Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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I am so thankful you're here, so let's get started.

All right, so I think I'm a little extra excited about today's content than usual. And before I hit the record button, I was trying to

figure out why that is, and I've come up with two things. Number one, this phrase, today's title

is incredibly useful to me. I'm not going to say that I utter this phrase to myself

every day of the week, but definitely multiple days of every week, and usually upwards of five,

10, 15 times to help me get through even a single event.

It has a calming effect on me, and I hope that it will do the same for you.

So that's the first reason.

It means so much to me is a device that triggers good behavior and prevents

bad behavior that I'm excited to share it with you. But then there's a second reason as well.

I can't properly show you how to use this phrase unless I reveal to you some of the real personal

frustrations that exist in my life. And I think like most people, I'm a bit apprehensive to do that.

You may think that some things that frustrate me are petty. I may share one thing with you

today, and you may be like, he should not have aired that out here. I'm opening myself up to criticism,

but I want you to see how useful this can really be, and so I have to be very honest with you.

So anyway, all of that being put out in the

beginning, I want to talk to you today about the phrase, it doesn't matter. This phrase will be

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