Make a Life Responding to the Next Kairos Moment eBook Curt Beavers
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Are you satisfied with only making a living? What if there were a way to feel satisfied and fulfilled knowing you were pursuing your passion with purpose?
Curt Beavers decided early in his career that the price was too high. Making a living in a job he had no passion for was leaving him stressed, unsatisfied, and unfulfilled. There had to be a better way. Curt and his wife, Lori, set out to do more than just make a living. They made a life together as a newly married couple—a life filled with family and friends, new relationships around the world, and opportunities to serve.
Make a Life, Not Just a Living tells how Curt stepped off the treadmill of trading hours for dollars and opened opportunities for himself and thousands of others around the world to make a life of good health, business success, time freedom, and true joy.
Life is a mission. Each of us has been given particular skills, assets, opportunities, and relationships to fulfill that mission. We feel a unique passion for certain people or to respond to particular opportunities.
When we live in the intersection of our skills, our passion and purpose, and the world’s need, then we are making a life, not just a living.
Make a Life, Not Just a Living offers inspiration to pursue your passion and begin to make a life, not just a living.
Make a Life Responding to the Next Kairos Moment eBook Curt Beavers
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Make a Life Responding to the Next Kairos Moment eBook Curt Beavers Reviews
I received my book, MAKE A LIFE by Curt Beavers, this week and finished it in 2 days. It will inspire you to tap into your best resource, your heart, and know without doubt the life you should be living. This book is full of real life stories from those who have made that decision and are 'making a life'. Thank you Curt Beavers, for your thoughtfulness in putting words to action. Your latest book will Bless many.
Thank you, Curt Beavers.
Very well written book. Comfortable reading.
Transparent journey of faith and trust and of living Biblically with"open hands."
Wonderful insights on time, kairos time, organization and time management.
Emphasizes the idea and importance of "relational capital."
A clear Proverbs 35-6 perspective lived out.
Overcomes hurts and sadnesses and gives them to the Lord,
freeing heart and mind for God's blessings which lie ahead,
especially learning and living out God's deeper plans for us to serve others.
This book is a blessing waiting to happen in your life.
I couldn't agree more with the theme and message of this book. I am excited to share this book with others! We all have the ability to make a life rather than a living for ourselves right now and fulfill our mission and purpose. This book reinforces the concept of seizing the Kairos moment now as it may not come again. I loved the stories of people that accepted that moment in time and created a life that was more than they could possibly have imagined!
Curt Beavers shares strong ideas related to making a life vs. a living. The book is full of stories of real people who are making a meaningful difference in this world by going after their passions and creating a life full of relationships, hard work, and purpose. I especially like the sections that discuss how to steward the relationships in your life and how relational capital is the most valuable asset you own. You will not only hear from Curt Beavers - but also from around 10 others who share their own personal stories of discovering how to shift from making a living to making a life. It gives practical examples of how you can make this happen in your own life. This book is such an encouragement to use the gifts and talents God has given you to live a life that matters. I highly recommend it.
In a series of vignettes Curt Beavers shares personal stories (his own and those of others) that illustrate how taking a risk, making a leap of faith, not being satisfied with "just OK" can lead people into realms of possibilities they couldn't have imagined. Life can and should be so much more than merely getting by, or even making lots of money and having possessions. Philosophically grounded in his Christian faith and world view the writer makes his points without being preachy or engaging in sentimentality. This book, through uplifting, real-life stories, challenges the reader to be more and dream bigger by stepping out of the shackles of conventional thinking. These stories will resonate most meaningfully with people of faith and those who are entrepreneurial. But there's something here for everyone. Throughout my reading of this book I found myself wanting to know more about the people in it, their lives before and after their respective Kairos Moments, and the differences their choices made to their lives. It's a good and easy read, and I hope that this author will continue to write and explore his ideas in even greater depth in future books.
In his new book, Make A Life, Not Just A Living, Curt Beavers promises to explain to readers "how to respond to the next Kairos moment" in business. This pitch intrigued me, as I'm in the process of exploring the potential to apply the concept of kairos in the context of business. Unfortunately, the book doesn't deliver on its promise.
In our commercial culture, we are used to thinking of time as something systematic and objective, measured accurately by clocks - chronometers. Business in particular depends upon this understanding, measuring the efficiency of labor in terms of time. "Time is money," or so the aphorism goes.
This model - what the ancient Greeks called Chronos - is just one way of experiencing time. The Greeks also proposed an alternative model of thinking about time - Kairos. Whereas Chronos is time measured in objective standard units, organized toward efficiency at work and predictability in social structure, Kairos is subjective. During experiences of Kairos, people perceive moments of time differently, not just more slowly, but as completely separate from ordinary concepts of speed. Within Kairos, even small moments seem to take on a quality of eternity. Kairos exists as time between standard units of time, flowing freely rather than marching forward in a relentless rhythm.
To understand this distinction could be extremely useful in business, because the nature of work seems to change when people shift from Chronos to Kairos, becoming less predictable, but also more creative. Knowing how to manage this difference could enable a more adaptive management process.
Disappointingly, Beavers barely touches upon the distinction between Kairos and Chronos. Instead, he seems to accept a simple definition of Kairos as a kind of time set apart from ordinary time on the clock, when special opportunities may be made apparent and must be seized. He doesn't stop to think about the deeper implications of the binary relationship between Chronos and Kairos, or to consider how businesses can design their management to encourage these different states of mind, for employees or for consumers, at appropriate moments.
Part of the problem is that Beaver's understanding about Kairos comes from a particular religious perspective, and emerges as a tenet of faith that he seems to accept at face value, rather than an idea that can be worked with and explored without regard to religious doctrine.
The religious perspective in this book isn't just a matter of background context. It's the dominant paradigm, and is strongly present on almost every page. In the middle of the book, Beavers acknowledges that he uses his business "as a platform for ministry". It would have been kind for Beavers to make it plain in the book's description on that his business advice is based more upon the Bible than any other source, so that readers who aren't interested in Christian theology know to steer clear.
Religious ideology aside, Make A Life, Not Just A Living doesn't present the reader with many specific ideas that will be helpful to professionals who are beyond the first stages of the entrepreneurial journey. The book is full of vague cliches like this "I learned that it wasn’t education or experience that would determine success. It was a willingness to do what it takes to get there, and that’s different for every person."
Occasionally, Beaver approaches an interesting idea, such as when he writes that, "After the industrial revolution and the technology revolution, the human side of business is winning again." Sadly, he never follows through with these concepts. Hints of greater depth are all the reader gets.
Most of the energy in the book is devoted to telling stories about the personal struggles experienced by the author and his friends. These stories go on at length, but rarely bring the reader to any generalizable insights about business, beyond trite entreaties to work with a sense of purpose.
I agree with the author that human experience, and cultural depth are sorely needed in business. However, to be applied in business, the qualitative insights delivered through Kairos experiences need to be placed within a clearly articulated conceptual structure that bridges into the strongly chronological world of commerce. In its thin pages, Make A Life, Not Just A Living fails to even approach that mark.
Very powerful well worth the read!
Awesome book.
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