How Simplicity Can Free You From Hurry
Blessed + Bossed Up
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we continue our journey through The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer, diving into the third principle of unhurried living: simplicity. Before getting into the chapter, there is a quick reminder about the moving sale — physical copies of the God Is My CEO Prayer Journal, the podcast planner, and She Is Uncompromising are still available for just $5 each plus shipping. Orders of 10 or more ship free. Links are in the show notes.
The episode opens with a reflection on Sabbath practices from last week's discussion, including a practical tip for using AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude to generate hobby ideas that align with rest and worship — not work. From floral arranging to crafting custom tea blends, the goal is finding activities that slow you down and reconnect you with the beauty of God's creation.
The heart of the episode centers on what the author calls the "gospel of America" — the cultural belief that life's meaning is found in accumulation and consumption. Drawing on Jesus' own words about wealth, greed, and the deceitfulness of riches, listeners are challenged to honestly examine whether they would follow God even if success never looked the way they envisioned. The episode also takes a critical look at the history of American consumerism, the rise of lifestyle marketing and influencer culture, and the very real spiritual danger of allowing things — cars, clothes, brands, and clout — to become identity markers.
A Princeton study by Kahneman and Deaton, originally placing the happiness income threshold at $75,000 (approximately $108,500 in today's dollars), sparks a candid pushback: money is not the problem when it is used to buy freedom, experiences, and time rather than stuff. The episode challenges the author's framing while affirming his core point — the relentless accumulation of things accelerates hurry and pulls us away from the unhurried life Jesus modeled.
The episode wraps before the chapter's 12 practical tips on simplicity, which will be covered in the next episode.
Key Highlights
- Moving sale is still active — prayer journals, podcast planner, and more available for $5 each; orders of 10 or more ship free
- Using AI tools to brainstorm Sabbath-friendly hobbies that cannot be turned into a business
- The "gospel of America" — how consumerism has replaced religion as the dominant system of meaning in Western culture
- A hard introspective question: would you still follow God if your business never produced the results on your vision board?
- The history of how corporate America deliberately engineered a culture of consumption after World War II
- A challenge to Christian content creators who promote products to examine whether that activity contributes to consumerism
- The $75,000 happiness study — published in 2010, equivalent to roughly $108,500 today — and why a fixed happiness ceiling is worth questioning
- The distinction between spending money on stuff versus spending money on freedom, time, and experiences
- Next episode: the remaining half of the simplicity chapter, including 12 practical tips from the author
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Blessed and Bossed up, presented by Anchored Media. |
| 0:05.5 | An entrepreneurship podcast for Christians all about how to make God the CEO of your business. |
| 0:12.1 | Get ready to be inspired, challenged, but well equipped to live and build your destiny his way. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed and Bossed Up podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | If you listen to last week's episode, then you know that I'm having a moving sale to read all of the products that I have in my garage |
| 0:39.3 | for a very, very low price. |
| 0:42.1 | This is a reminder that those products, we do still have some available. |
| 0:45.7 | I think the devotional is completely gone, but we do have other products available. |
| 0:49.7 | We have physical copies of my prayer journal, the God is my CEO prayer journal, my podcast planner, |
| 0:57.1 | she is uncompromising, all for just $5 each. Plus shipping, but shipping will still have your |
| 1:02.9 | total order under $10. If you have a church, if you have a women's group, a small group, |
| 1:09.7 | if you have any type of community, I especially |
| 1:12.5 | want to make sure that these books get into the hands of those in your community. If you order more |
| 1:18.3 | than 10 items, the products are completely free. Shout out to those who've taken advantage of that |
| 1:23.2 | so far. So if your cart has over 10, it's automatically going to be free. All I ask you to do |
| 1:30.7 | is to pay for shipping. The link is in the show notes. I'm also going to include links of me going |
| 1:37.0 | through the different products so that you can see exactly what you're getting exactly what they |
| 1:41.9 | look like. And once they're gone, they're gone. So thank you |
| 1:45.1 | guys so much who have taken advantage so far. All the orders that have gone in since the last |
| 1:50.5 | episode will be sent out this week. And I pray that these products bless you. All right, in today's |
| 1:57.3 | episode, we are continuing on with our discussion of the ruthless elimination of |
| 2:03.7 | hurry. We find ourselves now at the end of the book. We got through all the preliminary |
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