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.

Today's podcast is sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John Cunningham is a friend of mine and a brother in Christ, and he can help you with financial

decisions and future planning.

He's been a big help to me and my family, and I commend him to you.

You can reach him at 205-913-1720.

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

Welcome back. Today is a big day. It is the first episode of 2022, January the 3rd. It is the first week of this year. It is your best chance to make the most out of this year because like the story Jesus told of the guy with five

talents and the guy with two, the big secret to where they ended up was the fact that they started immediately.

Your greatest chance for the best year ever starts this week. Yesterday was the Lord's Day.

Today we put all of our faith into action. I'm excited to do my best to help, and so to start the

year, we will talk about the process

of goal achievement, the basic layout of the strategy beginning to end that can get you

to where you want to go, that can help you become the kind of person that you really want to be.

All believers are in ING mode.

We are always growing, learning, changing.

And I'm just really prayerful that today's episode and all of season four will be a benefit to you.

And it is the beginning of season four.

It's amazing to think back to January of 2019 when I took the encouragement of a friend

and I went into the closet of my bedroom and sat down on the floor and recorded three episodes.

I had no expectations. I didn't know if anyone would even care. And now, three years later,

I have so many new and close friendships that I didn't have before,

and I'm just thankful for you. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for spreading the word to your

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