Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I'm your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm thrilled to introduce once again a great sponsor for the program, Tyler Kane, a close friend and fellow believer. He serves as the senior loan officer at statewide mortgage, based in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Hey, welcome back. So I was thinking this morning, it's been several months since I have talked to you

about the simple system of goal setting and achievement that has really been mixed into the episodes fairly

consistently over the last six years. We always launched something in January about building

your ladder or setting your goals and maybe hit points like right in the middle of the year or

something like that. But after a few days of just thinking through some things in my own life,

also some productive conversations with my wife Summer and my son Luke, as we're trying to get

him hyped up about the fall semester, I thought this might be a great time to talk to you

about what I think I'm ready to announce to be the secret sauce. Of all the lines I've spoken

on this podcast in six years, none have been said more frequently than some variation of this.

Most people want to get better. They just don't have a clear vision of what better looks like.

So the vision aspect of setting goals and daily discipline are not new,

but I'm hoping I can explain it to you in a little bit of a different way today with some slightly

different imagery so that if it hasn't taken hold of your life yet, maybe you can start today.

So let me back up and tell you why I'm here in this room in front of this microphone with no notes.

I started one of those assessment periods a few days ago where I just try to look at my life

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