The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness - Hardcover

by Rabbi Daniel Lapin (Author)

Family. Faith. Finance. Friendship. Fitness. Learn to balance and integrate these five critical areas of life.

In The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness, sought-after speaker and writer Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers an inspiring and insightful discussion of how to bring joy and confidence to all of life's many challenges. Rabbi Lapin introduces you to his unique 5F system, weaving together family, faith, finance, friendship, and fitness. He demonstrates how to organize your life so that you're not neglecting one area to achieve success and connection in another.

This book will show how happiness for most is found in family structures and the sexual relationships at their heart along with productive work and the money it creates. It reveals how to defeat false ideas that are projected into our brains about sex, gender, money, and health, both mental and physical, which imperil every aspect of our happiness.

You'll discover how to stop treating life like a zero-sum game and how to apply your efforts in each of the five elemental areas in ways that support your efforts in all the other four. A recipe for balance and well-roundedness, the book also provides:

• Universally applicable insights and strategies that have worked effectively for generations of enthusiasts of 3000 years of Jewish wisdom.
• Strategies to achieve, peace, and tranquility in your daily life through balance and connection
• Ways to benefit by strengthening unsuspectected connections between seemingly disparate parts of your life
• Steps to improve life by integrating humanity's most fundamental institution and its most fundamental ambition

An essential roadmap for sculpting our lives in an increasingly challenging world, The Holistic You will benefit anyone who hopes to simplify and integrate all the most important parts of their life.

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For many of us, the myriad demands on our time, energy, and focus have become overwhelming. And no matter how we try to organize ourselves--whether with to-do lists, prioritization, or the latest productivity system--we always seem to find ourselves in situations where we sacrifice one essential priority to achieve another. But what if there was another way?

In The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness, the renowned Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife delivers an inspiring and practical discussion of how to become what English poet William Wordsworth called a "happy warrior"--one who confronts every daily challenge with joy and confidence. In the book, you'll learn how to achieve greater success while living a more joyful, peaceful, and tranquil life by balancing and integrating all the different parts of your life.

The authors demonstrate how to implement their one-of-a-kind 5F system, incorporating faith, family, friendship, finance, and fitness. Instead of treating life and its demands as a zero-sum game in which energy and time devoted to one area necessarily takes from another, Rabbi Lapin and Susan show you how to arrange your life so that effort expended in each area supports the other areas as well.

The Holistic You offers insights and wisdom drawn from over 3,000 years of Jewish teachings and the authors' own extensive experience working with people from a variety of backgrounds and religions.

An indispensable roadmap to living a fulfilled and balanced life in a world that often does it's best to prevent just that, The Holistic You: Integrating Your Family, Finances, Faith, Friendships, and Fitness is perfect for anyone hoping to improve their ability to maintain a connection with what really matters in life.

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Praise for The HOLISTIC YOU

"All the wealth data indicates that to create sustainable wealth and a great life, the Whole You must be involved. In this latest stroke of genius Rabbi Daniel and Susan Lapin have written a readable, wisdom packed, and applicable book for everyone. The Holistic You is definitely Dave Ramsey recommended."
--Dave Ramsey, Bestselling Author

"Our lost and lonely society needs more books like this one. The Lapins have that rare talent for bridging the old and the new and making multidirectional connections that bring both clarity and insight. They effortlessly glide from familiar modern references to time-tested religious and philosophical writings, from laying out commonsense truths to nuanced exegesis on the 'permanent principles' of the Bible. And they make all of it accessible, practical and personal. Most importantly, their premise here is exactly right: if we want to live a fulfilling life, we must take a holistic approach to our lives. All of us were designed to enjoy the full potential of the life God's given us, and this book offers some important guidance on how to do just that."
--Jeremy Boreing, Co-Founder of The Daily Wire

"The truths Rabbi and Susan Lapin present in The Holistic You have the power to change your life. If you will give equal attention to all of the five F's they discuss--family, finance, friendship, faith and fitness--your life will be balanced. Earlier in my life, I was focused on ministry--to the detriment of some of those other critical components. With God's help, I began to see the whole picture and, over the years, have counseled leaders not to make the same mistake. Through stories, statistics and ancient Jewish wisdom, The Holistic You drives home the message that ignoring any one of these components is like trying to play baseball without a bat. The Lapins' approach to holistic living makes sense and will add 'life' to your years."
--James Robison, Founder and President, LIFE Outreach International

Author Biography

Rabbi Daniel Lapin and Susan Lapin have been blessed with seven children whom they greatly admire and who are now building their own young families. The Lapin children were homeschooled on Mercer Island, Washington and the family enjoyed annual holidays boating off the coast of British Columbia. Several of the Lapin children joined their parents on an exciting Pacific Ocean crossing in their own sailboat and some are now homeschooling Lapin grandchildren. The Lapins recently relocated to Maryland where they live in one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the United States.

Over nearly two decades Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife, Susan, led the Southern California congregation they planted and where they met and married. After counseling crowds of young people through career crises, dating dilemmas, and marriage mysteries by applying ancient Jewish wisdom to solve contemporary problems, word of their work began spreading beyond their own community into both Jewish and Christian circles. Their bestselling seven books, daily television show, weekly podcast, and the resources they create make their inviting Bible-based approach to life's challenges accessible to people of every background. They are well-known speakers for Jewish, Christian, and business groups in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Korea, China, and throughout North America.

While Susan grew up in New York, Rabbi Daniel was born and spent his early childhood in South Africa. His parents, the distinguished Rabbi and Mrs. A. H. Lapin, dispatched him to England and Israel even before he turned thirteen to immerse him in Scripture. Though not a particularly studious young man to start with, he did eventually find himself intensely intrigued by Bible, economics, physics, and mathematics which he subsequently taught at Yeshiva College. As he puts it, "These disciplines explain how the world really works."