![]() Highlighting and taking notes is a little hard while I’m running. I do that with books that I want to dig into deeper and really study. I found it to be a book that will require that I buy the Kindle version and read it again. He then goes on to offer an opposing way to live that places living your life like Jesus at the front of your choices. He puts a Kingdom perspective on why living your life cluttered with these ten challenges is not God honoring. Hybels walks through each of the challenges most Christians and generally, most people have as they live their life. The most concise way to communicate the content is to simply list the chapters: At 63 years of age he has reached a point in his life where he can speak with authority on helping the reader take a hard look at their life choices. Simplify, more than any of the books I have read by Hybels, really draws from his wisdom and experiences from life. When Rusty and the Cornerstone leadership were building the Cornerstone culture back in 2000, they made a trip to Willow Creek to learn from Bill Hybels. He has written or contributed to almost 200 books with titles like Authenticity: Being Honest with God and Others, Commitment: Developing Deeper Devotion to Christ and Too Busy Not to Pray. I just finished one of the better books I’ve listened to in a long time, Bill Hybels new book Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul.īill Hybels is the lead Pastor at Willow Creek Church in the Chicago area they are a multisite church. Actually I don’t so much read as I listen to audio recordings while I run. It shouldn’t take longer than a minute or two to deal with the mail every morning, so no excuses.I read a lot, a whole lot. ![]() In short, do something with it, don’t just let it build up. If it’s a magazine, put it somewhere you can easily reach for and read it the next time you have a chance, like beside the couch or on your bedside locker. If it’s an important piece of reference material, file it. Don’t let it get too full before you deal with it.) (Keep a small box for storing papers for this purpose. Anything that contains sensitive information should be shredded or otherwise destroyed. Scribble a “return to sender” on those you no longer want to receive, and dump anything that’s a one-off or has no return address or that just isn’t relevant to you right now. (Added bonus: saving money.)ĭeal with mail as soon as it arrives. Another great way I’ve found is, if it has a return address on it, return to sender with a note asking them to remove you from their list.) Re-evaluate all the subscriptions you currently have and decide whether you need them. (Details on how to do this will vary by country so do a quick Google search for how to stop it. Stop junk mail from coming in by unsubscribing to mailing lists. The first thing to do is to cut things off at the source. This can be a time-consuming one so I suggest giving it a few minutes every day until you get it under control. Old bank statements, bills that have been paid, newspapers and magazines you’ve already read or have no real intention of reading, receipts for things you no longer own, old pay slips, every birthday and Christmas card you’ve ever received… This will ensure you only have fresh food on hand, will show you what you have so you can use it up, will remind you what you need to replace, will stop you buying duplicates, and will make way for all the new food. Get into the habit of having regular raids before you go get more groceries. And it sucks to get all excited about cooking something (though, admittedly, I don’t know this feeling) only to find that one of the ingredients would be more at home in a chemistry lab than your kitchen cupboards. Have a quick rummage in the cupboards, as well as the fridge and freezer, and pull out anything that’s past its prime.Īpart from taking up valuable real estate in your home and being potentially harmful to your health, stuff like that attracts insects and rodents. Or a drink with some form of unidentified floating object in it. Or a jar of spices that’s been sitting there since you first moved into the place. Don’t pretend you don’t have a can of dried food that’s been there since the dawn of time.
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