I’m about to read a book, that I’m hoping will change my life.
Don’t worry, I haven’t gone mad 🙂 I’ve never been a fan of self-help books. A number of them have been recommended to me over the years, but I haven’t ever read anything that has influenced me more than the Bible. I’m not saying I rule out everyone else’s wisdom. I read ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen Covey and that, and his book ‘First Things First’ had a huge impact on my working life.
In general though, I’m not one for that genre.
But my interest has been piqued by Jeff Goins new book ‘The In-Between’. I’m taking Jeff’s ‘Tribe Writers’ course and am really enjoying it. I’m encouraged to find that I’m already doing some of the things he recommends. I’m learning that I have a lot to… well… learn. There are plenty of good habits to get into and a few bad ones I need to break.
I can’t review a book I’ve yet to read but the concept of ‘the in-between’ is one I’m really interested in. I have struggled to enjoy, to savour, and to learn from ‘the in-between’ stages in life. At times I have resented them or at least felt frustrated by them. There have been so many things that I have hoped for and those hopes have not been realised. I’ve spent years searching for where I’m supposed to be, what I’m supposed to be, who I’m supposed to be.
“What should I be doing with my life?” has been my mantra for so long that I have neglected to look at what I AM doing and how valuable it might be. It’s hard not to look back and mourn the wasted time, and to be honest I still feel things have yet to fall into place. Me and my husband and both in our 40s and still waiting…
I am looking forward to reading the book as I’m hoping it will give me a different view on ‘the in-between’. It would be beyond liberating to feel different about it.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
Just another Christian woman... 
Well said!
thank you La 🙂 x
Thanks for your thoughts, Annmarie. Don’t worry; The In-Between isn’t much of a self-help book. It’s more memoir, with a few lessons tucked away into each story.
The reason I wrote the book was not to provide people who feel stuck with answers, but to let them know they’re not alone. In fact, we ALL are waiting for something; we’re all in some kind of in-between.
And the sooner we can grasp that, even embrace it, the sooner we can get on with living our lives — and hopefully making something of them.
thanks jeff 🙂
I should have clarified that I get that this is way beyond ‘self-help’
Once I’ve read it. I’ll write a review.