Ep 212: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, and Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough w/ Kelly Needham, Pt.1
Is it wrong to chase your dreams? To try to discover your calling? What about Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG)–or the concept of “if your dream doesn’t scare you, it’s not big enough or it’s not from God?”
Is that what we should be aiming for?
Today, I welcome to the show Kelly Needham to discuss her latest book Purposefooled: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, And Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough. Just in time for you to set all those New Year’s goals and resolutions.
We discuss
- Whether it’s wrong to chase your dreams or to try to discover your calling, and how to you know when you’ve found it
- Why “the extraordinary” is not the measure of a meaningful life.
- How the “live your dream” message favors the wealthy, healthy, and advantaged; leaves us stressed and exhausted; and bears bad fruit.
- If the key to a purposeful life is to simply lower our expectations and embrace the ordinary and the mundane
- Why or how we can possibly choose “small” when “big” is on the table
- One of my favorite Kelly quotes: “I was not made for dishes and diapers…but neither was I made for stages. There’s a reason I’m not satisfied with the big tasks or the little ones.”
More about Kelly:
Kelly Needham is a servant of Jesus Christ, a student of the Bible and COO of her home, where she lives with her husband, Jimmy, and their five children. She is the author of Friendish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion (Thomas Nelson, 2019) and has been a contributing author to many other books, including Faithful (David C. Cook, 2021) and Beautifully Distinct (Good Book Company, 2020).
She has served on staff at multiple churches, serving in youth, college and women’s ministry. Kelly currently co-leads a women’s teaching program, training women to accurately handle the word of truth and co-hosts a podcast, Clearly with Jimmy and Kelly Needham.
Whether writing or speaking, Kelly’s aim is to convince as many people as possible that nothing compares to knowing Jesus.
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Pick up a copy of Purposefooled: Why Chasing Your Dreams, Finding Your Calling, And Reaching for Greatness Will Never Be Enough.
Connect with Kelly Needham:
Website: kellyneedham.com
Facebook: facebook.com/mrskellyneedham
Twitter: twitter.com/kellyneedham
Instagram: instagram.com/kellyneedham
YouTube: youtube.com/@kellyneedham1
Podcast: clearlypodcast.com – The Clearly Podcast with Jimmy & Kelly Needham
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