So let me pose the question: How depleted are you? How long has it been since you have felt fully replenished? LOCATION: 270Įxhaustion runs rampant among pastors. It’s a process that requires total honesty. I warned you: The path to simplicity is not for the faint of heart. The antidote is leaving that stuff-sometimes undone-to sit down for an unrushed conversation with Jesus. LOCATION: 204ĭepletion harms the people around me, and it damages my soul. The antidote isn’t getting it all done in the kitchen-or the office, or the mall. Your heart and mine yearn for an antidote to all the drivenness and busyness in our lives. If you crave a simpler life anchored by the priorities that matter most, roll up your sleeves: Simplified living requires more than just organizing your closets or cleaning out your desk drawer. It’s a lifestyle that allows us, when our heads hit the pillow at night, to reflect with gratitude that our day was well invested and the varied responsibilities of our lives are in order. It’s walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we’ve been called and for which we’ve been created. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. Simplified living is about more than doing less. Increasingly, whether I’m speaking with leaders at home or abroad, at Willow Creek or in other circles of my life, I hear the same words repeated over and over: exhausted, overwhelmed, overscheduled, anxious, isolated, dissatisfied. 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 a breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected. Today’s velocity of life can consume and control us. My guess is that a quick review of these Book Notes will be all you need to convince you that this is a book to place on your ‘next read’ shelf.Įxhausted. With insights that make you wonder if he’s been looking over your shoulder, author and pastor Bill Hybels in his book Simply: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul, provides spot-on assessments and realistic strategies for crafting a leadership life that makes sense. In Simplify, bestselling author Bill Hybels identifies the core issues that lure us into frenetic living-and offers searingly practical steps for sweeping the clutter from our souls.Title: Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your SoulĪs a leader, perhaps you are in a season of “too much.” Too much to do. 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. ![]() ![]() until our breakneck pace begins to feel normal and expected. Sound familiar? Today’s velocity of life can consume and control us.
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