Welcome to Season 7 of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I am here to encourage you in your faith and help you strengthen your relationships.

Today's episode is sponsored by Statewide Mortgage.

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with a variety of home mortgage needs. You can reach him today at 813-380-8487. Thank you so much for

listening in today. Let's get started. Hey, good morning. Thanks for listening. I'm glad that you're here. Welcome to the second Monday

in January as we approach around the midpoint of the month. I certainly hope that things

have started well for you, particularly on a spiritual and mental level, leaning back a bit

on last week's episode, and that God

is putting opportunities around you to grow and a whole bunch of blessings in your path.

And I really hope what we talk about today can keep that positive outlook going through

this first portion of the year. I don't know if you're aware of this, but next week, the

third Monday has a label, Blue Monday.

I've actually done one, maybe two episodes on it in years past, but we will not be doing that

next week. It's based on a bunch of research that suggests that it's the low point or the most

depressing week of the year, and they cite things like short days and cold and rainy weather.

Credit card bills from December do Christmas is over. New Year's resolutions are already starting to hollow out,

and a whole slew of things like that, and it tends to just contribute to this fast fall to a very low point after New Year's and celebration

and a lot of hopes. Our goal is to avoid that pitfall. I mean completely. Yes, it still may be dark and

cold and there may be some bills do, but we want to have this rhythm in place, which I'll talk a lot

more about today, that just keeps moving in this

beautiful cycle repeatedly and propels productively and increasingly through all seasons,

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