September 12, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode of Tim Stating the Obvious, we dig into “How to Design the Life You Want: A Practical Framework.” Too often we ask ourselves “What do you want to be when you grow up?” when the real question should be, “What do you want to grow into?” Because success isn’t about a single job or destination—it’s about designing the life you want step by step.
Using the Army’s Be, Know, Do philosophy as a guide, we’ll explore a time-tested tool for designing the life you want to lead. First, clarify who you are becoming—the values and character that define you. Then, identify the knowledge and skills you need, and finally, take decisive action. This is about more than motivation—it’s about how to design a system to get your goals accomplished and live the life you want.
The bottom line: remember, it’s up to you, and only you, to design the life you want. If you don’t take ownership, someone else will—and their version may not match designing the life you really want.
By the end of this episode, you’ll walk away with a clear path to start designing the life you want today.
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00:00 The ‘Be, Know, Do’ Framework
02:26 Why ‘Being’ is Most Important
07:00 Auditing Your ‘Being’
10:31 Knowing & Doing: Taking Action
13:03 Critique and Implementation
15:22 Final Thoughts and Call to Action
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Episode Transcript
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Tim Staton (00:00):
Hey, and welcome back to another episode.
Today we're going to be talking about something that is so obvious it kind of hurts to even talk about.
It's building the life you actually want.
And no, I'm not talking about daydreaming or wishing on a star.
I'm talking about using the framework that's been around for a while.
(00:21):
In fact, we just did a miniseries on it.
It's based on the Army's principles, be no do and their leadership manual.
And even if you've never worn a uniform before, the concept applies to pretty much everyone.
Be the right person, know your stuff, do the work.
But in this episode, we're focusing on the so what of that. So what?
(00:47):
You focus on being the person. So what?
You focus on knowing the right thing.
So what you focus on doing the underlying actions for all of those is so you can have the life that you want.
So you can have the car or have the house or have the dreams, whatever it is that you want. You want something.
(01:08):
And this framework can help you do that.
But I'm going to criticize it a little bit, and here's why.
This is Tim Staton with Tim stating the obvious.
What is this podcast about? It's simple.
You are entitled to great leadership.
Everywhere you go, whether it's a church and whether it's to work, whether it's at your house,
(01:31):
you are entitled to great leadership.
And so in this podcast, we take leadership principles and theories and turn them into everyday, relatable and usable advice.
Disclaimer (01:42):
And a quick disclaimer. The show, process or service by trademark, trademark, manufacturer,
otherwise does not necessarily constitute and reply the endorsement of anyone that I employed
by or favors them in representation.
The views are expressed here in my show, are my own, expressed, and do not necessarily state
or reflect those of any employer.
Tim Staton (01:52):
Okay, so before I criticize it, we want to talk about something first.
We've got to set the framework before I can put in the critique of it.
You want a career that doesn't drain you.
You want a body that you're proud of.
You want relationships that aren't like soap operas.
And this episode is for you, really.
(02:12):
We break it down into three parts.
Be, no, do who you need to, be the skills you need to learn and taking action without excuses.
And by the end, you'll have a clear, practical framework to start leading yourself instead of just reacting to life.
And here's something I noticed looking back on my, you know, 20 something years in the Army.
About 79% of the training was focused on knowing technical skills, systems and tactics.
(02:39):
And 21% was focused on being character and being able to be the person to be able to have increased levels of responsibility.
So with that, I think it's important that what matters most is being.
And if you can't be the person to handle increased levels of responsibility, when the increased
(03:09):
levels of responsibility keep going up and up and up, you're going to hit a point where your
personal ethics and your character can't keep up with the levels of responsibilities and the
performance that you're supposed to keep up with.
And that's where people run into shaky areas.
They run into doing unethical things. They run into pitfalls.
(03:31):
They run into coping mechanisms that are negative and it's not really positive.
And people start to look at these people and go, what is going on?
They were rock stars before.
Why are all of a sudden they having all these issues?
That's because nobody focused on the being.
They didn't focus on who they were growing up through the different levels of performance.
(03:54):
This could be seen across all industries.
No matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, you're gonna find it.
And sometimes you're gonna end up with an ethical mismatch.
And so that's why I say being is so important.
This is the foundation of your character and your integrity in your life.
You are always becoming the kind of person who can handle the life that you want to save, that you want.
(04:20):
And we talked about visions, and if you don't know about the visions or anything else like that,
go back to that episode or that miniseries and go listen to those, because that goes into where
you are, where you want to go.
But here is the obvious truth.
If you want a different life, you have to become a different version of yourself. Not fake it. Actually be it.
(04:42):
You've heard the term fake it till you make it.
Well, what you really need to do is be it until you can be the person to handle the thing that's
getting ready to come to you. Right?
And so with that, I'm reminded of the Bible verse in James where he says, you know, you ask
and you pray for these things, but even if you were to have it, you wouldn't be able to handle it. You would ruin it. You would taint it.
(05:09):
You know, and I'm paraphrasing that, and that's so true for many of us.
Even if you became a millionaire tomorrow, you don't have the financial discipline to keep up
with that and make it grow and to become better and turn into generational wealth, you're going to.
You're going to squander it away.
Even if you got the dream house that you wanted, you're not going to be able to take care of
it or do do the things that you need to do with it, because you're not that person who's developed
(05:31):
the small incremental changes along the way.
You know, just look at any lottery winner.
You know, the lottery is like the biggest it's ever been.
It's like $1.8 billion and a couple people have won, I think.
But still, those people, I'm not judging anybody.
I'm just kind of saying if you look at history and trends, they're going to buy a big house
that they can't afford or they're going to have it and then they're going to be broke, you know,
(05:52):
in a matter of a couple of years anyway.
And that goes back to who they are.
Doesn't change, just the circumstances around them change.
And that's why it's really important that we develop ourselves to be a meaningful person, a person of substance.
And that means you have to identify your core values.
Have you really thought about what your core values are and what really drives you?
(06:15):
What security do you need?
What adventures are you looking for? Are you into service?
And if you're not into service, you need to find a way to provide service and value to somebody
else, because that's why you were created at any level.
And so when I look back, only 21% of the time was spent on character development, and the rest was technical.
You know, but here's the thing.
(06:36):
Without a solid being, the rest falls apart.
Giving somebody knowledge without the character to handle it is like I said before, giving someone
a Ferrari and saying, okay, here you go. Go drive it. Go have fun.
But I'm not going to tell you to take care of it.
I'm not going to show you the maintenance schedule.
I'm not going to do this.
Hey, I'm going to give you a yacht, but I'm not going to tell you about the insurance and the
(06:56):
taxes and everything else that go by. Go with it, right?
So you really have to focus on the be.
You need to focus on who are you and who do you want to become.
And I'm really harping on this is because oftentimes people want what they see on social media.
(07:18):
People want all of these things.
I want, I want, I want.
Okay, well, you want, you want to have.
In order to have, you need to be first.
You need to be the person worthy of being able to have.
If you want a promotion at your job, you need to be the person worthy of being able to be selected
(07:39):
for the increased level of performance, the increased level of responsibility that match it,
and being able to be who you are and keep your integrity and keep your character.
It's incredibly important that you do that because otherwise you're going to lose your character,
you're going to lose your integrity, and then you're not going to get promoted, you're not going
to move on, you're going to ruin your reputation.
(07:59):
Think about how often that has happened in your sphere of influence or wherever you're working or in your industry. Just think about it.
How often does that happen?
Probably more often than you think.
So here's what I'm going to ask you to do.
Do a quick homework, do a quick BE audit.
Ask yourself, who is a version of me already living in my dreams?
(08:22):
Who is that person that has the skill sets, that has the character, that has the small, steady
incremental changes to be the person of wherever it is that you want to be? Right?
Because I guarantee you, anyone that you have looked up to in any form or fashion has done all
(08:45):
of these small incremental changes.
I just saw a post on LinkedIn today that said Gary Vee, he had these cameras up and he said
some people are their best versions of them when they're behind a camera.
And then he says, I'm the best version of me when I'm in my office grinding and get after work.
It's all the things that you do when no one is looking that really matters.
(09:13):
It's all the small things that you grind and you get in the dirt and you get your hands dirty
and you roll up your sleeves and you start sweating and you do the hard work and you do it on yourself, Right?
It's easy to be hard on other people.
That's what weak people do.
But strong people are hard on themselves and easy on others.
Are you that type of person?
(09:33):
Are you that type of person who is already in their mind's eye, seeing that person in the future
going, yep, I'm going to be that person.
I'm going to start by doing one thing today that's going to be hard, but I'm going to do it.
I'm going to stay disciplined.
I'm going to stick to doing what I said I'm going to do to myself, not to anybody else.
(09:55):
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
No one knows all the lies that you told yourself but you so how can you stand in front of somebody
else and be confident and say, oh yeah, this is going to happen?
When in the back of your mind you go, oh, man, I've told myself this live 50,000 times before.
I'm probably not going to follow through.
You're not going to be confident, you're not going to have the congruency on that.
(10:18):
So while you're doing this self assessment, I want you to think about, what is it that I need
to work on to be that person in the future?
Pick one trait this week and practice it.
So the next thing we already talked about is no, right.
You have to be able to know the skills that you need to be able to have in order to do your
(10:41):
job or whatever career field that you're in.
And you need to figure out where your gap is, where you want to end up, where you currently
are, and what is one or two things that you need to do to improve on in order to achieve that.
Ask yourself, what do I need to learn?
And if your dream is financial independence, maybe it's budgeting or investing or finding out
(11:05):
actually how money works, what's its purpose, what does it do? Get curious about it.
If it's, you want a healthier body, maybe it's nutrition or training, go to a dietitian class,
go figure something else out that's going to help you get that.
If it's building a stronger marriage, maybe it's communication, maybe it's going to counseling, right?
(11:25):
So you have to be able to map the gaps, then start filling them in.
The last thing we need to talk about is doing.
You gotta do this is the execution phase.
A lot of people spend so much time on thinking and contemplating.
And if I, if I have this idea and if I think about this and if I should have, could have done
(11:48):
this, and they don't, do, you get so much wrapped in, I gotta know this, I gotta develop this, I gotta do this.
And you don't do it.
You don't put what you've learned in action.
And if you don't do that, you're not going to move forward.
So you have to move forward, even if it's messy or inconvenient.
The obvious truth is dreams don't happen by thinking about them, they happen by doing them.
(12:09):
If you want to start a side hustle, start a side hustle.
If you want to sign up for a class, sign up for a class.
If you want to have a hard conversation with somebody, have the hard conversation with somebody.
I know that's easier said. Than done.
But you're not going to get anywhere if you don't do it.
You have to take the step to do it.
You have to be able to perform.
(12:30):
And that's where a lot of people fail.
But again, they fail not because they don't know.
It's because they're not the person that they need to be in order to do the thing that they need to do.
Because in their mind, they haven't made that mental leap of, this is who I am, this is who I'm going to be.
So if you work on being that person every day, you're going to be that person who then knows
(12:54):
the things that they're supposed to know, who's going to do the things that they're going to do.
So you can have the life that you're supposed to have and you want to have. It's really that simple.
And everyone wants to make excuses for why they didn't do something, why they didn't perform
something, why something didn't happen.
Well, it didn't happen because you didn't do it.
It didn't happen because you didn't develop the skill.
(13:17):
It didn't happen because you didn't develop yourself to be the version of you that you needed
to be in order do it.
So my critique is we don't focus enough on being we don't focus enough on developing the inner core of a person.
I can help you out with that.
That's what this show is about.
The show is about being a better person tomorrow than you are today, being a better leader tomorrow than you are today.
(13:42):
It's okay to make mistakes.
It's okay to be messy.
It's okay to fumble through it sometimes.
Sometimes it's not very graceful at all. And that's okay, too.
You know, I don't know how many times I looked at certain leaders.
I was like, man, how do you make it look so graceful?
How do you make it look so easy? Guess what?
The more senior you get, the more you develop on yourself, the easier it is to kind of hide your mistakes.
(14:06):
It doesn't mean you don't make them, just means you cover them better than somebody else. I'm not that smart.
I read a lot of smart people.
I talk to a lot of smart people.
I listen to what they have to say, and I just regurgitate what I think are the golden nuggets
to you so that way you don't have to do what I'm doing.
You can just listen to this and implement it today.
Here's something that we can do to help really bring this home.
(14:31):
If you're tired of drifting through life, if you're tired of not having the outcome that you
think you're called to do, the first thing you need to do is go listen to the Vision miniseries.
That's going to help you out.
The second thing you need to do is be the person that you are required to be in order to have
(14:51):
the things that you want. It's that simple.
But you got to do it every day.
You got to do it right now.
Know what you need to learn. Know the skills. Develop the skills. Pick something.
Do it every single day.
Then do the work to make it happen. Take action.
Nothing happens unless you do it. Unless you.
Unless you do something, nothing's going to happen. So here's my challenge.
Write down what one be one no and one do for this week. Just one for each. Then go, go, go. Get after it. Go do it.
(15:16):
Because the truth is you are the leader of your own life.
So you need to start acting like it.
And in order to do that, you got to take action.
You focus on your being first.
Focus on being a better human being.
Find out your your values and your core values.
Then study what you need to study, learn than do all at the same time. It's that simple.
(15:37):
But it's also that hard.
Because simple things are hard and hard things are simple.
That's just the way it works.
But if you can't vision it and you can't see it, you're never going to get there.
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I really hope that you enjoyed it.
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Again, thanks for stopping by. I'm Tim Staton. State in the obvious,
Sam.
Hey, and welcome back to another episode.
Today we're going to be talking about something that is so obvious it kind of hurts to even talk about.
It's building the life you actually want.
And no, I'm not talking about daydreaming or wishing on a star.
I'm talking about using the framework that's been around for a while.
(00:21):
In fact, we just did a miniseries on it.
It's based on the Army's principles, be no do and their leadership manual.
And even if you've never worn a uniform before, the concept applies to pretty much everyone.
Be the right person, know your stuff, do the work.
But in this episode, we're focusing on the so what of that. So what?
(00:47):
You focus on being the person. So what?
You focus on knowing the right thing.
So what you focus on doing the underlying actions for all of those is so you can have the life that you want.
So you can have the car or have the house or have the dreams, whatever it is that you want. You want something.
(01:08):
And this framework can help you do that.
But I'm going to criticize it a little bit, and here's why.
This is Tim Staton with Tim stating the obvious.
What is this podcast about? It's simple.
You are entitled to great leadership.
Everywhere you go, whether it's a church and whether it's to work, whether it's at your house,
(01:31):
you are entitled to great leadership.
And so in this podcast, we take leadership principles and theories and turn them into everyday, relatable and usable advice.
Disclaimer (01:42):
And a quick disclaimer. The show, process or service by trademark, trademark, manufacturer,
otherwise does not necessarily constitute and reply the endorsement of anyone that I employed
by or favors them in representation.
The views are expressed here in my show, are my own, expressed, and do not necessarily state
or reflect those of any employer.
Tim Staton (01:52):
Okay, so before I criticize it, we want to talk about something first.
We've got to set the framework before I can put in the critique of it.
You want a career that doesn't drain you.
You want a body that you're proud of.
You want relationships that aren't like soap operas.
And this episode is for you, really.
(02:12):
We break it down into three parts.
Be, no, do who you need to, be the skills you need to learn and taking action without excuses.
And by the end, you'll have a clear, practical framework to start leading yourself instead of just reacting to life.
And here's something I noticed looking back on my, you know, 20 something years in the Army.
About 79% of the training was focused on knowing technical skills, systems and tactics.
(02:39):
And 21% was focused on being character and being able to be the person to be able to have increased levels of responsibility.
So with that, I think it's important that what matters most is being.
And if you can't be the person to handle increased levels of responsibility, when the increased
(03:09):
levels of responsibility keep going up and up and up, you're going to hit a point where your
personal ethics and your character can't keep up with the levels of responsibilities and the
performance that you're supposed to keep up with.
And that's where people run into shaky areas.
They run into doing unethical things. They run into pitfalls.
(03:31):
They run into coping mechanisms that are negative and it's not really positive.
And people start to look at these people and go, what is going on?
They were rock stars before.
Why are all of a sudden they having all these issues?
That's because nobody focused on the being.
They didn't focus on who they were growing up through the different levels of performance.
(03:54):
This could be seen across all industries.
No matter who you are, no matter what you're doing, you're gonna find it.
And sometimes you're gonna end up with an ethical mismatch.
And so that's why I say being is so important.
This is the foundation of your character and your integrity in your life.
You are always becoming the kind of person who can handle the life that you want to save, that you want.
(04:20):
And we talked about visions, and if you don't know about the visions or anything else like that,
go back to that episode or that miniseries and go listen to those, because that goes into where
you are, where you want to go.
But here is the obvious truth.
If you want a different life, you have to become a different version of yourself. Not fake it. Actually be it.
(04:42):
You've heard the term fake it till you make it.
Well, what you really need to do is be it until you can be the person to handle the thing that's
getting ready to come to you. Right?
And so with that, I'm reminded of the Bible verse in James where he says, you know, you ask
and you pray for these things, but even if you were to have it, you wouldn't be able to handle it. You would ruin it. You would taint it.
(05:09):
You know, and I'm paraphrasing that, and that's so true for many of us.
Even if you became a millionaire tomorrow, you don't have the financial discipline to keep up
with that and make it grow and to become better and turn into generational wealth, you're going to.
You're going to squander it away.
Even if you got the dream house that you wanted, you're not going to be able to take care of
it or do do the things that you need to do with it, because you're not that person who's developed
(05:31):
the small incremental changes along the way.
You know, just look at any lottery winner.
You know, the lottery is like the biggest it's ever been.
It's like $1.8 billion and a couple people have won, I think.
But still, those people, I'm not judging anybody.
I'm just kind of saying if you look at history and trends, they're going to buy a big house
that they can't afford or they're going to have it and then they're going to be broke, you know,
(05:52):
in a matter of a couple of years anyway.
And that goes back to who they are.
Doesn't change, just the circumstances around them change.
And that's why it's really important that we develop ourselves to be a meaningful person, a person of substance.
And that means you have to identify your core values.
Have you really thought about what your core values are and what really drives you?
(06:15):
What security do you need?
What adventures are you looking for? Are you into service?
And if you're not into service, you need to find a way to provide service and value to somebody
else, because that's why you were created at any level.
And so when I look back, only 21% of the time was spent on character development, and the rest was technical.
You know, but here's the thing.
(06:36):
Without a solid being, the rest falls apart.
Giving somebody knowledge without the character to handle it is like I said before, giving someone
a Ferrari and saying, okay, here you go. Go drive it. Go have fun.
But I'm not going to tell you to take care of it.
I'm not going to show you the maintenance schedule.
I'm not going to do this.
Hey, I'm going to give you a yacht, but I'm not going to tell you about the insurance and the
(06:56):
taxes and everything else that go by. Go with it, right?
So you really have to focus on the be.
You need to focus on who are you and who do you want to become.
And I'm really harping on this is because oftentimes people want what they see on social media.
(07:18):
People want all of these things.
I want, I want, I want.
Okay, well, you want, you want to have.
In order to have, you need to be first.
You need to be the person worthy of being able to have.
If you want a promotion at your job, you need to be the person worthy of being able to be selected
(07:39):
for the increased level of performance, the increased level of responsibility that match it,
and being able to be who you are and keep your integrity and keep your character.
It's incredibly important that you do that because otherwise you're going to lose your character,
you're going to lose your integrity, and then you're not going to get promoted, you're not going
to move on, you're going to ruin your reputation.
(07:59):
Think about how often that has happened in your sphere of influence or wherever you're working or in your industry. Just think about it.
How often does that happen?
Probably more often than you think.
So here's what I'm going to ask you to do.
Do a quick homework, do a quick BE audit.
Ask yourself, who is a version of me already living in my dreams?
(08:22):
Who is that person that has the skill sets, that has the character, that has the small, steady
incremental changes to be the person of wherever it is that you want to be? Right?
Because I guarantee you, anyone that you have looked up to in any form or fashion has done all
(08:45):
of these small incremental changes.
I just saw a post on LinkedIn today that said Gary Vee, he had these cameras up and he said
some people are their best versions of them when they're behind a camera.
And then he says, I'm the best version of me when I'm in my office grinding and get after work.
It's all the things that you do when no one is looking that really matters.
(09:13):
It's all the small things that you grind and you get in the dirt and you get your hands dirty
and you roll up your sleeves and you start sweating and you do the hard work and you do it on yourself, Right?
It's easy to be hard on other people.
That's what weak people do.
But strong people are hard on themselves and easy on others.
Are you that type of person?
(09:33):
Are you that type of person who is already in their mind's eye, seeing that person in the future
going, yep, I'm going to be that person.
I'm going to start by doing one thing today that's going to be hard, but I'm going to do it.
I'm going to stay disciplined.
I'm going to stick to doing what I said I'm going to do to myself, not to anybody else.
(09:55):
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
No one knows all the lies that you told yourself but you so how can you stand in front of somebody
else and be confident and say, oh yeah, this is going to happen?
When in the back of your mind you go, oh, man, I've told myself this live 50,000 times before.
I'm probably not going to follow through.
You're not going to be confident, you're not going to have the congruency on that.
(10:18):
So while you're doing this self assessment, I want you to think about, what is it that I need
to work on to be that person in the future?
Pick one trait this week and practice it.
So the next thing we already talked about is no, right.
You have to be able to know the skills that you need to be able to have in order to do your
(10:41):
job or whatever career field that you're in.
And you need to figure out where your gap is, where you want to end up, where you currently
are, and what is one or two things that you need to do to improve on in order to achieve that.
Ask yourself, what do I need to learn?
And if your dream is financial independence, maybe it's budgeting or investing or finding out
(11:05):
actually how money works, what's its purpose, what does it do? Get curious about it.
If it's, you want a healthier body, maybe it's nutrition or training, go to a dietitian class,
go figure something else out that's going to help you get that.
If it's building a stronger marriage, maybe it's communication, maybe it's going to counseling, right?
(11:25):
So you have to be able to map the gaps, then start filling them in.
The last thing we need to talk about is doing.
You gotta do this is the execution phase.
A lot of people spend so much time on thinking and contemplating.
And if I, if I have this idea and if I think about this and if I should have, could have done
(11:48):
this, and they don't, do, you get so much wrapped in, I gotta know this, I gotta develop this, I gotta do this.
And you don't do it.
You don't put what you've learned in action.
And if you don't do that, you're not going to move forward.
So you have to move forward, even if it's messy or inconvenient.
The obvious truth is dreams don't happen by thinking about them, they happen by doing them.
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If you want to start a side hustle, start a side hustle.
If you want to sign up for a class, sign up for a class.
If you want to have a hard conversation with somebody, have the hard conversation with somebody.
I know that's easier said. Than done.
But you're not going to get anywhere if you don't do it.
You have to take the step to do it.
You have to be able to perform.
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And that's where a lot of people fail.
But again, they fail not because they don't know.
It's because they're not the person that they need to be in order to do the thing that they need to do.
Because in their mind, they haven't made that mental leap of, this is who I am, this is who I'm going to be.
So if you work on being that person every day, you're going to be that person who then knows
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the things that they're supposed to know, who's going to do the things that they're going to do.
So you can have the life that you're supposed to have and you want to have. It's really that simple.
And everyone wants to make excuses for why they didn't do something, why they didn't perform
something, why something didn't happen.
Well, it didn't happen because you didn't do it.
It didn't happen because you didn't develop the skill.
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It didn't happen because you didn't develop yourself to be the version of you that you needed
to be in order do it.
So my critique is we don't focus enough on being we don't focus enough on developing the inner core of a person.
I can help you out with that.
That's what this show is about.
The show is about being a better person tomorrow than you are today, being a better leader tomorrow than you are today.
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It's okay to make mistakes.
It's okay to be messy.
It's okay to fumble through it sometimes.
Sometimes it's not very graceful at all. And that's okay, too.
You know, I don't know how many times I looked at certain leaders.
I was like, man, how do you make it look so graceful?
How do you make it look so easy? Guess what?
The more senior you get, the more you develop on yourself, the easier it is to kind of hide your mistakes.
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It doesn't mean you don't make them, just means you cover them better than somebody else. I'm not that smart.
I read a lot of smart people.
I talk to a lot of smart people.
I listen to what they have to say, and I just regurgitate what I think are the golden nuggets
to you so that way you don't have to do what I'm doing.
You can just listen to this and implement it today.
Here's something that we can do to help really bring this home.
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If you're tired of drifting through life, if you're tired of not having the outcome that you
think you're called to do, the first thing you need to do is go listen to the Vision miniseries.
That's going to help you out.
The second thing you need to do is be the person that you are required to be in order to have
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the things that you want. It's that simple.
But you got to do it every day.
You got to do it right now.
Know what you need to learn. Know the skills. Develop the skills. Pick something.
Do it every single day.
Then do the work to make it happen. Take action.
Nothing happens unless you do it. Unless you.
Unless you do something, nothing's going to happen. So here's my challenge.
Write down what one be one no and one do for this week. Just one for each. Then go, go, go. Get after it. Go do it.
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Because the truth is you are the leader of your own life.
So you need to start acting like it.
And in order to do that, you got to take action.
You focus on your being first.
Focus on being a better human being.
Find out your your values and your core values.
Then study what you need to study, learn than do all at the same time. It's that simple.
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But it's also that hard.
Because simple things are hard and hard things are simple.
That's just the way it works.
But if you can't vision it and you can't see it, you're never going to get there.
As always, thank you for stopping by and checking out this episode and listening to it.
I really hope that you enjoyed it.
Before we go, I'd like to ask a favor of you if I could.
If you could please share this episode with one or two people who you think might like this topic.
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here today, but may not have found our show yet.
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Again, thanks for stopping by. I'm Tim Staton. State in the obvious,
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