Increase Your Odds For Success By Not Seeking The Spotlight With Tim Schurrer

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences, Education, How To, Society & Culture, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Spirituality, Nutrition, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Relationships

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

As I wrap up our current discussion on purpose, calling, and destiny, I want to discuss a perspective I see derailing many people. The idea that you need to forge on alone. And be a leader calling others to you. In our social media culture it can feel like everyone is chasing the spotlight. Everyone wants to be, or feels they need to be, the superstar, in order to succeed. To have a platform and followers and an audience. Write a book, star in social media, start a podcast, and get enough attention create an audience and pay your bills. But one, not everyone can be in the spotlight, and two, does being on stage really give you the best odds for success and fulfillment? On this topic I’m bringing back a conversation I had with Tim Schurrer author of, The Secret Society of Success: Stop Chasing The Spotlight And Learn To Enjoy Your Work [And Life] Again. He spent a decade working as COO with Donald Miller and launching Storybrand and then Business Made Simple, and while Don had the spotlight, Tim ran the business and built and led the team that made it all possible. Before that Tim worked at TOMS as well as Apple Inc. He is the host of the Build a Winning Team podcast, where he offers listeners actionable advice as he interviews some of the top leaders in business. We talk about the far greater opportunity for success and fulfillment, outside the spotlight and off the stage. Sign up for a $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to sign up for your FREE 60-day trial. Get 20% off your first probiotic membership order at pendulumlife.com/drivesyou Kajabi is offering a free 30-day trial to start your business if you go to Kajabi.com/kevin Go to Quince.com/drives for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns Go to cozyearth.com/driven and use code DRIVEN for an exclusive 40% discount Join thousands of parents who trust Fabric to protect their family. Apply in minutes at meetfabric.com/WHATDRIVESYOU. If you're concerned about OCD, visit NOCD.com to schedule a free 15-minute call with their team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to what drives you. I'm Kevin Miller. I've spent a lifetime performing and producing and doing.
0:07.0	Now I'm seeking how to be, how to find peace and fulfillment, and my full potential as a human.
0:13.0	So I investigate and contemplate and educate on human potential
0:16.8	and I share it here.
0:18.0	I don't want mere happiness.
0:20.4	I want to find true joy, peace, and fulfillment in every day.
0:25.0	So in this episode, increase your odds for success by not seeking the spotlight.
0:33.2	So as I wrap up this current discussion
0:35.3	we've been having on purpose and calling and destiny,
0:38.5	I wanted to discuss a perspective.
0:40.4	I see derailing many people, and this is a fruition of the previous episode and I mentioned I would be sharing this
0:47.0	The idea is so often that you've got to go forge everything alone and be a leader calling others to you.
0:55.0	In our social media culture it can feel like everyone is chasing the spotlight.
1:00.0	Of course the interesting thing is we only hear from people seeking a spotlight, me included.
1:05.0	I mean I've got a podcast and it gets to feeling like that's what we all have to do and yet for every person on a microphone or on stage there's so many others
1:15.7	happily pursuing their purpose and their calling and their destiny that aren't in
1:20.5	the spotlight. We don't all need to be this superstar on stage to
1:26.8	pursue what's meaningful to us. We don't have to have a platform and an audience
1:32.4	necessarily, or write a book or start in social media,
1:35.8	have a podcast in essence and create enough attention to have an audience and pay the bills.
1:40.9	It's really hard.
1:42.1	It's harder every day. Lots of opportunity there, but it's not the most easy
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