The Wrong Things: Stop Building accidentally and Start Living Deliberately

What if the life you are working so hard to build is being measured by the wrong things?We are surrounded by messages about success. Achieve more. Earn more. Lead more. Build the career. Reach the goal. Find your purpose. Make an impact.None of those things are necessarily wrong. But they can become poor measures of whether a life is actually being lived well.The Wrong Things explores what happens when achievement, identity, purpose, leadership, contentment, and faith collide with the realities of ordinary life. Drawing from experiences in leadership, ministry, the outdoors, work, failure, uncertainty, and the long process of becoming, Kyle Plett challenges some of the assumptions we carry about what it means to succeed.This is not a book about abandoning ambition. It is about grounding it.Through stories, honest reflection, and better questions, The Wrong Things invites readers to look beneath the goals they pursue. What is enough? What deserves your trust? What are you becoming while you chase what you want? How do you recognize the difference between settling and contentment? And what happens when the map you expected for your life never appears?You may not need a better strategy for getting everything you want.You may need a better way to decide what is worth wanting in the first place.For leaders, achievers, wanderers, and anyone who has reached a milestone only to discover another horizon beyond it, The Wrong Things offers an invitation to live deliberately, lead faithfully, and measure life by something deeper than accomplishment.