Скачать или смотреть Life Lessons Learned - Honor Your Commitments: Why Choosing Your Hard Beats Living with Regret

Honoring commitments is hard—but living with excuses and regrets is harder. In this Life Lessons Learned episode of Tim Unscripted, we talk honestly about what it means to choose your hard on purpose.
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Why honoring commitments is so hard
A candid look at reviving the Tim Unscripted and Life Lessons Learned series after years of delay, and what finally changed in late 2025.
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The reality of juggling commitments across work, family, colleagues, and nonprofit leadership—and why it will never feel “easy.”
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The tension between following your feelings and doing what you know is right, especially when nobody is forcing you to follow through.
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Commitments, grace, and growing up
Why honoring commitments matters for trust, reliability, and the way others experience you as a leader and human.
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The importance of extending yourself grace when life happens—illness, loss, job changes—while still owning broken commitments and making amends.
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A realistic bar: aiming for 70–80% follow-through while actively resisting the urge to beat yourself up for the rest.
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Choosing your hard
The “choose your hard” conversation shared with Tim’s young adult daughters: you don’t escape hard, you pick which version you live with.
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Examples of chosen hard: 25 years in uniform (Navy active, Navy Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve) and now learning generative AI and BMAD deeply enough to teach others.
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The idea of “fun hard”: work that is mentally demanding but meaningful, that eventually leads to flow and a sense of “this was worth it.”
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On the other side of hard
What it feels like when the hard part gives way to competence, confidence, and a more natural rhythm in your craft or calling.
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How honoring commitments to yourself and others shapes you into a better professional and a better spouse, parent, friend, and colleague.
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A reminder that anything truly worth having in life will come with difficulty attached—and that you’re not alone in wrestling with it.
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If you’re navigating your own season of hard choices and long-term commitments, this episode is an invitation to keep going, choose your hard intentionally, and become someone others can count on—another life lesson learned, brought to you by Tim Unscripted.