Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris

Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger

relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Thank you for

joining. Let's get started. Okay, welcome back to episode three for this second season. Today I'll be

asking you to look inside of yourself a little bit,

do some self-evaluation on what matters most to you in this life. What is your value system?

What do you care about the most? Because it turns out that in order to be successful,

the goals that you set, the things that you

strive for must be consistent with your core values to truly be of benefit to your life.

We're going to talk about all that today, and I'm glad you've joined. It may cause you to alter your goals for the year.

There may be a point in the next 15 minutes when you're thinking,

Chris, you really should have opened with this.

If I thought about all of this first, I probably would have set different goals.

But in my defense, you might remember that when we

started all of this season two, the first thing you were invited to do was decide who you wanted

to become. When you look at the end of this year and you see a better you, what does that

better you look like?

To round out our recap of those first two episodes,

once you decided what mattered to you, where you needed to improve,

then you chose a tangible next-level achievement goal.

Then we started praying that God would support us in that specific endeavor.

We broke that big year-long progress into 12 pieces, set up monthly checkpoints. That was episode

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