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Present over Perfect
- Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
- Narrateur(s): Shauna Niequist
- Durée: 4 h et 44 min
- Catégories: Religion et spiritualité, Christianisme
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life
- Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
- Auteur(s): Dana K. White
- Narrateur(s): Dana K. White
- Durée: 6 h et 6 min
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While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.
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Amazing!!
- Écrit par Jimbob71 the Dark Slayer le 2019-03-29
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Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire
- The Guide to Being Glorious You
- Auteur(s): Jen Hatmaker
- Narrateur(s): Jen Hatmaker
- Durée: 9 h et 57 min
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No more hiding or people-pleasing up in here, sisters. No more being sidelined in your own life. It is time for us to be brave, to claim our gifts and quirks and emotions. You are set free and set up and set on fire. NOW you can get busy doing what you were placed on this planet to do. NOW you can be honest, honest, honest about all of it, even the hard stuff, even the humiliating stuff, even the secret stuff.
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Hìghly recommend the audiobook!
- Écrit par Sylvia C le 2020-12-04
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The Power of Intention
- Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
- Auteur(s): Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Narrateur(s): Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Durée: 4 h et 27 min
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Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this audiobook.
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The narration to my life...
- Écrit par Kyle T. le 2018-09-19
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Rewire
- Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior
- Auteur(s): Richard O'Connor Ph.D.
- Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
- Durée: 10 h et 18 min
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We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again - whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, our umpteenth diet, or engaging in any of a range of bad habits we just can’t seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, reveals why our bad habits die so hard. We have two brains - one a thoughtful, conscious, deliberative self, and the other an automatic self that does most of the work without our attention.
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Very little, unclearly presented actionable advice
- Écrit par Elektra N. le 2018-11-21
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Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings
- Auteur(s): Thibaut Meurisse
- Narrateur(s): Joshua Alexander
- Durée: 3 h et 54 min
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Master Your Emotions is the how-to manual your parents should have given you at birth. By listening to it, you’ll learn a step-by-step process to deal with negative emotions so you can live a happier, more fulfilling life. With pragmatic exercises and personal examples, you’ll explore techniques that counteract draining spirals of negativity and provide immediate relief.
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very helpful
- Écrit par Natalie le 2020-02-02
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The Productivity Project
- Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
- Auteur(s): Chris Bailey
- Narrateur(s): Chris Bailey
- Durée: 8 h et 13 min
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Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.
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Picked up some good tips
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-10-31
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Decluttering at the Speed of Life
- Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
- Auteur(s): Dana K. White
- Narrateur(s): Dana K. White
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While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, real women with real families who are constantly growing and changing simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.
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Amazing!!
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Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire
- The Guide to Being Glorious You
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- Narrateur(s): Jen Hatmaker
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No more hiding or people-pleasing up in here, sisters. No more being sidelined in your own life. It is time for us to be brave, to claim our gifts and quirks and emotions. You are set free and set up and set on fire. NOW you can get busy doing what you were placed on this planet to do. NOW you can be honest, honest, honest about all of it, even the hard stuff, even the humiliating stuff, even the secret stuff.
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Hìghly recommend the audiobook!
- Écrit par Sylvia C le 2020-12-04
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The Power of Intention
- Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
- Auteur(s): Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Narrateur(s): Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this audiobook.
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The narration to my life...
- Écrit par Kyle T. le 2018-09-19
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Rewire
- Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior
- Auteur(s): Richard O'Connor Ph.D.
- Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
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We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again - whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, our umpteenth diet, or engaging in any of a range of bad habits we just can’t seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, reveals why our bad habits die so hard. We have two brains - one a thoughtful, conscious, deliberative self, and the other an automatic self that does most of the work without our attention.
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Very little, unclearly presented actionable advice
- Écrit par Elektra N. le 2018-11-21
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Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings
- Auteur(s): Thibaut Meurisse
- Narrateur(s): Joshua Alexander
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Master Your Emotions is the how-to manual your parents should have given you at birth. By listening to it, you’ll learn a step-by-step process to deal with negative emotions so you can live a happier, more fulfilling life. With pragmatic exercises and personal examples, you’ll explore techniques that counteract draining spirals of negativity and provide immediate relief.
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very helpful
- Écrit par Natalie le 2020-02-02
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The Productivity Project
- Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
- Auteur(s): Chris Bailey
- Narrateur(s): Chris Bailey
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Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.
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Picked up some good tips
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-10-31
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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind
- Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets
- Auteur(s): Dana K. White
- Narrateur(s): Dana K. White
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"The dirty little secret about most organizing advice is that it's written by organized people," says blogger, speaker, and decluttering expert Dana K. White. "But that's not how my brain works. I'm lost on page three." Dana blogs at A Slob Comes Clean, chronicling her successes and failures with her self-described "deslobification process". In the beginning she used the name Nony (short for aNONYmous), because she was sharing her deep, dark slob secret. Now she has truly come clean - with not only her real name but the strategies she has developed.
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Perfect for the active or recovering slob
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2017-12-29
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Love Does
- Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
- Auteur(s): Bob Goff
- Narrateur(s): Bob Goff
- Durée: 5 h et 35 min
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Love Does shares powerful stories coupled with eye-opening truths and empowers anyone who longs for a better world and a richer faith. You don’t need another Christian message or a self-help book. You need to have your paradigms about the world shifted into truth. That’s exactly what you get in Love Does. Have you ever noticed that the real change in your life - the growth that sticks and becomes a part of you - never happens with a program or the sheer grit of your best efforts?
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Love this book!
- Écrit par Linda M Seiler le 2020-12-18
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Sleep Smarter
- 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success
- Auteur(s): Shawn Stevenson, Sara Gottfried MD - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Sara Gottfried, Shawn Stevenson
- Durée: 6 h et 36 min
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When it comes to health, there is one criminally overlooked element: sleep. Good sleep helps you shed fat for good, stave off disease, stay productive, and improve virtually every function of your mind and body. That's what Shawn Stevenson learned when a degenerative bone disease crushed his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Like many of us, he gave up on his health and his body...until he decided there must be a better way.
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Don't be fooled
- Écrit par Bruno Archer le 2018-03-25
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Eight Dates
- Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Auteur(s): John Gottman PhD, Julie Schwartz Gottman PhD, Doug Abrams, Autres
- Narrateur(s): James Patrick Cronin, Julie McKay
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Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on 40 years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams.
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Interesting but not life-changing
- Écrit par Vita le 2020-02-13
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We Are the Luckiest
- The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
- Auteur(s): Laura McKowen
- Narrateur(s): Laura McKowen
- Durée: 7 h
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What could possibly be “lucky” about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought Laura McKowen when drinking brought her to her knees. As she puts it, she “kicked and screamed . . . wishing for something - anything - else” to be her issue. The people who got to drink normally, she thought, were so damn lucky. But in the midst of early sobriety, when no longer able to anesthetize her pain and anxiety, she realized that she was actually the lucky one. Lucky to feel her feelings, live honestly, really be with her daughter, change her legacy.
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Changed my life
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-02-03
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Indistractable
- How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- Auteur(s): Nir Eyal, Julie Li
- Narrateur(s): Nir Eyal
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In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.
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Like medicine without the gross aftertaste
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-09-17
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Raising a Secure Child
- How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
- Auteur(s): Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, Bert Powell, Autres
- Narrateur(s): Coleen Marlo
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Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for the first time. Filled with vivid stories and unique practical tools, this book puts the keys to healthy attachment within everyone's reach - self-understanding, flexibility, and the willingness to make and learn from mistakes.
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amazing book
- Écrit par Raven le 2020-03-10
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Head Strong
- The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster - in Just Two Weeks
- Auteur(s): Dave Asprey
- Narrateur(s): Dave Asprey, Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 10 h et 41 min
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For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover the latest, most innovative methods for making humans perform better - a process known as "biohacking". In his first book, The Bulletproof Diet, he shared his biohacking tips for taking control of your own biology. Now, in Head Strong, Asprey shows listeners how to biohack their way to sharper, smarter, faster, more resilient brains.
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Eye opening content
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-09-18
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Girl, Stop Apologizing (Audible Exclusive Edition)
- A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
- Auteur(s): Rachel Hollis
- Narrateur(s): Rachel Hollis
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they’re afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough. In Girl, Stop Apologizing, number-one New York Times best-selling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company, Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people - whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee....
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Not my favorite
- Écrit par Ryan le 2019-07-10
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Good Morning, I Love You
- Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
- Auteur(s): Shauna Shapiro PhD
- Narrateur(s): Shauna Shapiro
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In Good Morning, I Love You, Dr. Shauna Shapiro brings alive the brain science behind why we feel the way we do - about ourselves, each other, and the world - and explains why we get stuck in thinking that doesn’t serve us. It turns out that we are hardwired to be self-critical and negative! And this negativity is constantly undermining our experience of life.
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Beautiful
- Écrit par Heather Reid le 2020-10-22
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Own Your Everyday
- Overcome the Pressure to Prove and Show Up for What You Were Made to Do
- Auteur(s): Jordan Lee Dooley
- Narrateur(s): Jordan Lee Dooley
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From accidentally starting a small business instead of using her college degree, to embarrassing herself onstage in front of thousands, to wasting time worrying about what others think or say, Jordan Lee Dooley knows exactly how that feels - and she’s learned some important lessons about living a purposeful life along the way.
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The Mastery of Self
- A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom
- Auteur(s): don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
- Narrateur(s): Charlie Varon
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The ancient Toltecs believed that life, as we perceive it, is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and these come together to form the dream of the planet, or the world in which we live. Problems arise when our perception of the dream becomes clouded with negativity, drama, and judgment (of ourselves and others), because it's in these moments of suffering that we have forgotten that we are the architects of our own reality and we have the power to change our dream if we choose.
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Not as talented as Dad
- Écrit par Briar Leigh Clark le 2018-06-11
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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.
As she puts it: "A few years ago, I found myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick. I was tired of being tired, burned out on busy. And, it seemed almost everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection, meaning, depth, but settling for busy. I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, neighbor, writer, and I know all too well that settling feeling. But over the course of the last few years, I've learned a way to live, marked by grace, love, rest, and play. And it's changing everything. Present Over Perfect is an invitation to this journey that changed my life. 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."
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. 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.
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.
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- kaleigh burnet
- 2017-10-22
VERY whimsical
It is a good book if you want to curl up somewhere and imagine everything that she is saying because there is so much detail. It is her story, not a helping book. There was a couple of moments for me where I was like "I really understand how you feel" but I found it quite hard to finish because I felt like she was just repeating herself over and over in different ways.
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- Kali Wells
- 2020-04-17
Beautiful. One I will listen to again and again.
Easy-Listening, so insightful, I didn't want it to end. Eloquent Writer. Spoke directly to my heart. -Kali
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- J. Robertson
- 2018-11-10
Not perfect
Didn’t realize it had such a big religious component to the book. That ruined it for me. Painful in places.
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- Naomi Wendorff
- 2018-09-19
Loved it!
I loved hearing Shauna’s experiences and really identified with what she has gone through. I loved hearing her read it on audible too. It really felt like I was in her story! We studied this book in our book cub and all of us loved it and could relate to many different elements of what and how she writes. I have fallen victim to the expectation of wanting to be perfect and this book was a great journey through Shauna’s experience of finding her own ground. It is relatable and inspiring. #Audible1
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- Anna A.
- 2018-06-09
A little long.
I really enjoyed parts of this book, but found themes repeated too often. Shauna’s points could have been just as effective in half the length.
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- Caroline Marie Kim
- 2017-12-06
My companion for a more present life
I have listened to this audiobook three times now, on my work commutes. Previously, I had read the book, but this recording, read by Shauna Niequist herself has been such a gift. To hear her words, spoken into my heart, has a power all its own. Her presence through this book walked me through important decisions for me and my family that will change an entire season of life for us.
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- nicole gerhardt
- 2017-10-18
My soul is full!
simply the best book ever! This is a game changer. I cried and laughed. this was just what I needed.
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- Faith
- 2019-04-11
Great listen
Well writen & narrated. I liked the compilation of relatable stories. They kept me wanting to hear more. I cought myself thinking "really? Me too", more than once.
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-08-02
Not what I was expecting, just not for me.
The narrator was great, the book is just not what I was expecting. I am sure others will love it!
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- Mom4Life
- 2018-08-06
Should be classified as memoir/essays anything but what it is
I guess I expected more of a self help book or tips, advice, something...but what it is, in fact, is her telling us about her experiences and it really felt like reading someone’s personal journal. There were a couple of golden nuggets in there but I wasn’t really caught up in it enough to recommend to my book club or anyone else for that matter. I also was concerned about some of it not settling right with me...like I really felt like the spiritual part was not of sound teaching and could lead people the wrong way. Just my opinion.
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- Jane
- 2018-05-29
Rambling
I do not recommend this book. Some basic thoughts and ideas were good but were presented in such a rambling way the book was unenjoyable.
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- Fromatoz
- 2017-02-13
A long, curious blog post
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. Another reviewer commented that it seems like a diary that has simply been put into book form, and I think that's accurate. The book Manders and drags on and many parts and leaves me baffled at the good reviews.
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. It's clear that most of everything that the author struggles with can be dropped unlike my own life or, I'm guessing, the life of many other readers.
I have to wonder if most of the good reviews are simply people were already fans in the blog and read the book knowing what they were going to get. I struggled to finish the book, many parts of Simply seem to drag on with unnecessary descriptions. And one part the author even talks about how they are having trouble finishing the book. Clearly, placing emphasis on word count in book length is not a good way to create a readable book. The author seems like a really good person and I'm likely to check out her blog, however this book was dreadful.
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- Sunshinegirl
- 2017-11-03
Aimless and humble bragging
If you want to hear an entire book about her “humble bragging” accomplishments and her extravagant life- mixed with a handful of random babbling that makes no sense and has no direction, with uncertainty about which religion she associates with (she mentions going to temples, rabis, pastors, spiritual director, cathedrals..) - then this is the book for you!
Honestly this book is written for wealthy stay at home trophy wives who brag about all “the hardships” in their life like going on extravagant retreats and vacations to Hawaii... also, this book is SO random... she goes from talking about “don’t say yes to everything” to “say yes to everything!” And then, randomly includes stories about her friends affairs and just all around I don’t recommend this book.
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- Michelle
- 2018-01-24
oh where to begin..
First off, I resent that it is filled with so many references to Christianity and nowhere in the summary does it say that this book leans so heavily in that direction. I don't have a problem with books about religion, in fact most of the books that I read pertain to religion. But I want to make the choice as to which type of religion I'm reading about and I feel that if someone is quoting Biblical scripture, then it would be nice if the reader knew that going in. Second, I could only get to chapter 9, before I became so sick of listening to this upper middle class woman complain about how unsatisfied she was. She has complained about not knowing whether to have the housekeeper come more often, about sitting by the pool with friends and not having enough time to see friends more, too many travel plans? This has to be one of the most ungrateful people I have ever had to listen to.. Less than 10% of the world's population has enough food, shelter, education, time and money to even PONDER our place in the universe and I am supposed to feel sorry for someone who isn't grateful enough to thank God or the universe that she doesn't have to work 3 minimum wage jobs and still doesn't have enough to feed her kids. I just can't listen to anymore but would love to get my time back.
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- Scott Brown
- 2018-04-13
Uninteresting and difficult to connect with
Following the extremely inspirational audiobook, Why Buddhism is True, I was really looking forward to a story (true or not) that would help guide me in my quest to be present. I searched through blog posts, friend recommendations and similar audiobooks to aid my quest. When I came upon Present over Perfect, I thought I had found what I was searching for. I eagerly begun the audiobook with my wife as we started our four hour road trip across the state. After roughly the two hour mark we stopped the audio for a quick discussion. Neither of us could ‘get into’ the story and found the material uninteresting. Now I admit this could potentially be a product of my assumptions, expectations and personal situation but I was still bummed out. We found it really hard to relate to the content and author and, instead of forcing something that clearly wasn’t there, we stopped listening. I soon after returned the audiobook for a refund and chose another title. I’m sure the message in this audiobook will resonate with others on a number of different levels but for my wife and I, it did not.
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- DH
- 2016-11-14
Ok
What would have made Present over Perfect better?
The whole concept of the book can be summarized in a few paragraphs. Instead the author goes on and on and on with metaphors and imagery that is really not necessary.
What was most disappointing about Shauna Niequist’s story?
The author wants us to believe that she is slowing down yet she tells us the story of how she writes a book, attends church, has speaking engagements, goes out with friends, speaks daily to friends... it's exhausting! And my goodness the whiny voice! Too much.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Exhaustion
Any additional comments?
Am I the only one who is tired of these bloggers wannabe writers who over flourish/over complicate their language when what they really say is simple? SHe talks about the tenderness of a conversation.... what????
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- Amazon Customer
- 2016-11-09
Somewhat repetitive; a lot of "I"
I listened to this book straight through on a road trip. It might better be consumed a bite -- or essay -- at a time. From the beginning, I identified with so much Niequist had to say, and I've already taken many if the steps she suggests to transform my life. However, I can understand how some other reviewers couldn't identify with the lifestyle, opportunities, and choices she presents. I have friends without college degrees working minimum wage jobs to help support the family that would have a hard time relating to the author's life. On the other hand, reading the book for them could spark imagination and broaden their thinking about possibilities in their lives.
On another note, the Niequist's delivery of the Audible version reminded me of Brene Brown. Brown, however, has the benefit of being able to intersperse personal anecdotes and realizations with stories from her research, so listening at length doesn't become tiresome. And she's more humorous and laid back in her delivery.
Overall, a good book in smaller doses than I took.
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- Lauren
- 2016-10-19
Lovely concept but lacking
Loved the whole concept of this lovely book. To be honest, it felt like it was mostly her telling her story, which was nice. Yet- there wasn't a ton of help for the listener. I wanted to be guided, not just listen to author share her story.
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- Belinda
- 2018-08-29
Present over Perfect, or Maybe Not
Overall, I would say this was a good book. It provided a healthy perspective on the dangers of putting your career first. I could definitely relate to the author and her many experiences. Having said that, I must confess, I felt as if the author simply went from being a perfect working woman, to being a perfect mother, wife, and Christian. At the end of the book, I couldn’t really have faith in her claim of living present, over perfect.
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