The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose
Do you ever feel that if you weren't so busy you would be happier, healthier, more effective, more fulfilled...and maybe even a better person?\ Once every twenty-five years or so, a book comes along that perfectly identifies our common search and struggle for happiness, and teaches us how to find lasting fulfillment in a changing world. This is that book. Not since M. Scott Peck published The Road Less Traveled have we experienced a voice as refreshing and authentic as Matthew Kelly's.\ The...
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Once in a while, perhaps every ten years or so, a book comes along that perfectly defines the problems of an age and provides appropriate solutions to those problems. This is that book. Beginning with his own remarkable story of how his rise as an internationally renowned speaker and author became a roller-coaster ride, and ultimately a personal crisis, Matthew Kelly sets the stage to examine the lifestyle issues that characterize our age. In short, Kelly reminds us with an unmatched clarity of one simple truth -- we are too busy. From there, he takes us on a journey deep within ourselves to discover why we cling to hectic schedules, why we avoid silence, and how we can create a lifestyle that alleviates the restlessness which plagues our hearts. "Our chaotic world and complex lives are crying out for a little order and simplicity." In The Rhythm of Life, Kelly outlines simple steps and everyday actions that create a way of life -- a lifestyle -- which is more conducive to the well-being of the whole person: physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Using stories, examples, and anecdotes to captivate our attention, Kelly's writing style parallels his inimitable speaking style, and through the power of the written word he is able to further highlight and emphasize his ideas. The truth of these ideas is self-evident and can be validated by your own experience of life in our modern world. Publishers Weekly Now 30, Kelly began his Catholic inspirational speaking at the age of 19. In this new edition of his self-published book, Australian-born, Cincinnati-based Kelly exhorts readers to rediscover what he calls the rhythm of life: "the perfect combination of rest, activity, and pace" that will enable each of us to become "the-best-version-of-ourselves." Some will be inspired by these sermonlike essays; others will feel Kelly recycles standard self-help messages, such as "everything is a choice"and "enjoy the journey." Much, for Kelly, rests in self-discipline and control. "If you can teach yourself, condition yourself, to desire those things that are good for you, there is nothing you cannot achieve or become." Like so many self-help authors, Kelly also promotes good sleeping, eating and exercise habits, and suggests a daily hour of prayer and using the "seventh day as a day of rest, reflection, and renewal." More idiosyncratically, he predicts that what he sees as our declining civilization will end in 60 years to be replaced by a vaguely defined superior one. (Nov. 16) Forecast: According to Fireside, Kelly's self-published books have sold 800,000 copies. Perhaps his charisma will help on his post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas 11-city tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Everything Is a Choice\ Everything is a choice.\ This is life's greatest truth and its hardest lesson. It is a great truth because it reminds us of our power. Not power over others, but the often untapped power to be ourselves and to live the life we have imagined.\ It is a hard lesson, because it causes us to realize that we have chosen the life we are living right now. It is perhaps frightening for us to think that we have chosen to live our life exactly as it is today. Frightening because we may not like what we find when we look at our lives today. But it is also liberating, because we can now begin to choose what we will find when we look at our life in the tomorrows that lie unlived before us.\ What will you see when you look at your life ten years from now? What will you choose?\ Life is choices.\ You have chosen to live this day. You have chosen to read this book. You have chosen to live in a certain city. You have chosen to believe certain ideas. You have chosen the people you call friends.\ You choose the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and the thoughts you think. You choose to be calm or restless, you choose to feel appreciative or ungrateful.\ Love is a choice. Anger is a choice. Fear is a choice. Courage is a choice.\ You choose.\ Sometimes we choose the-best-version-of-ourselves, and sometimes we choose a-second-rate-version-of-ourselves.\ Everything is a choice, and our choices echo throughout our lives...and into history...and on and on into eternity.\ Most people never fully accept this truth. They spend their lives arguing for their weaknesses, complaining about their lot in life, or blaming other people for their weaknesses and their lot in life.\ You may argue that you are forced to live in a certain city or drive a certain car, but it is not true. And if it is, it is true only temporarily and because of a choice you have made in the past.\ We choose, and in doing so, we design our lives.\ Some may say that we do not choose our circumstances. You'd be surprised. We have much more power over the circumstances of our lives than most men and women would ever admit. And even if circumstances are thrust upon us, we choose how we respond to those circumstances.\ Others may argue that they did not choose the country they were born in or the parents they were born to. How do we know we didn't choose these things? We are all endowed with free will. Did we not have this free will before we were born? Perhaps one day we will realize that we have chosen much more than we have even imagined.\ I hope that day is today.\ For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.\ Learn to master the moment of decision and you will live a life uncommon.\ Copyright © 1999 by Matthew Kelly\ Revised copyright © 2004 by Beacon Publishing
Introduction11Crisis32What Do You Want From Life?193Who Are You?454The Importance of Rhythm1115Creating the Rhythm1256The Way1777The Abundant Life221
\ From Barnes & NobleIn our day-to-day lives, chaos overtakes us daily. Obligations overwhelm us; problems intrude at every intersection. We lose our sense of purpose, our sense of priorities. In The Rhythm of Life, a Catholic minister implores us to attending to our four legitimate needs: physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. Kelly maintains that that as we follow these simple steps, a miracle will ensue: our sense of purpose will actually rediscover us.\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyNow 30, Kelly began his Catholic inspirational speaking at the age of 19. In this new edition of his self-published book, Australian-born, Cincinnati-based Kelly exhorts readers to rediscover what he calls the rhythm of life: "the perfect combination of rest, activity, and pace" that will enable each of us to become "the-best-version-of-ourselves." Some will be inspired by these sermonlike essays; others will feel Kelly recycles standard self-help messages, such as "everything is a choice"and "enjoy the journey." Much, for Kelly, rests in self-discipline and control. "If you can teach yourself, condition yourself, to desire those things that are good for you, there is nothing you cannot achieve or become." Like so many self-help authors, Kelly also promotes good sleeping, eating and exercise habits, and suggests a daily hour of prayer and using the "seventh day as a day of rest, reflection, and renewal." More idiosyncratically, he predicts that what he sees as our declining civilization will end in 60 years to be replaced by a vaguely defined superior one. (Nov. 16) Forecast: According to Fireside, Kelly's self-published books have sold 800,000 copies. Perhaps his charisma will help on his post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas 11-city tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
