September 7, 2025 • 19 mins
Get your week started with some words of wisdom. Hear the weekly wrap up of Amy and T.J.’s quotes of the day that will help you get out of your comfort zone and into writing your new ending!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome everyone to this Sunday Morning run. It is Sunday,
September seventh, and we are hoping to get your Sunday
started with some inspiration. We like to go over our
quotes of the day from our morning run, and we're
going to begin with Monday and a quote that actually
(00:22):
is simple, but I think very powerful. It's from Neil
Donald Walsh and he said life begins at the end
of your comfort zone. What do you think about that? DJ?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Neil donald Walsh.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, I get a lot of these from authors.
Authors are apparently really good with words, and apparently they're
really motivating. So I've found authors I've never heard of
before suddenly popping up when I go and look for
quotes that are motivating. And this one was something that
really jumped out at me.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
What kind of an author was Neil I'm going to
have because I'm trying to get I'm only asking as
a matter of you know, I'm sorry that I shouldn't
have done that, idn't There's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
No, I can pop it up right now.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But he is actually a He is of the religious
He was Catholic, and he talks about he has a
series of books called Conversations with God. He's also an actor.
He's also a screenwriter. He's eighty one years old. He's
from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But he has a bunch of books
(01:27):
about friendship with God, conversations with God, communion with God.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So this is he is.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He is a religious based author. And you know, it's
just interesting to hear his his quote that had nothing
to do with religion or nothing. I would never have
thought that he had religious connections.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
What don't we all, I mean, everybody listening right now,
aren't we all trying to get comfortable? Yes, no one
has a desire to be uneasy, because that seems counterintuitive.
Nobody wants that. You all want to be comfortable. How
terrible is that? And what I mean by that is
(02:05):
where do you grow? I mean, we know this now.
You have to live enough life, but you just simply
cannot get better. You can't improve, you can't you can't
win without discomfort. You have to be uncomfortable. It is required,
and so it's just in our minds. We're all seeking
(02:28):
a life of particular ease, if you will. But yes,
I love what this author did say and how he
put it so simplistically. But that is where the living begins.
There is where the adventure begins. There's where the growth is.
Wherever you have been uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I mean, think about any Olympian, any just think
about even physical discomfort. I think he's talking about a
lot of things. But even if you looked at it
from that place, you don't get to be excellent. You
don't get to be at the top of your game
unless you've been physically uncomfortable, whether you training and making
your body what it can be.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But your mind and your heart are the same.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And it's only when we're uncomfortable that we go when
we seek help, and we seek advice, and we try
to find a better way, whether it's through therapy or
through leaning on a friend. But you start to realize
what I'm doing isn't working, and that's why I have
to grow. And so yes, I agree, whether you're pushing
yourself in any way mentally, spiritually, physically, it kind of
(03:26):
almost takes you getting uncomfortable before you're willing to change
and willing to do something differently or better or push
through the pain to get to the other side. So
I love that life begins at the end of your
comfort zone. That's when you're living. Otherwise you're just kind
of existing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Don't we say that about relationships even when we're what
is the thing? You get? You have an awful conversation
and then it leads to a breakthrough, right, and now
everything is okay, and now we're on the other side
of something because we had to be uncomfortable first. Yes,
it's yes, it's counter into it what we're supposed to
seek discomfort, but it is necessary.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's a nice reminder when you are uncomfortable, that you're
living and that you're growing, and that you're going to
do something about it. And I just it's nice to know,
just to remember life begins at the end of your
comfort zone.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, we're going to move on next to the
uh the age.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Old quote, this one coming from Buddha and again a
very simple quote but so powerful. Buddha says, this be
where you are, otherwise you will miss your life. Ain't
that true? And aren't we a lot of times somewhere
other than where we are?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, this is silly. I don't know why I'm having these.
It's maybe because we're a little loopy. We've been up
a little while. As we were recording this and had
a good, nice brunch. I'm thinking about Eddie Murphy in
raw stand up, and people are getting a little insight
into my mindset. You have to deal with this all
day long with me. Every scenario that comes before us,
(05:08):
I can come up with a movie line or a
stand up comedians line.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Sometimes you say things to me and it feels a
little harsh or a cerviic and you have to follow
up with that's a movie line. I'm actually quoting a
movie right now. Would you do often? At least once
a day?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Okay, this is gonna sound ridiculous to you, because I
don't think I've watched this in thirty plus a years.
As a kid, I used to sneak and watch Eddie
Murphy raw at the house.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I can see why you had to sneak it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'm not supposed to be watching this, of course. Okay,
he's saying something outlanded, yes he was, But something he
said in there. He was talking about a man and
a woman breaking up, and a man asking his woman
where she's going? Well, where are you going to be?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I'm gonna be where I'm at?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was the line. Yeah, So with this quote, where
are you going? To be where are you? You need
to be where you at is essentially.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's what said, is not quite the same way, not like.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Eddie, I'm an be where I'm at. Why can't we
ever do that? Just be where you are?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Because we're thinking about what we should have done, what
we could have done, and what we need to do,
and what we're supposed to do and what we're supposed
to like and what what was that we said we
were going to do. Yeah, we're never exactly where we are,
and that's why we're miserable. That's why we're suffering, because
when you are actually present, you are being childlike we
today actually at brunch, we're watching kids skip and play.
(06:31):
They are they are light, they are free, they are
having fun because you know what they're not doing thinking
about yesterday or tomorrow. They're actually exactly where they are,
and that is what the goal is. So yeah, it's
just if you can, if we can just wake ourselves
up and remember I love just watching kids. They remind
me more than anyone to be present.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, It's funny you were and I'm sure I
was going to stop you in the middle there, because
I'm sure some adults were listening to you now and say, well, yeah,
those don't have bills to bay Edel's get And yes, true,
that's that's fine, But damn if that's our response.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But you're not paying your bills when you're you know,
like thinking about your bills. Right when I'm at lunch,
I should just be at lunch and actually enjoy whatever
is around me. Because the thing is we think, oh,
if we're not worrying or thinking about something, that somehow
it's not getting done, you're not actually getting anything done
worrying or thinking about it. So that's just a reminder, Buddha,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You know how many years ago, thousands of years ago.
I don't need I don't have a concept of that.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, the next one comes from an unknown source, but
I love it all the same. And we've all heard
versions of this, but again, a good reminder. Stop being
afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited
about what could go right.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, but when you do that, you're setting yourself up
for right, for failure, for disappointment. I'm only saying that
as a matter of that's what people often do. We
don't want to think about the upside, we don't want
to think, well, what if this first state really goes well,
we'd rather temper our expectations so that we're not so disappointed.
(08:13):
Why I said it all the time, No, I'm going
to expect the absolute best. I am going to hope
for the absolute best. Why not have the high expectation.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I actually think some of the most fun parts of
something new, whether it's a vacation or a new job,
or going on a new date or whatever it like,
the anticipation of something is sometimes a lot more fun
than the actual.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Experience of it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So why not go ahead and think positively and be
excited about it because at least you had those moments
of joy. Even if it doesn't hold up or it
doesn't live up to what you thought, at least you
had those moments thinking it might, and then maybe the
next time.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You can also keep.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That same positivity because there's nothing good that comes out
of fear of things going wrong. It doesn't change, it
doesn't stop things from going wrong. It just makes you
miserable anticipating it. So I love this. I don't think
there's anything wrong about having excited expectations.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Of what could be.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But so to your I think you put it best
in explaining getting ready for whatever the thing is, and
you think it can go right, it can go wrong,
and you stress yourself out thinking it can go wrong
before the thing even happens. That's not fun. But what
if you were to get excited about it and use
(09:35):
that time to be you can make that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Part fun exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So even when once the thing comes, just gonna be
what it is, you guys, we'll have a good time
getting ready for its miserable.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Getting ready for exactly because it might still go wrong. Yeah,
but you'll deal with it when it does. And in
the meantime, why don't you go ahead and manifest it to.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go Well, that's how I look at it, all right,
all right? This next one, it comes from a Pulitzer
Prize winning author. Another author his name is Carl Bard.
Did not know who that was either, But I'm actually
having fun going in and learning who some of these
folks are who say these really interesting, provocative things sometimes
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or just simple things oftentimes that are just thought provoking
and game changing. So Carl Bard said this, though no
one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's awesome. So even something as simple as something happened.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
In your day that turned things negative.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Okay, fine, you can't go back and change it, can't
start over. But what I can do is, right now,
in this moment, decide to have a brand new ending.
We all get to decide that at any point during
the day, when we first wake up, in the middle
of the day, at the end of the night, whatever
anything in between. It doesn't matter whatever happens that didn't
happen the way you wanted it to. We can start
(11:01):
anew right now and create a different ending that's.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
In all of our power. That's so cool to think
about it like that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And it's tough to keep that in contact well, the
right perspective because something you did two weeks ago, two
months ago, two years ago, a beating yourself up about right, Yeah,
you're still beating yourself up about it. You're still word like, wow,
I should have done I could have done that differently,
if only I'd done that differently. But the story is
(11:31):
like this moment. It can be different from this moment
moving forward. So yeah, I love the simple way. Whoever
this author you said was this is the unknown.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
No, this is Carl Bard.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, so he actually
someone yeah, who we can all lean on.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
With some words of wisdom.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So yes, thank you, we appreciate that, Carl. Once again,
though no one can go back and make a brand
new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending. So take that with you because that
is very empowering. Love that, Carlbard, Thank you so much.
All right, So when we come back, we are going
to hear from another author surprisingly who's going to tell
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us where we can focus our energy. And then for
our bonus quote of this Sunday Morning, Ron, we're going
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free shipping. Welcome back everyone to this Sunday morning run
(13:30):
where we hopefully give you a little inspiration to start
your week. And on this Sunday we will begin with
another author. His name is Neil Bearingham, again an unknown
for me. I did not know who Neil Baringham is.
We can get into that in just a moment, but
this is what Neil had to say that really gave
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me a new beginning on a Friday. The grass is
greenest where you water. It sounds very simple, but we
always talk about the grass is greener, and we talk
about envy, we talk about jealousy. But if we can
actually take that and turn it on its head and
realize we actually have the power to make anything that
we love be something beautiful, we can invest in something
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and make it great and make it not that you
want to make.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It the envy of everyone else. But this is the.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Notion of what you appreciate, appreciates. The grass is greener
where you water it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I love that quote.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh no, they got some nice grass over there. Everybody,
you see what everybody we say grass. But it could
be somebody's car, somebody's job, somebody's wife, somebody does, somebody's family.
All well, so whatever, it may be anything that somebody
can be jealous of. You look and you're jealous of
what somebody else has. Why aren't you cultivating? Why aren't
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you taking care of your own things? Look, we all
get caught up in that, of course, sure, but I
like the again, the simple way that this author put it.
What if you just took care of your own stuff?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You know?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So there is a I'm looking at a cartoon where
they were taking what this quote said and showed a man.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Standing on a.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Like a lawn of grass that's dead, and looking at
a lawn of grass that's green. It says what people want,
pointing to the green grass, and then it said what
people don't see, and it sees the guy on the
lawn that's dead and brown and looking at the grass,
and this is what people don't see, and it shows
the man watering his grass and like working on his
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grass and making it beautiful. People just think people get
lucky or people just have things. But actually, when you
recognize that if you work for something and you actually
take care of something, that's where the beauty and the
joy and the love and like, you get something worth
something when you put into it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And I think we all.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Just you know, it's just it's a nice reminder that
if you put effort into something, it is going to grow.
If you take care of something, it is going to
be beautiful, including relationships.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Bonus quote. This one comes to us from Leonardo da Vinci.
You haven't heard this one yet, have you.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I intentionally do not look ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Of times, all right, So I'll let you respond to this.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah, what do you make of that?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So my takeaway from this was that we think this judgment,
it's about judgment, and we think we're right, we think
we're better. We have our opinion about what should be,
what could be, and then we suffer because it isn't
what we think it should be.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
What do you take from this quote?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh, I had to just break it down a little bit.
I had to h and I pull it up on
the computer so I could actually see it again. I'm
hearing it for the first time from you. You're deceived, right,
We're usually about deception, usually deceived by something or some
outside force. But that deception usually has to do with
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right altering your idea of what you already see, believe,
or think. And so to think that most of the
time the alteration of our perception of what's going on
has really just formed in our own heads of what
we believe we're seeing. So to this the idea. It
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took me a second to break it down. But yes,
we deceive ourselves all the time. I you know, I
talk to you about this all the time, deception because
you have an opinion about what you think I might
mean by what I said. You're not being deceived by
anything I said. You're being deceived by an opinion of something.
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So I it took me a second to break this down.
I need to see it in front of me. But yeah,
that's dead on and this was how many years ago?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, I don't I there was a reason why
I had a journalism major because math was not my strength.
But Leonardo da Vinci and I do think that is
a good point, Like we all also, you could, you could,
this could be even deeper than that, kind of taking
off what you said. It's we all create our own
narratives to fit how we're feeling. Right, So we are
deceiving ourselves because we we in every the lens through
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which we remember things or see things or hear things,
it's not what actually happened, it's what we thought or
we perceived to be happening to justify maybe how we're feeling,
or at least to justify how we're reacting. And so yeah,
we're our own worst enemies, period, but our own opinions. Yeah,
if we can open up our minds in our hearts
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to recognize that we see things, all of us hear things,
see things, and interpret things through our own lenses that
typically fit or at least we try to have.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Them fit our feelings. So that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.
So Leonardo da Vinci, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And thank you for listening to us on this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We hope you got some insight or Lisa inspiration from
some of these quotes, and we hope you'll check in
with us Monday through Friday on our morning run. I'm
Amy Roboc alongside TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Holmes.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Have a great start to your week, Everybody,
Welcome everyone to this Sunday Morning run. It is Sunday,
September seventh, and we are hoping to get your Sunday
started with some inspiration. We like to go over our
quotes of the day from our morning run, and we're
going to begin with Monday and a quote that actually
(00:22):
is simple, but I think very powerful. It's from Neil
Donald Walsh and he said life begins at the end
of your comfort zone. What do you think about that? DJ?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Neil donald Walsh.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, I get a lot of these from authors.
Authors are apparently really good with words, and apparently they're
really motivating. So I've found authors I've never heard of
before suddenly popping up when I go and look for
quotes that are motivating. And this one was something that
really jumped out at me.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
What kind of an author was Neil I'm going to
have because I'm trying to get I'm only asking as
a matter of you know, I'm sorry that I shouldn't
have done that, idn't There's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
No, I can pop it up right now.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But he is actually a He is of the religious
He was Catholic, and he talks about he has a
series of books called Conversations with God. He's also an actor.
He's also a screenwriter. He's eighty one years old. He's
from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But he has a bunch of books
(01:27):
about friendship with God, conversations with God, communion with God.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So this is he is.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He is a religious based author. And you know, it's
just interesting to hear his his quote that had nothing
to do with religion or nothing. I would never have
thought that he had religious connections.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
What don't we all, I mean, everybody listening right now,
aren't we all trying to get comfortable? Yes, no one
has a desire to be uneasy, because that seems counterintuitive.
Nobody wants that. You all want to be comfortable. How
terrible is that? And what I mean by that is
(02:05):
where do you grow? I mean, we know this now.
You have to live enough life, but you just simply
cannot get better. You can't improve, you can't you can't
win without discomfort. You have to be uncomfortable. It is required,
and so it's just in our minds. We're all seeking
(02:28):
a life of particular ease, if you will. But yes,
I love what this author did say and how he
put it so simplistically. But that is where the living begins.
There is where the adventure begins. There's where the growth is.
Wherever you have been uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I mean, think about any Olympian, any just think
about even physical discomfort. I think he's talking about a
lot of things. But even if you looked at it
from that place, you don't get to be excellent. You
don't get to be at the top of your game
unless you've been physically uncomfortable, whether you training and making
your body what it can be.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But your mind and your heart are the same.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And it's only when we're uncomfortable that we go when
we seek help, and we seek advice, and we try
to find a better way, whether it's through therapy or
through leaning on a friend. But you start to realize
what I'm doing isn't working, and that's why I have
to grow. And so yes, I agree, whether you're pushing
yourself in any way mentally, spiritually, physically, it kind of
(03:26):
almost takes you getting uncomfortable before you're willing to change
and willing to do something differently or better or push
through the pain to get to the other side. So
I love that life begins at the end of your
comfort zone. That's when you're living. Otherwise you're just kind
of existing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Don't we say that about relationships even when we're what
is the thing? You get? You have an awful conversation
and then it leads to a breakthrough, right, and now
everything is okay, and now we're on the other side
of something because we had to be uncomfortable first. Yes,
it's yes, it's counter into it what we're supposed to
seek discomfort, but it is necessary.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's a nice reminder when you are uncomfortable, that you're
living and that you're growing, and that you're going to
do something about it. And I just it's nice to know,
just to remember life begins at the end of your
comfort zone.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, we're going to move on next to the
uh the age.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Old quote, this one coming from Buddha and again a
very simple quote but so powerful. Buddha says, this be
where you are, otherwise you will miss your life. Ain't
that true? And aren't we a lot of times somewhere
other than where we are?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, this is silly. I don't know why I'm having these.
It's maybe because we're a little loopy. We've been up
a little while. As we were recording this and had
a good, nice brunch. I'm thinking about Eddie Murphy in
raw stand up, and people are getting a little insight
into my mindset. You have to deal with this all
day long with me. Every scenario that comes before us,
(05:08):
I can come up with a movie line or a
stand up comedians line.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Sometimes you say things to me and it feels a
little harsh or a cerviic and you have to follow
up with that's a movie line. I'm actually quoting a
movie right now. Would you do often? At least once
a day?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Okay, this is gonna sound ridiculous to you, because I
don't think I've watched this in thirty plus a years.
As a kid, I used to sneak and watch Eddie
Murphy raw at the house.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I can see why you had to sneak it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I'm not supposed to be watching this, of course. Okay,
he's saying something outlanded, yes he was, But something he
said in there. He was talking about a man and
a woman breaking up, and a man asking his woman
where she's going? Well, where are you going to be?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I'm gonna be where I'm at?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was the line. Yeah, So with this quote, where
are you going? To be where are you? You need
to be where you at is essentially.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's what said, is not quite the same way, not like.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Eddie, I'm an be where I'm at. Why can't we
ever do that? Just be where you are?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Because we're thinking about what we should have done, what
we could have done, and what we need to do,
and what we're supposed to do and what we're supposed
to like and what what was that we said we
were going to do. Yeah, we're never exactly where we are,
and that's why we're miserable. That's why we're suffering, because
when you are actually present, you are being childlike we
today actually at brunch, we're watching kids skip and play.
(06:31):
They are they are light, they are free, they are
having fun because you know what they're not doing thinking
about yesterday or tomorrow. They're actually exactly where they are,
and that is what the goal is. So yeah, it's
just if you can, if we can just wake ourselves
up and remember I love just watching kids. They remind
me more than anyone to be present.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, It's funny you were and I'm sure I
was going to stop you in the middle there, because
I'm sure some adults were listening to you now and say, well, yeah,
those don't have bills to bay Edel's get And yes, true,
that's that's fine, But damn if that's our response.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But you're not paying your bills when you're you know,
like thinking about your bills. Right when I'm at lunch,
I should just be at lunch and actually enjoy whatever
is around me. Because the thing is we think, oh,
if we're not worrying or thinking about something, that somehow
it's not getting done, you're not actually getting anything done
worrying or thinking about it. So that's just a reminder, Buddha,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
You know how many years ago, thousands of years ago.
I don't need I don't have a concept of that.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Okay, the next one comes from an unknown source, but
I love it all the same. And we've all heard
versions of this, but again, a good reminder. Stop being
afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited
about what could go right.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, but when you do that, you're setting yourself up
for right, for failure, for disappointment. I'm only saying that
as a matter of that's what people often do. We
don't want to think about the upside, we don't want
to think, well, what if this first state really goes well,
we'd rather temper our expectations so that we're not so disappointed.
(08:13):
Why I said it all the time, No, I'm going
to expect the absolute best. I am going to hope
for the absolute best. Why not have the high expectation.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I actually think some of the most fun parts of
something new, whether it's a vacation or a new job,
or going on a new date or whatever it like,
the anticipation of something is sometimes a lot more fun
than the actual.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Experience of it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So why not go ahead and think positively and be
excited about it because at least you had those moments
of joy. Even if it doesn't hold up or it
doesn't live up to what you thought, at least you
had those moments thinking it might, and then maybe the
next time.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You can also keep.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That same positivity because there's nothing good that comes out
of fear of things going wrong. It doesn't change, it
doesn't stop things from going wrong. It just makes you
miserable anticipating it. So I love this. I don't think
there's anything wrong about having excited expectations.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Of what could be.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
But so to your I think you put it best
in explaining getting ready for whatever the thing is, and
you think it can go right, it can go wrong,
and you stress yourself out thinking it can go wrong
before the thing even happens. That's not fun. But what
if you were to get excited about it and use
(09:35):
that time to be you can make that.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Part fun exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So even when once the thing comes, just gonna be
what it is, you guys, we'll have a good time
getting ready for its miserable.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Getting ready for exactly because it might still go wrong. Yeah,
but you'll deal with it when it does. And in
the meantime, why don't you go ahead and manifest it to.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go Well, that's how I look at it, all right,
all right? This next one, it comes from a Pulitzer
Prize winning author. Another author his name is Carl Bard.
Did not know who that was either, But I'm actually
having fun going in and learning who some of these
folks are who say these really interesting, provocative things sometimes
(10:15):
or just simple things oftentimes that are just thought provoking
and game changing. So Carl Bard said this, though no
one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That's awesome. So even something as simple as something happened.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
In your day that turned things negative.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Okay, fine, you can't go back and change it, can't
start over. But what I can do is, right now,
in this moment, decide to have a brand new ending.
We all get to decide that at any point during
the day, when we first wake up, in the middle
of the day, at the end of the night, whatever
anything in between. It doesn't matter whatever happens that didn't
happen the way you wanted it to. We can start
(11:01):
anew right now and create a different ending that's.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
In all of our power. That's so cool to think
about it like that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And it's tough to keep that in contact well, the
right perspective because something you did two weeks ago, two
months ago, two years ago, a beating yourself up about right, Yeah,
you're still beating yourself up about it. You're still word like, wow,
I should have done I could have done that differently,
if only I'd done that differently. But the story is
(11:31):
like this moment. It can be different from this moment
moving forward. So yeah, I love the simple way. Whoever
this author you said was this is the unknown.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
No, this is Carl Bard.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, so he actually
someone yeah, who we can all lean on.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
With some words of wisdom.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So yes, thank you, we appreciate that, Carl. Once again,
though no one can go back and make a brand
new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending. So take that with you because that
is very empowering. Love that, Carlbard, Thank you so much.
All right, So when we come back, we are going
to hear from another author surprisingly who's going to tell
(12:17):
us where we can focus our energy. And then for
our bonus quote of this Sunday Morning, Ron, we're going
to hear from Leonardo da Vinci. Before we go to break,
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free shipping. Welcome back everyone to this Sunday morning run
(13:30):
where we hopefully give you a little inspiration to start
your week. And on this Sunday we will begin with
another author. His name is Neil Bearingham, again an unknown
for me. I did not know who Neil Baringham is.
We can get into that in just a moment, but
this is what Neil had to say that really gave
(13:50):
me a new beginning on a Friday. The grass is
greenest where you water. It sounds very simple, but we
always talk about the grass is greener, and we talk
about envy, we talk about jealousy. But if we can
actually take that and turn it on its head and
realize we actually have the power to make anything that
we love be something beautiful, we can invest in something
(14:15):
and make it great and make it not that you
want to make.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
It the envy of everyone else. But this is the.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Notion of what you appreciate, appreciates. The grass is greener
where you water it.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I love that quote.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh no, they got some nice grass over there. Everybody,
you see what everybody we say grass. But it could
be somebody's car, somebody's job, somebody's wife, somebody does, somebody's family.
All well, so whatever, it may be anything that somebody
can be jealous of. You look and you're jealous of
what somebody else has. Why aren't you cultivating? Why aren't
(14:47):
you taking care of your own things? Look, we all
get caught up in that, of course, sure, but I
like the again, the simple way that this author put it.
What if you just took care of your own stuff?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
You know?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So there is a I'm looking at a cartoon where
they were taking what this quote said and showed a man.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Standing on a.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Like a lawn of grass that's dead, and looking at
a lawn of grass that's green. It says what people want,
pointing to the green grass, and then it said what
people don't see, and it sees the guy on the
lawn that's dead and brown and looking at the grass,
and this is what people don't see, and it shows
the man watering his grass and like working on his
(15:33):
grass and making it beautiful. People just think people get
lucky or people just have things. But actually, when you
recognize that if you work for something and you actually
take care of something, that's where the beauty and the
joy and the love and like, you get something worth
something when you put into it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And I think we all.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Just you know, it's just it's a nice reminder that
if you put effort into something, it is going to grow.
If you take care of something, it is going to
be beautiful, including relationships.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Bonus quote. This one comes to us from Leonardo da Vinci.
You haven't heard this one yet, have you.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I intentionally do not look ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Of times, all right, So I'll let you respond to this.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yeah, what do you make of that?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So my takeaway from this was that we think this judgment,
it's about judgment, and we think we're right, we think
we're better. We have our opinion about what should be,
what could be, and then we suffer because it isn't
what we think it should be.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
What do you take from this quote?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Oh, I had to just break it down a little bit.
I had to h and I pull it up on
the computer so I could actually see it again. I'm
hearing it for the first time from you. You're deceived, right,
We're usually about deception, usually deceived by something or some
outside force. But that deception usually has to do with
(17:09):
right altering your idea of what you already see, believe,
or think. And so to think that most of the
time the alteration of our perception of what's going on
has really just formed in our own heads of what
we believe we're seeing. So to this the idea. It
(17:31):
took me a second to break it down. But yes,
we deceive ourselves all the time. I you know, I
talk to you about this all the time, deception because
you have an opinion about what you think I might
mean by what I said. You're not being deceived by
anything I said. You're being deceived by an opinion of something.
(17:51):
So I it took me a second to break this down.
I need to see it in front of me. But yeah,
that's dead on and this was how many years ago?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I mean, I don't I there was a reason why
I had a journalism major because math was not my strength.
But Leonardo da Vinci and I do think that is
a good point, Like we all also, you could, you could,
this could be even deeper than that, kind of taking
off what you said. It's we all create our own
narratives to fit how we're feeling. Right, So we are
deceiving ourselves because we we in every the lens through
(18:23):
which we remember things or see things or hear things,
it's not what actually happened, it's what we thought or
we perceived to be happening to justify maybe how we're feeling,
or at least to justify how we're reacting. And so yeah,
we're our own worst enemies, period, but our own opinions. Yeah,
if we can open up our minds in our hearts
(18:44):
to recognize that we see things, all of us hear things,
see things, and interpret things through our own lenses that
typically fit or at least we try to have.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Them fit our feelings. So that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.
So Leonardo da Vinci, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
And thank you for listening to us on this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We hope you got some insight or Lisa inspiration from
some of these quotes, and we hope you'll check in
with us Monday through Friday on our morning run. I'm
Amy Roboc alongside TJ.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Holmes.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Have a great start to your week, Everybody,
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