"Short-takes"
No time to read an entire book? Not to worry. Join with other members in our CCNI community to hear an executive summary with Biblical applications.
In addition to receiving a dozen or so highlighted insights from this month's book, members will benefit from interaction with other participants.
As coaches, we tend to do most of our work alone. Let's set aside time to purposefully come together for prayer, encouragement, and refreshment while learning from best practices to enhance our knowledge and understanding.
"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."
-Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
Short-takes will be offered on the 4th Tuesday of each month, January through October.
This Month's Book: Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance by Laura Vanderkam
Most of us have an adversarial relationship with time. We’re constantly trying to beat the clock—behavior rooted in a fear that time is scarce and must be obsessed over, hoarded, and ultra-optimized. But what if there is a different way to view time, one that could make our hours feel abundant? What if we believed that we had enough time to advance our careers, enjoy meaningful relationships, pursue hobbies, and more? In Big Time, time management expert Laura Vanderkam shows us how to make this our reality.
Drawing on original research about how hundreds of real people spend their time and her own experience of tracking her time for a decade, Vanderkam shows how even busy people can come to feel that time is abundant. Big Time offers simple, tested tactics with high impact, such as developing a “ringmaster” mindset; breaking big goals into daily, bite-sized pieces; and making little bets within a schedule to increase the odds of a breakthrough. Through actionable advice for managing a complex life, Vanderkam demonstrates how we can feel liberated by the time we have, instead of restrained by it.
By turns surprising, thought-provoking, and encouraging, Big Time shows readers that the daily experience of time can be quite spacious—and that, managed well, each day’s hours can be a source of happiness and satisfaction.
Hosted by:
Susan Litwiller, MNC, Ed.S., MBA, currently serves as CCNI's Secretary. She is passionate about learning and boasts a self-proclaimed title as a "Resource Junkie".
