Discovering the Cure for the Common Life (Excerpt): Living in Your Sweet Spot
By Max Lucado
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In this short excerpt from The Cure for the Common Life...
It's Sunday afternoon and you're already dreading the inevitable Monday morning. You spend 50+ hours at a job you hate, only to come home too exhausted to pursue anything other than reality TV.
Well, you are not alone: 87 percent of workers don't find meaning in their work and 80 percent believe their talents are not used. And there are consequences-whether or not we realize it, our resulting attitude impacts our health, our relationships, and our fundamental sense of happiness-but best-selling author Max Lucado has a cure.
We are all unique individuals, created in God's image, with our own gifts, strengths and passions. In his winsome voice, Max will encourage you to explore your uniqueness, put it to work, and redefine your concept of career.
Table of Contents:
- Your Sweet Spot (You Have One!)
- Unpack Your Bag
- Read Your Life Backward
- Study Your S.T.O.R.Y
Conclusion
Notes
Max Lucado
Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If ever so powerful is what I say. Upon answering the S.T.O.R.Y. to my life exactly confirmed that I am finally living out my God given purpose, passion and gifts. I will use this book to help others be set free and discover "The Divine" plan God gave them since being a child. It's never too late with God!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inspiring. Motivating. Firing up the desire to do my best in my ordinary work as an act of worship to the God who created me and gave that job to me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eye opener
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A process for discovering your passions and abilities in God's kingdom. This is not a book about introspection. Rather it is an exhortation to review your life history to identify what you've done in the past to understand what you might do well for God in the future. Lucado tells us to take risks and serve through our passions by being faithful at our current jobs while exploring new paths.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was while reading this book that God spoke to me about our school's theme for 2007. The idea that God knows us intimately - our sins, our evil and depravved hearts yet loves us - and sent His Son to die for us while we were His enemies, was brought to me afresh. He knows me, and in Christ, God has made Himself known.This is the theme for my school in 2007!
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Discovering the Cure for the Common Life (Excerpt) - Max Lucado
Discovering the
Cure for the Common Life
1Living in Your Sweet Spot
Max Lucado
1Max Lucado
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Contents
1. Your Sweet Spot (You Have One!)
2. Unpack Your Bag
3. Read Your Life Backward
4. Study Your S.T.O.R.Y.
Conclusion
Notes
1
YOUR SWEET SPOT
(YOU HAVE ONE!)
Each person is given something to do that shows who God is.
—1 Corinthians 12:7 MSG
Sweet spot.
Golfers understand the term. So do tennis players. Ever swung a baseball bat or paddled a Ping-Pong ball? If so, you know the oh-so-nice feel of the sweet spot. Connect with these prime inches of real estate and kapow! The collective technologies of the universe afterburn the ball into orbit, leaving you Frisbee-eyed and strutting. Your arm doesn’t tingle, and the ball doesn’t ricochet. Your boyfriend remembers birthdays, the tax refund comes early, and the flight attendant bumps you up to first class. Life in the sweet spot rolls like the downhill side of a downwind bike ride.
But you don’t have to swing a bat or a club