Stop Trying to Be Successful, Pete Portal
Stop Trying to Be Successful, Pete Portal
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Stop Trying to Be Successful
The Seemingly Illogical and Sometimes Completely Baffling Call of God

Author: Pete Portal

Narrator: Pete Portal

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 02/18/2025


Synopsis

Feeling like a failure can be pretty exhausting. But chasing after an ever-elusive “success” in money, power, influence, and accolades? That’s even more so.

Thankfully there is a better way. In Stop Trying to Be Successful, Pete Portal invites you to recognize the beauty and complexity of the world we live in and to redefine success, choosing love over efficiency, depth over volume and real friendship over cold transactions. It is time for us to remember that true success is not about what we have but about how we live.

Stop Trying to Be Successful invites us to slow down and evaluate how Jesus’ life and teachings help us discover a different kind of success. Accompanying this book are features designed to help you dig deeper, including: Questions for reflection at the end of each chapter, A link to a free small group video series, Discussion guides to accompany each small group session. It’s time to stop falling into the comparison trap and getting bogged down by the world’s many definitions of achievement. You’ll find that Jesus’ life and teaching are the perfect antidote for a world growing sick with the wrong sort of success. Experience a life of Kingdom significance rather than meaningless influence. Be inspired by a renewed sense of purpose. This upside-down success is the kind that will truly satisfy your soul.

Stop Trying to be Successful was previously released in the UK as How to be (Un)Successful.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 07, 2025

every Christian needs to read this. humbled and challenged me in such a good way and was so well said. will be rereading for sure.......more

Goodreads review by Josie on June 06, 2025

read this for a book club. maybe it’s because i only read this after work (so i was tired) but i felt some passages were vague (ex. bringing heaven onto earth). other parts were highly specific (the author’s adoption of his daughter, supernatural healing stories) and called for us Christians to trul......more