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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.

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Welcome back to our Excel Stillmore podcast. Today, I want to issue a special challenge

for the next seven days. Do not use the word priorities in fact i try to never use the word

priorities did you know that before like 1940 that word didn't even really exist you couldn't find the word

priorities in literature or speeches.

Even today, finding the definition of the word priorities is not easy to do, which is strange,

that it's not easily defined, and we'll talk about why as we move forward, and it wasn't even

used before the mid-20th

century, all of that is kind of strange because it's used so often today. Everybody is always

talking about their priorities. You and I have both said it, right? We've got to get our priorities

straight. If I can get my

priorities right, I can do better in my service to God. If I can get my priorities set, then I can

handle the most important things first. We have this concept, which is frankly, kind of fictional

for a lot of people, because it so rarely comes together,

that there is this set of dominoes out there, 28 priorities, and I've got to stack them best to worst.

And if I ever get the stack perfectly ordered, then my life will be perfectly ordered.

Well, that just sounds foolish,

doesn't it? It's very hard to do. And I'll tell you why. Because we're using the wrong word.

I'm asking you for the next seven days to not use the word priorities at all because they don't really

exist. Let me explain. Before 1940, and even now in most

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