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Life, living, can be complex. There's work, family, and that big bucket of everything else. Hectic doesn't come close to defining the pace of modern life. And yet within this whirlwind it's often the simple things that bring us the greatest joy — if we could only find them in the clutter of our lives. It may not be necessary to give it all up and live in a cave, but it can sometimes seem like a good idea.
What can you do? Take a moment and think about you, me, and everything else.
Keeping It Straight is Patrick Rhone's very personal mediation on his own life and experiences. His clear insights identify the jumble and distractions of life today and offer simple and useful advice on how to discover and focus on what really matters. This collection of short essays is filled with clear, direct, and useful observations on productivity, life, and living.
What can you do? Take a moment and think about you, me, and everything else.
Keeping It Straight is Patrick Rhone's very personal mediation on his own life and experiences. His clear insights identify the jumble and distractions of life today and offer simple and useful advice on how to discover and focus on what really matters. This collection of short essays is filled with clear, direct, and useful observations on productivity, life, and living.
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A privileged seat for the ride of a lifetime
How would you describe a book that contains a lifetime's worth of keen insight into the human soul? Words inevitably fall short, unable to do justice to the passion and dedication behind this wonderful piece of literature. Through his gentle, thoughtful writing, we get to know Patrick the writer, but we also get a glimpse of Patrick the human being. He may not have all the answers, but that's not what he is after. Patrick's journey is one of calm and collected self-discovery, the kind of journey that you want to last forever. With this book, we get a personal invitation to join him for the ride.
And that's an offer you just can't refuse.
And that's an offer you just can't refuse.
*Disclaimer* I'm a friend of Patrick's, and promised that this would be my first eBook purchased for my new Kindle.
That being said, I will write this review as candidly as possible for the person who is deciding on whether or not to buy this book.
What this book is *not*: long, fiction, polarizing, Mac-centered, all brand new material, full of pictures.
What this book *is*: short, nonfiction, introspective, revealing, personal, zen-like, referenceable.
I've bookmarked many of the pages in this book to go back to and read again and again. He shares deeply personal and insightful "a-ha" moments and things about himself and others, in hopes that you may get a morsel of something out of them. If you're like me, you will. I find myself too busy too many of my days, and some of Patrick's ideas in this book can truly help bring me back to center again. This book really packs a punch. Take a step back and reflect, and really enjoy the short amount of time needed to read this book like I did.
That being said, I will write this review as candidly as possible for the person who is deciding on whether or not to buy this book.
What this book is *not*: long, fiction, polarizing, Mac-centered, all brand new material, full of pictures.
What this book *is*: short, nonfiction, introspective, revealing, personal, zen-like, referenceable.
I've bookmarked many of the pages in this book to go back to and read again and again. He shares deeply personal and insightful "a-ha" moments and things about himself and others, in hopes that you may get a morsel of something out of them. If you're like me, you will. I find myself too busy too many of my days, and some of Patrick's ideas in this book can truly help bring me back to center again. This book really packs a punch. Take a step back and reflect, and really enjoy the short amount of time needed to read this book like I did.
Make your life easier on yourself!
Patrick has been a close and dear friend for about 6 years now. He is well versed in what it takes to make your life easier on yourself. He cares deeply about not just making his family's life better, but also making the lives of all of his reader's lives better. So when he told us that he would be releasing his first book, I jumped at the the chance to grab it.
Keeping It Straight is a collection of 48 essays that he had written and released on one of his many online ventures. So I had read most of them when they were released. He did divulge on his podcast `Enough' that every single one of the 48 essays was looked at, edited, revised or expanded upon for inclusion in the book. He structures the book into three themes (which are also the subtitle of the book) titled: You, Me and Everything Else. The You theme are posts that he hopes will touch us as a reader of his work. The Me theme shows some posts that affect him as a writer and a person in hopes that we, his readers, will find inspiration like he did. The Everything Else section deals with, well, everything else that we as beings on this planet have to deal with day-to-day.
He discussed money, time management, honesty, blame, worry, karma and many other things that we all struggle with all the time. He provides simple answers for us to overcome the things in our life that get in our way. He also throws in a good bit of himself into these pages. There are a number of essays that cover his life as he grew up in New Orleans and the experiences that would shape the man that he is today.
My only disappointment with the book, and it is minor, is that there is no new material in it. I know that there are some posts that he expanded on, but I was hoping for an entire volume of "Rhone-isms" to fill my day to enjoy. If I know Patrick, I am sure that he is hard at work on his next book, and hopefully, there will be some new material for all of us to enjoy together.
Patrick entered the Internet world as a Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity blogger (like I did, way back in 2006). One of his first widely read piece was his white paper for his productivity and organizational system, that he lovingly dubbed Org-Fu. He is also the creator of the Dash/Plus system for pen/paper list makers to denote the status of list items.
Today, he still writes about productivity, but it is at such a higher lever than just GTD, his writing teaches all of us how to be more productive, but more importantly, better human beings. He is one of the most talented writers of this generation, and I am proud and honored to call him my friend.
Keeping It Straight is a collection of 48 essays that he had written and released on one of his many online ventures. So I had read most of them when they were released. He did divulge on his podcast `Enough' that every single one of the 48 essays was looked at, edited, revised or expanded upon for inclusion in the book. He structures the book into three themes (which are also the subtitle of the book) titled: You, Me and Everything Else. The You theme are posts that he hopes will touch us as a reader of his work. The Me theme shows some posts that affect him as a writer and a person in hopes that we, his readers, will find inspiration like he did. The Everything Else section deals with, well, everything else that we as beings on this planet have to deal with day-to-day.
He discussed money, time management, honesty, blame, worry, karma and many other things that we all struggle with all the time. He provides simple answers for us to overcome the things in our life that get in our way. He also throws in a good bit of himself into these pages. There are a number of essays that cover his life as he grew up in New Orleans and the experiences that would shape the man that he is today.
My only disappointment with the book, and it is minor, is that there is no new material in it. I know that there are some posts that he expanded on, but I was hoping for an entire volume of "Rhone-isms" to fill my day to enjoy. If I know Patrick, I am sure that he is hard at work on his next book, and hopefully, there will be some new material for all of us to enjoy together.
Patrick entered the Internet world as a Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity blogger (like I did, way back in 2006). One of his first widely read piece was his white paper for his productivity and organizational system, that he lovingly dubbed Org-Fu. He is also the creator of the Dash/Plus system for pen/paper list makers to denote the status of list items.
Today, he still writes about productivity, but it is at such a higher lever than just GTD, his writing teaches all of us how to be more productive, but more importantly, better human beings. He is one of the most talented writers of this generation, and I am proud and honored to call him my friend.
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Patrick's experiences give him a unique perspective on his life and the things he does.
I was especially moved by the "Me" section. In it, Patrick is very candid and transparent about the some of the people and experiences that have shaped him, and have true meaning in his life. It is a great opportunity to get a feel for what makes him who he is.
Though I have never met Patrick face-to-face, I have spent enough time interacting with him directly to know that the words in Keeping It Straight are from his heart, and well represent the things he values.
To borrow an oft-used phrase from Patrick's Minimal Mac site that applies well here...
This is..."What we believe in".
Well done, my friend...well done.