The Art of Leadership Network.

Anything that you're attempting to do, don't despise a day of small beginnings.

That first step is going to be the hardest, but you need about 20 seconds of insane courage to kind of take that first step of faith and then begin the process of gradually.

Helping you design your roadmap. and then begin the process of congratulated suddenly.

Helping you design your roadmap to wholeness from the inside out.

This is Win Today.

And now, here's your host, Christopher Cook.

Hey, you guys, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks so much for hanging out with me this week. I've been thinking about something in life. You know, you can call it strategy, whatever you're doing,

but the Lord might call it delay. You can appear engaged and still be absent from the moment

you're in. And you can want transformation while distrusting the only road that really makes

people whole and new and transformed. And that road is the slow road of daily obedience. So today,

one of my favorite people, Mark Batterson, joins me to reclaim the middle decades of life

as a beginning. I really want you to lean into this

if you're in your late 30s, if you're in your early to mid 40s. This is really important.

He's going to talk about why life truly begins at 40. Everything up to that point is preparation.

We're going to discuss how half-present living fractures formation, why delayed obedience is still disobedience.

Let me say that again.

Why delayed obedience and partial obedience is still disobedience, you guys, this is a big deal.

And why falling in love with gradual progress builds character that hurry and hustle cannot. So listen, lean in.

If you've been putting off what you already know you need to do right now and if later becomes a

habit, and if your attention keeps bleeding into a thousand open tabs, this conversation will call

...