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, welcome back to the program. Today's episode is titled Sailing Off Course. Now, traditionally,

that would be a negative statement. You wouldn't want to sail off course.

The whole objective of Excel still more is setting your course on the horizon, on reaching new goals, on

improved relationships, and deeper faith. You know, all that stuff we talk about in the intro.

And what you want to do

is stay on course no matter what. Don't give up. Well, I guess you could say, I'm not so sure about that.

Maybe there is the right time to sail off course, to take your eyes off of the goal you've set,

to hit the pause button on progress you're trying to make.

Now that may sound counterintuitive to everything we've done for 50-something episodes,

but let me tell you a story and see if it makes a bit more sense.

This story comes from the annals of Olympic history. I love the Olympics,

particularly the Summer Olympics, which by the way is coming up next year in 2020. It'll be held in Japan. I know it'll be great. We just get so many inspirational stories out of Olympic athletes,

because we know how hard they've trained. The Bible talks about Olympic competition. The

Apostle Paul talks about training to run the race and striving for the goal and pressing on.

And so we have these great stories. Usually, those

stories fall into two categories, winners and losers, both of which can be quite inspirational.

If you go to Google or something and you Google the 25 most inspirational stories in Olympic history,

you're going to get a list of winners and a list of losers.

The winners, those are the ones we remember the most.

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