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Cure for the Common Life

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This book is easy to read and serves as a good reminder that people really do have sweet spots. It's a good encourager to go for it, citing many examples of how people found the courage to leave their 'security' to find their dreams fulfilled doing what they truly love and were meant to do. I think that saying, do a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life holds very true.

I agreed with the book but I remember years ago questioning about recipes when cooking sweet things that needed salt added. That just didn't make sense to me. Then someone explained that the salt just makes the sweet sweeter. I think sometimes we need to have a salty job for a while so that when we find that sweet spot we'll appreciate it that much more.

The book is faith based and quotes scripture to back up the concepts. It has exercises at the back--answering questions and writing about experiences--all engineered to help you find your sweet spot.

Wishing you lots of sweetness in your life, and yes I recommend the book.

This is one of the best books I've read in the last twenty years. It is full of examples of living in the sweet spot of life. At the end of the 'story' is a 40 page workbook, The Sweet Spot Discovery Guide (pgs. 141-181). If you read this entire book and complete the discovery guide, you will realign your life with a purpose that is as plain to see as the nose on your face. I totally enjoyed this book and highly recommend it with five stars!

Dissatisfied with your job?

Feeling like you have no real skills? Or as though your interests are meaningless for glorifying God?

Cure for the Common Life discusses our "sweet spots"..the areas in our life in which we feel fulfilled because we're doing what we do best, and doing it for our Maker.

We've all had those "How can God use little old me?" thoughts, and Max teaches us how to replace those with "I'm good at this because God chose me to be good at this, and I can do this for HIM."

Like with all of Mx Lucado's that I've read, Cure for the Common Life is an easy read, and chock full of insight. Using simple yet meaningful analogies, he gets his point across. Max explains how no matter how insignificant our skills appear, we can use them for God because God gave us those skills! Lucado also encourages us to take the time to thoroughly explore ourselves so that we can find our "sweet spots" in life.

This book held my attention from cover to cover with its inspiring message that even I can do great things for God. I bookmarked several passages in the book to refer to later.

Whether you're just starting out on your own in life, or you've been in the workforce for decades, you should read this book!

At the end of this book, Lucado shares a step-by-step guideline to help us discover our sweet spots.