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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 15, 2018

Good book for all ages, a sobering voice we all need, everyday. It’s simple and smooth read, yet requires true commitment to oneself and others, are you ready?

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Steven Ibbotson

Nails the challenges for long-term leadership

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 4, 2019

Having listened to the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership podcast regularly, the seven topics addressed by this respected pastor and leader were not surprising. While each chapter includes valuable advice, this reader found the two chapters on disconnection (3) and pride (5) particularly insightful. Nieuwhof's vulnerability combine with biblical thoughtfulness to form a good and challenging read. I recommend this book to any leader entering their 40s, and even those younger.

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Brandon

A helpful read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 4, 2018

I really appreciated a couple of things about this book. The first is that many of the topics that Nieuwhof explores orbit around self - awareness and emotional intelligence. These are essential tools in any leaders toolbox.

I also deeply appreciated his chapter on burnout, and if that is the only chapter you read than it's worth the price of the book. Carey opens up about his own personal experience with burnout to a deeper extent than you would find in anything else he's written. That vulnerability gives you the template for examining your own condition as a leader in whatever context you find yourself in.

The only knock I have against this book is that I'm not a huge fan of the 7 steps or 5 factors format that Carey often uses. That's not a criticism it's just not the style I enjoy reading regularly

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Gregory Russell

Good read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 6, 2023

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This book was recommended to the congregation by our Pastor. He`s an avid reader, as I am too. The book is a good read. The author had many good insights into character development, and one or two even hey me especially hard and were vitally relevant to me personally. Glad I spent the money and invested the time.

Bob

See it now

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 25, 2019

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I heard about this book while catching up on the 5 Leadership Questions podcast. It sounded like just what I was experiencing. Yes, these are issues that can derail a leader, but they are not the “big” ones we think of like abuse, adultery, and embezzlement. Yet I believe these issues eventually lead to the big ones. Fortunatly, each issue is not a lost cause, but if you can see it coming you can make the corrections. The author connects each issue with a plan to correct course.

The issues the author discusses are cynicism, compromise, disconnection, irrelevance, pride, burnout, and emptiness. I have to admit that during the podcast I heard myself being described by more than one issue and knew I needed to find out more. I am glad 5LQ brought Carey back for part 2 to finish the discussion.

This book is definitely worth the read. It is accessible and insightful, filled with enough personal stories and examples to make it practical and not just theoretical.

Carey does write from a Christian perspective (lawyer turned pastor) but the material here is relevant for anyone.

I do wish there was more application material for emptiness and mission but what is there is a good resource.

If you, like me, start seeing yourself in this material you will also see there is practical help. You don’t have to sink, but you can make course corrections. As Carey says do what you must today so you can thrive tomorrow.

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Encouraging journey

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2020

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This book takes you on an encouraging journey where burnout doesn't have to be the destination. I think the author outlines clearly the ways that we can be prepared for what is ahead or for how we can re-examine what we've already been through. It's a warning so needed currently as stress seems to be mounting up like the peel of an onion period as you think this is as bad as it gets there tends to be another layer until you change the way that you think and the way that you respond to things that arise in your life. I appreciate his frankness and candidness about his own struggles. It's not that easy to be that raw with the details. I think everyone from Every Walk of Life would be encouraged by this book.

Michael Griswold

Didn’t See This Book Coming

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2019

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I have been on something of a minor Christian book kick lately which is interesting to me due to my complex relationship with God, but you’re probably reading this for my review of Didn’t See It Coming instead of my Dr. Phil session. Even though this book is written from the perspective of a pastor, I was pleasantly surprised at how accessible this book is to people who are not Christians or indeed may not believe in God at all.

Carey Nieuwhof talks about how these life forces: cynicism, compromise, disconnection, irrelevance, pride, burnout, emptiness happen to all of us from time to time and how they don’t have to become our traps. I felt everything about this book seep inside of me and wake me up emotionally indicating that I had felt a lot of these forces interact in my life and allowed me to look deeper within myself in a deeper way.

It’s a fairly short read that packs a Herculean punch for those willing to look deeper inside.

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Jeremy Beachy

excellent book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2022

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This is a great book. I think both religious and unreligious people could get a lot out of this book.

Otto

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2020

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and a deeper insight to getting to know myself better. Being more thankful and more curious is great advise to building a deeper Christian relationship with God. Insightful book and Carey makes reading his thoughts and ideas a very easy and interesting read.

M. E. PLOWMAN

Burn Out Challenges Recognized and Addressed

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2020

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The author addresses burn out and self absorption through the lens of his own experience. I could relate to much of it and took away some good insight to address these things in my own life.

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