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Coming in April: My Next Book

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I have some great news. My second book comes out this April!

It is called How to Get Unstuck: Breaking Free from Barriers to Your Productivity. 

Whereas What’s Best Next seeks to give a comprehensive productivity approach, Unstuck focuses on overcoming obstacles — and what you need to do in order to prevent some obstacles from happening in the first place. In doing so, it brings in many principles I didn’t have room for in What’s Best Next (such as urgency and importance) and puts them into the overall framework of personal effectiveness.

I will have much more to say about How to Get Unstuck in the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, you can already pre-order it. Pre-orders are now a big deal in helping Amazon and other booksellers anticipate demand, so pre-ordering would be a great way to help get the book off to a great launch!

Changing the World Through Gospel-Driven Productivity

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That’s the title of the message I gave at The Summit Institute this spring. They are a fantastic ministry of Summit Church (North Carolina) that equips Christians to more effectively engage in the mission of God, especially through their work.

Check them out! You can watch the video on their site at the first link above, or here:

Gospel and Work | Matt Perman from The Summit Institute on Vimeo.

Sign Up for Productivity Coaching

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How do you get from where you are to where you want to be?

Many times there are obstacles in the way. You might know the goals you want to accomplish, but not be sure how to navigate the obstacles that plague our productivity. How do you overcome things like the urgency addiction, reactive workflow, procrastination, and distraction? What is the best way to manage your workflow, email, and meetings?

Or you might be stuck because you don’t have clarity on where you’re seeking to go at all. You might feel unbalanced in your life, or have a lack of direction and purpose. Or you might wonder what it means to truly do your work in a gospel-centered way–which is one of the most important issues surrounding our work today.

We have found that coaching is one of the best ways to overcome whatever productivity challenges you may be facing. Coaching helps you go further, faster. Why? Because of the outside input and encouragement that comes from a trained coach. Andy Stanley summarizes this so well in his book The Next Generation Leader: 

You may be good. You may even be better than anyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be. We all do better when somebody is watching and evaluating.

That’s why we offer productivity coaching. We help you develop the confidence and skills to overcome the obstacles to your productivity and make the impact you are called to make–and do it in a God-centered, gospel-driven way.

Our coaching combines the What’s Best Next methodology with the approach to coaching taught at Columbia University Coaching, both of which are driven by research and evidence from global thought leaders and practitioners. It is professional productivity coaching to help you reach the next level.

We offer three types of coaching:

  • One-on-one coaching
  • Team coaching
  • Learn to coach

You can learn more about each of these options on our coaching page. And if you’re interested, contact us for more information on availability and costs.

Introducing the Updated What’s Best Next

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It’s been awhile! We have redesigned our website and made updates to what we are doing as an organization that we’d love to share with you.

Website Updates

The first thing you might notice is that we now have a much-improved graphic look and organization for the site, making it easier to find and read content you are interested in.

The website also gives more information on What’s Best Next as an organization in the About section. Read especially about our mission, values, and what we mean by “gospel-driven productivity.”

You can also now more easily buy books in the store, and we have more products to come.

I am getting back to blogging again, so there will be new free content coming regularly again. Also, we will be posting new articles, messages, and videos to build out the resources section even more fully for you.

Updates on the Organization

As an organization, we have refined what we are about. Here is what we do: we provide resources and training to help you be more effective, in a God-centered way.

That’s what we do. Why do we do it? So that you can do your work with more peace of mind, greater effectiveness, and in a way that honors God and serves others most fully. That’s where the greatest fulfillment is found!

We will share more with you in the coming weeks on the new services and products we will be offering. To start, here are two key things we’re focusing on right now: workshops and coaching.

Book a Workshop

I’ve been doing keynote speaking and workshops for a while, but haven’t done much to promote them. Now we’re making it more widely known. Check out the speaking page to learn more about how to bring me in for staff training or another workshop.

Sign Up for Productivity Coaching

This is perhaps the biggest new thing. We have provided coaching for a while, but now we are giving it greater focus. We love doing it and have been seeing lives changed.

In a nutshell, reading and doing training are great. But the way to really take things to the next level is to apply gospel-driven productivity with the help of a coach. As Andy Stanley has said,

You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than anyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be. We all do better when somebody is watching and evaluating (The Next Generation Leader, 104).

So we’re offering coaching and have begun training other coaches to expand our coaching over the next year. Learn more and let us know if you are interested!

Thanks for being a great website community over the years. We are excited about these new updates and offerings and can’t wait to serve you more fully.

A New Status Update

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We have been working hard behind the scenes to retool What’s Best Next for greater effectiveness.

Look for new content to begin rolling out next week, along with the launch of our new website, and a greater emphasis on our coaching and other services. We will also have updates on upcoming books, courses, and more!

Status Report

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We haven’t been posting new content as Matt focuses on finishing his next book and our small team works on some expanded coaching and training options.

We look forward to sharing more about these as soon as we can. In the meantime, we continue to schedule one-on-one coaching sessions.

For Those in the Kansas City Area: Join Me Thursday Nights for Questioning Christianity

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Beginning this Thursday night and continuing for 8 weeks, my wife and I are doing a series for skeptics and interested Christians called Questioning Christianity. 

If you are in the Kansas City area, we would love for you to join us! And if you can, bring an unbelieving friend or two. We will be exploring the biggest challenges to the Christian faith, and we encourage people to bring their toughest questions. Our goal is to create a safe space where people can talk about the difficulties they have with Christianity, while showing that there is solid evidence for the Christian faith.

Here are the details:

What is Questioning Christianity?

Questioning Christianity is an 8-week series where you can bring your biggest doubts, questions, and challenges with the Christian faith. This is a safe space where there is no judgment for disagreeing and honest dialogue is welcome.

We will begin with a brief presentation addressing a specific challenging question or looking at the evidence for Christianity, followed by an interactive Q&A.

Some of the issues we will look at include:

  • Is there good evidence for Christianity, or do we have to take it entirely on faith?
  • Can we trust the Bible?
  • Is there good historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ?
  • How can Jesus be the only way to God?
  • Why does God allows suffering and evil in the world?
  • What does it mean to be a Christian?

These are questions that are central to life and which many people wonder about. But it is often hard to find good answers. We want to help people wrestle through their doubts and objections, showing that there are solid answers while affirming the need for people to proceed at their own pace–without feeling pressured, forced, or judged.

When is It?

Every Thursday night, March 31 – May 26, from 6 pm to 8 pm.

That means it begins this Thursday!

Where is It?

Kansas City, Kansas. Specifically, it will be at pretty cool co-working space just to the west of the Plaza:

The Village Square
4436 State Line Rd
Kansas City, KS 66103

(Here are directions.)

Who Should Come?

Anybody with honest questions about the Christian faith. Especially skeptics and seekers, but also Christians who want to know more about why it is reasonable and sensible to accept the truth of Christianity.

You can keep up to date by liking the Facebook page.

We would love to see you there!

 

Business is Art

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This is a great perspective from Work the System by Sam Carpenter:

Who says art must include a canvas, sculpture, or musical instrument? Art is creativity, and is there a better example of a creative endeavor than the machinations of building a successful business? Indeed, business is art in its purest form! The painter and the musician shouldn’t scoff at the entrepreneur or corporate chief who must take hard, cold life – sights, sounds, events, things, people – and stir them into an efficient enough mixture to produce a successful business. Business is art. It’s a heroic undertaking, and with it lies two superb by-products: tangible value to others–employees and customers–and personal income for the creator.

Online Training in January: Workflow Management

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We were greatly encouraged by the response to the online training we piloted last month.

If December was too crazy for you, we have two options on workflow management running this month.

We’ll have two live sessions, one tailored for busy professionals (on 1/12/16) and one for pastors & church leaders (on 1/19/16). Join Matt Perman online for 60 minutes as he helps you get control of your week.

Learn more here. 

Workflow Webinar for Pastors and Church Leaders

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The Pastor’s Week – A What’s Best Next Webinar (12/9/2015)

Our next online training will be a live webinar especially for pastors on workflow management.

Pastors and church leaders have demanding schedules. From weekly sermon prep to crisis situations, being a pastor requires frequently switching gears to serve your church.  And no matter how much you love Christ and want to serve his people, productivity challenges and seasons of overload can happen to the best, most faithful pastor. Constantly switching gears between “the urgent” and “the necessary” can be exhausting. It becomes almost impossible to work projects to completion and gain a sense of momentum.

Join Matt Perman next Wednesday in this 60 minute live webinar as he explores the unique aspects of pastoral productivity, guiding biblical principles, and practical tips for managing your workflow, protecting time for what’s most important, and how to get back on track when things zoom out of control.

The Details

  • Presenter: Matt Perman
  • Date: December 9, 2015
  • Time: 9:00 am CST ; 2:00 pm CST
  • Cost: $34
  • Login details: After signing up, your registration will be approved within 48 hours and we’ll email you details for joining your choice of the the morning or afternoon session on 12/9 (via GotoWebinar).