Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler

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In these pages, New York Instances bestselling writer Shauna Niequist invitations you to think about the panorama of your individual life, and what it’d appear to be to depart behind the stress to be good and start the life-changing observe of merely being current, within the center of the mess and the ordinariness of life.

As she places it: “A number of years in the past, I discovered myself exhausted and remoted, my soul and physique sick. I used to be drained of being drained, burned out on busy. And, it appeared virtually everybody I talked with was in the identical boat: longing for connection, that means, depth, however settling for busy.

“I’m a spouse, mom, daughter, sister, good friend, neighbor, author, and I do know all too properly that settling feeling. However over the course of the previous few years, I’ve discovered a technique to dwell, marked by grace, love, relaxation, and play. And it is altering all the things.

“Present Over Excellent is an invite to this journey that modified my life. I’ll stroll this path with you, a path away from frantic pushing and proving, and towards your important self, the one you have been created to be earlier than you started proving and incomes for your value.”

Written in Shauna’s heat and weak model, this assortment of essays focuses on an important transformation in her life, and perhaps yours too: forsaking busyness and frantic residing and rediscovering the particular person you have been made to be. Present Over Excellent is a hand reaching out, pulling you free from the fixed stress to carry out quicker, push tougher, and produce extra, all whereas sustaining an exhausting picture of perfection.

Shauna presents an sincere account of what led her to start this journey, and a compelling imaginative and prescient for a wholly new technique to dwell: soaked in grace, relaxation, silence, simplicity, prayer, and reference to the those who matter most to us.