How do I live up to my potential? | Episode 153
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Go + Tell Gals Podcast! This season on the podcast, we want to answer the questions you’re already asking. This episode, we dive into one that can be hard to answer: How do I live up to my potential? Jess and GATG team member, Henslee, sit down and chat about living into your ‘potential.’ We turn this topic every which way and strip it down to the bare bones: you should not be worried about living up to your potential as each season comes with its own capacity, freedom and constraints.
If you are trying to decide how much God can get from your life, you will probably either think about it too much and be disappointed or think too little and get stuck - so we’ll encourage you to stop thinking about it.
When your heart is set on the Lord, in Jesus’ name, you cannot mess this up. Let’s actively live out this promise that changes our whole perspective on capacity and potential if we trust God and trust what He says about our life.
He is mighty in you.
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A favorite pastor of Jess’, Erwin McManus’ book The Genius of Jesus dives into the genius in each of us and this episode implores us to stop asking what our potential is.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jess Connolly, and you are listening to the Go and Tell Gals podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | We exist to equip and encourage kingdom women who are using their God-given gifts for the good of others and the glory of God. |
| 0:23.1 | If you are a mom, a student, an artist, a doctor, we are hoping that this episode will leave you |
| 0:30.0 | encouraged and ready to run. We're so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:41.5 | Hey friends, it's Jess here. Listen, we're going to jump right in. |
| 0:54.9 | I've got my friend Hensley with me. You can say hi. And we have been sitting here kind of discussing what we want to talk about and we decided to just hit play. We have some deep things to talk about. |
| 1:00.8 | Yes. Okay. But first, we're going to kind of try to start at light. And here's what we want to ask. |
| 1:04.5 | I want to know, and I would like you guys to tell me, you can either tell us in our going to tell girls Facebook community or on an Instagram post or just DM me. I want to know, did your school, |
| 1:10.4 | did your high school have |
| 1:11.1 | senior superlatives? Did you have voted most likely to blank, blank, blank? And if so, |
| 1:18.0 | did you get one of those? Did you want one of them? Were they harmful or hurtful? I want to tell |
| 1:23.2 | you a funny story about mine. So my sister got Worst Driver and I would have gotten worse driver. |
| 1:32.7 | They like wrote that in the yearbook. They were going to vote Worst Driver, but the year that |
| 1:37.2 | I graduated, they actually had to pull Worst Driver because they realized it was an insurance |
| 1:41.6 | liability. Oh, no. Yeah. And And people could use it against you in court. |
| 1:45.7 | So when that category was pulled, I actually did become nominated for Best Smile. |
| 1:51.3 | I did not win, which is hard. |
| 1:55.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:56.3 | But, you know, even on the bio in my website, it says you would have voted me least likely to |
| 2:01.7 | succeed. I think had that been a superlative, we're going to talk about this in a second, but I think |
| 2:07.5 | had that been a superlative, people don't believe me when I say that, but I'm going to talk about it |
| 2:11.0 | in a second, but I think I would have gotten that one. Did your school, Hensley, have superlatives? We did. And I glamorized those things. |
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