Girls Night #153: How to Like Your Life (Even When You’re not Exactly Where you Want to be)
IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
What to do when you’re really hoping for something, and it’s just not happening
How you can make the most of a waiting season and create a life you really like
How you can keep a waiting season from being a wasted season
How to keep yourself from being discouraged or distracted by comparison
How to know when you just need to wait and when you need to get up and take action
How to keep going when it feels like your best efforts haven’t made a difference
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ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Hey friends! Welcome to Girls Night!
I’m so excited about today’s episode. Today we have my real life friend, Jordan Lee Dooley back on the show to teach us how it’s possible to really like our lives (even when we’re not exactly where we want to be).
Jordan has a new book called, Embrace Your Almost: Find Clarity and Contentment in the In-Betweens, Not-Quites, and Unknowns. I love this because so many of us have found ourselves here. So many of us are experiencing heartbreak, disappointment, lost dreams, and never-ending delays. We’re in seasons of waiting — waiting for a relationship, a promotion, a baby, or a big move. We’re in a place where our life just isn’t working out the way we thought it would, the way we really, really want it to. And that’s HARD.
It’s even harder to know what to do when we’re in this place. Do we try harder? Do we keep pushing? Do we give up and walk away? How do we know? And as we’re waiting, what do we do in the meantime.
Jordan’s going to walk us through all of this and more. I can’t wait for you to hear from her.
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LINKS FROM THE SHOW
Steph’s book, The Lipstick Gospel (here’s a paperback copy and here’s a free digital download!)
Steph’s prayer journals, Every Single Moment and The Between Places
Jordan’s Podcast: She Podcast
Jordan’s book: Embrace Your Almost: Find Clarity and Contentment in the In-Betweens, Not-Quites, and Unknowns
Past Girls Night Episodes with Jordan:
Girls Night #5: How to Keep Comparison from Stealing Your Joy
Girls Night #58: How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome: Pursuing Your Dreams When You Feel Like a Fraud
Practical tips on how to learn to like your life:
Try to learn something new and fun
Invest in your health
Try to identify the desire beneath the dream
Serving
Scripture mentioned:
Genesis 3:1-13
Quotes Mentioned:
"Most of our life is spent in the middle, it's spent in the journey, it's spent between one milestone and the next" - Jordan
"Life is more like a garden to tend than an game to win" - Jordan
"Our greatest disappointments can be one of two things. They can be dead ends or they can be defining moments" - Jordan
"What if the enduring could also be the enjoying" - Jordan
"I don't want my satisfaction or sense of contentment to come solely from my circumstances and things working out" - Jordan
"What shifts your heart and shifts your perspective...is to get into the lives of others. To enter into brokenness, to enter into pain, and be a light in that way." - Jordan
"The most sanctifying thing to do is to serve in the place of your pain" - Jordan
"It's possible to be content without being complacent" - Jordan
"We can sit around waiting for something that was actually never meant for us anyway" - Jordan
"The things that were meant for you won't pass you by" - Jordan
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