Ep. 69 - Wider or Deeper

Excel Still More

Kris Emerson

Self-improvement, Increase, Jesus, Achieve, Spiritual, Health & Fitness, Best, Goals, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Excel, Christianity, Education, Grow

4.9 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Send us a textWe all have things in life we'd like to do, experiences we want to have, places to see, skills to learn, and horizons to behold. But there comes a time in life when it hits you: "I'm not going to be able to do all of that." How does it feel to realize that there are experiences and accomplishments beyond your scope, that may always be beyond your scope? Not cool. And, to be honest, realities like that have bummed me out in the past. But maybe I was...

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.
0:09.2	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.
0:19.9	Thank you for joining. Let's get started.
0:27.3	I have to tell you as we get started today that this topic and some of what I'm going to share is very
0:34.0	personal to me. This concept of wider versus deeper in terms of goals and pursuits and what it
0:44.3	means to be successful in this life, honestly, I've just had my focus in the wrong spot. I think I
0:51.9	valued one of these things over the other, and it was a mistake. Instead,
0:56.9	it should have been the other way around. In order to explain some of that, I need to take you back
1:01.7	about three years. My family and I lived here in Lindale. We loved it here. We still love it here.
1:08.3	Everything was going along just fine. In fact, I really had
1:11.7	nothing to complain about. And yet one day I sat down with my wife, Summer, and I started complaining.
1:20.5	I don't know if this is what a midlife crisis is, I'm not sure, but I remember sitting down with her
1:27.4	and just trying to explain how disappointed
1:31.0	I felt that I had not done more, accomplished more, experienced as many things as I thought I would
1:40.4	have experienced. I remember sitting down and telling her, you know, by this time 37, 38, I thought I would have experienced. I remember sitting down and telling her, you know, by this time,
1:45.5	37, 38, I thought I would have gotten a master's degree in counseling, but I haven't, and it doesn't
1:52.4	look like it's on the horizon. I thought I would have learned a foreign language, or I would have
1:58.6	figured out how to become a computer programmer. I thought there are
2:02.7	some places we would have traveled to by now, some missionary work that would have come to
2:08.6	fruition. There are a lot of things out there that I have not experienced. Basically, I had my view
2:16.8	on going wider. You know, when I was younger, I had this
2:20.8	view of this plethora of things I would do and become, and yet you settle into life and you realize
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