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8 Essential Exchanges: What You Have to Give Up to Go Up
Every choice is a value statement.
Exchanges aren’t about choices between good and bad decisions. Those are easy. The most important exchanges are between really good things and even better things. Those are much harder, but they shape our lives in disproportionate ways.
In this book, Kevin Paul Scott identifies eight clear—and challenging—choices. He calls them “exchanges” because we give up something important when we choose something even more important. These are choices that confront every person almost every day. When we make them, we experience more fulfillment and have a greater impact than we ever dreamed possible.
This book explores exchanges that really matter—the ones that take you beyond an average, nice, comfortable life into one that is full of challenge, meaning, and impact. In the book, you’ll be challenged to exchange:
• stability for significance;
• fans for friends;
• dollars for difference;
• expedience for excellence;
• shifting sands for a solid rock;
• being the master of none to being the master of one;
• acceptance for accomplishment; and
• the immediate for the ultimate.
Making exchanges can be both uncomfortable and thrilling. Many of us have carefully crafted our lives to remain as comfortable as possible. However, real life and genuine fulfillment take place outside your comfort zone. If you insist on remaining comfortable, the concepts in this book will seem foolish to you. But if you’re willing to be challenged, you might discover more thrills than you ever imagined.
Exchanges aren’t about choices between good and bad decisions. Those are easy. The most important exchanges are between really good things and even better things. Those are much harder, but they shape our lives in disproportionate ways.
In this book, Kevin Paul Scott identifies eight clear—and challenging—choices. He calls them “exchanges” because we give up something important when we choose something even more important. These are choices that confront every person almost every day. When we make them, we experience more fulfillment and have a greater impact than we ever dreamed possible.
This book explores exchanges that really matter—the ones that take you beyond an average, nice, comfortable life into one that is full of challenge, meaning, and impact. In the book, you’ll be challenged to exchange:
• stability for significance;
• fans for friends;
• dollars for difference;
• expedience for excellence;
• shifting sands for a solid rock;
• being the master of none to being the master of one;
• acceptance for accomplishment; and
• the immediate for the ultimate.
Making exchanges can be both uncomfortable and thrilling. Many of us have carefully crafted our lives to remain as comfortable as possible. However, real life and genuine fulfillment take place outside your comfort zone. If you insist on remaining comfortable, the concepts in this book will seem foolish to you. But if you’re willing to be challenged, you might discover more thrills than you ever imagined.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 27, 2013
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November 4, 2020
Although I didn't want to hear about the sacrifices required to become a better person, teacher, writer, etc., I appreciate the encouragement I found in this book. It is not easy to get better, and Scott does not sugar coat it. This is something needed though. He basically says that life is hard, and you get to choose what kind of hard.
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