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🎙️ Episode 6: Delayed Gratification – Why Growth Requires Waiting

Everyone wants growth… but not everyone wants to wait for it.

In this episode, we dismantle the popular belief that if it doesn’t happen fast, it wasn’t meant to be — and uncover the truth about why leadership, healing, and transformation all require patience, preparation, and emotional endurance.

You’ll learn:

• Why rushed growth leads to burnout
• How delayed gratification is a leadership discipline
• The emotional cost of trying to leap before you’re ready
• How to steward what you have while preparing for what’s next

Featuring real-life leadership insights, biblical grounding, and research-informed wisdom from Angela Duckworth and Jim Collins, this episode challenges you to rethink the way you handle waiting.

🔑 Greatness isn’t denied — it’s developed.

Let’s talk about how to grow without rushing what you’re meant to carry.

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Read the book → Experiential Leadership Theory: Leadership Through Horsemanship — available now on Amazon

References

Collins, J. (2001). *Good to great: Why some companies make the leap—and others don't*. HarperBusiness.

Duckworth, A. (2016). *Grit: The power of passion and perseverance*. Scribner.

The Holy Bible, New International Version. (2011). Zondervan. (Psalm 75:6-7)

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🔎 About Living Beyond Average Podcast

Join host Lionel Murphy — veteran, rancher, leadership coach — as we challenge oversimplified clichés and simplify overcomplicated leadership and relationship myths. Weekly episodes blend lived experience, leadership insight, and biblical truth to help you lead with integrity, ride with confidence, and live beyond average.

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