August 31, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome everyone to your Sunday morning run, where we well
start our week off with some inspiration from our quotes
of the day for the week. We have a bonus
quote for you and hope to get everyone a little motivated,
a little inspired on Sunday, which we often do whether
we're worshiping or finding ourselves in nature. It's that day
where we reflect, and so we'll take you to our
(00:24):
first quote of the day this past week. Take charge
of your happiness and you will never be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Don't how many people right now are Do you really
think right now anybody's in charge of your happiness? Who
can take it away?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You can? Oh, my daughters can not really yes, And
I say they can if I let them. It's a
choice you have to make. You have to recognize that
it's happening and say, wait, why am I allowing someone
else's energy to change? Mind? It can happen if we're
not intentional about it.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Isn't that a tall task? Well obviously it is, but
isn't that just what it is? It's just a tall task,
isn't that I'm I'm imagining somebody rolling their eyes say yeah,
that sounds great, but you don't have this in your life.
You don't have this person and this crazy mother over here.
And I'm just imagining what someone might roll their eyes
to and I'm trying to make sure I'm being mindful
(01:23):
of that. But but yeah, we are. There's nobody. I
can't take it from you, you can't take it from me.
We allow these things to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We give away our power. And you look, I have
seen it, You've pointed out I've seen it my dad,
I see it in analyse. I can let some person
cutting me off in traffic take away my happiness, you know,
And like, these are all moments. So those are small,
you know, anonymous things where you actually have to check
yourself and say, wait, why am I getting worked up
(01:52):
over someone who I have never met, will never know,
and has no idea who I am. And so this
is the moment where things start to click and you say, okay,
I'm in charge of my disposition, I'm in charge of
my joy. And once you realize that you're in charge,
you you won't disappoint yourself. Trust this was it was disputed, unknown, disputed.
(02:16):
Too many people have said different versions of it. But
I just thought it just is a nice reminder, take
charge of your happiness and you will never be disappointed.
And then you actually don't have to be angry at
people and blame people and point the finger at people
and be nasty because you don't need to blame anyone else.
Look within, You're responsible for you, all right. This next
(02:39):
quote of the day comes from an author, Roy T.
Bennett is his name. Here is his quote. Don't be
pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led
by the dreams in your heart.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
The fears in your mind, man, that stuff guide is.
That's stuff guises more than any fear. Fear, fear, fear,
Oh my god, fear made us make so many poor decisions.
Fear of this and that. Yeah, well was it dreams
in your heart?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Is what it said.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Be led by the dreams in your heart. If you
think about I, I sometimes I try to visualize when
I start to feel afraid, fearful, worry, all the things
we all fear. Don't you feel your chest closing, like
you actually feel your chest clothing closing? So I have
when I've noticed that. That's my aha, Like I feel
(03:32):
myself doing it. I'm letting fear take over and my
heart is actually physically feeling like it's closing. And if
you can just take a breath and try to open
your heart back up it, you can let that joy,
the dreams, you have, all the things that your heart
feels lead the way instead of the fear that's closing
everything off. But do you do you have a physical
(03:55):
Am I the only one I actually physically feel it? No?
Your chest isn't tightened.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
No, I don't. I've heard people describe that before. I
don't necessarily feel that. I don't know. You've been around
me enough. When I get when I get anxious, I
get you know, I get resolute. I guess I see
a problem and I want to immediately fix it, or
I get into that mode. I don't sit with much
of anything. You see me more. I guess you would
be more of a.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You withdraw to your head, though, which is where fear lies.
I'm just saying, like, when have you been able to
say to yourself you can feel the fear right in
your head, like going crazy, and you're like in your head.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Can't remember it physically manifesting.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
How do you switch? How do you switch? How do
you switch back to like dreams? Or do you have
to fix a problem first, you have to address the
fear logically.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
First, you know, my mind, I need to make sense
of what's happening. I'm fearful of something, and then I
get to the best decision I can based on the
information I have that makes me feel better about it.
But the fear day, I guess it lessens when I
get information. It's that simple for me. I kind of
lessen the fear by coming with practical solutions to whatever
(05:10):
is in front of me. That could be our relationship.
I could be fearful of this thing or that thing,
the next thing we're about to do, and I will
do okay, But there's this, there's this. We have this
foundation which I've gone back to and has saved us
countless times because I'm like, oh dude, come on, you
know her and there is no issue. And that's the
(05:30):
kind of confidence I always speak of. So, yeah, you
feel the fear. Courage is feeling the fear and doing
it anyway. It's not just being fearless. Fearlesses will get
you in all kinds of trouble. Don't be fearless, really? Yeah,
oh no, I don't want to be. You want to
follow some fearless idiot in the war. No, I want
you to be scared. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
There is a healthy fear for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
All fear, I would say, is healthy if you're actually
addressing it the correct way. Fear. Yeah, fear is absolutely
healthy and we need it. Feel it, then do whatever
that thing is anyway, And that makes you courageous.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
When's the last time you were led by the dreams
in your heart?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Been about now? Younger than ten?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Really?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah? I don't do dreams. I don't. I don't do
dream I do goals. I don't do dreams. I'm not
a dreamer. I don't even dream of winning the lottery.
I have a goal of doing so, and then I
go buy a lottery ticket. But I don't just dream
of things. And I'm not a dreamer.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You're not a dreamy guy. Yeah, I mean you're dreamy,
trust me, but not in that other way.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh body. One of the quotes is that the bonus quote.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
No no, no, no, no, no, all right. Our next quote
comes from Thomas Edison, and I have heard this quote,
but I didn't know he said it. Many of life's
failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's one of my favorites. I've heard of variations of this,
and I've used it several times. I thought it was
from a different I thought it was from an author, but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Again, maybe there are definitely plenty of iterations of that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But it's most people fail because they don't realize how
close they were to success when they decided to give up.
I haven't said that for years and years, and it
makes so much sense. Are you a failure? Why did
you quit? You quit? I just love all those stories
who I mean from I even think Microsoft, Amazon, All
(07:30):
those guys have stories of how somebody rejected them or
told them they were crazy for what they were trying.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
To do, isn't I think Lucille Ball is one of
those famous ones where she says she got hundreds of rejections.
All it takes is at first. But I think actors,
anyone who puts themselves out there in some sort of
subjective way, knows that a hundred people can say no,
and you just need that one person to say yes.
And the biggest difference between succeeding and failing is continuing.
(07:56):
You have to keep trying. Someone's gonna say yes. And
by the way, with all of those no's and all
of those rejections along the way, you learn something each time.
So you know, with rejectionist protection, yes, but you got
to keep on going. You got to keep trying. You
got to keep pushing because someone somewhere out there is
going to give you a chance.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's hard to do though, right you, I've been rejected
one hundred and four times. You're not thinking, Okay, one
hundred and five is going to be the one until
it is. It's just it's tough to keep going to
get to one hundred and four, even to get to four.
You're like, you get rejected three times. I really want
to try it a fourth. I really want to try
to tenth of twenty. Man stick with it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But I love hearing those stories. I like from authors
and actors and yes, entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Everybody has them. Every success story you see and we
just see the end product that we so many people
want it immediately. No, those folks went through.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Hell yeah, and the way up is not a straight line.
It goes up and down and backwards. Sometimes it's that
just that belief in yourself and that belief that there
will be a better day and I love that, so
thank you, Thomas Edison. Our next quote of the day,
This one was beautiful and from a beautiful human. Amanda
Gorman and I just this one. Actually we used this
(09:10):
one during the week when things got a little, I
don't know, gloomy. I actually said this out loud and
it changed my attitude. The new dawn blooms as we
free it. For there is always light, if only we're
brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough
to be it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Brave man, that word is that's a big one, and
that's that idea is you. Of course, this idea all
the time, that you were always looking for the light.
Where's the light? It's you, You actually the light And
that's a huge responsibility. It feels heavy sometimes, but that's
a she put it in a beautiful way, a reminder
(09:52):
at the brave part I get hung up on.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I also think it's brave to see the light in
other people, because you know, I think a lot of
times we want to the worst or distrustful, but to
actually look for the light in other people is a beautiful,
brave thing to do. Because you're you're saying, I'm going
to believe that there's good there, and yes, finding the
courage to then be the light as well?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
What do you start with when you're appro do you
do we start? Do you start with a clean slate
or do you start with the benefit of the doubt
that this is a good person? When you meet.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Somebody, I don't know. I think it depends on the person.
It depends on the situation, It depends on the energy,
It depends on your mood, It depends on how much
sleep you got the night before, right, I think all
of that plays into it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think too often it seems like these days we're
starting with the negative. This has to be was the
thing with you looking for the worst and somebody you'll
find it? Yes, But if you're looking for the best,
you'll find that as well. What do you lead with?
I'm asking you all who are listening, what do you
lead with? When you meet somebody? Are you leading with?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Im?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Find the best in this person.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And you can start with the person you live with,
you know, because I think even you get comfortable and
you think you start kind of creating this enemy like
behavior if someone does something or the person who's supposed
to love you does something you don't like it's so
easy to put them in enemy territory. But instead if
you could just say, where's the good, where's the light,
and just look for that and focus on that. Because
(11:14):
I love what you just said. I think it's so true.
We will find what we're looking for in someone period.
So let's look for the light and remember to be
the light. I thank you, Amanda Gorman. That was so beautiful.
One more time for you. All the new dawn blooms
as we free it, for there is always light, if
only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're
(11:35):
brave enough.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
To be it.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That is beautiful, all right. So after the break, we're
going to talk. Oh one of my favorite quotes ever
from Maya Angelou, and we have a bonus quote from
another American writer that is going to change the way
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(11:58):
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(12:51):
Welcome back to your Sunday morning run, where we hopefully
will help you get a little inspiration on this Sunday.
And this one is just a beautiful one from Maya Angelou,
who just has so many words of wisdom it's too
many to count. I could we could probably do a
weekly like for an entire year and still probably go
(13:12):
on for five years, ten years with Maya Angelou quotes.
But this is a good one. Life is not measured
by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
When you use that when I kind of challenge folks, like,
how many moments can you remember that took your breath
away this week? Should we have them weekly? Should we
have them daily?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I think daily?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Are they rare?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yes? You know what? I think that if we really
start to think about how magical it is that we're
all here, the planet, we're standing on the perspective of
the Earth to the rest of the galaxy and universe.
I mean, you really just start to think about all
the things that had to happen for you to even
(13:55):
be here, That in and of itself should take your
breath away. Our mere presence here should take our breath away.
Every time I see a little baby, or when I
see someone who is either struggling with their weight or
struggling with their age out there running on that running trail,
I am blown away. Like you can find magical moments,
(14:18):
I think hourly, if we're looking for them, if we're
acknowledging them, I think the problem is we don't even
recognize what should be taking our breath away.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I give you that. That's something I'll always compliment you
on and say it's one of the most attractive things
about you is that you find joy in the little
things all the time, and it drives me crazy. Oftentimes
we walk down the street and we're on a train,
or we're even at a restaurant, and the number of
people who are looking down at their phones and we
(14:48):
sometimes we're in wonderful, beautiful places. We look out the
window we're looking at like you all are missing all
of this and your heads are down. That that's a
part of what you speak of too. You're not looking
and not even hoping to be in awe of the
world around you.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's kind of this. It's a childlike state to almost
have magic glasses on where you everything you see is
wonderful or awe inspiring. I mean, I know you've teased me,
but and I now become a little joke. But when
it rains and we're walking down the street, I'm like,
look at how the road is glistening with the rain.
And the movie sets that they spray roads down to
(15:26):
make it look prettier, but like, just to even take
in after the rain, or it doesn't even have to
be a sunset. It could just be a smile on
someone's face that you weren't expecting. It's about looking for
it and recognizing it right and doesn't that bring you
joy to recognize or to realize how special little moments are.
(15:47):
I think it's a game changer in attitude, but maybe
that's just me. All right, let's move on to our
bonus quote for this Sunday. This comes to us from
Natalie Babbittt. I'm not familiar with her, but she's an
American writer. I love this. Don't be afraid of death,
be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to
(16:10):
live forever, You just have to live.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Say the first part again, don't.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Isn't that what they say that? The only people are
that are scared of dying are the folks who haven't lived.
And that makes perfect sense, right, if you are right,
you're only thinking about what you've missed or what you
haven't gotten to do, or that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But we're afraid of the wrong thing. We're afraid of
something that's inevitable. We're afraid of dying. We're afraid and
we're all going to But we're not adequately afraid of
living an unlived life. We're not afraid of not We're
not thinking about that. We don't have a fear of
(17:01):
missing out because we always think there's more time. We
always think there's another day. We always think next year,
five years from now, ten years from now, I'll do that,
or when I get this, I'll be happy, or when
I do that. No, it's about acknowledging how important is
to live in the moment and live your life as
it is right now, and to appreciate it and to
(17:22):
live it and to experience it. I just it's a
remind we're afraid of the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Does that look different for so many other people?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Though?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
What does that look like when we talk about a
life lived? It could be different things for different people,
I suppose, right, But what is the commonality. I'm trying
to find the commonality, And.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think it's about appreciation and gratitude, like appreciating a
wonderful meal, or being grateful to be with the person
you love, or really really taking in that sweet hug
from your little girl. You know, it's those moments that
we just assume we'll have more of. But if you
actually lean into to the beauty of them and how
amazing they are, you're living it, your experiencing and yes,
(18:04):
if you have something you want to do. I know
there are financial reasons why people can't do certain things,
but you can find things that you love instead of
saying I wish I could do that, or I should
do that, but like just actually start doing it, being it,
living it. It's a wake up call.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Nice, it's a good bonus.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's a bonus called Okay, don't be afraid of death,
be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to
live forever. You just have to live. Natalie BABBITTT thank
you very much for that, and thank you for listening today.
On this Sunday morning run, I'm made Robock along with TJ. Holmes.
Have a great start to your week. Everybody,
Welcome everyone to your Sunday morning run, where we well
start our week off with some inspiration from our quotes
of the day for the week. We have a bonus
quote for you and hope to get everyone a little motivated,
a little inspired on Sunday, which we often do whether
we're worshiping or finding ourselves in nature. It's that day
where we reflect, and so we'll take you to our
(00:24):
first quote of the day this past week. Take charge
of your happiness and you will never be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Don't how many people right now are Do you really
think right now anybody's in charge of your happiness? Who
can take it away?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You can? Oh, my daughters can not really yes, And
I say they can if I let them. It's a
choice you have to make. You have to recognize that
it's happening and say, wait, why am I allowing someone
else's energy to change? Mind? It can happen if we're
not intentional about it.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Isn't that a tall task? Well obviously it is, but
isn't that just what it is? It's just a tall task,
isn't that I'm I'm imagining somebody rolling their eyes say yeah,
that sounds great, but you don't have this in your life.
You don't have this person and this crazy mother over here.
And I'm just imagining what someone might roll their eyes
to and I'm trying to make sure I'm being mindful
(01:23):
of that. But but yeah, we are. There's nobody. I
can't take it from you, you can't take it from me.
We allow these things to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We give away our power. And you look, I have
seen it, You've pointed out I've seen it my dad,
I see it in analyse. I can let some person
cutting me off in traffic take away my happiness, you know,
And like, these are all moments. So those are small,
you know, anonymous things where you actually have to check
yourself and say, wait, why am I getting worked up
(01:52):
over someone who I have never met, will never know,
and has no idea who I am. And so this
is the moment where things start to click and you say, okay,
I'm in charge of my disposition, I'm in charge of
my joy. And once you realize that you're in charge,
you you won't disappoint yourself. Trust this was it was disputed, unknown, disputed.
(02:16):
Too many people have said different versions of it. But
I just thought it just is a nice reminder, take
charge of your happiness and you will never be disappointed.
And then you actually don't have to be angry at
people and blame people and point the finger at people
and be nasty because you don't need to blame anyone else.
Look within, You're responsible for you, all right. This next
(02:39):
quote of the day comes from an author, Roy T.
Bennett is his name. Here is his quote. Don't be
pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led
by the dreams in your heart.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
The fears in your mind, man, that stuff guide is.
That's stuff guises more than any fear. Fear, fear, fear,
Oh my god, fear made us make so many poor decisions.
Fear of this and that. Yeah, well was it dreams
in your heart?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Is what it said.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Be led by the dreams in your heart. If you
think about I, I sometimes I try to visualize when
I start to feel afraid, fearful, worry, all the things
we all fear. Don't you feel your chest closing, like
you actually feel your chest clothing closing? So I have
when I've noticed that. That's my aha, Like I feel
(03:32):
myself doing it. I'm letting fear take over and my
heart is actually physically feeling like it's closing. And if
you can just take a breath and try to open
your heart back up it, you can let that joy,
the dreams, you have, all the things that your heart
feels lead the way instead of the fear that's closing
everything off. But do you do you have a physical
(03:55):
Am I the only one I actually physically feel it? No?
Your chest isn't tightened.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
No, I don't. I've heard people describe that before. I
don't necessarily feel that. I don't know. You've been around
me enough. When I get when I get anxious, I
get you know, I get resolute. I guess I see
a problem and I want to immediately fix it, or
I get into that mode. I don't sit with much
of anything. You see me more. I guess you would
be more of a.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You withdraw to your head, though, which is where fear lies.
I'm just saying, like, when have you been able to
say to yourself you can feel the fear right in
your head, like going crazy, and you're like in your head.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Can't remember it physically manifesting.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
How do you switch? How do you switch? How do
you switch back to like dreams? Or do you have
to fix a problem first, you have to address the
fear logically.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
First, you know, my mind, I need to make sense
of what's happening. I'm fearful of something, and then I
get to the best decision I can based on the
information I have that makes me feel better about it.
But the fear day, I guess it lessens when I
get information. It's that simple for me. I kind of
lessen the fear by coming with practical solutions to whatever
(05:10):
is in front of me. That could be our relationship.
I could be fearful of this thing or that thing,
the next thing we're about to do, and I will
do okay, But there's this, there's this. We have this
foundation which I've gone back to and has saved us
countless times because I'm like, oh dude, come on, you
know her and there is no issue. And that's the
(05:30):
kind of confidence I always speak of. So, yeah, you
feel the fear. Courage is feeling the fear and doing
it anyway. It's not just being fearless. Fearlesses will get
you in all kinds of trouble. Don't be fearless, really? Yeah,
oh no, I don't want to be. You want to
follow some fearless idiot in the war. No, I want
you to be scared. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
There is a healthy fear for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
All fear, I would say, is healthy if you're actually
addressing it the correct way. Fear. Yeah, fear is absolutely
healthy and we need it. Feel it, then do whatever
that thing is anyway, And that makes you courageous.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
When's the last time you were led by the dreams
in your heart?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Been about now? Younger than ten?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Really?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah? I don't do dreams. I don't. I don't do
dream I do goals. I don't do dreams. I'm not
a dreamer. I don't even dream of winning the lottery.
I have a goal of doing so, and then I
go buy a lottery ticket. But I don't just dream
of things. And I'm not a dreamer.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You're not a dreamy guy. Yeah, I mean you're dreamy,
trust me, but not in that other way.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh body. One of the quotes is that the bonus quote.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
No no, no, no, no, no, all right. Our next quote
comes from Thomas Edison, and I have heard this quote,
but I didn't know he said it. Many of life's
failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's one of my favorites. I've heard of variations of this,
and I've used it several times. I thought it was
from a different I thought it was from an author, but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Again, maybe there are definitely plenty of iterations of that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But it's most people fail because they don't realize how
close they were to success when they decided to give up.
I haven't said that for years and years, and it
makes so much sense. Are you a failure? Why did
you quit? You quit? I just love all those stories
who I mean from I even think Microsoft, Amazon, All
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those guys have stories of how somebody rejected them or
told them they were crazy for what they were trying.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
To do, isn't I think Lucille Ball is one of
those famous ones where she says she got hundreds of rejections.
All it takes is at first. But I think actors,
anyone who puts themselves out there in some sort of
subjective way, knows that a hundred people can say no,
and you just need that one person to say yes.
And the biggest difference between succeeding and failing is continuing.
(07:56):
You have to keep trying. Someone's gonna say yes. And
by the way, with all of those no's and all
of those rejections along the way, you learn something each time.
So you know, with rejectionist protection, yes, but you got
to keep on going. You got to keep trying. You
got to keep pushing because someone somewhere out there is
going to give you a chance.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's hard to do though, right you, I've been rejected
one hundred and four times. You're not thinking, Okay, one
hundred and five is going to be the one until
it is. It's just it's tough to keep going to
get to one hundred and four, even to get to four.
You're like, you get rejected three times. I really want
to try it a fourth. I really want to try
to tenth of twenty. Man stick with it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
But I love hearing those stories. I like from authors
and actors and yes, entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Everybody has them. Every success story you see and we
just see the end product that we so many people
want it immediately. No, those folks went through.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Hell yeah, and the way up is not a straight line.
It goes up and down and backwards. Sometimes it's that
just that belief in yourself and that belief that there
will be a better day and I love that, so
thank you, Thomas Edison. Our next quote of the day,
This one was beautiful and from a beautiful human. Amanda
Gorman and I just this one. Actually we used this
(09:10):
one during the week when things got a little, I
don't know, gloomy. I actually said this out loud and
it changed my attitude. The new dawn blooms as we
free it. For there is always light, if only we're
brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough
to be it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Brave man, that word is that's a big one, and
that's that idea is you. Of course, this idea all
the time, that you were always looking for the light.
Where's the light? It's you, You actually the light And
that's a huge responsibility. It feels heavy sometimes, but that's
a she put it in a beautiful way, a reminder
(09:52):
at the brave part I get hung up on.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I also think it's brave to see the light in
other people, because you know, I think a lot of
times we want to the worst or distrustful, but to
actually look for the light in other people is a beautiful,
brave thing to do. Because you're you're saying, I'm going
to believe that there's good there, and yes, finding the
courage to then be the light as well?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
What do you start with when you're appro do you
do we start? Do you start with a clean slate
or do you start with the benefit of the doubt
that this is a good person? When you meet.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Somebody, I don't know. I think it depends on the person.
It depends on the situation, It depends on the energy,
It depends on your mood, It depends on how much
sleep you got the night before, right, I think all
of that plays into it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think too often it seems like these days we're
starting with the negative. This has to be was the
thing with you looking for the worst and somebody you'll
find it? Yes, But if you're looking for the best,
you'll find that as well. What do you lead with?
I'm asking you all who are listening, what do you
lead with? When you meet somebody? Are you leading with?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Im?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Find the best in this person.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
And you can start with the person you live with,
you know, because I think even you get comfortable and
you think you start kind of creating this enemy like
behavior if someone does something or the person who's supposed
to love you does something you don't like it's so
easy to put them in enemy territory. But instead if
you could just say, where's the good, where's the light,
and just look for that and focus on that. Because
(11:14):
I love what you just said. I think it's so true.
We will find what we're looking for in someone period.
So let's look for the light and remember to be
the light. I thank you, Amanda Gorman. That was so beautiful.
One more time for you. All the new dawn blooms
as we free it, for there is always light, if
only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're
(11:35):
brave enough.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
To be it.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That is beautiful, all right. So after the break, we're
going to talk. Oh one of my favorite quotes ever
from Maya Angelou, and we have a bonus quote from
another American writer that is going to change the way
you live today. Before we go to break, I have
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(11:58):
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(12:51):
Welcome back to your Sunday morning run, where we hopefully
will help you get a little inspiration on this Sunday.
And this one is just a beautiful one from Maya Angelou,
who just has so many words of wisdom it's too
many to count. I could we could probably do a
weekly like for an entire year and still probably go
(13:12):
on for five years, ten years with Maya Angelou quotes.
But this is a good one. Life is not measured
by the number of breaths we take, but by the
moments that take our breath away.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
When you use that when I kind of challenge folks, like,
how many moments can you remember that took your breath
away this week? Should we have them weekly? Should we
have them daily?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I think daily?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Are they rare?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yes? You know what? I think that if we really
start to think about how magical it is that we're
all here, the planet, we're standing on the perspective of
the Earth to the rest of the galaxy and universe.
I mean, you really just start to think about all
the things that had to happen for you to even
(13:55):
be here, That in and of itself should take your
breath away. Our mere presence here should take our breath away.
Every time I see a little baby, or when I
see someone who is either struggling with their weight or
struggling with their age out there running on that running trail,
I am blown away. Like you can find magical moments,
(14:18):
I think hourly, if we're looking for them, if we're
acknowledging them, I think the problem is we don't even
recognize what should be taking our breath away.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I give you that. That's something I'll always compliment you
on and say it's one of the most attractive things
about you is that you find joy in the little
things all the time, and it drives me crazy. Oftentimes
we walk down the street and we're on a train,
or we're even at a restaurant, and the number of
people who are looking down at their phones and we
(14:48):
sometimes we're in wonderful, beautiful places. We look out the
window we're looking at like you all are missing all
of this and your heads are down. That that's a
part of what you speak of too. You're not looking
and not even hoping to be in awe of the
world around you.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's kind of this. It's a childlike state to almost
have magic glasses on where you everything you see is
wonderful or awe inspiring. I mean, I know you've teased me,
but and I now become a little joke. But when
it rains and we're walking down the street, I'm like,
look at how the road is glistening with the rain.
And the movie sets that they spray roads down to
(15:26):
make it look prettier, but like, just to even take
in after the rain, or it doesn't even have to
be a sunset. It could just be a smile on
someone's face that you weren't expecting. It's about looking for
it and recognizing it right and doesn't that bring you
joy to recognize or to realize how special little moments are.
(15:47):
I think it's a game changer in attitude, but maybe
that's just me. All right, let's move on to our
bonus quote for this Sunday. This comes to us from
Natalie Babbittt. I'm not familiar with her, but she's an
American writer. I love this. Don't be afraid of death,
be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to
(16:10):
live forever, You just have to live.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Say the first part again, don't.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Isn't that what they say that? The only people are
that are scared of dying are the folks who haven't lived.
And that makes perfect sense, right, if you are right,
you're only thinking about what you've missed or what you
haven't gotten to do, or that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But we're afraid of the wrong thing. We're afraid of
something that's inevitable. We're afraid of dying. We're afraid and
we're all going to But we're not adequately afraid of
living an unlived life. We're not afraid of not We're
not thinking about that. We don't have a fear of
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missing out because we always think there's more time. We
always think there's another day. We always think next year,
five years from now, ten years from now, I'll do that,
or when I get this, I'll be happy, or when
I do that. No, it's about acknowledging how important is
to live in the moment and live your life as
it is right now, and to appreciate it and to
(17:22):
live it and to experience it. I just it's a
remind we're afraid of the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Does that look different for so many other people?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Though?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
What does that look like when we talk about a
life lived? It could be different things for different people,
I suppose, right, But what is the commonality. I'm trying
to find the commonality, And.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I think it's about appreciation and gratitude, like appreciating a
wonderful meal, or being grateful to be with the person
you love, or really really taking in that sweet hug
from your little girl. You know, it's those moments that
we just assume we'll have more of. But if you
actually lean into to the beauty of them and how
amazing they are, you're living it, your experiencing and yes,
(18:04):
if you have something you want to do. I know
there are financial reasons why people can't do certain things,
but you can find things that you love instead of
saying I wish I could do that, or I should
do that, but like just actually start doing it, being it,
living it. It's a wake up call.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Nice, it's a good bonus.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's a bonus called Okay, don't be afraid of death,
be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to
live forever. You just have to live. Natalie BABBITTT thank
you very much for that, and thank you for listening today.
On this Sunday morning run, I'm made Robock along with TJ. Holmes.
Have a great start to your week. Everybody,
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