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Speaking of which, thank you again for being here with me.

Let's get started.

Welcome back. I'm so glad you're here.

We are getting so close.

It's December 29th, 2025, almost in the books. I hope that

you are looking forward to next year and not in some unplanned hope for the best kind of way.

I mean, really intentionally already making observations, changes, and plans to make next year

amazing. To help with that, I'm going through a three-part

series to give you the best that I have got. There are nine pieces, nine areas where you and I

may need to make some changes, and we're breaking that down into three episodes. We looked at three

last week. We'll do three today, and then we'll finish next week. That's in the back half of the episode.

But we front-end each episode with just some past proven strategies or helpful approaches that can make all the difference when you're working on any number of these nine things.

Really quickly, concerning those nine things, I have an email I can send you with all of it laid out.

The nine categories, three Bible passages for each, three questions and three exercises.

I just need your email.

If you have my email, just make that request, and I'll send it right back to you.

If you answer through Buzzsprout, the quote fan mail, it doesn't tell me how to respond to you so you need

to send your email address and I'll get it to you as soon as I can okay here's a quick look at last week

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