Today I'm sharing my top 10 books of 2022 and why I loved them.

Listen, I had a great list of books I was going to read this year and I read a lot of them.

I did.

But then I kept getting sidetracked with recommendations from friends and I would read other books instead.

And let me just pause and say, I'm so glad that I did.

It led to some of the most wonderful books and I cannot wait to share them with you today.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 178.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play. Simply put,

that is where our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work

and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. Listen in.

Every year I do something a little bit crazy and I take three months off of shopping.

I basically give myself a spending freeze in pursuit of experiences and a deeper relationship

with the Lord and my family. I just get tired of all

the material things and the bombardment of ads and our culture just telling us we need to

buy things all the time. And so I just freeze my spending and I only focus on what my family

needs. And I've called it the contentment challenge for years. You can learn more about it if you

listen to episode three of the podcast or head to nancyray.com slash contentment challenge. But through the

years, so many of you have joined me in doing this. And I wanted to invite you to join me again,

the first three months of 2023. We'll start January 10th, which will give you 10 days to prepare and get the things

that you need on hand. And then we'll go through all the way to April 10th. And I have free

resources for you along the way. So you'll get emails and encouragement from me if you sign up for

the free challenge. But if you want something even more indepth, I have basically a full-on course and a

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