Welcome to Season 5 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm still your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

The program continues to be sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John is a good friend, and he's helped me and my family in everything

from stock and mutual fund investing to annuities, life insurance, and retirement planning.

I certainly commend him to you if you have needs in any of those areas. You can reach him

at 205-326-7364. Thank you again for your ongoing encouragement and support. Let's get started.

Hey, welcome back to the program. A couple of things are just as solid as they always are. One, I'm

thankful that you're listening, and two, I am genuinely excited

about the topic I get to share with you today. Today's content is a little different than the last

few weeks. I feel like I've been sharing things with you that were somewhat new to me, that I had

that initial excitement for and have been working on implementing. But today, I've got to take

you back, back to something that I actually

presented in an episode called 90 or 52 in early September 2019. It represents one of the most

crucial Old Testament stories for goal setting and habit changing that you'll ever see. I lament the fact that even though I was raised

in the church, I wasn't always listening carefully, and I was probably in my mid-20s before I really saw

the story of Nehemiah and began to implement what it could mean for me. It's actually been on my mind for nearly two months now,

and so there is a goal that I have met that I'm excited to share, but I was surprised looking

back that it took almost an entire first year of the podcast before I included it in an episode,

and it just feels like an injustice that we haven't talked about it here directly in a four-year span,

but we're going to fix that today. So just a heads up on the numbers. I love numbers. So I have about

four of them to share with you today. Clearly, I need to explain the numbers 52 and 90. Also,

the number 20, and that's just a personal commitment to try to get this episode back down to 20 minutes.

It's just been getting a little longer every week and no one has directly complained,

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