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TIME: THE MOST WASTED GIFT: Why We Waste It, How to Reclaim It, and Finally Live Like It Matters
What if the real tragedy isn't that we don’t have enough time—but that we don’t live the time we already have?
Every day, we rush past our lives in pursuit of the next thing. We check the clock. We chase productivity. We count down the hours like prisoners waiting for release. But in the process, something more valuable than time slips through our fingers—our presence.
In this lyrical, masterfully written work of insight and invitation, John Holiday doesn’t just ask you to manage your time—he asks you to meet it. The Most Wasted Gift is not a book about calendars or color-coded schedules. It is a deep reckoning with how modern life has fractured our attention, numbed our senses, and made us strangers to the moments that actually make us feel alive.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, spiritual tradition, and lived human experience, this book walks you through four powerful The Curse of Wasted Time — how our obsession with hustle, distraction, and busyness keeps us distant from the lives we long to inhabit.The Time You Still Have — a soulful excavation of the patterns, beliefs, and stories that have shaped your relationship with time—and how to rewrite them.Reclaiming the Gift — practical and poetic pathways to creating a life of presence, purpose, and intention. From boundaries to rituals to the art of focus, you’ll learn how to feel time differently, not just track it.Living Like It Matters — the legacy you’re already writing, the power of kairos (sacred time), and how to unwrap the gift again and again until your life finally feels like yours.
This is not productivity porn. This is not time management for the endlessly optimized. This is the antidote to burnout, soul-fatigue, and the quiet grief of a life unlived.
Written with emotional depth, literary elegance, and the cadence of a teacher who knows how to slow the world down with words, John Holiday reminds you were not born to outrun the clock—you were born to step inside it, stretch it with presence, and sanctify it with love.
Whether you're constantly feeling behind, trapped by your schedule, or simply tired of watching your life play out in fast-forward, The Most Wasted Gift will stop you in your tracks—in the best way possible.
And in that stillness, you'll feel it
The pulse of your real life.
Waiting for you.
Right here.
Right now.
Every day, we rush past our lives in pursuit of the next thing. We check the clock. We chase productivity. We count down the hours like prisoners waiting for release. But in the process, something more valuable than time slips through our fingers—our presence.
In this lyrical, masterfully written work of insight and invitation, John Holiday doesn’t just ask you to manage your time—he asks you to meet it. The Most Wasted Gift is not a book about calendars or color-coded schedules. It is a deep reckoning with how modern life has fractured our attention, numbed our senses, and made us strangers to the moments that actually make us feel alive.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, spiritual tradition, and lived human experience, this book walks you through four powerful The Curse of Wasted Time — how our obsession with hustle, distraction, and busyness keeps us distant from the lives we long to inhabit.The Time You Still Have — a soulful excavation of the patterns, beliefs, and stories that have shaped your relationship with time—and how to rewrite them.Reclaiming the Gift — practical and poetic pathways to creating a life of presence, purpose, and intention. From boundaries to rituals to the art of focus, you’ll learn how to feel time differently, not just track it.Living Like It Matters — the legacy you’re already writing, the power of kairos (sacred time), and how to unwrap the gift again and again until your life finally feels like yours.
This is not productivity porn. This is not time management for the endlessly optimized. This is the antidote to burnout, soul-fatigue, and the quiet grief of a life unlived.
Written with emotional depth, literary elegance, and the cadence of a teacher who knows how to slow the world down with words, John Holiday reminds you were not born to outrun the clock—you were born to step inside it, stretch it with presence, and sanctify it with love.
Whether you're constantly feeling behind, trapped by your schedule, or simply tired of watching your life play out in fast-forward, The Most Wasted Gift will stop you in your tracks—in the best way possible.
And in that stillness, you'll feel it
The pulse of your real life.
Waiting for you.
Right here.
Right now.
161 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 8, 2025
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