"Honestly, how are you doing? " Would your answer be "fine" and the conversation ends there? Based on "Busy Audit" research, Breaking Busy sorts through the effects that just being "fine" is having on us, and why if we're not saying we're "fine," we're "BUSY!" (the second most common, and I believe the more important, response to how we're doing). If the sentiment "Holy crap I'm BUSY!" strikes a chord, then this book is for you. Our Busyness has become an epidemic. Have you ever wondered how in a single generation, we have become helicopter parents, taxi drivers, professional party planners and fundraisers? Not to mention being fulltime employees and part time business owners on the side? We've forgotten how to fuel that parts of ourselves and our lives that really matter, as we HOVER through our days. What is it that has caused us to "lose that lovin' feeling?" It's time to rediscover our happiness and what we REALLY WANT in life. It's time to say, "You know what guys, it doesn't get any better than this!" Join me in Breaking Busy, as we dive into: - How did we get so Busy? - What being Busy is doing to us? - How to step off the BUSY Treadmill and Find Peace in the Chaos. You won't regret it.
A Reef in time: Waypoints of a Most Unusual Sailor is the memoir of a man who, somewhat past the age of 30 and on the brink of a rewarding career, decided a good job and comfortable future just wasn't enough. So he went to sea-which in itself isn't unusual. Considering, however, that Stuart Reininger's background and previous choices in life, becoming a sailor, much less a professional sailor, would seem to be the last thing he would do-or at the least, another unfortunate choice. And he did make bad choices in his new career, some almost fatal. But, possibly because he was so "clueless," to survive he needed to "think out of the box." His memoir details how he approached situations and emergencies offshore (and in his life) in unprecedented ways. It worked, as Reininger combined a love and respect for the sea and a passion for sailing that allowed him to reach the top ranks of his profession.
Jacob Dyer is one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction. After his successful launch in the inaugural novel, The Sound of Honor, Jacob Dyer is back in The Sound of Victory with his compelling assistant Monica and his stalwart limo driver Franklin. After losing his sight in Vietnam, Jacob Dyer retreated from his hopes and dreams and moved back to his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Just when he thought life might not be worth living, he discovered an unexpected lifeline as he founded Dyer Straits Lost and Found. He explains, "We are not investigators, not lawyers, and not anything else that's easy to describe. We simply stumble around and find things that people have lost when they have nowhere else to turn." This time out, Jacob Dyer is stretched to the limit as he runs the race of his life and tries to save Monica as he realizes how much she means and that he simply can't live without her. When all is dark and you can't see a way out, you have to wait for the sound of victory.
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