July 6, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, there are folks. It is Sunday, July sixth. Then
welcome to this inspirational edition of Amy and TJ on
this Sunday where we go a little deeper into some
of the quotes of the day that we gave you
all of last week, put them all together in one
place here, and I guess we should say, I hope
you had a good fourth of July. A happy fourth
of July. Everybody fireworks displays.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, celebrating our independence and family time and fun.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And we've certainly had a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So I hope you all had as wonderful of a
fourth of July as we did.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
But yes, yeah, well you want to tell you, then
I'll hand this to you that you have. Robock is
the one. So if you love the quotes, I want
to give you all the credit. If you hate the quotes, also,
this is all robot that pulls these together. But it
is Monday through Friday. You pull these together and dig
them out from various places. So sometime I'm even surprised
(00:54):
because I don't see him ahead of time. So would
I like them all?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes? So I actually Mondays is a great way to
get the week started off. So if you missed it,
please take a listen to this one, because this is
ah This is perspective that we don't always consider when
we start our day or when we're choosing how we
want to live our lives. This from Tom Preston Warner,
an American entrepreneur. He said, when I'm old and dying,
(01:20):
I plan to look back on my life and say, Wow,
that was an adventure, not wow, I sure felt safe.
Isn't that fascinating when you put it like that.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm trying to think of scenarios in our day and
day life. That's something we don't do. We say no, no, no,
that's too much, or no, that's going to keep me
up too late, or oh I don't want to travel
that far, or I don't want to whatever might be
that On your deathbed, if you were asked that same
question about that same moment, would you say, Man, I'm
glad I said no to that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Probably not, of course, not even all the little things
like well, I don't want to go to that party
because then all feels stupid and I won't know anyone,
or you know what, I really am not going to
put myself out there to date, because then I could
get rejected in my heart could get broken. Like. Those
are the kinds of things people really do, and they
might not be saying it to themselves in that direct
of a way.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But ultimately we are choosing fear over.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Possibility or you know what could be, We're afraid of
what might be.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right, possibility is scary.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh, but it can be filled with so much joy
and so much progress. But you have to go into
a scary place sometimes, that's true. So I loved this one.
I'll give it to you one more time. When I'm
old and dying, I plan to look back on my
life and say, wow, that was an adventure, not wow,
I sure felt safe, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This next one that was on Tuesday is absolutely perfect.
And this is something everybody should ask themselves. I'm sure
Robed everybody listening wants something more, something better. If they
have whatever car you're driving right now, you would like
to get the next updated version of that car. If
you have a home that's two thousand square feet, you
love to get to thirty five hundred square feet, whatever
(03:02):
it is you want to always, always do better and
get better, Well, this quote will have you thinking about
what you're pursuing.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, those who seek a better life must first become
a better person. And this one spoke to me because
I think we're all on different parts of our journey,
and I think it's only when you get to the
place of true self reflection do you realize how much
more there is for you to be and how much
(03:33):
more there is for you to give. And when you
get to those places, your life does get better. But
you have to start with yourself. It's not about the externals.
It's not about you know, and I know we all
focus on it. Yes, what car we drive, or what
vacation we're going on, or what friend we have or
what you know, partner we have in our life.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We have to make ourselves better people first. That's where
it begins.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's actually where our power is, and that's the beauty
of it. We get to be and choose to be
better and then everything follows.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Where'd you track this when down? I'm not familiar with
this author.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, Jim Ron Jim Roan is an author, actually a
motivational speaker, so just an author, an American author and.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Actually has a lot of quotes.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But I go to different sites that have different motivational
quotes and I see different names from people who I
wouldn't know are famous or well published. So there are
some cool gems from folks that I didn't even know existed,
and he's among them, Jim Roan r o Hn.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But I just thought that was such a simple.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Way to actually point out how we improve our lives.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's not with things.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And we'll give it to you one more time, folks.
That was our courth of the day on Tuesday. Those
who seek a better life must first become a better person.
Next up here an ondly but a goodie. She's kind
of a throwback. She's we love some Arianna Huffington. Anybody
who's been in this industry has had some dealings with
(04:57):
her in one way or another. If you did an interview,
than you covered her for something that she did or
she said, or some of you might have ended up
working for correct even in the industry. What Ariana Huffington?
Who gave what it was? Schwartzenegger all kinds of fits
out there in California regubnatorial races. But this quote you.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Found from her, Yes, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
She says failure is not the opposite of success, it's
part of success.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Who got it? Right the first time? Is there a
sat Do you know of anybody in your life, any
any story ever told of success in business where boom
it happened. It just happened first time.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I mean, it's kind of like peaking in high school.
You never want to do that, right, It's like you
almost to get to the true success you can you
can reach, you have to have setbacks because you have
to be able to learn from yourself and from your mistakes,
to build upon those and to get better. You can
get lucky, sure, I guess, but that's is that success
or is that luck?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's luck?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Right? So I think to have success, I think you
have to you have to swing and miss. I mean
any great you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm sure there are all these amazing baseball analogies and
sports analogies. I've seen them where Michael Jordan has missed
this many baskets and Babe Ruth struck out this many times.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's all a part of the success.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You make it. Fine, let's go with that basketball analogy
for a second. Michael Jordan is six and oh in
the NBA finals. He made it to the finals six times.
He won all six times. He got his ass whooped
by the Detroit Pistons for years and didn't get to
(06:35):
the finals because they kept beating them in conference. So
going by this thing here, his failure was very much publicized.
He failed on the largest of stages year after year
after year, but we remember the success.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah. So I just loved thinking about how it's a
part of it, like, assume that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It has to be, it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Set when it happens, say it cool, I'm on my way.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh yeah, like if I if I, if I hadn't tried,
I wouldn't know, Like this is all apart. I just
love that way of thinking of it. Failure is not
the opposite of success. It's part of success. Thank you,
Arianna Huffington. And for our next Quote of the Day.
This one also comes to us from an American author.
Are you familiar with John C. Maxwell?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
No? But should I be? No?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I wasn't either, That's what I was just curious.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But I just this is a question and it was
inspirational to me, so I made it a question quote
of the day. When was the last time you did
something for the first time?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Can you think of what that was?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't know. Some things are small I don't know
how small do they need to be. I recently went
to a lake I'd never been to before.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I recently achieved some podcast success, so I've never had before, Okay,
and we celebrate it. What it seems like. There's so
many things I threw a I throw a high school
and a college graduation party for two children that were
not mine. That was a first for me. I mean, so,
(08:20):
I don't know if it's small, but when you take it,
it's The idea is that you need to live. I mean,
you should go every day.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I would say, can you challenge yourself to do something
you haven't done before? Or try something, eat something, listen
to something that you have done before?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's I feel like definitely, since dating you, there have
been so many first Like I listened.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
To music I've never heard before.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I've ridden on a motorcycle, never thought I was ever
gonna do.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah. Probably probably not the best idea. Your parents must
hate me, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But that I do like the idea of asking yourself
that question, and if you can't come up with something quickly,
challenge yourself to do something you haven't tried before. Like
I still want to jump out of a plane. We
still want to go swimming in a cage, perhaps with sharks.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's happening.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That is happening.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I want to go to Southeast Asia and explore that
part of the world.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What's the order going to be? Don't of those things?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Not sure?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Jumping out of a plane, going shark diving or going
the Thailand?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thailand sounds like a good person in which order?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's the confromise, right, because I want to do the sharks,
you want to do the plane, yeah, okay, and I
want to okay, Thailand.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Then it is going to be guys.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
For our Friday Quote of the day, this one comes
to us from Mahatma Gandhi. He needs no introduction, but
this is an important one. I've heard versions of this before,
but man, this is something to remember. And this is
what I tell myself when I start overthinking in the shower.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
A man is but the product of his thoughts.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But he thinks, he becomes you know, and you hear
versions like you are not your thoughts, and you try
to separate yourself from them, and that can all be true.
But the reality is, whatever that narrative is in your head,
whatever that thing you're telling yourself about yourself or about
someone else.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You almost can can make it happen. Will it to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I do believe in the power of thoughts and your energy,
because what you think is what you believe.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What you believe is what you end up doing.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I am you maybe think back to a darker time
in our lives where for some awful things being said
about us and tabloids. Obviously I know they're not true,
but I remember I think I talked to a couple
of friends about it, Like I had to get off
this train of I am starting to believe what somebody
(10:50):
else is saying about me, right, I'm starting to believe
that's who I am. That's a very scary place to
be and I had to get out of. But to
that same point I've I have, is it always does
Gandhi always get the credit for being the originator?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, I've seen this, just this direct quote was you know,
given to him and there are obviously different versions of it.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
But isn't it true though your thoughts, It's like instead of.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, are worrying, can can almost kind of create
a negative sound wave or a negative vibration. I feel
like I try to stop it, interrupt it and say,
what if I thought it all was going to be okay?
What if instead of me worrying it's going to end badly,
what if I started thinking that it's all going to
be okay, that it's all going to be good, that
it's all going to go the way it's supposed to,
(11:36):
and keeping that positive vibration. I mean, that's what they
call manifesting, right, But it thoughts are powerful, transformative.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
We got one more thought for you, folks. Don't go away,
because Robes actually has a bonus quote for you. She
was deep into her authors today, wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Welcome back everyone to your Sunday morning run where we
leave you with some quotes of the day, some inspiration
to get your week started.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And we went through before the break.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Our Monday through Friday quotes of the day. But we
always try to give you all on this Sunday a
bonus quote to think about. And yes, TJ's right, I
was on an author role. I just kept you know,
there's a reason why they're paid to write. They're usually
really really good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Poets, what is it? It's poets, it's authors. I think
a lot of folks in Hollywood. I think a lot
of actors, politicians, lyricists. Yeah, is it just those are
the only ones we pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Maybe, but they're the ones that have some of the
loudest voices and the biggest platforms. Perhaps, but clearly take
note of what they say and what they put out
there because they realize the impact based on I think
their profession. So yeah, we have Charmaine Wilkerson. She is
an author and this one grabbed me. I loved what
(13:05):
she had to say. Question yourself, yes, but don't doubt yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There is a difference, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I do think as we all try to look inward
and do better and be better people, you can doubt
can actually undermine what you're trying to do. It can
actually make you forget who you are and what you
believe in and what's important because you start questioning everything.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So it's a it's a slippery slope, but I.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Do think it's important to be able to question yourself,
to question your motives, to question why you're doing what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's it's hard work, but I just loved how she
put this.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I'm trying to find like a real world application of this.
What's the difference? How can I show it in the
same scenario that I'm questioning myself about it versus doubting
myself about it. Like I'm actually trying to apply that
I am a relationship or a job, chili or whatever
may be, my questioning my decision versus doubting myself about
(14:06):
having the ability to make the decision. Wow, I think
I just talked myself through.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Is that because that self doubt can it's I think
it's about not being connected to your emotions.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
If you are. If you're you can question yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You can question why you did something or you know
what the real motivation was for a choice, good or bad.
But usually it's bad choices that you start to question
your actions and your thought process and how you got there.
But I think when you start doubting, it's when you
don't trust your gut, like you know if you did
something wrong, and you know if you need to make
(14:40):
amends or apologize or figure it out. But when you
start doubting your worth and you start doubting your ability
to redeem yourself, when you start doubting your ability to
be a better person, I think that's where it can
get dangerous because we can. We can. We always say
we create our own suffering. But I think sometimes to
have to improve yourself, you do have to look within.
But but you don't need to knock yourself up so much.
(15:02):
I think we have a lot of a lot. It
can go into self loathing, it can go into a
whole darker space. So I just I thought that was
a beautiful way to put.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It, all right, So folks, take that last one with you.
Question yourself, yes, but don't doubt yourself. There is a difference.
And we thank you as always for sticking around for
a little Sunday inspiration. It's nice to have a break,
to be honest with you, Rose. We do so many
podcasts Monday through Friday doing news and then we've been
(15:30):
covering Diddy. It's nice to exhale.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
While you're doing one of these exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And you know what, let the words of wisdom from
people who have had so many different experiences than the
rest of us help guide us through our lives. So
with that, everyone, I Mami robot On behalf of my
partner T J. Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful
Sunday and we'll see you on the run tomorrow
Hey, there are folks. It is Sunday, July sixth. Then
welcome to this inspirational edition of Amy and TJ on
this Sunday where we go a little deeper into some
of the quotes of the day that we gave you
all of last week, put them all together in one
place here, and I guess we should say, I hope
you had a good fourth of July. A happy fourth
of July. Everybody fireworks displays.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, celebrating our independence and family time and fun.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
And we've certainly had a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So I hope you all had as wonderful of a
fourth of July as we did.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
But yes, yeah, well you want to tell you, then
I'll hand this to you that you have. Robock is
the one. So if you love the quotes, I want
to give you all the credit. If you hate the quotes, also,
this is all robot that pulls these together. But it
is Monday through Friday. You pull these together and dig
them out from various places. So sometime I'm even surprised
(00:54):
because I don't see him ahead of time. So would
I like them all?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yes? So I actually Mondays is a great way to
get the week started off. So if you missed it,
please take a listen to this one, because this is
ah This is perspective that we don't always consider when
we start our day or when we're choosing how we
want to live our lives. This from Tom Preston Warner,
an American entrepreneur. He said, when I'm old and dying,
(01:20):
I plan to look back on my life and say, Wow,
that was an adventure, not wow, I sure felt safe.
Isn't that fascinating when you put it like that.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm trying to think of scenarios in our day and
day life. That's something we don't do. We say no, no, no,
that's too much, or no, that's going to keep me
up too late, or oh I don't want to travel
that far, or I don't want to whatever might be
that On your deathbed, if you were asked that same
question about that same moment, would you say, Man, I'm
glad I said no to that.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Probably not, of course, not even all the little things
like well, I don't want to go to that party
because then all feels stupid and I won't know anyone,
or you know what, I really am not going to
put myself out there to date, because then I could
get rejected in my heart could get broken. Like. Those
are the kinds of things people really do, and they
might not be saying it to themselves in that direct
of a way.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
But ultimately we are choosing fear over.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Possibility or you know what could be, We're afraid of
what might be.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Right, possibility is scary.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh, but it can be filled with so much joy
and so much progress. But you have to go into
a scary place sometimes, that's true. So I loved this one.
I'll give it to you one more time. When I'm
old and dying, I plan to look back on my
life and say, wow, that was an adventure, not wow,
I sure felt safe, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This next one that was on Tuesday is absolutely perfect.
And this is something everybody should ask themselves. I'm sure
Robed everybody listening wants something more, something better. If they
have whatever car you're driving right now, you would like
to get the next updated version of that car. If
you have a home that's two thousand square feet, you
love to get to thirty five hundred square feet, whatever
(03:02):
it is you want to always, always do better and
get better, Well, this quote will have you thinking about
what you're pursuing.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yes, those who seek a better life must first become
a better person. And this one spoke to me because
I think we're all on different parts of our journey,
and I think it's only when you get to the
place of true self reflection do you realize how much
more there is for you to be and how much
(03:33):
more there is for you to give. And when you
get to those places, your life does get better. But
you have to start with yourself. It's not about the externals.
It's not about you know, and I know we all
focus on it. Yes, what car we drive, or what
vacation we're going on, or what friend we have or
what you know, partner we have in our life.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We have to make ourselves better people first. That's where
it begins.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's actually where our power is, and that's the beauty
of it. We get to be and choose to be
better and then everything follows.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Where'd you track this when down? I'm not familiar with
this author.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, Jim Ron Jim Roan is an author, actually a
motivational speaker, so just an author, an American author and.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Actually has a lot of quotes.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
But I go to different sites that have different motivational
quotes and I see different names from people who I
wouldn't know are famous or well published. So there are
some cool gems from folks that I didn't even know existed,
and he's among them, Jim Roan r o Hn.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But I just thought that was such a simple.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Way to actually point out how we improve our lives.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's not with things.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And we'll give it to you one more time, folks.
That was our courth of the day on Tuesday. Those
who seek a better life must first become a better person.
Next up here an ondly but a goodie. She's kind
of a throwback. She's we love some Arianna Huffington. Anybody
who's been in this industry has had some dealings with
(04:57):
her in one way or another. If you did an interview,
than you covered her for something that she did or
she said, or some of you might have ended up
working for correct even in the industry. What Ariana Huffington?
Who gave what it was? Schwartzenegger all kinds of fits
out there in California regubnatorial races. But this quote you.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Found from her, Yes, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
She says failure is not the opposite of success, it's
part of success.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Who got it? Right the first time? Is there a
sat Do you know of anybody in your life, any
any story ever told of success in business where boom
it happened. It just happened first time.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I mean, it's kind of like peaking in high school.
You never want to do that, right, It's like you
almost to get to the true success you can you
can reach, you have to have setbacks because you have
to be able to learn from yourself and from your mistakes,
to build upon those and to get better. You can
get lucky, sure, I guess, but that's is that success
or is that luck?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's luck?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Right? So I think to have success, I think you
have to you have to swing and miss. I mean
any great you know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm sure there are all these amazing baseball analogies and
sports analogies. I've seen them where Michael Jordan has missed
this many baskets and Babe Ruth struck out this many times.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's all a part of the success.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You make it. Fine, let's go with that basketball analogy
for a second. Michael Jordan is six and oh in
the NBA finals. He made it to the finals six times.
He won all six times. He got his ass whooped
by the Detroit Pistons for years and didn't get to
(06:35):
the finals because they kept beating them in conference. So
going by this thing here, his failure was very much publicized.
He failed on the largest of stages year after year
after year, but we remember the success.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah. So I just loved thinking about how it's a
part of it, like, assume that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
It has to be, it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Set when it happens, say it cool, I'm on my way.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh yeah, like if I if I, if I hadn't tried,
I wouldn't know, Like this is all apart. I just
love that way of thinking of it. Failure is not
the opposite of success. It's part of success. Thank you,
Arianna Huffington. And for our next Quote of the Day.
This one also comes to us from an American author.
Are you familiar with John C. Maxwell?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
No? But should I be? No?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I wasn't either, That's what I was just curious.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But I just this is a question and it was
inspirational to me, so I made it a question quote
of the day. When was the last time you did
something for the first time?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Can you think of what that was?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't know. Some things are small I don't know
how small do they need to be. I recently went
to a lake I'd never been to before.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I recently achieved some podcast success, so I've never had before, Okay,
and we celebrate it. What it seems like. There's so
many things I threw a I throw a high school
and a college graduation party for two children that were
not mine. That was a first for me. I mean, so,
(08:20):
I don't know if it's small, but when you take it,
it's The idea is that you need to live. I mean,
you should go every day.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I would say, can you challenge yourself to do something
you haven't done before? Or try something, eat something, listen
to something that you have done before?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's I feel like definitely, since dating you, there have
been so many first Like I listened.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
To music I've never heard before.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I've ridden on a motorcycle, never thought I was ever
gonna do.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah. Probably probably not the best idea. Your parents must
hate me, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But that I do like the idea of asking yourself
that question, and if you can't come up with something quickly,
challenge yourself to do something you haven't tried before. Like
I still want to jump out of a plane. We
still want to go swimming in a cage, perhaps with sharks.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
That's happening.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That is happening.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I want to go to Southeast Asia and explore that
part of the world.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
What's the order going to be? Don't of those things?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Not sure?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Jumping out of a plane, going shark diving or going
the Thailand?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thailand sounds like a good person in which order?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's the confromise, right, because I want to do the sharks,
you want to do the plane, yeah, okay, and I
want to okay, Thailand.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Then it is going to be guys.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
For our Friday Quote of the day, this one comes
to us from Mahatma Gandhi. He needs no introduction, but
this is an important one. I've heard versions of this before,
but man, this is something to remember. And this is
what I tell myself when I start overthinking in the shower.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
A man is but the product of his thoughts.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But he thinks, he becomes you know, and you hear
versions like you are not your thoughts, and you try
to separate yourself from them, and that can all be true.
But the reality is, whatever that narrative is in your head,
whatever that thing you're telling yourself about yourself or about
someone else.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You almost can can make it happen. Will it to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I do believe in the power of thoughts and your energy,
because what you think is what you believe.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What you believe is what you end up doing.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I am you maybe think back to a darker time
in our lives where for some awful things being said
about us and tabloids. Obviously I know they're not true,
but I remember I think I talked to a couple
of friends about it, Like I had to get off
this train of I am starting to believe what somebody
(10:50):
else is saying about me, right, I'm starting to believe
that's who I am. That's a very scary place to
be and I had to get out of. But to
that same point I've I have, is it always does
Gandhi always get the credit for being the originator?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
No, I've seen this, just this direct quote was you know,
given to him and there are obviously different versions of it.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
But isn't it true though your thoughts, It's like instead of.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, are worrying, can can almost kind of create
a negative sound wave or a negative vibration. I feel
like I try to stop it, interrupt it and say,
what if I thought it all was going to be okay?
What if instead of me worrying it's going to end badly,
what if I started thinking that it's all going to
be okay, that it's all going to be good, that
it's all going to go the way it's supposed to,
(11:36):
and keeping that positive vibration. I mean, that's what they
call manifesting, right, But it thoughts are powerful, transformative.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
We got one more thought for you, folks. Don't go away,
because Robes actually has a bonus quote for you. She
was deep into her authors today, wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Welcome back everyone to your Sunday morning run where we
leave you with some quotes of the day, some inspiration
to get your week started.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And we went through before the break.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Our Monday through Friday quotes of the day. But we
always try to give you all on this Sunday a
bonus quote to think about. And yes, TJ's right, I
was on an author role. I just kept you know,
there's a reason why they're paid to write. They're usually
really really good at it.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Poets, what is it? It's poets, it's authors. I think
a lot of folks in Hollywood. I think a lot
of actors, politicians, lyricists. Yeah, is it just those are
the only ones we pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Maybe, but they're the ones that have some of the
loudest voices and the biggest platforms. Perhaps, but clearly take
note of what they say and what they put out
there because they realize the impact based on I think
their profession. So yeah, we have Charmaine Wilkerson. She is
an author and this one grabbed me. I loved what
(13:05):
she had to say. Question yourself, yes, but don't doubt yourself.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There is a difference, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I do think as we all try to look inward
and do better and be better people, you can doubt
can actually undermine what you're trying to do. It can
actually make you forget who you are and what you
believe in and what's important because you start questioning everything.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So it's a it's a slippery slope, but I.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Do think it's important to be able to question yourself,
to question your motives, to question why you're doing what
you're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's it's hard work, but I just loved how she
put this.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I'm trying to find like a real world application of this.
What's the difference? How can I show it in the
same scenario that I'm questioning myself about it versus doubting
myself about it. Like I'm actually trying to apply that
I am a relationship or a job, chili or whatever
may be, my questioning my decision versus doubting myself about
(14:06):
having the ability to make the decision. Wow, I think
I just talked myself through.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Is that because that self doubt can it's I think
it's about not being connected to your emotions.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
If you are. If you're you can question yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You can question why you did something or you know
what the real motivation was for a choice, good or bad.
But usually it's bad choices that you start to question
your actions and your thought process and how you got there.
But I think when you start doubting, it's when you
don't trust your gut, like you know if you did
something wrong, and you know if you need to make
(14:40):
amends or apologize or figure it out. But when you
start doubting your worth and you start doubting your ability
to redeem yourself, when you start doubting your ability to
be a better person, I think that's where it can
get dangerous because we can. We can. We always say
we create our own suffering. But I think sometimes to
have to improve yourself, you do have to look within.
But but you don't need to knock yourself up so much.
(15:02):
I think we have a lot of a lot. It
can go into self loathing, it can go into a
whole darker space. So I just I thought that was
a beautiful way to put.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It, all right, So folks, take that last one with you.
Question yourself, yes, but don't doubt yourself. There is a difference.
And we thank you as always for sticking around for
a little Sunday inspiration. It's nice to have a break,
to be honest with you, Rose. We do so many
podcasts Monday through Friday doing news and then we've been
(15:30):
covering Diddy. It's nice to exhale.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
While you're doing one of these exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And you know what, let the words of wisdom from
people who have had so many different experiences than the
rest of us help guide us through our lives. So
with that, everyone, I Mami robot On behalf of my
partner T J. Holmes. We hope you have a wonderful
Sunday and we'll see you on the run tomorrow
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