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5 A.M. & Already Behind
Published in three countries, this book includes the downloadable workbook used by Dr. Kennedy with his patients. Second edition pending in 2017.
It's 5 A.M and Mike is already behind. Not just today, it's everyday. His hours merge and the years pass and every morning he opens his eyes and swears, "This is the day," but it never happens. Mike is overwhelmed and lives a frustrating and cluttered life. His work dictates his health, sleep and, relationships and he's never caught up. Time and change are elusive and he knows it and feels it.
Mike's life takes a curve when he notices his co-worker, Ben, has become his opposite; healthy, happy and well organized. Through Ben, Mike is directed to a man with rules and a black workbook. Over the next few months Mike does searching assignments and meets his new friend at unusual locations where they discuss Mike's discoveries.
It's there that Mike learns powerful lessons and an unusual word. In the end, Mike learns how to start living the story he wants and was created to tell... rather than the one he's being forced to tell. What is the word and lessons that change Mike's days?
It's 5 A.M and Mike is already behind. Not just today, it's everyday. His hours merge and the years pass and every morning he opens his eyes and swears, "This is the day," but it never happens. Mike is overwhelmed and lives a frustrating and cluttered life. His work dictates his health, sleep and, relationships and he's never caught up. Time and change are elusive and he knows it and feels it.
Mike's life takes a curve when he notices his co-worker, Ben, has become his opposite; healthy, happy and well organized. Through Ben, Mike is directed to a man with rules and a black workbook. Over the next few months Mike does searching assignments and meets his new friend at unusual locations where they discuss Mike's discoveries.
It's there that Mike learns powerful lessons and an unusual word. In the end, Mike learns how to start living the story he wants and was created to tell... rather than the one he's being forced to tell. What is the word and lessons that change Mike's days?
108 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2008
13 people want to read
About the author
Don Kennedy
10 books21 followersD. E. Kennedy was born in Kissimmee, Florida in 1951 to a waitress and professional bull rider. His early years were spent with his mother and two siblings, moving as gypsies from town to town in central Florida.
At the age of eight, he discovered surfing at New Smyrna Beach, Florida and grew up working and surfing the east coast and California and has never stopped hitting the waves; Hawaii, Costa Rica, El Salvador.
Don always worked to survive and surf. He sold mistletoe in front of drug stores at age nine, packed cucumbers with migrants in the fields near Virginia Beach at age fifteen, and pounded railroad spikes in the Petersburg, Virginia heat at age seventeen. Along the way his rambunctious spirit and purple Ford van earned him his surfing nickname, the Coydogg.
His final high school years were spent in Key West, Florida as a general student not expected to attend college. Late one night, while mopping floors at the worn Key West Naval Hospital, he spoke with a young doctor and that evening decided medicine was his calling. Why not be a doctor and a surfer?
Dr. Kennedy’s thirty-year practice of family and geriatric medicine began with pre-med studies at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida. During his six years in the U.S Air Force, graduated with his a BS degree in biology and chemistry from the College of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana then attended The University of Health Sciences in Kansas City and completed a family medicine residency at the University of Missouri.
At the age of fifty-two, Dr. Kennedy returned for his master’s degree in business at Stetson University in Deland, Florida and completed his PhD in Leadership at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee in 2015. Remember, he wasn’t expected to attend college.
The surfer-doctor has extensive business and marketing experience. He was founder and CEO of three family medicine practices, set-up and managed urgent care centers, worked with migrants in the National Health Service Corp, and is a co-founder of the Mind, Body, and Soul Surfing Club ™.
Most importantly, Dr. Don Kennedy writes to improve lives and is the only physician in the country practicing Motivational Medicine. His first published book and self-help program, 5 AM & Already Behind, was written on a dare by best selling author and friend, Michael Gerber (The E-myth).
The story about finding your Bahbit™ was published in three languages. Don has used 5AM in his medical practice and seminars to teach hundreds of patients and students how to achieve a healthy and purposeful life balance.
His latest book, The Surfer’s Journey, is a research-based fable using Don’s love for Mother Ocean to motivate and develop socially conscious leaders he calls transformational heroes. The book is a unique symbol-based manuscript Dr. Kennedy uses as a textbook to teach the ten leadership principles of surfing at universities, in businesses, with private clients, and at his destination-based Surfer’s Journey retreats. Hint – Watch for these.
Don lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife of thirty-five years and has four children and three grandchildren. The Coydogg still surfs.
At the age of eight, he discovered surfing at New Smyrna Beach, Florida and grew up working and surfing the east coast and California and has never stopped hitting the waves; Hawaii, Costa Rica, El Salvador.
Don always worked to survive and surf. He sold mistletoe in front of drug stores at age nine, packed cucumbers with migrants in the fields near Virginia Beach at age fifteen, and pounded railroad spikes in the Petersburg, Virginia heat at age seventeen. Along the way his rambunctious spirit and purple Ford van earned him his surfing nickname, the Coydogg.
His final high school years were spent in Key West, Florida as a general student not expected to attend college. Late one night, while mopping floors at the worn Key West Naval Hospital, he spoke with a young doctor and that evening decided medicine was his calling. Why not be a doctor and a surfer?
Dr. Kennedy’s thirty-year practice of family and geriatric medicine began with pre-med studies at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida. During his six years in the U.S Air Force, graduated with his a BS degree in biology and chemistry from the College of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana then attended The University of Health Sciences in Kansas City and completed a family medicine residency at the University of Missouri.
At the age of fifty-two, Dr. Kennedy returned for his master’s degree in business at Stetson University in Deland, Florida and completed his PhD in Leadership at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee in 2015. Remember, he wasn’t expected to attend college.
The surfer-doctor has extensive business and marketing experience. He was founder and CEO of three family medicine practices, set-up and managed urgent care centers, worked with migrants in the National Health Service Corp, and is a co-founder of the Mind, Body, and Soul Surfing Club ™.
Most importantly, Dr. Don Kennedy writes to improve lives and is the only physician in the country practicing Motivational Medicine. His first published book and self-help program, 5 AM & Already Behind, was written on a dare by best selling author and friend, Michael Gerber (The E-myth).
The story about finding your Bahbit™ was published in three languages. Don has used 5AM in his medical practice and seminars to teach hundreds of patients and students how to achieve a healthy and purposeful life balance.
His latest book, The Surfer’s Journey, is a research-based fable using Don’s love for Mother Ocean to motivate and develop socially conscious leaders he calls transformational heroes. The book is a unique symbol-based manuscript Dr. Kennedy uses as a textbook to teach the ten leadership principles of surfing at universities, in businesses, with private clients, and at his destination-based Surfer’s Journey retreats. Hint – Watch for these.
Don lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife of thirty-five years and has four children and three grandchildren. The Coydogg still surfs.
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July 19, 2009
Basically, this is a book on how to drop bad habits, although the way it's written makes it look like one of those miracle infomercials that sells something that will "change your life forever! omglol"
The way the book is written might be effective for some people, and it's barely over a hundred pages long in a larger print, making it a fast read; but I've read books similar to this that have been much better and don't see this one working very well in general. The most effective parts of the book are actually the ten "assignments" at the end of each chapter (which aren't particularly groundbreaking and are pretty vague, which doesn't tend to be a good thing), and these sections are only two pages each, tops. Otherwise, over half of the book consists of meaningless over-the-top cheesy narrative that eventually meanders to the points of the chapters.
This may be a good book for motivation's sake for some readers, but that's probably the only thing I would recommend it for, and it would depend on the person as well. This is like Self-Help Lite, and I don't see anyone who's seriously trying to "de-clutter" their life actually sticking with the plans in this book for a long timespan.
The way the book is written might be effective for some people, and it's barely over a hundred pages long in a larger print, making it a fast read; but I've read books similar to this that have been much better and don't see this one working very well in general. The most effective parts of the book are actually the ten "assignments" at the end of each chapter (which aren't particularly groundbreaking and are pretty vague, which doesn't tend to be a good thing), and these sections are only two pages each, tops. Otherwise, over half of the book consists of meaningless over-the-top cheesy narrative that eventually meanders to the points of the chapters.
This may be a good book for motivation's sake for some readers, but that's probably the only thing I would recommend it for, and it would depend on the person as well. This is like Self-Help Lite, and I don't see anyone who's seriously trying to "de-clutter" their life actually sticking with the plans in this book for a long timespan.
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