Get More Time: Your 2026 Blueprint for Life Value

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Tim Staton (00:36):
Hey, and welcome back to another episode.
We're gonna do something a little bit different.
I'm sitting here next to my army Christmas tree, and we're in the holiday season.
We're coming up on Christmas.
We just passed Thanksgiving, and I really just wanted to do an episode and say thank you to
all my guests who have been on the show this past year.

(01:04):
And to all of you who have subscribed and liked and followed on all the different platforms,
thank you for making this show what it is and having it grow tremendously over this past year.
So season six has been amazing, and I'm just really humbled and grateful for everything that
you have done to turn this show into a place where we could share ideas, we could talk to each other, we could collaborate.

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And we get to know each other a little bit better, as well as highlight some of the great things
that everybody else is doing.
So thank you for making that possible.
And we're gonna go into season seven, starting in January.
We have a jam-packed season coming up for season seven.
We're gonna be releasing two episodes a month for interviews.
We're going to be doing, of course, my shows where we're gonna have a monologue, you get to

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hear from me, and a couple of other Branch Out segments.
We're gonna be talking about nutrition and fitness, and as well as highlighting veterans in
what they bring to the leadership space, what they've learned from their time in service, and
what they've brought to entrepreneurship, what they've brought to their organizations and their
business and the civilian workspace.
So we're gonna highlight that this year, as well as do the traditional shows that we've already done.

(02:15):
I estimate we're probably gonna have over 50 episodes this year for season seven.
And it's amazing to think about over the last several years, I was, you know, working hard to
get you 25 episodes a year.
And that was strictly audio.
And now this past year, I said, you know what?
I really want to deliver 36 high quality, good episodes.

(02:39):
We did the Indiegogo campaign and we're able to raise some money to be able to get you, you
know, the scenery and the backdrop and a couple of pieces of equipment at upgrade.
So thank you for everyone who supported that.
And doing that, we released a book this year in 2025, Life Skills that yout Didn't Know youw
Needed, which is doing very well on Amazon.

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There'll be a link in the description.
And then based on that book, we're also offering this year a course on how you can implement
and develop those life skills coming up in 2027.
The link is also in the description of this.
If you're interested, you can go click there.
And it'll be another great community where we can all come together, learn and grow and develop ourselves moving forward.

(03:22):
So I'm really excited about where we're headed in season seven going into 2026. So thank you.
Thank you for making this what it is.
I cannot say that enough.
It's so heartfelt and warming to know what we're growing here and where we're going in the future.
It's all thanks to you and what we've done.

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I just kind of want to give you a glimpse of what we're going to be closing out season six with.
You have this episode, the next episode, we're going to be talking to Amos Belongo, and he talks about intergenerational communication.
And what we've learned in the last episode from Jennifer Hawkins is that, you know, people are
leaving the workplace and they're leaving it faster than you thought.

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So we need to get after talent development.
We need to have skills development.
We need to get after executive level leadership skills, strategic level thinkers, higher level thinkers, critical thinkers.
We need to get those out there.
But Amos is going to be talking about how do we bridge that gap in communication between, you
know, the Gen Z, the millennials, the Zennials, the Gen Xers, and then of course, Of course,

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the baby boomers and we all speak differently.
It's gonna, it's gonna be great as we round out 2025 going into 2026.
And in 2026, we're gonna start January off.
Let me pull up here from my trusty book because my brain can't remember it all.
So in 2026, we're gonna start off in January with as like to Silva and his black belt leadership.

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What he's learned from being a fighter is he's learned in martial arts, all of his skills becoming
a CEO and how that translated over.
We have a great conversation with him. He's from Finland. Wonderful gentleman.
And you guys are going to get to meet him in January.
Also in January, we're going to meet Pavel Danyek.
And he wrote a book for his kids because he's from the Czech Republic.

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He wrote a book about the importance of entrepreneurship.
And it's not going to be as easy as you think.
His kids were thinking, oh, I'm going to start a business and have all of this easy money coming our way.
And he was like, no, I don't think so.
Let's write a book and a blueprint of how you can start a business and the traps and the pitfalls
that you fall into and really, you know, get after being an entrepreneur and the lessons that

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he learned throughout his life.
And then the lessons he's imparting upon his kids as well.
And they're teenagers getting ready to go off into college. Great guy, great conversation.
That's where we're going to kick January off with our kind of our international crew from Finland
and from the Czech Republic.
And in February, we're going to have Mark Morganfra, and we're going to be talking about how

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you don't need to fire folks, right?
Some people you do, but not everybody.
And how do we realign people in our organizations to really get after the things that we need to get after?
They were also going to be talking with Kyle McDowell, and he wrote a book about we and all
the principles that he brings to play with that.
It's going to be, that's also a really good conversation that we had.

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Then we're going to be talking with Hannah.
Hannah is going to be talking about how, you know, we can struggle through things.
We have adversity in life and how we can overcome those and turn our weaknesses into strengths
and overcome them and then be better leaders on the outside because of that.
And then we're gonna be talking with tilde.
She's really an interesting person to talk with.

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We're gonna be talking about how roses really kind of set the foundation for her to be a leader
and what family business is like and how to have a family business without ruining your family.
So we're gonna be talking about that in March.
April, we're gonna be talking about AI and how to question AI in the future of where it's going

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with critical thinking and how we need to be developing ourselves as critical thinkers.
Then we talked with Rich Plumbury, and Rich is gonna be talking about what he learns about hands
up leadership and how we need to be uplifting people on our teams and what he's learned over
the years of service that he's had at being an entrepreneur and an executive.

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And I'm gonna stop it at April.
Because we still have many more throughout the course of the year that we already have recorded
and queued up for you coming up in season seven.
That's just the tip of the iceberg of the folks that we have on the show, the quality of folks
that we have on the show coming on, and all of their links are gonna be in the bio down below
so you can get a kind of snippet of them ahead of time.

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I'm super excited about season seven and where we are going with that.
We usually talk about goals, objectives, planning, and how to set goals and how to not fall
victim to the new year's resolutions and how we can really shape our futures without falling victim to it.
I want to take a different approach to it because I feel like it's a broken record.

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We talk about it over and over and over and over again.
I really want to focus on the number 1440.
Everyone has the same 1440 minutes in a day. That's all you have.
We all have the same amount.
We're all born with the same amount of minutes in a day, unless you were kind of like born,
you know, after midnight, then it kind of dwindles down.
But in a 24 hour period of time, you still have 1440 minutes, 1440 minutes in a day.

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So why does it seem like some people can do way more with 1440 than other people can?
Other, we're struggling with the rat race and the hamster wheel of, of, of I can't, I can't
get out, I can't get ahead of time.
I can't make the most efficient use of my time.
My time is being taken up by all of these things.

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Well, I want to talk about how you can prioritize your time, how we can prioritize our time,
and how we can also make the most use of our time.
And then I want you to think about how I could possibly be a time traveler and buy back time
so that way I can get more time back in my day.

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Because if we're being honest with ourselves, you know, people say time is money all the time. Well, time is money. Time is money.
No, I wholeheartedly believe time is infinitely more valuable than money.
And, and it, you know, so that goes into everything.
So if I'm working a nine to five job and I'm working 40 hours a week and I have a set salary
or I have an hourly wage that I'm working for, my time is money, right?

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I'm exchanging my time for a limited amount of money.
In that case, what that means is you feel like then when you save up all that money and you
want to buy a car, you feel like it's a life changing event because you spent your life working to save that money.
And then it comes time to cash in and you buy a depreciating asset for something that you cannot get back.

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You've already spent that time on things that you cannot get back.
Once it's gone, it's gone.
That's why when I produce every episode, I want to make sure it's full of value for you.
Cause you can't get that time back.
When you're watching this, you can't get that second back.
You can't get that two seconds back.
Even if you re-watch this episode, you're not going to get that time back. It's gone.

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So are you spending your time on things that are going to increase value in your life, are going
to increase your presence in your life, or going to increase your, your vibration in life. Right.
And I say that because everything is made up of matter and matter There's frequency all vibrating together. Right.
What are you spending your time on?
And is it going to have an impact on your future where you can buy back time?

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And that's how we can time travel.
I read an interesting book about biblical principles of business and why people believe that
every person is put on this earth for a mission.
And I wholeheartedly believe that myself.
Everybody has a mission and a purpose of why you're here.
And if you're a mechanic and you're the best mechanic there is, well, guess what?
I want you to work on my car.

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I want you to fix my car and take care of my car because I wasn't put on this earth to be a mechanic.
Like my hands do not fit like in the engine very well.
Every time I try, I get my hands all scraped up and busted up.
In fact, I literally just had to change my light bulb in my van the other day.
Yes, I have a van that I drive. I'm cool with that.

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Cause I got kids and I like it.
Judge me on it in the comments. Go ahead. I don't care.
So the other thing is that when I put my hands in there to change the light bulb, they got all busted up.
I did it because it was super simple and easy, but it also took time for me to do that.
Had I taken it to the dealership when I was doing my oil change, I said, oh, by the way, my light bulb's out.

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Can you change my light bulb too?
I could be doing other things while the car is being worked on.
I could have had discovery calls.
I could have sent out emails.
I could have talked to family members.
I could have done every other thing with that hour and a half the car is being worked on.
Worked on other than working on that car.
And I have also found when I work on things and I'm like, you know what?
I'm just gonna save some, some money.

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I'm gonna do it myself.
It takes me twice as long to do it because I'm not skilled or trained in it.
Like, yes, I can fix an air conditioner.
I can troubleshoot an air conditioner, but it's going to take me four times as long to find
out the problem than somebody who's skilled and trained in it.
Can I, can I change the role on my car?
Yes, I can, but it's going to take me 20 times more longer to do it because I don't have the

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right tools because it's not something I invested in.
It's not something that I was put on the face of this earth to do.
And so therefore it takes me longer, more time to do it.
And when we buy back our time, when we help build this community and say, you know what?
You were put on this earth to do this.
I value you and your time.
I'm going to pay you for it.

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And that way I get my time back to do other things I want to do.
You know, same thing when it comes to cooking, same thing when it comes to buying your groceries
and where you buy your groceries and the time travel there and the time travel back.
I'm not saying we should all, you know, do the door dash or delivery service or whatever.
I'm just saying that we need to evaluate what's important in us in our life.

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Are we really spending time on the things that matter?
How often do you sit and you scroll on your phone?
Just mind numbing yourself into oblivion because you really deep down don't like your life that you have.
So you're like, you know, I'm just going to keep scrolling and scrolling.

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And watching everybody else enjoy their life because that's one fictional their life isn't what it always is online.
And two, it makes me feel better about myself because now I can just dream with them while they're living their dream.
I'm numbing myself down because I want to then go to sleep and start my whole routine over again tomorrow.
And is that a place that you really want to be going into 2026?

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Is that really what you want to do moving forward?
So my goal for next year is how do I get more time?
How do I maximize my time of extreme value from morning to end?
And how can I deliver the most value to humanity from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep?
How can I maximize that?
How can I maximize the most quality time I can with my wife?

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With my kids, how can I maximize that time?
Because I can never get it back.
I'm never going to get that time back.
You're never going to get that time back.
So how do we maximize that?
And we can do it by delegating.
We can do it by buying back our time, right?
Delegation is a huge one. It does several things.
It develops people, it trains people, it empowers people.

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It shows that you trust them, right?
We can do all the delegating that we want.
Because the moment you pick it up and do it yourself, you're saying this specific thing is so
important that I must do it because the outcome result is tied to a specific thing that is more valuable than my time.
I want you to think about that.
Every time you do something, you're saying the thing that I am currently doing that I'm never

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going to get back is infinitely more important than the thing that I'm not doing because this
is what I have to do. So delegate it.
There's plenty of people who want to do it and who can do it. So delegate.
And it's not a slight on anybody or anything, but we all have phases in life and we all need to be developed.
Delegation is a good tool. Buy back your time.

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If you don't have to do it and you have some discretionary funds and you could pay somebody
else to do it, pay someone else to do it.
There's nothing wrong with that.
That's why there's multiple people on the face of this earth.
Because everyone can be blessed by each other if we all just adequately treat each other that way.
I fully agree with that.
And if you think you're like, oh, well, I'm to this status or I'm to that status to do those

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things, you're not above anything. You should serve.
You should serve and you should give back and you should invest your time into other people
in delivering value for them and solving their problems.
That's what you should do.
So when it comes for our goals into 2026, don't base them on time, but think about what you're

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going to be spending your time on this year. Is it worth it? Is it worth it?
Is the thing that you're going to do going to increase the value in your life?
Going to increase the value of others around you?
Or is it going to depreciate the value in others?
Is it going to lessen them and lessen what they're doing?
Because we often do that, right? It's transactional.

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We need to start getting our minds wrapped around what can I do to provide most value and for
time spent on doing something.
So that is how I'm going to leave 2025 going into 2026 with that simple question.

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What are we going to do with the 1440 that we are entrusted with?
And how are we going to make the best use
in time of that going forward into 2026.
I really appreciate everything that you do on a daily basis, whatever it is that you do.
I want you to know that I truly appreciate you and what you do.

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And if you got some value out of this, if you don't mind, you know, like hitting the like and
subscribe button and all those other things.
So that way, you know, when we produce another episode, and I just want to say, have a Merry
Christmas this year, and I hope you have an amazing New
Year. And enjoy the rest of the year that you have with your family, with everyone that you

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can surround yourself with, because 2026 is gonna be amazing. So thank you.
As always, thank you for stopping by and checking out this episode and listening to it.
I really hope that you enjoyed it.
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I'm Tim Staton, state of the obvious.

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