Reset

Get off the treadmill of exhaustion, joyless existence, and frayed relationships. Murray describes the warning signals of burnout and gives immensely practical advice on how to slow down to go further.
Top tactics to improve mental, emotional, physical, and to some extent spiritual health: rest, exercise, & diet.

Loved it! Practical, authentic and loved listening to it in the authors own voice. Looking forward to his wife’s book as well.

Huge help to understanding what causes burnout in our culture and how to practically prevent it and recover from it. He has a lot of practical points that help you pinpoint in your own life where you are at. there's a free discussion guide online that goes along with it. i have a link attached. A MUST READ FOR THOSE IN MINISTRY OR ANY WALK OF LIFE!!!

I can't stand the voice.

Fantastically helpful as a pastor dealing with burnout.

I have come to appreciate David Murray and his ministry through the written word. When I saw he had written Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture, I thought, Yeah, I should probably read that. I am glad I did. Murray writes for men, with a planned follow up for women called Refresh being co-written with his wife, Shona.

Some years ago Murray’s life was upturned by health crisis he never saw coming—potentially fatal blood clots in his lungs. He had been going at a pace that was unsustainable and unhealthy. He was forced to stop everything he was doing and reconsider his priorities. Reset was born out of that experience, as well as his time spent guiding others through the reset process. Murray’s fondness for alliteration comes out in the "repair bays" he walks readers through to reset their lives:

Reality Check
Review
Rest
Re-Create
Relax
Rethink
Reduce
Refuel
Relate
Resurrection

For each of these "repair bays" Murray shares Scripture, examples from his own life and his experiences counseling other men, as well as research (like how much sleep we need and how the food we eat affects our health). Everyone should take a break to evaluate what pace they are living their life at. I found I needed more of these "repair bays" than I wanted to admit. I recommend it to men, especially those in ministry or who are married with kids. Our lives and ministries are too important to not give ourselves an inspection every once in awhile to make sure we’re going at a sustainable pace.

I should add one note about the audiobook version. David Murray narrates the book himself. He does speak with a Scottish accent, but I find that foreign quality all the more enjoyable.

I received this book from the publisher for the purpose of providing this review.