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Fully Engaged: How to do Less and be More
Want to live an astonishing life? One you feel good
about each morning as you awake? One that makes
others marvel and say, “Your life is simply amazing”?
We all long to feel connected, joyful, and alive. To love
what we do and who we are. Fully Engaged provides
answers to your real questions about balancing life’s
competing demands and an action plan for pursuing
an exciting future. It coordinates daily choices with your
core values and beliefs and creates simple solutions to
follow through on your dreams. You can experience that
astonishing, engaged life, where each day is packed with
purpose and passion. It’s time to make good on all the
talents and promise you were born with—and to enjoy
the satisfaction that results.
about each morning as you awake? One that makes
others marvel and say, “Your life is simply amazing”?
We all long to feel connected, joyful, and alive. To love
what we do and who we are. Fully Engaged provides
answers to your real questions about balancing life’s
competing demands and an action plan for pursuing
an exciting future. It coordinates daily choices with your
core values and beliefs and creates simple solutions to
follow through on your dreams. You can experience that
astonishing, engaged life, where each day is packed with
purpose and passion. It’s time to make good on all the
talents and promise you were born with—and to enjoy
the satisfaction that results.
163 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2011
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May 28, 2011
In today's high speed society of doing more and getting more this book calls for some self examination of what drives us. If you feel that life is speeding by, filled with things and action - yet at night you feel unfulfilled and longing for meaning this book is the one to read.
In his book Busacker explores how we can do less in life and be more - an oxymoron in the truest since. For we are taught from birth to have a desire for more, more, more. Somehow we become engaged in a race for more things, more activities, more work, more service and yet we end the day feeling that all is lost - nothing has meaning. Though we have achieved the next promotion or pay raise, though we have acquired the cars and the house, though we serve on every committee at church we still feel driven to do more in order to find the feeling of contentment we truly long for - that feeling of having achieved.
Busacker begins the book with a thought-provoking statement: " Life worth is the investment you make into and the return you receive". This is stated after the acknowledgement that most of us live by the net worth of ourselves as the standard of achievement rather than life worth. This seems simple enough but really is quite a radical thought in today's society. The simplicity is shockingly profound - we are worth what we invest (emotionally and spiritually) in life not what we gain in materials. Our worth is in God and in living out God's will in an active, totally sold out way!
In addressing how BE more by Doing Less Busacker explores 3 major themes:
1. Awareness: living life with purpose. Knowing your worth, sharing your story, and doing what matters.
2. Alignment: How does what you have and what you do match with what you want.
I especially like this section as it calls us to be actively, totally involved in all parts of our life - having a passion to enjoy every moment and make in worthwhile.
3. Action: How do you move forward.
The over all theme is to live life with a directed purpose - to get the most out of every moment and make every moment count.
I recently read on a friends Facebook wall the following statement, "What good is it to own my own business and get everything I've ever wanted when I'm never home to enjoy any of it - or too tired when I am home".
The comments following his were a sad statement of striving for net worth instead of life worth: "One day you'll enjoy all of it", "It will be worth it when you retire", "Hard work is a great thing - you've never shied away from a challenge".
As you see the drive is more, more, more. Yet my friend made a profoundly simple statement - What good is it when I'm never home to enjoy it?
When I read this book I immediately thought of him - net worth without life worth is really worthless. He has more and does more - but in the end actually has less because he can't be fully and purposefully engaged in making the most of his life.
Thank you B&B Communications for this review copy.
In his book Busacker explores how we can do less in life and be more - an oxymoron in the truest since. For we are taught from birth to have a desire for more, more, more. Somehow we become engaged in a race for more things, more activities, more work, more service and yet we end the day feeling that all is lost - nothing has meaning. Though we have achieved the next promotion or pay raise, though we have acquired the cars and the house, though we serve on every committee at church we still feel driven to do more in order to find the feeling of contentment we truly long for - that feeling of having achieved.
Busacker begins the book with a thought-provoking statement: " Life worth is the investment you make into and the return you receive". This is stated after the acknowledgement that most of us live by the net worth of ourselves as the standard of achievement rather than life worth. This seems simple enough but really is quite a radical thought in today's society. The simplicity is shockingly profound - we are worth what we invest (emotionally and spiritually) in life not what we gain in materials. Our worth is in God and in living out God's will in an active, totally sold out way!
In addressing how BE more by Doing Less Busacker explores 3 major themes:
1. Awareness: living life with purpose. Knowing your worth, sharing your story, and doing what matters.
2. Alignment: How does what you have and what you do match with what you want.
I especially like this section as it calls us to be actively, totally involved in all parts of our life - having a passion to enjoy every moment and make in worthwhile.
3. Action: How do you move forward.
The over all theme is to live life with a directed purpose - to get the most out of every moment and make every moment count.
I recently read on a friends Facebook wall the following statement, "What good is it to own my own business and get everything I've ever wanted when I'm never home to enjoy any of it - or too tired when I am home".
The comments following his were a sad statement of striving for net worth instead of life worth: "One day you'll enjoy all of it", "It will be worth it when you retire", "Hard work is a great thing - you've never shied away from a challenge".
As you see the drive is more, more, more. Yet my friend made a profoundly simple statement - What good is it when I'm never home to enjoy it?
When I read this book I immediately thought of him - net worth without life worth is really worthless. He has more and does more - but in the end actually has less because he can't be fully and purposefully engaged in making the most of his life.
Thank you B&B Communications for this review copy.
November 25, 2013
“Fully Engaged: How To Do Less And Be More” by John Busacker is a little book that packs a powerful punch in the personal growth and success genre. I not only enjoyed reading this little gem, but found myself on a number of occasions really examining my own life and pondering how I could implement some of Busacker's ideas to live more fully engaged myself.
The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts. These include: Part One Awareness with the chapters Measure Your Worth, Share Your Story and Do What Matters. Part Two: Alignment with the chapters Occupy Your Space, Dream Wide Awake, and Drop the Ball. Part Three: Action with the chapters Celebrate Your Setbacks, Stay in Touch, and Give It Away. Each of the chapters ends with guidance to think about the key areas and how they can be help you be more engaged.
There are sections of this book that are illustrated with some passages from the Bible. I thought this was done well, and the author didn't beat you over the head with his beliefs. If you share the author's Christian faith, you will most likely enjoy these reinforcing passages. If you don't share these beliefs, I didn't feel like the book tried to convert you or speak down for not agreeing.
My favorite chapter was “Do What Matters.” Reading this provides a good opportunity to look to one's own values and determine what is really important. I agree with the author that clarity of values empowers you to say “yes” to what matters, and “no” to what is important, and then to stick with your yes or no. The book is a quick read, but if you take the time to actually do (or at least think about) the exercises and action steps, it will take a bit more. And I honestly believe the message contained within these pages is an important on. We can slow down, do less, and be more fully engaged with what we are doing, and thus live a more fulfilling life.
I agree with Zig Ziglar when he said that motivation wears off just like bathing, and that's why he recommended both daily. This is a motivating book, and one that contains some good things to think about and action steps to help with your personal growth. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys personal growth and success book, especially those who also prefer a Christian perspective.
The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts. These include: Part One Awareness with the chapters Measure Your Worth, Share Your Story and Do What Matters. Part Two: Alignment with the chapters Occupy Your Space, Dream Wide Awake, and Drop the Ball. Part Three: Action with the chapters Celebrate Your Setbacks, Stay in Touch, and Give It Away. Each of the chapters ends with guidance to think about the key areas and how they can be help you be more engaged.
There are sections of this book that are illustrated with some passages from the Bible. I thought this was done well, and the author didn't beat you over the head with his beliefs. If you share the author's Christian faith, you will most likely enjoy these reinforcing passages. If you don't share these beliefs, I didn't feel like the book tried to convert you or speak down for not agreeing.
My favorite chapter was “Do What Matters.” Reading this provides a good opportunity to look to one's own values and determine what is really important. I agree with the author that clarity of values empowers you to say “yes” to what matters, and “no” to what is important, and then to stick with your yes or no. The book is a quick read, but if you take the time to actually do (or at least think about) the exercises and action steps, it will take a bit more. And I honestly believe the message contained within these pages is an important on. We can slow down, do less, and be more fully engaged with what we are doing, and thus live a more fulfilling life.
I agree with Zig Ziglar when he said that motivation wears off just like bathing, and that's why he recommended both daily. This is a motivating book, and one that contains some good things to think about and action steps to help with your personal growth. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys personal growth and success book, especially those who also prefer a Christian perspective.
October 11, 2011
Reading,"Fully Engaged", was both a powerful, humbling and eye opening look at how we often fill our lives with busyness that often isn't so much as fruitful as time consuming and something that in the modern, 21st century is a challenging struggle for the Christian in the 21st century.
As the publisher's notes share about, "Fully Engaged", this book helps provide more of an insight of balancing life's competing demands while helping the individual balance a more fruitful relationship with our Father in Heaven and how often is it that we seem to get our priorities in life mix up?
This really affected the way I found myself approaching things and remembering the most basic priorities in life that seem so easy to remember, but so easy to forget that the things that come important first in life are:
1. God
2. Our spouses
3. Our Children, then
4. Our ministries and the demands of the world beyond our door,
but how often is it to forget that and find ourselves, instead, in a personal and sometimes worldly competition of wants and needs.
With "Fully Engaged" it truly, causes the reader to slow down and re-evaluate, "What is really important in life and what can wait".
Not really an easy answer for many.
Don't let the small size fool you, even at 144 pages, "Fully Engaged" challenges us to rethink the fast pace life that we can easily be lulled into and with so many distractions in the world competing for our attention, be it Facebook, Twitter, ministries, home, work, whatever it is, "Fully Engaged" shows us the need to slow down, to prioritize and in many cases, re-evaluate what is really important in our lives and what really isn't.
If you find yourself facing overwhelming schedules, or maybe thinking more is enough and craving to live and feel like you are living a fuller life, explore what "Fully Engaged" has to offer and how to look differently at what should and shouldn't be engaging our attention.
As the publisher's notes share about, "Fully Engaged", this book helps provide more of an insight of balancing life's competing demands while helping the individual balance a more fruitful relationship with our Father in Heaven and how often is it that we seem to get our priorities in life mix up?
This really affected the way I found myself approaching things and remembering the most basic priorities in life that seem so easy to remember, but so easy to forget that the things that come important first in life are:
1. God
2. Our spouses
3. Our Children, then
4. Our ministries and the demands of the world beyond our door,
but how often is it to forget that and find ourselves, instead, in a personal and sometimes worldly competition of wants and needs.
With "Fully Engaged" it truly, causes the reader to slow down and re-evaluate, "What is really important in life and what can wait".
Not really an easy answer for many.
Don't let the small size fool you, even at 144 pages, "Fully Engaged" challenges us to rethink the fast pace life that we can easily be lulled into and with so many distractions in the world competing for our attention, be it Facebook, Twitter, ministries, home, work, whatever it is, "Fully Engaged" shows us the need to slow down, to prioritize and in many cases, re-evaluate what is really important in our lives and what really isn't.
If you find yourself facing overwhelming schedules, or maybe thinking more is enough and craving to live and feel like you are living a fuller life, explore what "Fully Engaged" has to offer and how to look differently at what should and shouldn't be engaging our attention.
May 26, 2011
Title: FULLY ENGAGED: How to Do Less and Be More
Author: John Busacker
Publisher: Summerside North
May 2011
ISBN: 978-1-609361150
Genre: Personal growth/success
People, they say are the only creatures that speed up when they are lost or overwhelmed. But busy isn’t better—it just leads to exhaustion. What if you could slow down—and experience life as it’s meant to be lived?
FULLY ENGAGED is an action plan that will help you identify your passions and your talents, so you can realign your work and day-to-day activity.
FULLY ENGAGED includes little quizzes to determine how satisfied you are, what your life is worth, your life story, life values, and more. Plus it includes personal stories and suggests three key components:
1. Living with Awareness (live intentionally)
2. Living with Alignment (what do you want out of life)
3. Living with Action (the direction you want to go)
“You have gifts to give, family to love, and dreams to live,” writes John Busacker. If you are burned out, replicating and repeating, and want to feel happy, connected, and alive, then FULLY ENGAGED is a book you need to read. Includes a handy yellow ribbon bookmarker. $14.99. 144 pages, hardcover.
Author: John Busacker
Publisher: Summerside North
May 2011
ISBN: 978-1-609361150
Genre: Personal growth/success
People, they say are the only creatures that speed up when they are lost or overwhelmed. But busy isn’t better—it just leads to exhaustion. What if you could slow down—and experience life as it’s meant to be lived?
FULLY ENGAGED is an action plan that will help you identify your passions and your talents, so you can realign your work and day-to-day activity.
FULLY ENGAGED includes little quizzes to determine how satisfied you are, what your life is worth, your life story, life values, and more. Plus it includes personal stories and suggests three key components:
1. Living with Awareness (live intentionally)
2. Living with Alignment (what do you want out of life)
3. Living with Action (the direction you want to go)
“You have gifts to give, family to love, and dreams to live,” writes John Busacker. If you are burned out, replicating and repeating, and want to feel happy, connected, and alive, then FULLY ENGAGED is a book you need to read. Includes a handy yellow ribbon bookmarker. $14.99. 144 pages, hardcover.
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May 4, 2012Did not finish this book, although I hope to do so in the future, if only one chapter, or even a page, at a time. I overcommitted and this book suffered as a result. But if I need to read any book, it's this one. Found the early chapters to be inviting, causing me to think hard about my choices. Clearly, not hard enough though, since I didn't finish the book. That's all me, and not the book. It's a good read.
January 5, 2015
Not at all what I expected, it's and nice spiritual journey to live a good goal driven life.
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