In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity, Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace

by Jen Pollock Michel

Whether we're trying to find time, save it, manage it, or make the most of it, one word defines our relationship with the anxiety. Yet is productivity really the only grid for the good life? Have you ever imagined a life without hurry, relentless work, multitasking, or scarcity? A life that is characterized instead by presence, attention, rest, rootedness, fruitfulness, and generosity?

This is the kind of life we are meant for, says Jen Pollock Michel. But if we want to experience freedom from time anxiety, we have to reimagine our relationship with time itself.

With In Good Time, she invites you to disentangle your priorities from our modern assumptions and instead ground them in God's time. Then she shows you how to establish eight life-giving habits that will release you from the false religion of productivity so you can develop a grounded, healthy, life-giving relationship with the clock.

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Published December 27, 2022

About the author

Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of Teach Us to Want, Keeping Place, and Surprised by Paradox. Her fourth book, A Habit Called Faith, releases in February 2021.

Jen holds a B.A. in French from Wheaton College and an M.A. in Literature from Northwestern University. She's currently enrolled in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University.

An American living in Toronto, Jen is a wife and mother of five. She is the lead editor for Imprint magazine, published by The Grace Centre for the Arts, and host of the Englewood Review of Books podcast. You can follow Jen on Twitter @jenpmichel and also subscribe to her monthly letter, Post Script, at www.jenpollockmichel.com.