Hello and welcome to the third season 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 deepen your faith, build stronger relationships, and do the most with your life in Christ.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Welcome back to the podcast. You know how thankful I am that you've joined in.

I really hope you had a chance to listen to last week's

episode. If not, I will recap it super briefly, but today's episode is a continuation of the three

question concept. Last week, I told you that each person individually, regardless of who they are or what stage of life they are in,

should be asking themselves three questions regularly, not just once, but repeatedly over time.

We titled the episode Believe to Achieve because there is a connection between those two things that must never be separated. When you truly believe in

something, when it is a core value in your life, you will be able to achieve great things,

fueled by it, and related to it. So the three questions were designed to help you zone in on that,

because there are two common mistakes we don't want to make. Number one is working your tail off

to achieve things you don't believe in. I don't want to make. Number one is working your tail off to achieve things you don't believe in.

I don't know why someone would do that, but a lot of people do. Maybe it's because others have told them

it's important. It has to be important to you. The other mistake we don't want to make is to truly

believe in something.

I mean, it's burning inside of you, and you know it's right, and yet for whatever reason,

you are not pursuing achievement as a result of it.

So to quickly recap, we tried to remedy those mistakes by asking you to go through this simple process.

Question one, what do you believe? I'm not asking what others tell you to believe or what the culture is pressuring you to believe.

I want to know what matters to you.

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