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 back. I hope that your December is going really well. We are certainly barreling in towards the end of this year with only a weekend for Christmas standing between you and 2022.

I pray you are hopeful about what you can become for the Lord next year.

But I didn't want to wait until January to start moving.

So pretty much all of the episodes in November and December are about changes we can make now to turn that

calendar with momentum. We want optimism in place going through the holidays. And this concept of

being mindful now instead of waiting for some deadline to start is already paying dividends in my

life. I'll give you a literal physical example. I'm trying to

get back to becoming a runner. I did not fare well in the running department through the last 18

months of the COVID pandemic. And I guess I could hype myself up about that and then on January 1st,

just put on some shoes and take off. But that whole

idea of taking another month off and then hitting it hard on January 1st is a recipe for failure

that we've all fallen victim to many times. So a few weeks ago, I started walking and then

jogging a little bit. And now it's already becoming a habit.

I've made a hundred day, 30 minutes a day commitment, and I'm already into it.

It changed the way I see next year already.

There's a 5K in mid-January.

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