Hustle culture is toxic. Cease and desist.
I’m not against the idea of hustling. But I am against the idea of striving out of anxiousness and a desire for control. You can know the difference.
I’m trying to work in a less anxious, more peaceful way. Sometimes God will give you peace about work that feels like hustling. I’ve experienced this before, and this is ok, even good.
But if you are experiencing anxiety, you might just need to rest and wait. What you are looking for is clarity and confidence in what you should be doing.
The catch is that resting and waiting doesn’t mean sitting on the couch eating donuts. It means doing what you know to do while you don’t work yourself to death because you’ve set expectations on yourself that make you…anxious and ultimately spin out of control. Desiring control. Desiring a specific outcome.
I have read all the books on “goal setting” and some of it is helpful. You must perceive the reality of what you want to happen in the future. I’m not against that, per say. But I am against anxious striving, when a pursuit is one masked by fear. You can experience fear, which is good. But to be controlled by fear, to be driven by fear, that is another thing entirely.
How do you know the difference? Know what is in your heart through your own emotional awareness.
This work is never done.
So, get out there and hustle. But don’t be taken in by hustle culture.