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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Welcome, and thanks for joining in today. So today's topic, the infinite game, admittedly is a little bit complex. We'll have to kind of layer it in piece by piece.

But a couple of things come to mind on that. One, last week we just basically talked about gratitude,

which was really simple and straightforward, so maybe you'd like a little extra challenge today.

And then two, on a personal level, when all of this came into focus for me,

it immediately had an impact. I think by the time we get to the really practical stuff at the end,

you will already have a clear review of how to judge success in your life and to clear a picture

on what you're actually striving for. There is something kind of

reassuring and liberating to know that your proof of victory is not necessarily on the clock.

In most cases, you don't have to become an entirely different person by the end of this week

or your marriage is over. You don't have to earn a certain amount of money by the end of the year

or completely lose everything that you have. You certainly don't have to beat someone else

comparing yourself to them and winning with relation to them to truly have a winning

and profitable and wonderful life. As we explain these things today, it may help you

to take a break when you need to, to back away, to go and collect your thoughts or refocus on what

you're doing. It's not about grinding out harder than everyone else to come out ahead of them.

It's more about laying out a

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