Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson,

and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that we can employ to help us grow in our faithfulness to God to reach new heights to excel still more.

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Okay, today we're going to focus on health and fitness.

That is not something we've spent a ton of time on so far in this series.

You may remember that four-fold excellence

had four words in it we were working on. One of them was fitness. And the point we made back

then is if you can figure out what it takes to be great at any one of those things, then you

have what it takes to get better in all four of those things. So if you're

looking for some additional information on fitness today, please remember you can go check

out that episode. All right, here's our angle today. Three words, motion is lotion. Look, I don't

know if you've ever heard that phrase before. I've only heard it one time,

and it was about a year ago. I was visiting one of the brothers from our church, 80 years old.

He was sitting there in his chair. He'd been sitting there for a few days. The man had been through a lot,

heart issues, cancer issues, and I was just there trying to spend some time with him.

While I was there, a physical therapist came by, like a home health nurse sort of person.

And he told my brother, he said, sir, we really need you to stand up.

And he said, I haven't stood up in a few days, and I don't want to start now.

And the man said, look, I really just need you to get up and take a few steps, just a few

steps. You can sit right back down. He said, I don't want to get up. I don't want to take any

steps. I'm hurting. Just give me some medicine. And that therapist sat down and you look the man

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