Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Okay, our episode title today is Plan Your How, and the best way to explain it is to remind you of some

things we've already covered, and I think it'll all come together.

How is the step that gets skipped a lot? And when it does, the results aren't there. So here's

how this works. We had an episode a few weeks ago called Start with Why. It was episode 24, based on the

Simon Sinek book by the same name. And in that book, he describes what's called the golden circle.

There's an inside circle, and then a middle one around that, and then an outer circle.

In the middle is the word why.

He encourages us to start with why.

What's your purpose?

What's your motivation?

What matters to you? Even before you know what that

will tangibly look like in reality, you have to know what's driving you. Once you start with

why, ultimately you get to the outer circle, which is your what. It's what gets produced, what gets

done, what gets accomplished. And I think this audience that listens to this program is

probably getting pretty good at that. I'll draw from the four Fs that we've talked about before,

and also they're a part of the weekly checklist in the new journal that's coming out.

But if I ask you to tell me about growing your faith, you would easily be able to tell me why that's

important. You would talk about the Lord and your family and Jesus. And you probably could easily

make a list of what you want to do. Because of my belief in Jesus, I want to be a daily Bible

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