This was one of the best books I’ve read over the past few years! The tagline of the book really explains what the book is all about:

Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job.

The book is Jon Acuff telling the story of his journey from working his day job to being able to work his dream job full-time and the lessons he learned in between. For me, the big takeaway was valuing your day job while you’re on your way to your dream job. For me, too often, I focus on my dream job rather than my day job. I was cheating my employer and cheating myself from getting everything I could get out of my day jobs.

I liked this book because it didn’t just focus on your dream job. It focused on the journey required to get to working your dream job.

If you find yourself working a job you’re not that wild about and dreaming and working all day long on your dream job, you need to grab this book immediate.

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A year and a half ago I heard of P90X and started doing it. I fell in love! My fitness goal in life has always been to look good with my shirt off. I didn’t achieve that until I started using BeachBody products like P90X and Insanity. You can read my review of some of the programs, here.

I believe in the product so much that I actually started studying the company a lot. I found out that I could actually become a BeachBody Coach and make money by selling BeachBody products and helping people reach their physical goals. So I became a coach! It’s $15 a month, I get a 25% discount on Beachbody products, and I make commission every time I sell a workout program or shakeology! It’s a great deal!

Now, to be honest, it is a multi-level marketing company. To be even more honest, I’ve hated multi-level marketing companies for years! I’ve made fun of them, criticized them, and felt bad for people involved in them. Then I read this book, and Robert Kiyosaki said he recommend being in one for a period of time. In this video, he explains why:

Tony Horton, creator of P90X, actually blogged about BeachBody Coaches here. I really liked when he said, “Did you say multi level marketing? What? Ick! You mean pyramid scheme right? Okay chill out. All these fears would be true if BeachBody were selling hats or kitty liter, but this is Beachbody people! The number 1 in-home fitness company on the planet! P90X is steadily becoming the most popular fitness system in US history.”

If you’ve used BeachBody products, if they’ve changed your life, if you promote them to others, you should become a BeachBody Coach as well! If you’re interested, just let me know!

If you’re interested in buying BeachBody products like P90X & Insanity, or know someone that does, you can shop here!

If you or someone you know is interested in Shakeology, you can buy that here.

Now with all of that said, I will never put this in front of my walk with God or ministry. I will never meet with people with the sole purpose of going over these things or to ask them to become a coach. I’ll never tell anyone, “God told me to meet with you about an opportunity.” If someone is interested in getting in shape, making a little extra income on the side, or learning sales and they express interest, I’ll talk to them. I just wanted to make that clear, because the people that do that are the people that drive me nuts!

¹¹ “Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough? ¹² What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,¹³ that you turn against God and say all these evil things?           -Job 15:11-13

Do you ever have circumstances come into your life where it feels like even God won’t be able to get you through it? Maybe you’ve been a Christian for a while, and you know what God’s Word says about your situation, but your heart has become hardened.

I read those verses in Job and was blown away! “Is God’s comfort to little for you? Is His gentle Word not enough? What’s taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision to the point where you’re questioning God’s ability to get you through?

Toward the end of the book of Job, God asks him, “Where were you when I created the universe? The Heavens? The earth?”It was this question that finally got Job back on track, back to believing in the goodness of God.

I think sometimes we forget who it is we serve. I know I do. We serve the creator of the universe. Anytime we get our eyes on anything other than the greatness of God, our reason will be taken away and our vision will weaken.

God is always enough.

We just have to make a concious to decision to trust Him with everything in us and not lean to our own understanding. If you find your reasoning being taken away and your vision weakening, you’re not trusting God.

Spend some time in worship and prayer. Thank God for all the good things He’s done in your life. As you press into Him, the hardness in your heart will fade, and God will lift you from your current situation.

Thoughts?