A Book Review

It's been over a month dear trainwithmandy blog.  I've meant to write.  I've had things to write about. Sometimes the thoughts in my head come across is the form of a blog post.  I've been busy.  Busy putting two boys ahead of my own agenda.  It's been good.  Although you know me, if I have something I'm excited about I have to let it out in some form or fashion.

I read Dave Ramsey's More Than Enough. It had more than enough fantastic thoughts and information.  One reason I love Dave is because I can translate anything he says into the health/wellness world.  Here's what I took away from the book, my favorite parts:

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it everyday.  When you mature into work it actually becomes discipline: doing it every day. Discipline understands that get rich quick is a joke. Discipline understands that the best way to get rich quick is to get rich slow. (p. 187) Change out rich with healthy and you've got my motto.  There is no fast track to health because it's something we have to practice day in and day out.  When we put it that way, what's the point in going fast?  If we go fast we can't sustain it.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day.  Diligence is doing it well every day. Work and discipline are important keys. Diligence, however, comes with a guarantee.  When you are diligent over a long period of time you are guaranteed to become w(h)ealthy and have more than enough in all areas of life.  Diligence has an element of vision to it that tells you a real comfortable place to live is inside your income (or total calories for the day). Diligence is knowing that if you can live like no one else can, eventually live like no one else. When you reach a place of diligence in your life you are maturing. Children, whether they are four or fifty-four, are always in a hurry and looking for a shortcut. h(p. 199) This is long term thinking here!

Patience and endurance play tag. You will always find one where the other has been. Endurance through tough times always increases your measure of patience. Patience is also strength of character, which gives you the ability to endure. Patience that can endure is true power. (p. 216)

There is a gift that causes blessings to flow to anyone who possesses it.  If you have this gift it will lead to your heart's every desire.  The happiest people you will ever meet have this gift in abundance, and they seem to be almost eerie. They have a sense of destiny and perspective that is so deep it will almost spook you.  What is this magnificent principal, this gift from on high? CONTENTMENT. (p. 228-229)

Back in psch 101, we were taught the concept of "dissonance," which basically means disturbance. When someone recognizes a way to get more pleasure and avoid pain they are moved, motivated, in that direction. (p. 234)

Art Williams says, "All you can do is all you can do and that is enough."
I once read that happiness is not a state to arrive at, it is a manner of the traveling. I believe one key to contentment is to understand that. (p. 249)

See why I like Dave Ramsey now?  He's a motivator of the TRUTH.  He doesn't fill our heads with empty promises but the wise words to get there with work, sweat, blood, patience, diligence and discipline.