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Good morning and welcome to the podcast and Merry Christmas Week.

If you're listening on Launch Day, it's Monday, December 22nd. So we're headed into a lot of time with family and hopefully some thoughts about the year that's passed. And that will be a big focus to start the episode today. And then turning our attention to what we want to see grow or change or even be eliminated to make 2026 the absolute best year

possible and maybe the most advantageous and rewarding year of your life. That's our focus,

not just today, but for the next three Mondays. The episode is called Preparing for 2026, part one of three, and I will fully explain

why we have that broken down as we move forward. But what I hope that you will do is start today,

and then right near the end of the year on the 29th catch episode two, and then there in the very

first week of 2026, and all of these three will tie together,

I believe, to help you have a refined plan, a very focused mission to start next year

well. If you want to give something the best chance of going well, you need to start it well.

If you want something to be consistent throughout

the year, you want to put together a plan before you're right in the middle of it, and that's what

these episodes are designed to do. To link some thoughts here a little bit, I preached a sermon

at Lindale called Planning for a Prosperous and Disciplined 2026 yesterday, based on launch day, December the 21st.

And that sermon in these episodes are not the same. They complement each other and they draw from

the same material. But in that sermon, I presented nine different areas where you may want to

excel going into next year. And I know nine is a lot. I mean, lists in general,

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