How to be (Un)Successful

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An unlikely guide to human flourishing

By Pete Portal

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Nowadays it seems like everyone wants to be successful, but how many of us actually feel it? This book challenges conventional notions of success, urging readers to seek fulfilment not in material wealth or social status but in how they live their lives. Drawing on the life and teachings of Jesus, it offers a fresh perspective on redefining success by choosing love over efficiency, depth over volume, and genuine relationships over superficial transactions.
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Readers interested in Self-Help & Personal Development, especially those exploring faith-based approaches to personal growth and looking to find deeper meaning beyond societal measures of success.

This timely book invites us to unpick humanity's elusive search for the wrong sort of success and how Jesus' life and teachings invite us to discover a success that truly satisfies our souls.

This timely book invites us to unpick humanity's elusive search for the wrong sort of success and how Jesus' life and teachings invite us to discover a success that truly satisfies our souls.

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Nowadays it seems like everyone wants to be successful, but how many of us actually feel it?

We may know that true success is found in following the one who made us. And yet, in our increasingly polarised and comparison-rife world, many of us find our hearts yearning for an ever-elusive 'success': in money and power, in influence and accolades.

It is time for us to remember that success is attainable - not in what we have but how we live.

This book invites you to recognise the beauty and complexity of the world we live in and how we, individually and collectively, may have conformed our faith in Jesus to simple consumer culture and cultural preferences. It is an opportunity to redefine success, choosing love over efficiency, depth over volume and real friendship over cold transactions.

Jesus' life and teaching are the perfect antidote for a world growing sick with the wrong sort of success. And, he invites us again to experience a success that truly satisfies our souls.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780281088171

Publisher: SPCK Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Form

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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Career Development Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Pete Portal Religion & Spirituality Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Pete Portal helps lead Tree of Life, a church in Manenberg running ministries among the vulnerable and marginalised, and dedicated to living out Jesus’ love as spiritual community. He is also on the board of 24-7 Prayer South Africa, and spends much of his time growing relationships and networks across racial and socio-economic divides. Pete and his wife Sarah live with young men coming out of gangsterism and drug addiction and, along with a team of friends, disciple and re-parent these young men into faith, freedom and wholeness. He holds Masters degrees in Theology (Edinburgh) and Theology, Politics and Faith-based Organisations (Kings College London); he has written articles for The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Times, and appeared on ITV’s ‘On Assignment’ and SABC’s ‘Expresso’. In his spare time he enjoys carpentry and he plays football, with increasing slowness, for FC Manenberg.