A book about morning routines may sound boring, but Lee keeps the reader engaged with personal stories, scripture, and relate-able examples.
In fact, Lee was so convincing about the three-minute morning in Hello Mornings: How to Build a Grace-Filled Life-Giving Morning Routine that I’m already planning my own three-minute morning … and I’ve only just finished the book.
What I Liked:
- Lee brings in plenty of scripture throughout Hello Mornings
- The suggested morning routine only takes three minutes
- Very practical takeaways
- You can make your morning routine longer or shorter even by day, as your needs require
- If you scale up your morning routine and then fall off the bandwagon, Lee gives great advice for getting back on the bandwagon and sidestepping the typical guilt
- Hello Mornings was an easy-to-digest read
- Lee suggests a community or ways to create one for accountability
- Lee offers myth-busting and tips for perspective shifts (I especially enjoyed the move time perspective shift)
- The suggested morning routine is spiritually focused
What I Didn’t Like:
- Non-believers are unlikely to get much out of this book due to its highly spiritual focus.
To clarify, I enjoyed this book as written and would not change the spiritual focus at all (hence why the spiritual focus is in both the category for what I did like AND the category for what I didn’t like) – it’s just sad that the focus could keep some people from gleaning from Hello Mornings.
Recommendation:
I would definitely recommend this book to Christians struggling to build a morning routine who would like to incorporate more spiritual practices into their lives. Although the three-minute morning in Hello Mornings could be revised to not have such a highly spiritual focus, it seems that non-believers may not get as much from this book.
Christian, wife, “hybrid” mama, I run the site All Behind A Smile to help others like me.
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