
Off Balance on Purpose
Embrace Uncertainty and Create a Life You Love
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Dan Thurmon
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Dan Thurmon
About this listen
Every day we are inundated with messages about the importance of finding balance in our lives. How does this make us feel? Overwhelmed, out of touch, and unfulfilled. The problem isn't us - it's the message. Perfect balance is unachievable and, upon closer inspection, undesirable. The perpetual quest for balance ends up limiting growth, progress, and the quality of life.
In Off Balance on Purpose, Dan Thurmon frees you from the balance dilemma and empowers you to adopt a new approach to creating a happy, fulfilling life: embrace reality, get aligned with your purpose, lean forward, and initiate positive changes. These steps will give you the knowledge, strength, and motivation to:
- Accept and take advantage of the contradictions in your daily life
- Integrate the five vital areas of life - work, relationships, health, spiritual growth, and personal interests - into a workable, fluid, sustaining pattern
- Adopt a practical, concrete process for orchestrating changes and staying aligned with your purpose
With an engaging style and a storyteller's gift, Thurmon combines profound insight, humor, compassion, and practical examples to offer you a realistic path toward a rich and rewarding life.
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- Billy Taylor
- 08-28-24
Title says it all
Title says it all, the other 8+ hours is just general cliches, with the author adding no personal experiences outside of juggling. There are much better self improvement books out there.
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- christopherm
- 01-27-25
Don’t judge this book by its title
I liked the title, but it was basically downhill from there. The book starts off with a lot of feel-good fluff, pretty harmless cliche advice…the kind of generic stuff you might hear on social media from influencers peddling tips for healthy living. But as his recommendations pile up, it begins to feel less harmless. For one thing, he undermines the initial premise of embracing imbalance. Instead, he seems to be saying something like, “Just try harder! And you too can learn to master juggling these 100 healthy habits seamlessly! Then you’ll finally have a life you love!” His laundry list of tips is (if you hadn’t already guessed) stuff most people already feel they *ought* to be doing. His cheerleading isn’t adding anything to the conversation. If you’re not a fan of the power of positive thinking, things only get worse in the final third of the book.
All that said, I think he’s well intentioned. But I think there are much better self help options out there.
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