When There's Not Enough of Me to Go Around: Life Solutions to Perfectionism, People-Pleasing & Performance Pressures

by Elwell, Ellen Banks

• ISBN13: 9780830823482
• ISBN10: 0830823484
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr

Summary

Is your "to do" list too long?Do you have trouble saying no?Are you always in a hurry?Do you feel you have to be perfect?Are you trying to have it all--all at once?If you answer yes to any of these questions, you need this book!Here are life lessons from Ellen Banks Elwell and Joan Bartel Stough--two women who have lived through career change, parenting crises, illness, spiritual drought and overcommitment. Their candid insights will help you balance your whole life. Going far beyond time management techniques, this book shows you how to discover God's purpose for you and equips you to spend your time and energy on the things that really matter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	8	(1)
Preface	9	(2)
Why Does It Seem Like There's Not Enough of Me to Go Around?	11	(14)
I Can't Do It All, and I Can't Do Life Alone	25	(14)
Confident Women Have More to Go Around	39	(16)
It's About Time! Finding More of It	55	(20)
Help! We Need Boundaries!	75	(20)
Families---Are They Making or Breaking Us?	95	(24)
Fitting Friendships into a Busy Life	119	(20)
Hope When There Just Isn't Enough to Go Around	139	(20)
Here and Now Is Just One Season of Life	159	(20)
Notes	179