In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity, Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace

by Jen Pollock Michel

Publisher:

Baker

, 2022

Overview

”‘Time belongs not to us but to God,’ contends Michel. Lambasting time management strategies that prioritize productivity, Michel argues that readers must instead accept that ‘there is always enough time to do what God has planned.’ Michel succeeds in putting earthly concerns in cosmic perspective. These insightful musings are worth a look."--Publishers Weekly

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Whether we’re trying to find time, save it, manage it, or make the most of it, one word defines our relationship with the clock: anxiety. Yet is productivity really the only grid for the good life? Have you ever imagined a life without hurry, relentless work, multitasking, or scarcity? A life that is characterized instead by presence, attention, rest, rootedness, fruitfulness, and generosity?

This is the kind of life we are meant for, says Jen Pollock Michel. But if we want to experience freedom from time anxiety, we have to reimagine our relationship with time itself.

In the pages of In Good Time, she invites you to disentangle your priorities from our modern assumptions and instead ground them in God’s time. Then she shows you how to establish 8 life-giving habits that will release you from the false religion of productivity so you can develop a grounded, healthy, life-giving relationship with the clock.

From the Back Cover

Reclaim your life from the tyranny of your schedule

Whether we’re trying to find time, save it, manage it, or make the most of it, one word defines our relationship with the clock: anxiety. Is productivity really the only grid for the good life? Have you ever imagined a life without hurry, relentless work, multitasking, or scarcity? A life that is characterized instead by presence, attention, rest, rootedness, fruitfulness, and generosity?

This is the kind of life we are meant for, says Jen Pollock Michel. But if we want to experience freedom from time anxiety, we have to reimagine our relationship with time itself.

In the pages of In Good Time, she invites you to disentangle your priorities from our modern assumptions and instead ground them in God’s time. Then she shows you how to establish eight life-giving habits that will release you from the false religion of productivity so you can develop a grounded, healthy relationship with the clock.


“If you feel overwhelmed by your pace of life or your schedule feels like a bucking bronco, you will find more than simple, helpful steps in these pages, though they are many! You will also discover tender, theological riches."--Sharon Hodde Miller, author of The Cost of Control

"Jen Pollock Michel’s wise and gentle reflections on learning new habits of being and receiving the lives we have been given are a balm for every soul."--Amy Julia Becker, award-winning author of To Be Made Well and White Picket Fences

Product Details

• Title: In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity, Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace
• Author: Jen Pollock Michel
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781493437733, 9781540900548, 1540900541, 1493437739
• Resource ID: LLS:9781493437733
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-13T16:33:57Z

About Jen Pollock Michel

Jen Pollock Michel lives with her husband and five children in Toronto where they attend Grace Toronto Church. She is the author of Teach Us to Want and Keeping Place and frequently travels to speak at churches and conferences.