Tim Chester has done a great job of treading a fine line between "self-help - here's how to get things done more effectively" and "God-help - from the Bible, here's what God's plan is for your life, and how he wants you to live."

Having bought this back in Nov 2007, I decided that I'd review it, but my "busyness" prevented me from accomplishing that until now. How I wished I'd read it before.

Chester's construction of the book is pastorally helpful and biblically faithful.

He offers reasons on why we're so busy, answers the poignant question "Is being busy bad?", looks at how we can work better, and sort out our priorities better.

But most importantly, and finally, he addresses the idolatrous tendencies that work can create, and a biblical "destruction" of those idolatries. By this point in the book, I had thought "Great, now I have lots of ways of working faster and smarter; I don't need to read the rest." In fact, I would argue that this latter section is just as important, if not more so.

A hard review to write, as I want to include loads, but don't want to reduce the necessity of reading this book!:-)

I found this a very helpful book which identified some areas in my life which need attention (some of them unexpected) and gave guidelines on what to do about them. Useful whether you think you are too busy or not.