Matthew Aaron Perman - How to Get Unstuck: Breaking Free from Barriers to Your Productivity

Permans new book on productivity goes beyond the how of effectiveness to the why: Why do anything well? The answer is found in our theology. Excellence, attention, and care are all ways that we leaders love our God and our neighbors. Drawing on the wisdom of business gurus, neuroscientists, and pastors, Perman has provided a resource for all of us who desire to steward our time, talents, and resources better so that we can live out the gospel more faithfully and fully in the time weve been given.

KATELYN BEATY, author of A Womans Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World, and former managing editor, Christianity Today

Getting stuck is frustrating, disruptive, and unavoidable. Getting stuck is also not the way it is supposed to be, suggests Matt Perman in his new book, How to Get Unstuck. Gleaning the wisdom from the best of the personal-effectiveness gurus, Perman combines common sense and biblical principles to help you get out of the rut that may have become your new normal. This book will help you joyfully bring more flourishing to the communities God has called you to serve.

HUGH WHELCHEL, executive director, Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, and author of How Then Should We Work? Rediscovering the Biblical Doctrine of Work

Im a big fan of Matt Permans work. If you can imagine a cross between theologian Jonathan Edwards and Getting Things Done guru David Allen, then you have in your head a picture of Matt Perman. No one combines theological substance with practical and transformative self-management insights like Matt. His Whats Best Next was hugely helpfuland I couldnt be more excited about his thoughtful and imminently practical new book How to Get Unstuck. Nothing faddish or superficial here. This is God-centered and gospel-driven wisdomthe best of self-management insights set within a genuinely Christian framework of flourishing in Christ. Highly recommended!

TODD WILSON, senior pastor, Calvary Memorial Church, and author of Real Christian: Bearing the Marks of Authentic Faith

Christians today need to understand how to live healthy and productive lives, not only in the home but especially in the workplace. Productivity is hardwired into our DNA by God, who created man in his image and likeness. This is why Im so excited about How to Get Unstuck by Matt Perman. I encourage you to pick up a copy of this book and learn how to become even more productive via a Christian worldview.

DAVE JENKINS, executive director, Servants of Grace Ministries, and executive editor, Theology for Life magazine

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How to Get Unstuck

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To everyone out there who is trying to make a difference. You can do it.

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

JOHN 8:36

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

JOHN 8:12

Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt... even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and thrown into the sea, it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.

MATTHEW 21:2122

For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

2 CORINTHIANS 1:810