To Hell with the Hustle

Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World

By: Jefferson Bethke

Narrated by: Jefferson Bethke

Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

This is your wake-up call to resist the Hustle culture and embrace the slowness of Jesus.

Our culture makes constant demands of us: Do more. Accomplish more. Buy more. Post more. Be more.

In following these demands, we have indeed become more: More anxious. More tired. More hurt. More depressed. More frantic.

What we are doing isn't working!

In a society where hustle is the expectation, busyness is the norm and information is king, we have forgotten the fundamentals that make us human, anchor our lives, and provide meaning.

Jefferson Bethke, New York Times best-selling author and popular YouTuber, has lived the hustle and knows we need to stop doing and start becoming.

After listening to this book, you will discover:

• How to proactively set boundaries in your life
• How to get comfortable with obscurity
• The best way to push back against the demands of contemporary life
• The importance of embracing silence and solitude
• How to handle the stressors that life throws at us

To Hell With the Hustle is for anyone who is:

• Feeling overwhelmed with the demands of work, family and community
• Wanting to connect and spend time with their family
• Tired of being anxious, lonely, and burned out

Join Bethke as he discovers that the very things the world teaches us to avoid at all costs - silence, obscurity, solitude, and vulnerability - are the very things that can give us the meaning, and the richness we are truly looking for.

©2019 Jefferson Bethke (P)2019 Thomas Nelson

Very Thought Provoking

Very researched and thought provoking read! It came out before the pandemic, but so many things brought up in this book were directly addressed through it!

A great perspective on our hurry up lifestyle.

A great perspective on how we are mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually killing ourselves. I think he has some great ideas, and some that are more easily attainable if you are a young family. Regardless, this is a springboard to help identify and creatively attack those areas that are stealing our time, a very precious commodity we can never get back. Jefferson puts words to the things I think many of feel but have a difficult time articulating, especially in regard to how we live with a lack of true community and love for our neighbor.

Nice reset

Very much needed for myself and everyone in American/Western society as it seemed mostly geared towards. Slow down, put your phone down, be present in every moment (no really present), be weary of your news media outlets. One of my favorite parts was him talking about people used to get a newspaper and it would be the same news for everyone and now people get different digital newspapers, to each their own, feeding their storylines and building more walls from each other.

Spot On!

this book is exactly wanted I needed to hear not just for this season but for every season of life.

Life changing book

I have been praying about this very topic for about a year; specificity with social media & restructuring my life values. I highly valued being busy and have a full schedule. I would find identity in that.

I see all these people around me have such full life and mine isn’t.

Listening too this book, which I plan to relisten too, has shifted that thinking. I know want the opportunities too say no, don’t find my value in being busy but in my identity in Christ. To have more opportunities, than I already do, to be at home. With those more opportunities I pray that I am finding myself at the dining room table with Jesus or reading his word. Being more intentional with him instead of Netflix and social media.

Thank you jeff. Truly a life trajectory changing book.

Also listening too the podcast alongside the book has been incredibly helpful.

He’s done it again

It’s Jeff’s best work yet. Highly recommend and needed for our culture right now.
So good!

Reclaim Your Life

You don’t actually realize how much of a slave you are to technology, your phone, or your work until someone raises an alarm and says that something is wrong. But Jeff doesn’t only tell us what’s wrong, but actually gives us practical tools to reverse these bad habits to make new formations in our walk with Jesus. Be ready to be challenged on many areas of your life.

revolutionary for today's millennial

absolutely loved this book! it was filled with so many good gut punches and things to think of.

Just amazing

There are no words. This book is incredible. Apparently a review has to be 15 words.

Soul checked

One of the most challenging counter-cultural soul checking books I’ve ever read. Truly powerful and profound at a deep level. I am forever changed by this book. I am grateful for the work that has started in me. I walk away with you the word intensional. In every aspect moving through each day in this life. Hustle no more. Walk in perfect rhythm with Jesus.