Why are goals so hard? With Jon Acuff
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Raise your hands if you have goals? And sometimes, way too many goals? Me too! I have MANY goals and accomplish very few of them. It can be super frustrating to keep missing the mark on your personal and professional goals in the season of raising kids. Jon Acuff to the rescue! I was so delighted to interview a New York Times bestselling author and INC Top 100 Leadership Speaker about the idea of goals.
I have always been drawn to the way Jon communicates in the business space and we can learn so much from him as parents. He has the ability to make complicated topics simple. In this episode, he will motivate you to make progress in life - while giving yourself grace. He really encouraged me to realize that the distractions and busyness of our lives are stacked against us, but there is hope and ways we can combat this reality.
My favorite part is when we discuss my pattern of quitting things. He gave me such great counsel on how to go after my goals in a realistic and healthy way. You’ll also get a laugh out of the moment he realized his kids dropped a nap. He was furious. I can remember that moment myself.
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Resources from today’s show:
- Without Wavering
- JonAcuff.com
- Jon’s book for teens, Your New Playlist
- Jon’s newest book, All It Takes Is a Goal
- Jon’s Instagram
- Jon’s podcast, Colleen Berry episode
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Pardon the Miss. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm your host, Courtney DeFaio, and on this podcast, we talk about raising kids as Christian parents. |
| 0:14.2 | It's so very important for me to honor God with my family and the two kids that he's given me. |
| 0:18.6 | But honestly, it's not always neat or easy or tidy, |
| 0:22.0 | but it's always worth it. So join us every week to laugh and learn together on this beautiful |
| 0:26.2 | and messy journey of parenting. Enduring, resilient, courageous. |
| 0:42.0 | These are qualities we want to describe our faith in God. |
| 0:44.8 | But the truth is that faith is hard, especially when trials, setbacks, and failures seem to define us. |
| 0:50.5 | Author and Bible teacher Alexandra Hoover invites you to join her for her newest Bible study without |
| 0:55.4 | wavering resilient faith built on the promises of God. Alexander Hoover will offer encouraging |
| 1:01.0 | words of hope and examples of unwavering faith from the Bible. Drawing inspiration from |
| 1:05.8 | the examples of faith in Hebrews 11 and the early church, you'll see that life's challenges don't have to define you. |
| 1:12.6 | Through hope in Christ, you can become the woman who weathers the storms of life with renewed strength |
| 1:17.3 | and confidence in who God is and who he says you are. |
| 1:21.1 | Learn more about Without Waivering at Lifeway.com forward slash without wavering. |
| 1:26.6 | That's Lifeway.com forward slash without wavering. That's lifeway.com forward slash without wavering. |
| 1:29.7 | Hello, everybody. We've got an exciting episode today with John Acuff. We're going to be talking all about goals. Raise your hand. If you have many goals and you accomplish very few, then you're in the right spot. But first, can we talk about dogs and dog poop for just a second? So prior to COVID, I'd never had a dog. I thought dog people were weird. I thought they were crazy. |
| 2:02.2 | I thought dogs were gross, that they smelled. |
| 2:03.9 | And then I got Macy, a cavalier, a King Charles Cavalier. |
| 2:07.2 | Is that they're even right? |
| 2:07.9 | Cavalier, King Charles Spaniel. |
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