenishing your energy reservesįrom overscheduled to organised: harnessing your calendar’s powerįrom overwhelmed to in control: mastering your financesįrom restless to fulfilled: refining your working worldįrom wounded to whole: making room for forgivenessįrom anxious to peaceful: conquering your fearsįrom isolated to connected: deepening your relational circlesįrom drifting to focused: claiming God’s call on your lifeįrom stuck to moving on: welcoming new seasons in your lifeįrom meaningless to satisfied: the legacy of a simplified life I was caught immediately by the beginning, where he explains with characteristic frankness that he knows far too much about being overwhelmed and exhausted – feelings all too familiar in ministry. So I came to this book expectant, and I was not disappointed. Our church leadership go every year to the Global Leadership Conference and have always benefited from it, and particularly from his wise and honest ministry. I have to confess to a bias: I like Bill Hybels a great deal. Ten practices to unclutter your soul Recommended Bill Hybels book that highlights areas of life that can get out of focus – and offers practical insights for making changes to create a life with greater peace Simplify: ten practices to unclutter your soul

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