Welcome to Season 5 of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm still your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you in your walk with the Lord, and I'm glad you've joined.

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Hey, welcome back. I'm glad that you are here today. I'm excited to share with you the content of a book that I've jumped headlong into.

It's one of those books where I'm underlining on every page and taking lengthy notes in my

phone and thinking there are countless ways that I can use this.

And so kind of real time, while I'm finding application in my own life, I would like to go

ahead and introduce it to you and show you these four crucial principles

that relate to a pretty common theme for you and me, and that is, you know, setting goals for better,

for growth, for progress, and then realizing those goals.

I try to read a lot about achievement and every couple of months put an episode in that is goal related

because, I mean, that's the title of the program, Excel still more. I've said many times.

A lot of people don't know what better looks like, but even when you do, it's kind of like,

how do I get there? With so many daily things vying for my attention, things that I need to do just to keep operating,

how can I give special attention to growth? And because everybody is different, I think,

maybe presenting different things that work for different people, or in the case of today's

literature, what works for leaders very often and incredibly in the

corporate world may actually be just the ticket for you. So the book is called the four

disciplines of execution, achieving your wildly important goals. And while I'll put a link to

Amazon in the show notes, I'm not exactly recommending this to you.

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