I had a hard time relating to much of what was said including an upscale School having a beach house and it just a life that is only hard because the author feels like having a hard life. The book Manders and drags on and many parts and leaves me baffled at the good reviews. Another reviewer commented that it seems like a diary that has simply been put into book form, and I think that's accurate. This book follows a current theme of blog writers attempting to write books that often turn into extremely long blog post that seem to get lost in themselves. Shauna offers an honest account of what led her to begin this journey, and a compelling vision for an entirely new way to live: soaked in grace, rest, silence, simplicity, prayer, and connection with the people that matter most to us.
Present Over Perfect is a hand reaching out, pulling you free from the constant pressure to perform faster, push harder, and produce more, all while maintaining an exhausting image of perfection. In Shauna's warm and vulnerable style, this collection of essays focuses on the most important transformation in her life, and maybe yours, too: leaving behind busyness and frantic living and rediscovering the person you were made to be. I’ll walk this path with you, a path away from frantic pushing and proving, and toward your essential self, the one you were created to be before you began proving and earning for your worth." Present Over Perfect is an invitation to this journey that changed my life. But over the course of the last few years, I've learned a way to live, marked by grace, love, rest, and play. I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, neighbor, writer, and I know all too well that settling feeling. And, it seemed almost everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection, meaning, depth, but settling for busy.
I was tired of being tired, burned out on busy. In this book, New York Times best-selling author Shauna Niequist invites you to consider the landscape of your own life, and what it might look like to leave behind the pressure to be perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the middle of the mess and the ordinariness of life.Īs she puts it: "A few years ago, I found myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick.
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