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.

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Okay, so today is our official back-to-school special. We're calling it restoring world order,

because that's kind of what has to happen when you get done with the

summer a time of more activities of travel of staying up late and sleeping in if you can in the

mornings random activities a lot of fun there has to be a restoration of order in your world. Discipline must

come back into focus. Otherwise, we won't be able to meet the obligations in front of us. Maybe

you're a student back to school. That means early mornings, homework in the evenings. Maybe you're a

college student and you're back on campus,

and that means back to your fall job and your responsibilities at that location.

Even if you have no affiliation with back to school at all, there's still this back to reality

at the end of the summer for a lot of people. Maybe you took a trip or two this summer.

I think every single person I've ever met spent at least a week in Colorado this year. So

probably you were one of those. Summer is fun. It's a great time to let loose a little bit. Although,

as we'll talk about today, unfortunately, disorder comes a little bit. Although, as we'll talk about today, unfortunately, disorder

comes along with spontaneous things, out of routine travel, not getting up early in the morning,

all those things can contribute to a bit of disorder, which in the summer you kind of just roll with.

But if that disorder continues into the fall, the Excel still more journey will suffer.

You see, there's this law that's always in place called the law of entropy or the law of disorder.

And it basically says that in any system, whether it's

the universe or your life, if intelligent effort is not made to hold it together, it will naturally

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