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Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are |  | Authors: Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Creator: Elisa Stanford
Publisher: Multnomah Books
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1601422709
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.83
EAN: 9781601422705
ASIN: 1601422709
Publication Date: March 16, 2010
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Mark Batterson Reviews Start Here
Mark Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. NCC was recognized as one of the Most Innovative and Most Influential Churches in America by Outreach Magazine in 2008. Mark has two master's degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of the bestselling book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. His latest book is Wild Goose Chase. Read Batterson's guest review of Start Here:
 I owe Alex and Brett Harris a huge thank you. Why? Because my son, Parker, and I read their last book, Do Hard Things, together and it had a huge impact on us. In that book, I feel like they captured what every parents dreams for their children. We want them to make the most of their God given gifts. We want them to be sold out to Christ. And we want them to strive to make a difference and not settle for complacency. Alex and Brett did all of those things and more. Whenever I love a book, I can’t wait for the author to come out with the next one. Well, the waiting is over. Alex and Brett have finally delivered the much-anticipated sequel: Start Here. Not only will this book fuel your God-given dreams, it will give you practical tips on where to start. I’ve found that the first step of faith is always the hardest. Part of it is uncertainty. Part of it is inertia. But this book is the antidote to both of those things. Many dreams die at the hands of "how." We don’t know "how" to make it happen so we give up on what God has put in our hearts. I genuinely believe this book will resurrect the dreams God has put in your heart. No matter where you are on your spiritual journey, Start Here. --Mark Batterson
Product Description
You want to do hard things.
But you don’t know where to start.
You are changing the world around you.
But you are tired and burned out.
You feel called to do the extraordinary for God.
But you feel stuck in the ordinary.
Do Hard Things inspired thousands of young people around the world to make the most of the teen years. Now Alex and Brett Harris are back and ready to tackle the questions that Do Hard Things inspired: How do I get started? What do I do when I get discouraged? What’s the best way to inspire others? Filled with stories and insights from Alex, Brett, and other real-life rebelutionaries, Start Here is a powerful and practical guide to doing hard things, right where you are.
Are you ready to take the next step and blast past mediocrity for the glory of God?
START HERE.
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 All ages can find inspiration in Start Here March 21, 2010
Paula Reece (Iowa)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I found the book Do Hard Things by brothers Alex & Brett Harris while browsing through our local Christian bookstore, and I immediately thought of my oldest son. Just entering adolescence, he was starting to experience the pressures of being like "everyone else" and I feared him falling in with kids who were content with fulfilling society's generally low expectations of how typical teenagers act. I bought him the book, and we read through it together. Although he was only in 5th grade when we read the book, it led to some good discussions and exposed him to boys who were not afraid to go against the crowd and not just take the "easy route" through adolescence.
Building on Do Hard Things and their highly popular blog [...], the twins have just released their companion book Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are. It is meant to help young people move from inspiration to action through concrete steps as well as stories and testimonials from real-life teens who have "done hard things" and seen their own lives blessed as they have blessed others.
It intrigued me that, even though the book was written for a much (much) younger audience than myself, I found myself nodding, underlining, and rereading passages as I discovered both advice and insight that directly relates to my own life, right here and right now. For example, the first part of the book concentrates on figuring out where you should start in doing "hard things." This chapter, I feel, was packed full of wisdom. One pearl that I think is often overlooked is that doing something "big" for God doesn't have to be "big" according to society's standards. They say:"Doing hard things doesn't mean being preoccupied with something bigger, different, and more exciting all the time. It means being ready and willing to obey, not matter how big, small, or hard it might be." They go on to say, "If we say we want to do hard things for God, but we're not pursuing excellence where He has placed us (at home, at school, and at work), it's likely that we're really more interested in getting glory for ourselves than in getting glory for Him."
Wow, how true is that?
The other chapter that really made an impact on me was Chapter 4: Side Effects May Occur. Here they offer frank and practical advice on how to handle the changes that come when you choose to do hard things. As a writer (although not nearly as accomplished as these boys), I often struggle with how to handle affirmations I do receive. I want to think I'm a humble person, but when someone says they love something I've written, I have to admit that it makes me feel really, really good. So what do you do with that? Alex and Brett have a great answer, with some help from the words of a brave, amazing woman: "Like every gift from God, affirmation is something we can recognize and enjoy as long as we remember its source. Holocaust survivor and author Corrie ten Boom is quoted as saying, "When people come up and give me a compliment--'Corrie, that was a good talk,' or `Corrie, you were so brave,' I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of each day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, `Here you are, Lord, it is all yours.' "
Among the other topics this solid little book tackles are:
* How to create a plan for your idea or project
* How to raise money
* How to manage your time
* How to keep doing hard things from actually distracting you from God
* How to keep going when the going gets tough
* How to move against the crowd--and why
* How to keep from falling back into your old ways
The book concludes with a list of 100 "hard things" teens have done that were submitted to [...], which is an incredible resource to get kids thinking about what options they have for doing something good for others (and for God). There are also discussion questions that could be used with a small group or book club.
Although a relatively small book, all 137 pages of Start Here were written with purpose and intention, delivering an abundance of inspiration and practical guidance on how to shatter the "Myth of Adolescence" by moving from complacency to action for God. I highly recommend this not only to teens or those who work with young people, but to "post-adolescents" (like me) as well. The wisdom these brothers share in this book is ageless as well as timeless.
The First Step to a Life of Significance March 21, 2010
Scott Asher
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In their first book, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, twin authors Alex and Brett Ross set out to prove to teens (and the world) that being exceptional doesn't have an age requirement. The book called teens to a life of high expectations NOW. Too often, they say, teens are not expected to do anything or be anything and they live down to those expectations. The book is revolutionary and timely. In this follow-up, the Ross twins - younger brothers of Joshua Harris of Dug Down Deep: Unearthing What I Believe and Why It Matters fame - provide real world examples of how to do those hard things, providing testimonials and giving ideas on how each teen reader - really, any reader - can find their God given purpose.
It is exceptional that these two brothers have not only become best selling authors, but also speakers through their Rebelution tours, which serve to set out the high expectation cry for teens and their parents and ministry leaders everywhere. As I wrote that sentence I had to fight to not show my bias proving that I too have low expectations for teens and am therefor part of the problem. Why shouldn't teens be authors and speakers? Is it really more beneficial for a teen to read a book written by older people? (The same people that admit that they don't understand teens?) Is it odd that teens who have a message should share that message with other teens? Women's ministers are generally women, right? Married Couple counselors are generally married successfully. Low expectations for teens abound.
As such, I cannot recommend this book (and their previous book) more highly. The church must find a way to break the cycle of low expectations - ministers and parents and teens. The book is easy to read, full of interesting stories and more importantly, full of information on how to do hard things. This book is the first step to a life of significance.
This book was provided by the publisher as a review copy.
Great conversation starter for parents and teens March 16, 2010
April E. (Kansas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Start Here is the sequel or companion book to the Harris brothers' original book, Do Hard Things. In Start Here, Alex and Brett share stories of how real teens are applying their message and are doing hard things, both big and small, right where they live. It is full of ideas for teens of ways that they can make a difference in the world around them, right now.
My fourteen-year old ran off with this book as soon as it arrived. As she read it, and since she completed it, she has initiated many conversations with me about knowing what God wants you to do, about the hard things in daily life, and how to have the strength to do them. It has really impacted her, and has been beneficial to our own relationship as we've been able to discuss the book.
I highly recommend both Do Hard Things and Start Here for Christian teens and young adults.
(this was given to me by Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers to review.)
Totally Start Here March 16, 2010
Mr Woo (Indiana)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For everyone who wonders what to do with themselves. For anyone who wonders what they are accomplishing. For those that believe they could be doing more. This book by Alex and Brett Harris is for them.
I read Do Hard Things when it came out and this book is the natural, and perfect, follow-up to that. Written for teens by teens, this book was a simple and fast read, complete with chapter discussion questions and a whole section of hard things to get people's creativity started.
My favorite part of their style is that they keep the focus on God and what He is doing. And they highlight success and failure, noting that not all hard things are meant to be done when we first conceive them. This guidebook, for that is what it is, will give teens, and others, a very realistic view of what doing hard things will take.
It just may be my hard thing to convince my youth group to undertake reading this book and acting on it.
"Doing hard things for Christ is one of the primary ways we can glorify Him. Why is that? Because if we restrict ourselves to what comes easily, avoid sacrifices, and limit our relationship with God to Sunday mornings, we're showing the world how little we value Him. When we're willing to take risks, pursue excellence, dream big, be faithful, and do what's right no matter the cost, our actions shout that Christ is worth serving above all others."
It is my hope that as this generation takes on this goal, all of the other generations, younger and older, will do the same. That would be a hard thing worth seeing done.
Great book for young people March 16, 2010
Mark A. Buzard (Lisbon, Ohio)
This book is geared for the younger crowd, teens and early 20's, but was an interesting read. Alex & Brett Harris have some good advice for young people on how to serve God and be used by Him. The book includes several emails and letters from young people telling of ways they are trying to change their world in big and small ways. A great book for the young person in your life.
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