Carey Nieuwhof - At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor

A perceptive and practical book about why our calendars so rarely reflect our priorities and what we can do to regain control.

Adam Grant , #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

The results we get are largely determined by the systems in our lives. The wrong system makes results harder to get. The right system makes it easier, almost effortless, to achieve the right results. This is brilliantly illustrated in Carey Nieuwhofs new book, At Your Best.

Greg McKeown , New York Times bestselling author of Effortless and Essentialism and host of the Whats Essential podcast

Carey Nieuwhof offers a powerful recipe for thriving: do what you do best, at the times when youre at your best, while making sure other peoples priorities dont get in the way. An important guide for anyone feeling burned out by their successful career.

Cal Newport , New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work

Burnout is a choice. If that rubs you the wrong way, Careys book will help you reorganize your life. And then you can share a copy with someone you care about.

Seth Godin , author of The Practice

Clear, concise, and highly practical, the strategies Carey Nieuwhof outlines will help you accomplish far more in far less time at work and at home.

Nir Eyal , bestselling author of Indistractable

Carey Nieuwhof makes a convincing case that burnout is not an inevitable consequence of trying to accomplish big things. Then he shows you how to manage your time and energy with a new approach thats at once more productive and more fulfilling. Read this book to live in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.

Daniel H. Pink , New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human

Carey Nieuwhof is about to make a lot of workplaces and leaders healthier with the strategies in At Your Best. If youre ready to get your life and leadership back, this book is for you.

Patrick Lencioni , founder of the Table Group and bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage

At Your Best is the consummate guide for how to lead yourself well. I cant recommend it highly enough.

Nona Jones , head of faith-based partnerships for Facebook and bestselling author of Success from the Inside Out and From Social Media to Social Ministry

With raw transparency and game-changing leadership insights, Carey will empower you to assess your own situation and create a more balanced, intentional, and effective strategy for your life and leadership. Grab a copy for you and everyone on your team.

Craig Groeschel , pastor of Life.Church and New York Times bestselling author

In At Your Best, Carey Nieuwhof offers some of the best strategies Ive seen to combat the fatigue, numbness, and overwhelm that mark far too much of life and leadership today. If youre done with being tired and want to accomplish more, this book is exactly what you need.

Andy Stanley , founder and senior pastor of North Point Ministries

Life balance is impossible to find, but Carey certainly outlines in At Your Best a route and a way for all of us, no matter where we are leading, to create margin, live on purpose, rest, and succeed.

Annie F. Downs , New York Times bestselling author of That Sounds Fun

As prophetic as it is practical, this book is intelligent, well informed, grounded in reality, yet still hugely aspirational. My heart sang as I read it. We dont have to keep living the same broken patterns of overwork, chronic stress, and constant exhaustion. There is another way. A way to both communion and contribution.

John Mark Comer , founding pastor of Bridgetown Church and author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Some books are good reads. Others change your life. At Your Best is both. Stress and anxiety are epidemics in our culture. Ive seen Carey battle against these to thrive in his own life. With this book, hes going to help you do the same.

Sam Collier , lead pastor of Hillsong Atlanta and author of A Greater Story

This book is practical, insightful, and incredibly timely! Carey offers us well-researched information with specific tools, tried and tested in his own life, giving us all a chance to lead as our best selves!

Danielle Strickland , advocate and author of Better Together

I have no idea how youre doing as you pick up this book and start reading, but Im going to guess youre stressed. Thats a pretty accurate diagnosis these days because, well, who isnt stressed?

You and I live with time pressures our great-grandparents couldnt have imagined. Yes, they had pressures too. Crop yields, droughts, and early frosts that threatened the harvest. Or the tyranny and backbreaking conditions of factory life. But my stressand perhaps yoursis a little different.

For those of us who might call ourselves knowledge workersentrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, software developers, physicians, nurses, managers, graphic designers, administrators, accountants, pastors, social workers, analysts, attorneys, leaders, or highly motivated stay-at-home parents with dreamsour challenges feel real but are usually hard to diagnose. Its hard to figure out whats making us so stressed.

Heres the truth: you deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. What ifinsteadyou learned how to live at your best, personally and professionally?

Thats what this book is about.

I hope it provides both a reasonable diagnosis for you and some welcome relief. I also hope it makes you stop feeling guilty. Im guessing that, unlike your ancestors difficulties, most of your problems stem from having too much, not too little. Too many demands. Too many opportunities. Too much information. Too many distractions. Too many choices. Too many people vying for attention. And way too much stuff on the calendar.