National Bestseller and 15x Award-Winner

The Half-Known Life

What Matters Most When You're Running Out of Time

I help people see their blind spots.

This book is about what we often see about our lives only in hindsight, and just how precious that time is. We are raised believing we’re accountants, or nurses, or parents, or business people, but we’re actually time traders.

What can’t you see?

About The Author

Ryan Lindner

MS, PMP, CMS, SHRM-SCP

I build training & coaching programs to help companies scale and create environments conducive to professional development.

I’m also a personal development specialist who has worked as a behavioral coach for clients and top organizations all over the world. After two sudden, unexplained cardiac arrests at a young age, I began to explore different perspectives, learning to prioritize my own energy and time, and assisted clients to do the same.

For nearly 20 years, I’ve created training & coaching programs to help companies scale and their teams thrive. The pathway to success in an organization is paved with an understanding of its culture and how to create amazing learner experiences. It’s about knowing how to get the best from people, and this increases productivity, decreases turnover, but is rarely executed properly.

Awards and Recognition

Book Synopsis

“I’m going down now,” I said to a young woman a few seconds before the darkness-my first cardiac arrest. As I returned to work as a behavioral coach, it became maddening to hear about all-consuming, everyday problems and misguided priorities while I fought to merely remain conscious.

The Half-Known Life challenges conventional thinking of success, identity, and personal change. Most often, truly profound change happens following events that shake someone to their core-a car accident, death of a family member, or cardiac arrest that pulls them into a moment of clarity. Priorities change when time becomes precious. Problems look different when you have no energy left to give them. Why wait until you’re burnt out or for a life-changing event to occur before getting real about your life? Who are you when all of the accolades and accomplishments are gone? What does how you manage your time say about what’s important to you-about what matters most? Get out of your head and get into your life, before it slips away.

Testimonials

A GPS for life, challenging readers to examine their perspectives, motivations, tendencies, routines, and choices in order to experience each moment with greater clarity and joy. Each page will grab you by the collar and shake you into a higher consciousness.

As a young adult with seemingly unlimited runway, Ryan was given the gift of recognizing that life is finite and short and that it's up to each of us to make the most of the time we've been given. In The Half-Known Life, Ryan shares his hard-won wisdom to encourage and challenge all of us to live life now. A beautiful and timely gift of a book.

The Half-Known Life is a great resource to help you wake yourself up and fully integrate all of you into your own life and helps us learn how to stop confirming who we are through others' reactions to us. What more could we ask for? Ryan helps us learn how to courageously bring self-love to every change in our lives and how to detach from our emotions and let go to allow ourselves to make conscious choices that help us live every day deliberately in our 'full-known life.

As Ryan says in this book, truly profound change happens following events that shake you to your core. Fortunately, we have gifted people like Ryan who can share such experiences and life lessons so that we can change without them. Life will always demand something significant from us. Ryan shows us how to deliver with excellence!

The Half-Known Life offers an insightful look into the very busy world we all live in. It encourages us to rethink what is important and provides thoughtful commentary on ways to make our lives more meaningful in the moment. Thought-provoking questions help the reader dig deep into the motives behind our feelings and actions. An engaging and relatable read that will leave you reassessing life's priorities.

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