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Ep. 47 - The Priorities Fallacy

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Did you know that the word "priorities" was rarely known or used before 1940? It doesn't really makes sense when you think about it. How can you have most important things? How can there be multiple things that come first. By definition, they wouldn't be most important. Instead, people used the word "Priority." That is, the most important thing. Everything else, no matter how valuable to you, has to fall under the power and leadership of the one singular priority in your life. This may sound hard, since many people and th

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Ep. 46 - Start From Here

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! No matter who you are, there will be stretches when things don't come together. Streaks get broken. Outside influences distract. We don't get the frog eaten. We don't fulfill our daily highlight. There is no one great hour. For some, this means the end. Great progress is abandoned by "setbacks." Listen, don't worry about days that don't go well, just start from here. No matter what is gone wrong or how long it has been since you've had it all together: start from here. If you have listened to episodes and just haven't got

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Ep. 45 - The Persuasion Triangle

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Everybody is trying to persuade someone. In fact, most of us are trying to shape other people's thinking every single day, and in many relationships! And each of us has some skill or two that God gave us to bring other's around to our way of thinking. However, most of us don't have all three! I'm talking about the big three Greek words Aristotle introduced in 400BC. When these three ideas: Pathos, Ethos, Logos, are working together, soft hearts can be shaped and molded to greater godliness. You can help persuade people to

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Ep. 44 - Our Daily Bread

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We all know the importance of daily prayer. But what are you praying for daily? Most of us do a great job of praying about our daily bread. That is, daily provisions like health and safety. But we may be missing some things from "The Lord's Prayer" in Matthew 6. If we model our prayer after what He taught us, we can keep physical things like daily bread in its proper place, while putting much greater emphasis on our spiritual needs. This, of course, will have an affect on the entire day: "As goes your prayer life, goes yo

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Ep. 43 - The Accountability Partner

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. There is power in your relationship with God, and you are hopefully experiencing that every day. However, God's plans and Christ's power may demand that you ask for help. There are some things so difficult, so challenging, so transformative, that you simply cannot do it alone. This is neither a knock against you, or God. This is just an opportunity to embrace the power of teamwork. By finding an accountability partner, someone who you can trust, someone who can wor

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Ep. 42 - New Every Morning

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I'm excited to share this! It really captivates what the Excel Still More journey is all about for me. Firstly, this is about optimism, redemption and hope EVERY single morning! Every day we are new, God's mercies are new, opportunities refresh and we can make that day great. You guys know what a great week is, right? It's seven great days, each one lived and utilized to the fullest. You can do this! To help, we have designed a journal: The ESM 3-Month Journal. The second half of the episode walks you through the pieces o

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Ep. 41 - Change Your Geography

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We should always make the most out of any situation. If this is where you are now, then make the most out of this. This applies directly to location. Wherever you work, work well. Wherever you worship, worship well. Wherever you life, live well. With whomever you spend your time, use it well. And so on. However, sometimes things aren't going well. Sometimes things have gotten to a point where they keep you from getting better. Well, it may be time to ask a tough question: Do I need to move? Is a change in geography the an

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Ep. 40 - Hey I'm 40!

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Well, we all have to grow up sometime, right? I turned 40 last December and made the decision to make some fairly dramatic life changes. Maybe dramatic isn't the right word, but there were some internal struggles I'd been very hit or miss about. It was time to say, "Hey, I'm 40. I'm done with that inconsistency. I will give myself wholly to Christ. And I will live with abiding daily peace." Let me tell you: it's been awesome! I can't wait to share with you what some of those things are and how you too can finally decide t

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Ep. 39 - Parents Effecting Change

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Every parents wants obedient kids. This is a challenge, since all kids are different and they change quite frequently as they grow. Parents who try the same approach, no matter the child, or the age, or the outcome desired... well, they don't get great results. But if parents learn to work backwards: to analyze the effect desired and then study the situation to implement the cause that brings that about... it will make a world of difference! Now, this means mom and dad have to own up to everything that hasn't gone well so

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Ep. 38 - I Am Second

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Self centered living is lonely. Some may be successful. Some may make a mess of things. But all wonder, "Is this what it is all about?" I just focus on me. Everybody else just focuses on themselves? And somehow our life has value, meaning? When we learn to be second to Christ, we instantly learn the purpose of life. We still take care of ourselves, but we become about His majesty first, His glory, and our future with Him. That relationship becomes our passion. And... this extends into friendship and marriage and everyone.

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Ep. 37 - 30 Day Fast

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Okay, first of all, this episode is NOT about 30 days without food. I've never done that and don't plan on trying it any time soon. However, it is about two important ideas. 1) 30 days. It is the decision to commit to something for 30 days. After you have "Tried Three Times" and determined that something is doable and valuable to you, it's time to go for it! And hey, ESM people can do just about anything for 30 days! 2) Fasting. Fasting in the Bible is the giving up of something comfortable (food) to replace it with somet

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Ep. 36 - Be An Encourager

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! No tricks, illustrations, or planning here: just Be An Encourager! The best way to make even day worth while, and to grow as a person, is to uplift the people God puts in your life! We have to get over our own issues, and certainly pop the me-bubble, in order to fulfill our purpose of brightening other peoples' day. But when we do... life gets instantly better! To learn about a precious woman named Sarah who brightened my day during her worst day, tune in today. And we'll leave you with 4 practical tips for encouragement

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Ep. 35 - Stress Free Chess

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! There is an awesome secret to daily peace! If you master this one thing, then you will have much less strife in the day. And if you repeat it day after day, boom, anxiety will disappear from your life! There is a strategy of planning your day: eliminating non essential plans, spreading out essential elements, and journalling for success, that will change everything! So much stress comes from too many options. We have so many possible things to do today, that we either do none of them, or try to do too many. But there is a

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Ep. 34 - Forfeit For Freedom

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Everyone is interested in a stress free life. No one wants to live with worry, anxiety and mental exhaustion. There are some great daily practices that can eliminate most worries, and we'll discuss that in the next episode. But first, let's talk about 4 big things that have got to go if we want to see the stress go away. Sometimes there are big ticket stress items that we hang on to, and they foster lots of unnecessary mental strain. So, by forfeiting those pesky things, we can experience freedom in thought and attitude t

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Ep. 33 - The Grit Scale

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! James Clear wrote an article titled: "The Science of Mental Toughness: Talent is overrated, mental strength is critical." It includes research proving that success is based more on grit than inherent ability or intellect. People who are passionate about something and persistent accomplish more. People who are committed to something in which they believe, and consistent in pursuing it, excel in it. Being strong or smart or both is helpful in the beginning, but is nearly always out paced by those who have grit, who test wel

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Ep. 32 - The Wicker Basket

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! It is great to set big goals. But beware, they are not what this is about. This is about the process. This is about you becoming the kind of people who can achieve goals. The problems with grading ourselves by goal's reached is 1) if we, for whatever reason, don't reach them, we are crushed. 2) we do reach them and they didn't satisfy or we stop trying afterward. Listen to the story of the boy with the wicker basket today. He wanted to show immediate and tangible results from his labor. But the results weren't there in th

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Ep. 31 - Plan your How

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I love Simon Sinek's book, "Start with Why." The idea of finding your purpose and passion before proceeding... crucial! Once you find your Why, you'll know What you want to do. For instance, if you find your why in fitness, you'll want to be a daily exercise person. Great! Connecting Why and What is a big deal! But don't overlook the How. The discipline to think through the action, to plan the right way to do it, can make all the difference. So, in fitness, I need to journal when I'm going to workout and where and make su

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Ep. 30 - Resolving a Conflict

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sometimes you can just sit down with someone and restore peace. You can establish some common agreements, and zip the jacket. But sometimes it's more difficult than that. Sometimes too much has happened. Too much time has passed. Someone went too far. What do you do in that case? Many people give up on the relationship, and accept division and maybe even hold resentment for years. We are Christians. We can do much better than that! But it takes heart and it takes strategy. Let's look at Jacob's tactics for approaching Esa

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Ep. 29 - Assess the Essential

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Do you ever feel overbooked and underproductive? Do you get stressed by all the things on the calendar? Do you wish you could do less but do it better? If you want to create a simpler, more productive schedule and life, then Essentialism, a book by Greg McKeown, is for you! In today's episode we'll walk through some of his basic concepts about defaulting to no, so that you can make more of your yeses. This process leads to more focus, less stress, and much greater progress in your journey to excel. The Word of God address

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Ep. 28 - Open Your Eyes

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! God is doing incredible things in your life! He is answering beautiful questions, He is surrounding you with providential guidance and opportunities. The question is: Are you seeing it? Sometimes the lighted path is right in front of us, the next person to influence is right beside us, and our eyes are closed. I want to tell you a story from this past weekend. God would not let me keep my eyes closed to His work. He opened them with a ray of sunshine. I am determined to keep those eyes open for the people in my life He ha

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Ep. 27 - Losing Some Battles

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! This episode is for people who are trying to get better, who are really seeking to excel, but who fall short of that. I do. Many people give up when things go poorly. But those who are really in this war to win it, will not be stopped by a lost battle. Some people avoid losing battles by quitting the war for growth. We cannot do that! Instead, we can use the pain of a single defeat to drive us to resilience and victory in the war! Excelling in faith is a war against mediocrity and lethargy. In that war you will have setba

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Ep. 26 - Do Hard Things

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Teenagers get a bad wrap sometimes. Largely because their accomplishments are held back by the low expectations our culture puts upon them. In their book, "Do Hard Things," the Harris brothers enlighten young people to a rebellion against low expectations. They talk about how to do things that move us past our comfort zones, reach out for support, and sow for long term reaping. Their book is awesome for teenagers. And it is also awesome for adults! In fact, our children will learn how to achieve their goals from watching

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Ep. 25 - The Throne Room

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Prayer is incredibly important to daily growth and faith. But sometimes it begins to wane. Sometimes it becomes difficult to stay focused on God. Maybe you are praying, and even journaling about prayer items, but still find it difficult to give Him attention and stay engaged for more than just a minute or two. I deal with that often. I've dealt with that heavily in the past two weeks. When that happens, it is time to head to the Throne Room of God! When you can feel the experience of entering His court and bowing before H

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Ep. 24 - Start with Why

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Simon Sinek wrote the book "Start with Why." It discusses businesses and advertising and how the proper use of "the Golden Circle" makes all the difference. If you can learn the same strategy and apply it in your daily tasks and goals, you too can see incredible differences in your achievements. We often work from the outside in: WHAT do I want to happen? Then we decide: HOW can I make that happen? But we rarely spend time considering the most important question of all: WHY is any of this important to me? When if we Start

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Ep. 23 - Try Three Times

Kris Emerson · Excel Still More

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I like the word "Try." I think it has gotten a bad wrap over the years. But if you are talking about genuine effort to achieve something, whether you succeed or fail, the diligence to try is noble and God sees that! But sometimes we try things, good things, one time and then give up on them. In this episode we look at the psychology behind effort, and discuss why it will take at least three tries to properly access the value of something. We don't mean it will become a habit that quickly. We mean you'll have a clearer and

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