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

Hey, welcome back. So look, I'm just going to say it right off the bat. The content of today's

episode has the potential

to be transformational in your life and in your chances at success in everything that you do.

I feel courageous to open with a statement like that because much of what I'll be sharing

with you today has been present in my life

over the last several years, but has been described to me and implemented in a new way based on

some incredible interaction I had last week with a man named Raymond Pryor. Raymond is a peak performance counselor for PGA tour golfers, for major motion picture

actors, for people who need to perform at their best when it matters.

He has a Ph.D. in sports and exercise psychology, and he will tell you that his job

is to help you physically and intellectually prepare to succeed in a given moment, but even more so,

to have yourself in a mental state, something you can totally control to maximize your potential of transferring

all of your talents and skills directly into the thing that you're doing. He calls this the flow

state, where there is absolutely no gap, no obstruction between you and the thing that you're doing.

It is a perfect on-time flow between your abilities and the carrying out of the action.

We sometimes call this being in the zone, in the pocket, on top of your game.

It doesn't guarantee success, but it guarantees your best opportunity at success.

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