Welcome to the Cultivate Your Life Podcast. You want to use your life well. You don't want to waste your life. You want to follow God. You want to set really good goals that align with his will, but you're worried.

Because sometimes you think, do God and goals mix? If I was to set a goal using my gifts, my talents, is that actually going to take me away from God's

will for me? So you're worried. How do you set goals as a Christian? I have invited two of my very

good friends Jess Connolly and Crystal Evans Hearst to shed some light on this and boy do they ever.

Here we go.

You know all those things you've always wanted to do. You should go do them.

The things that last longer than you. the things that run deeper and are more

thrilling than skydiving, the things that make you come alive. Welcome to

the Cultivate Your Life Podcast, where each week we talk about how to

uncover what matters to you in the big picture and start acting like it today.

Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or in need of some

refreshing truth today, I'm Laura and you are in the right place. Let's cultivate

what matters together.

Jess Connolly is the mom of four.

She is a writer of books, a speaker of truth-filled words, and several years ago I got an email from her out of the blue,

asking if I would speak at the Influence Conference, which she co-founded, and I remember looking at that email and thinking

did they mean to send this to me because I've never been to a Christian event in my

life and much less spoken at one so So that was a really cool nudge from God

that you may not feel qualified,

but I'm pushing you into this.

And I think God has used Jess to do that for a whole lot of women.

She's also a coach with her newfound coaching groups, go and tell gals.

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