August 3, 2025 • 24 mins
Get your week started with some inspiration from some of the world’s greatest minds. T.J. proclaimed this is one of his favorite weeks of quotes and he was so excited about our bonus quote for the episode we begin with a major thought provoker about how we all can live and build a better life for ourselves.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, August third, and Robock
went deep into her bag for this week's quotes. She went,
she went back to one six BC to dig up
a quote. But that's not the one I want to
start with today. Hey day, everybody, welcome to this inspiration
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edition of Amy and TJ, where we go through the
quotes that we use as are quotes of the day
during the week. All morning, Ron give you a little
more background on them, and Robes, I am going to
go out of order and out of form because we
have been doing these on Sunday, these recaps, and you
always give people a bonus quote that's true, and I
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am just now seeing the bonus quote for the first time, okay,
and it is so damn good that I don't want
to wait. Okay, can we please do the bonus quote first? Yes, okay,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This was a fun one and it's not attributed to
anyone specifically, because I think so many people have said
versions of it. But here is the bonus quote for
you build a life. You don't need a vacation from
Holy hell. I saw that. I saw that and said
that has to be food for thought. I mean, if
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you truly think about it. Why aren't we building that
life with that in mind? Shouldn't that be the goal?
People say, if you love what you do, you'll never
work a day in your life. Okay, okay, okay, But
and I get that it's similar, it's in the same vein,
but it's about building a life. You don't need to say, oh,
I need to escape this, I need to escape him,
I need to escape them, I need to escape you know.
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That is part of it. And when we see people
on vacation, they're oftentimes isolated reading a book, far away
from one another.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Okay, here's my question for you and everybody else who's
ever been on vacation. How often are you on vacation
and you say to yourself, I can't wait to get
back to my life. Not just because I know some
people at some point were I just want to get
back and get settled, or I just want to get
that kind of nute. Not what I'm talking about. I'm saying,
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how many people are chomping at the bit when you're
on vacation to get back to that circle of life.
So that speak to your daily life routine.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Almost no one, and I think people oftentimes I've been
guilty of this, have been hopeful that some storm will
make the plane cancel the delay. At least I can
have another night, you know, remember that happened one time
in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was so excited. We actually were like, let's go
back to the hotel. We actually rebooked a room, and
we were so excited because the plane got delayed for
like ten hours and I was actually ecstatic about it.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And it worked out really well in our favorite really
did okay. But that's here nor there. But that's such
an interesting way to think about the life that you have.
I'm I dying to get away from it? Can I
not wait? And everybody need to break or rest or
something like that. But are you enjoying what you're doing
enough that you don't want to run from it that
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you miss it when you leave it? How about that?
Do you miss your life when you step away from
it for a minute. That is such a good quote.
No idea where this came from?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Huh No, Well, just so many different people have said
versions of it, but I just loved it. Create a life,
build a life. There were different versions of it, but
that was the basics of it, and I just thought
it was really cool and that was actually a really
good way to start off the podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Obviously I thought it was really cool as well to
I just blew up our whole rundown and how we
do this thing. But yes, folks, on these Sundays, we
give you the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday quotes and
then we give you the bonus. But we started out
of order, and I'm giving you the bonus quote first,
So take that one with you for sure. Build a life.
You don't need a vacation from I'll let you take
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a wall. You go and go Friday to Monday. Now, sure, let's.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Just go ahead and do that. So Friday we had
Warren Buffett give us this stage advice, which I thought
this was such a cool way to look at how
you go after something. Games are won by players who
focus on the playing field, not by those whose eyes
are glued to the scoreboard. So if you're constantly trying
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to see how you did, look at whatever you're having
to measure your success by, whether it's the money in
your bank account, or the download you have at a podcast,
or the ratings you have on a television show. If
you're constantly just looking at what your measured success is.
You're not actually doing the work you need to be doing.
You're not focused where you should be, which is putting
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out your best work and being creative and putting in
your best effort. So yeah, focus on the playing field,
not on the scoreboard. I love that. But you could
apply that to a relationship. You could apply that to
anything in your life.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know how many times do I you know, drive
me absolutely crazy. I say to you all the time,
if I could just be left alone to do my job, yeah,
which is to be creative. All right. I'm a writer,
I'm a storyteller. I'm a creative. I'm not the business.
I don't want to be over here dealing with numbers
and taking this meeting. But that's something that we have
to do now. But I am a guy. I'm just
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put me in the game. I have a goal, I
have a focus. I am able to do that. But
we're in a position where we're forced to do something else. Yeah,
and it drives me. It's hard.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But no, no, I'm a worker. Beee. You tell me
what to do, I will do it. But I don't
actually want the responsibility of being the creative director. So
actually we work well together in that sense. But when
you have to start focusing on measuring your success and
how well, you get discouraged sometimes you know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Looking at the scoreboard exactly. If you look at the scoreboard,
it looks like, wow, we are really getting blown out right.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now, we are behind. And then you're working so hard
and you feel like you're not getting where you're supposed to,
you're not scoring the goals, and you're so frustrated. But
that's when people quit.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's when people give up because it's not even halftime yet,
is the thing. And we've done this plenty of times before,
and everybody does this in some way. You are measuring
yourself because you're looking at the scoreboard because you're looking
at your self, and you're looking at somebody else because
on their Instagram it shows that they just bought blank
car and you are still driving that old hand me
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down that you got when you graduated college, or.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You don't have a car.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, and so what you're doing that's your scoreboard. Yep,
they're ahead, you're behind, but you don't you don't realize
where you are in life. What are you fighting for?
Are you on the uptick? They could be on the downtick,
and you shouldn't even be comparing yourself frankly, to anybody
else and where they are in life. You just shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, it's such a good question.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's a great, great quote from mister Warren Buffett. Games
are won by players who focus on the playing field,
not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
You went from Warren Buffer, you had to Maya Angelo
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, yeah, I look, all of these quotes I've never
heard before, so I'm trying that now. We've been doing
these every day, you know, five days a week. Actually,
when we're giving six quotes a day, six quotes a week,
you start to see the same quotes over and over.
So these were fun because I'd never heard any of
these before. So this one from Maya Angelou. Success is
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liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you
do it. That's such a cool way to think of
what successes. We always think of it as something professional
or some accomplishment, some sports endeavor, some accolade that you
feel like you can say, look what I did, But
this isn't about what you did. This is who you are,
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and that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
These three quotes so far, the bonus quote, the one
on Friday from Warren, and the one now here for Maya,
they all kind of follow to a same theme here
of where your focus should be and what your life
should be, what your life should feel like, and what
real success looks like. This one is wonderful to me.
It makes you reassess, like, where are you sitting in life?
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Do you like how you're doing? What you're doing? That's
such I love that part of It's not just about
what you do. Okay, I like my job. Do you
like how you're executing? She goes, She kind of takes
it a step further. That makes me keep thinking, Yeah,
and success. That first part success is liking yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I was a failure for years in a stretch in
my life, and it starts there. You can't be good
to anybody if you're not good to yourself. But man,
that first part success is liking yourself. Why don't you
stop there? Don't even read the rest of the quote.
Check in on that for a second.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, because you can love yourself, but you might not
like yourself. And that's actually I think like is a
much more important word sometimes in relationships with others and
with yourself because you love in spite. You love you
like because that's what I've always heard, you like because
you love in spite of and so liking someone is
just a general positive reaction to you. Think about who
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you are and what you do and how you do it.
I love Maya Angelou and she has so many quotes
of sirved never heard that one before.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You hear an MLK, Did you read? It's difficult if
you read some. I've read some books in the past
and I try to make notes or take quotes from
them that it takes me forever to get through the
book because there's so many good quotes. Yeah, and MLKA,
you read through some of his speeches and you just
constantly are marking things up. Well, I can use that, Leta,
I could use that Laa and she is another one.
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It's just it's non stop with her.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And what's cool is both of their legacies live on
in a daily way when people read their writings because
they they're so applicable even today, which is such a
good transition to the final two quotes, because when I
talk about things being still applicable today, I love going
into the vaults and going before Christ. I love the
BC philosophers because I am always blown.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Away it's the same shit.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm blown away that someone who was born one hundred
and six BC, like before Christ, could say something that
absolutely impacts how I feel today, that we as human
beings that thousands of years apart, could still be dealing
with the same shit in our heads and this and
we're the same problems and the same issues. That's remarkable
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to me. It's a human exce experience.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And why would robot be so specific in the year
she mentioned one six BC because that is the year
that of the birth of the quote of the next guy. Here,
we're back up to what we're Wednesday. We're going backwards,
so out of order here?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh yeah, we have three quotes.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Sorry, so we got three left here and the Wednesday
one again, so simple from someone this long ago Rose,
it's applicable to every single person walking around right now.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I know Marcus Tullius Cicero born in one o six
BC wrote this sometime thousands of years ago. More is
lost by indecision than a wrong decision. Dang, ain't that
the truth?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
More is lost, But we're concerned about making the wrong decision,
and we can see the consequences of a wrong decision.
We don't see the consequences of an indecision, do we.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, we don't, I think because it's subtle but serious.
You lose time time, first of all, and you also
typically suffer when you're in a period or a moment
of indecision. Think about any time you didn't know what
to do and you weren't sure what to do. And
these are big things in little things. Sometimes it's what
car to buys. Sometimes it's whether or not to get divorced,
or whether or not to get married, some huge, big
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life decisions, whether or not you should have children. When
you are in that period of indecision, what are you doing.
You're mulling, you're overthinking, you're stressing, your suffering. Indecision to
me is suffering, and so by not making decision. And
the point being, if you make a wrong decision, okay,
you learn something. You're never always going to make a
right decision. So make a decision and live with it,
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because if you make the right decision, amazing, and if
you make the wrong decision, there are incredible lessons to
be learned.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was trying to break this down in the simplest
of forms, and I went down to a restaurant ordering food.
The waiter comes over and says, the special of the
day is the Brenzino. You really have your own the
shoe or ribs. You're starving, starving, and you know what,
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I don't know. If I get the run zeno, maybe
it's not gonna be the thickness I usually like, or
it has the bones in it, which I hate. The
short ribs I know, I love. Sometimes the sauce can
be a little too sweet and messes with my stomach.
If you don't make a decision, what are you gonna do?
You're gonna sit there and suffer because you're starving.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And everyone on the table is like throwing their napkins
at you. Make a decision.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I tried to simplify it. But if you think about
it that way, not making a decision about what you're
going to do, even something as simple as dinner, we'll
cause you to sit there and prolong your suffering. Yes,
it's true, something that simple. Apply that to anything in life, yeah,
or kids, relationships? Do what do something?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Think for a little bit, but move on, make a
decision and move on. I have always been somebody who
has made quick decisions. And yes, I have made bad decisions,
but I think you can think really long and hard
about something and still make a wrong decision. There's no
proof that if you spend more time overthinking that you're
gonna make a right decision.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You know, this is somewhere we differ. But I think
it's a good yin yang thing we have going on.
I'll make a decision, but I need a beat. Your quick, quick, quick,
quick quick? You want to just no, just give it
a breather. Just can we have a second.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's true. I am I, and I admit that I
am a quick decision maker. But I you know, you
can look at which verbo home to get for a
month and then all the ones that you wanted end
up start getting taken, or you can pick it and
it could be not perfect, but at least you got one, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You know you have learned plenty I have whoop, oh wow,
you know I'm glad. I'm glad we took a second.
We thought that. No oh oh, I didn't see that. TJ.
You're right, No, we can't do that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We're a good yan yank.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Take a beat. I'm just saying I'm not saying not
make a decision. Baby, Let's just can I just have
thirty minutes? Just give me thirty minutes to figure this out. Way. Yes,
that was the going on Wednesday. More is lost by
indecision than a wrong decision. The last two we're going
to tell you about. One comes from mister Marcus Aurelius himself.
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The other is going to give you the reason why
we struggle with insecurity.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Welcome back everyone to your Sunday morning run, where we
go over our quotes of the day to give you
the best inspiration that you could possibly have heading into
the new week. There really are some incredible quotes this week.
And the next one comes to us from a pastor
and a New York Times bestselling author. I hadn't heard
of him, but I googled him. I love, actually when
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I don't know who the authors are or who the
quote makers are. Finding out a little bit about these folks.
But Steve Furtick, and he's a young guy, has a
lot of followers, a lot of following, and a lot
of really insightful, cool things to say. So I had
fun so much so that I actually said to you,
we should see if we could get him on the podcast.
So Steve Furtick really cool. But I love this quote.
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He says, the reason we struggle with insecurity is because
we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
Never heard it put that way, but that is absolutely
what we do. We know all our mess, we know
all our stuff, and then we see everybody else's highly
curated Instagram feeds or whatever they're putting out in the world,
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and everyone else's life looks so much better than ours,
and it really contributes to feelings of insecurity being less
than I see people scrolling my kids. I do it,
and I have to stop myself, you know, to see
everyone else's fabulous vacations and they're beautiful homes that have
perfect landscaping and the dinner party that I didn't get
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invited to. Whatever. This is what we do. But that's
not Everybody's got there behind the scenes. We're just not
privy to it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Everybody does. Everybody's got that same thing you've got going
on right now in your family, with your job, with
your relationship with your kids. Everybody's got it. Why is
anybody gonna raise their hand and hoot and hollow that
my life is imperfect when they see that yours is perfect,
because that's all you're showing them. Yep, this thing drives
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me crazy that we don't do better about that is
we keep comparing the Joneses, Right, you're comparing yourself to
the Joneses. Look what they have. Look what my neighbor has,
Look what's we have? Have we not seen enough examples
of this? Yeah, oh my gosh, that we understand at
some point we I mean even you know what, even
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the number of we did the story recently, the number
of times we have seen public figures die by suicide
who are known for how having some of the best jobs,
great wealth, or the biggest joy like they part of
their public persona was that they were so joyful and
up killing themselves because we felt for whatever we think
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in the public is the perfect life we're trying to
compare ourselves to. We have got to stop doing. That's
so true.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I just started thinking of some of those folks and
Burello just came to mind. But yes, and it's just you.
You see, you think if I just had more money,
if I just had a better husband or a better
wife for you know, better kids, than I'd be happy.
But it's just it's not true. And I just think
this is such an important thing to remember. I just
love the way he put this. The reason we struggle
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with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes
with everyone else's highlight reel. Thank you, Pastor Furtek.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You know one of my fai. You've heard this from
me forever, the quote I use about folks want to
judge themselves by their best intentions, but they judge you
by your worst action. That's what everybody does. Yeah, that's
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what you're looking at on Instagram. It johns crazy about
the kids. You look at these perfect shots on Instagram.
How many takes did they do?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh? We actually so often there are spots here in
New York where people, well they're instagram worthy, you know,
they've got great and so we'll be sitting outside and
we see people in certain places go to town with
their content. But yes, they're doing it over and over
and we get a kick out of watching them do it.
It's fun e. But the product you see when you're
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scrolling is the perfect version with the filter on. It
usually takes a while fil Oh, yes, you didn't even
realize that most of those photos are so photoshopped in
doctorate that it's not even a representation of reality.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Would you compare your life and where you are right
now to that photo. We got to do it. This
is a great one. If we can track this guy down,
we'd love to have him on because of the great, great, great. Yeah,
and but we started the week with Marcus Aurelius on Monday.
Another good one, another good one to think about.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wrote, Yes, Marcus earliest again thousands of years ago, said
this thing that is so applicable today. You have power
over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you
will find strength.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Okay, Mike, Now I think Michael Singer is a fraud.
He stole all of his ideas from Marcus Aurelius. Well,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Shakespeare said, there's nothing new under the sun.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
There's nothing this is in sweetheart. Take that quote. Put
it in Michael Singer's book that's right back there on
our shelf, and I'll say, yeah, okay, this modern times
he wrote that that came from him. This is unbelievable.
We spend so much time and you when you got
me on, these guys like yet cart Toole and Marcus
Aurelius is all about what you do with your mind
and surrendering to the moment and understanding. The key to
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peace is understanding you are not in control of any
outside event, period, nothing. It's the basis. I have a
tattoo on my arm that says surrender based on some
of these teachings. And you tell me, Marcus Aurelius has
been screaming this forever.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right, you have power over your mind, not outside events.
Realize this and you will find strength. And it's these
moments where yes find yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
What are you.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Complaining about things that you can't control? The weather, the traffic,
someone who was rude to you, someone who looked at
you funny, someone who said something you didn't like the
way they said it to you. That you can't control
any of this, So you getting upset about it only
makes you disturbed, only disturbs your mind, only affects you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So what do we ever complain about something we do
have control over? Do we rarely?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Do?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We only complain about things? Yes, like you when you
said the weather.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Right, that's that's kind of that. Michael Singer actually said
that is the number one thing. If you want to
actually ask yourself, do I do this? Ask yourself how
often and catch yourself yes, even when you think it,
versus even when you say it. You can't help sometimes
what you feel, but you can decide what you're going
to say. And when you recognize thoughts that are negative
or silly in the sense that you're actually thinking terrible
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things about things you can't control. When you can stop
your mind and oh, look at I'm doing it again
and actually laugh at it, it's a game changer. It
can absolutely change the course of your day when you
can recognize it and correct it. It is a tendency.
It's your ego protecting yourself. You're feeling a certain way,
so you want to blame something and then you want
to complain about it, but you actually have to look
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inside and say, why am I reacting like this to
something that I can't change? It's actually insanity.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Which were the most times complaining about what other people, Yes,
this person cut me off, or I wanted that seat,
or they got in front of me, or complaining about
why we're complaining about other things we have no control.
I'm trying to think of all the things I complain
about today, I complain about. What do I complain about?
My hurts? Yes, I have a foot injury. Yes, what
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do I complain about? I gotta cook again?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Things I say and do.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'm trying to think, But it really is most of
the time you're rolling your eyes or annoyed or whatever
by something you have no control over.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I got upset earlier because I lost all this information.
I had spent thirty minutes writing something and it disappeared.
I obviously operator error. I know I did something, but
I sat there and I had to actually actively tell
myself you cannot change it by complaining. So by you
complaining right now, all you're doing is making yourself more angry.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
In the same situation.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It took me about It took me about I'd say,
a minute and a half.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Really really important. That's not a good quote.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I love that quote, yep, And to think that it
was written thousands of years ago is all the more special.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You have the power over your mind, not outside events.
Realize this and you will find strength, and I think
oftentimes he's got Modern day guys often talk about it
as peace. We always talk about people are looking to
be happy, but what you're really looking for is peace. Yes,
peace sad is The key is realize you have no power,
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yep or outside events. Ah, that's a great, good, good
week of quotes.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It Well, thank you. I found them, but other people
said them and I learned from them. And I actually
really enjoy this part of Morning Run because it is
fun to spend a little bit of time looking for
something that actually makes you think differently and makes you
think and hopefully act better in the future.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, thank you again, Robes, and again give you full credit.
Robes has been the one we went through all the
quotes that I had saved over the years from our
ABC days. So you have been digging up and finding
some really really good quotes, and I thank you. I
appreciate it, and I hope you all appreciate these as well.
But for now, thank you as always for hanging with
us and running with us and taking this inspirational Sunday with.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Us book for now on TJ and I'm Amy Robot.
I hope you have a great start to your week.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
M M M
Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, August third, and Robock
went deep into her bag for this week's quotes. She went,
she went back to one six BC to dig up
a quote. But that's not the one I want to
start with today. Hey day, everybody, welcome to this inspiration
(00:24):
edition of Amy and TJ, where we go through the
quotes that we use as are quotes of the day
during the week. All morning, Ron give you a little
more background on them, and Robes, I am going to
go out of order and out of form because we
have been doing these on Sunday, these recaps, and you
always give people a bonus quote that's true, and I
(00:46):
am just now seeing the bonus quote for the first time, okay,
and it is so damn good that I don't want
to wait. Okay, can we please do the bonus quote first? Yes, okay,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
This was a fun one and it's not attributed to
anyone specifically, because I think so many people have said
versions of it. But here is the bonus quote for
you build a life. You don't need a vacation from
Holy hell. I saw that. I saw that and said
that has to be food for thought. I mean, if
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you truly think about it. Why aren't we building that
life with that in mind? Shouldn't that be the goal?
People say, if you love what you do, you'll never
work a day in your life. Okay, okay, okay, But
and I get that it's similar, it's in the same vein,
but it's about building a life. You don't need to say, oh,
I need to escape this, I need to escape him,
I need to escape them, I need to escape you know.
(01:42):
That is part of it. And when we see people
on vacation, they're oftentimes isolated reading a book, far away
from one another.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Okay, here's my question for you and everybody else who's
ever been on vacation. How often are you on vacation
and you say to yourself, I can't wait to get
back to my life. Not just because I know some
people at some point were I just want to get
back and get settled, or I just want to get
that kind of nute. Not what I'm talking about. I'm saying,
(02:09):
how many people are chomping at the bit when you're
on vacation to get back to that circle of life.
So that speak to your daily life routine.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Almost no one, and I think people oftentimes I've been
guilty of this, have been hopeful that some storm will
make the plane cancel the delay. At least I can
have another night, you know, remember that happened one time
in Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I was so excited. We actually were like, let's go
back to the hotel. We actually rebooked a room, and
we were so excited because the plane got delayed for
like ten hours and I was actually ecstatic about it.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And it worked out really well in our favorite really
did okay. But that's here nor there. But that's such
an interesting way to think about the life that you have.
I'm I dying to get away from it? Can I
not wait? And everybody need to break or rest or
something like that. But are you enjoying what you're doing
enough that you don't want to run from it that
(03:05):
you miss it when you leave it? How about that?
Do you miss your life when you step away from
it for a minute. That is such a good quote.
No idea where this came from?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Huh No, Well, just so many different people have said
versions of it, but I just loved it. Create a life,
build a life. There were different versions of it, but
that was the basics of it, and I just thought
it was really cool and that was actually a really
good way to start off the podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Obviously I thought it was really cool as well to
I just blew up our whole rundown and how we
do this thing. But yes, folks, on these Sundays, we
give you the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday quotes and
then we give you the bonus. But we started out
of order, and I'm giving you the bonus quote first,
So take that one with you for sure. Build a life.
You don't need a vacation from I'll let you take
(03:48):
a wall. You go and go Friday to Monday. Now, sure, let's.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Just go ahead and do that. So Friday we had
Warren Buffett give us this stage advice, which I thought
this was such a cool way to look at how
you go after something. Games are won by players who
focus on the playing field, not by those whose eyes
are glued to the scoreboard. So if you're constantly trying
(04:12):
to see how you did, look at whatever you're having
to measure your success by, whether it's the money in
your bank account, or the download you have at a podcast,
or the ratings you have on a television show. If
you're constantly just looking at what your measured success is.
You're not actually doing the work you need to be doing.
You're not focused where you should be, which is putting
(04:33):
out your best work and being creative and putting in
your best effort. So yeah, focus on the playing field,
not on the scoreboard. I love that. But you could
apply that to a relationship. You could apply that to
anything in your life.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You know how many times do I you know, drive
me absolutely crazy. I say to you all the time,
if I could just be left alone to do my job, yeah,
which is to be creative. All right. I'm a writer,
I'm a storyteller. I'm a creative. I'm not the business.
I don't want to be over here dealing with numbers
and taking this meeting. But that's something that we have
to do now. But I am a guy. I'm just
(05:08):
put me in the game. I have a goal, I
have a focus. I am able to do that. But
we're in a position where we're forced to do something else. Yeah,
and it drives me. It's hard.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But no, no, I'm a worker. Beee. You tell me
what to do, I will do it. But I don't
actually want the responsibility of being the creative director. So
actually we work well together in that sense. But when
you have to start focusing on measuring your success and
how well, you get discouraged sometimes you know.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Looking at the scoreboard exactly. If you look at the scoreboard,
it looks like, wow, we are really getting blown out right.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Now, we are behind. And then you're working so hard
and you feel like you're not getting where you're supposed to,
you're not scoring the goals, and you're so frustrated. But
that's when people quit.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's when people give up because it's not even halftime yet,
is the thing. And we've done this plenty of times before,
and everybody does this in some way. You are measuring
yourself because you're looking at the scoreboard because you're looking
at your self, and you're looking at somebody else because
on their Instagram it shows that they just bought blank
car and you are still driving that old hand me
(06:09):
down that you got when you graduated college, or.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You don't have a car.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, and so what you're doing that's your scoreboard. Yep,
they're ahead, you're behind, but you don't you don't realize
where you are in life. What are you fighting for?
Are you on the uptick? They could be on the downtick,
and you shouldn't even be comparing yourself frankly, to anybody
else and where they are in life. You just shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, it's such a good question.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's a great, great quote from mister Warren Buffett. Games
are won by players who focus on the playing field,
not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
You went from Warren Buffer, you had to Maya Angelo
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, yeah, I look, all of these quotes I've never
heard before, so I'm trying that now. We've been doing
these every day, you know, five days a week. Actually,
when we're giving six quotes a day, six quotes a week,
you start to see the same quotes over and over.
So these were fun because I'd never heard any of
these before. So this one from Maya Angelou. Success is
(07:04):
liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you
do it. That's such a cool way to think of
what successes. We always think of it as something professional
or some accomplishment, some sports endeavor, some accolade that you
feel like you can say, look what I did, But
this isn't about what you did. This is who you are,
(07:24):
and that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
These three quotes so far, the bonus quote, the one
on Friday from Warren, and the one now here for Maya,
they all kind of follow to a same theme here
of where your focus should be and what your life
should be, what your life should feel like, and what
real success looks like. This one is wonderful to me.
It makes you reassess, like, where are you sitting in life?
(07:48):
Do you like how you're doing? What you're doing? That's
such I love that part of It's not just about
what you do. Okay, I like my job. Do you
like how you're executing? She goes, She kind of takes
it a step further. That makes me keep thinking, Yeah,
and success. That first part success is liking yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I was a failure for years in a stretch in
my life, and it starts there. You can't be good
to anybody if you're not good to yourself. But man,
that first part success is liking yourself. Why don't you
stop there? Don't even read the rest of the quote.
Check in on that for a second.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, because you can love yourself, but you might not
like yourself. And that's actually I think like is a
much more important word sometimes in relationships with others and
with yourself because you love in spite. You love you
like because that's what I've always heard, you like because
you love in spite of and so liking someone is
just a general positive reaction to you. Think about who
(08:42):
you are and what you do and how you do it.
I love Maya Angelou and she has so many quotes
of sirved never heard that one before.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You hear an MLK, Did you read? It's difficult if
you read some. I've read some books in the past
and I try to make notes or take quotes from
them that it takes me forever to get through the
book because there's so many good quotes. Yeah, and MLKA,
you read through some of his speeches and you just
constantly are marking things up. Well, I can use that, Leta,
I could use that Laa and she is another one.
(09:12):
It's just it's non stop with her.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And what's cool is both of their legacies live on
in a daily way when people read their writings because
they they're so applicable even today, which is such a
good transition to the final two quotes, because when I
talk about things being still applicable today, I love going
into the vaults and going before Christ. I love the
BC philosophers because I am always blown.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Away it's the same shit.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm blown away that someone who was born one hundred
and six BC, like before Christ, could say something that
absolutely impacts how I feel today, that we as human
beings that thousands of years apart, could still be dealing
with the same shit in our heads and this and
we're the same problems and the same issues. That's remarkable
(09:59):
to me. It's a human exce experience.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And why would robot be so specific in the year
she mentioned one six BC because that is the year
that of the birth of the quote of the next guy. Here,
we're back up to what we're Wednesday. We're going backwards,
so out of order here?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh yeah, we have three quotes.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Sorry, so we got three left here and the Wednesday
one again, so simple from someone this long ago Rose,
it's applicable to every single person walking around right now.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I know Marcus Tullius Cicero born in one o six
BC wrote this sometime thousands of years ago. More is
lost by indecision than a wrong decision. Dang, ain't that
the truth?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
More is lost, But we're concerned about making the wrong decision,
and we can see the consequences of a wrong decision.
We don't see the consequences of an indecision, do we.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
No, we don't, I think because it's subtle but serious.
You lose time time, first of all, and you also
typically suffer when you're in a period or a moment
of indecision. Think about any time you didn't know what
to do and you weren't sure what to do. And
these are big things in little things. Sometimes it's what
car to buys. Sometimes it's whether or not to get divorced,
or whether or not to get married, some huge, big
(11:17):
life decisions, whether or not you should have children. When
you are in that period of indecision, what are you doing.
You're mulling, you're overthinking, you're stressing, your suffering. Indecision to
me is suffering, and so by not making decision. And
the point being, if you make a wrong decision, okay,
you learn something. You're never always going to make a
right decision. So make a decision and live with it,
(11:39):
because if you make the right decision, amazing, and if
you make the wrong decision, there are incredible lessons to
be learned.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I was trying to break this down in the simplest
of forms, and I went down to a restaurant ordering food.
The waiter comes over and says, the special of the
day is the Brenzino. You really have your own the
shoe or ribs. You're starving, starving, and you know what,
(12:06):
I don't know. If I get the run zeno, maybe
it's not gonna be the thickness I usually like, or
it has the bones in it, which I hate. The
short ribs I know, I love. Sometimes the sauce can
be a little too sweet and messes with my stomach.
If you don't make a decision, what are you gonna do?
You're gonna sit there and suffer because you're starving.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And everyone on the table is like throwing their napkins
at you. Make a decision.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I tried to simplify it. But if you think about
it that way, not making a decision about what you're
going to do, even something as simple as dinner, we'll
cause you to sit there and prolong your suffering. Yes,
it's true, something that simple. Apply that to anything in life, yeah,
or kids, relationships? Do what do something?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Think for a little bit, but move on, make a
decision and move on. I have always been somebody who
has made quick decisions. And yes, I have made bad decisions,
but I think you can think really long and hard
about something and still make a wrong decision. There's no
proof that if you spend more time overthinking that you're
gonna make a right decision.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You know, this is somewhere we differ. But I think
it's a good yin yang thing we have going on.
I'll make a decision, but I need a beat. Your quick, quick, quick,
quick quick? You want to just no, just give it
a breather. Just can we have a second.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
That's true. I am I, and I admit that I
am a quick decision maker. But I you know, you
can look at which verbo home to get for a
month and then all the ones that you wanted end
up start getting taken, or you can pick it and
it could be not perfect, but at least you got one, sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You know you have learned plenty I have whoop, oh wow,
you know I'm glad. I'm glad we took a second.
We thought that. No oh oh, I didn't see that. TJ.
You're right, No, we can't do that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We're a good yan yank.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Take a beat. I'm just saying I'm not saying not
make a decision. Baby, Let's just can I just have
thirty minutes? Just give me thirty minutes to figure this out. Way. Yes,
that was the going on Wednesday. More is lost by
indecision than a wrong decision. The last two we're going
to tell you about. One comes from mister Marcus Aurelius himself.
(14:19):
The other is going to give you the reason why
we struggle with insecurity.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Welcome back everyone to your Sunday morning run, where we
go over our quotes of the day to give you
the best inspiration that you could possibly have heading into
the new week. There really are some incredible quotes this week.
And the next one comes to us from a pastor
and a New York Times bestselling author. I hadn't heard
of him, but I googled him. I love, actually when
(14:57):
I don't know who the authors are or who the
quote makers are. Finding out a little bit about these folks.
But Steve Furtick, and he's a young guy, has a
lot of followers, a lot of following, and a lot
of really insightful, cool things to say. So I had
fun so much so that I actually said to you,
we should see if we could get him on the podcast.
So Steve Furtick really cool. But I love this quote.
(15:18):
He says, the reason we struggle with insecurity is because
we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
Never heard it put that way, but that is absolutely
what we do. We know all our mess, we know
all our stuff, and then we see everybody else's highly
curated Instagram feeds or whatever they're putting out in the world,
(15:40):
and everyone else's life looks so much better than ours,
and it really contributes to feelings of insecurity being less
than I see people scrolling my kids. I do it,
and I have to stop myself, you know, to see
everyone else's fabulous vacations and they're beautiful homes that have
perfect landscaping and the dinner party that I didn't get
(16:01):
invited to. Whatever. This is what we do. But that's
not Everybody's got there behind the scenes. We're just not
privy to it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Everybody does. Everybody's got that same thing you've got going
on right now in your family, with your job, with
your relationship with your kids. Everybody's got it. Why is
anybody gonna raise their hand and hoot and hollow that
my life is imperfect when they see that yours is perfect,
because that's all you're showing them. Yep, this thing drives
(16:30):
me crazy that we don't do better about that is
we keep comparing the Joneses, Right, you're comparing yourself to
the Joneses. Look what they have. Look what my neighbor has,
Look what's we have? Have we not seen enough examples
of this? Yeah, oh my gosh, that we understand at
some point we I mean even you know what, even
(16:50):
the number of we did the story recently, the number
of times we have seen public figures die by suicide
who are known for how having some of the best jobs,
great wealth, or the biggest joy like they part of
their public persona was that they were so joyful and
up killing themselves because we felt for whatever we think
(17:14):
in the public is the perfect life we're trying to
compare ourselves to. We have got to stop doing. That's
so true.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I just started thinking of some of those folks and
Burello just came to mind. But yes, and it's just you.
You see, you think if I just had more money,
if I just had a better husband or a better
wife for you know, better kids, than I'd be happy.
But it's just it's not true. And I just think
this is such an important thing to remember. I just
love the way he put this. The reason we struggle
(17:42):
with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes
with everyone else's highlight reel. Thank you, Pastor Furtek.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You know one of my fai. You've heard this from
me forever, the quote I use about folks want to
judge themselves by their best intentions, but they judge you
by your worst action. That's what everybody does. Yeah, that's
(18:13):
what you're looking at on Instagram. It johns crazy about
the kids. You look at these perfect shots on Instagram.
How many takes did they do?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh? We actually so often there are spots here in
New York where people, well they're instagram worthy, you know,
they've got great and so we'll be sitting outside and
we see people in certain places go to town with
their content. But yes, they're doing it over and over
and we get a kick out of watching them do it.
It's fun e. But the product you see when you're
(18:41):
scrolling is the perfect version with the filter on. It
usually takes a while fil Oh, yes, you didn't even
realize that most of those photos are so photoshopped in
doctorate that it's not even a representation of reality.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Would you compare your life and where you are right
now to that photo. We got to do it. This
is a great one. If we can track this guy down,
we'd love to have him on because of the great, great, great. Yeah,
and but we started the week with Marcus Aurelius on Monday.
Another good one, another good one to think about.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Wrote, Yes, Marcus earliest again thousands of years ago, said
this thing that is so applicable today. You have power
over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you
will find strength.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Okay, Mike, Now I think Michael Singer is a fraud.
He stole all of his ideas from Marcus Aurelius. Well,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Shakespeare said, there's nothing new under the sun.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
There's nothing this is in sweetheart. Take that quote. Put
it in Michael Singer's book that's right back there on
our shelf, and I'll say, yeah, okay, this modern times
he wrote that that came from him. This is unbelievable.
We spend so much time and you when you got
me on, these guys like yet cart Toole and Marcus
Aurelius is all about what you do with your mind
and surrendering to the moment and understanding. The key to
(19:59):
peace is understanding you are not in control of any
outside event, period, nothing. It's the basis. I have a
tattoo on my arm that says surrender based on some
of these teachings. And you tell me, Marcus Aurelius has
been screaming this forever.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Right, you have power over your mind, not outside events.
Realize this and you will find strength. And it's these
moments where yes find yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
What are you.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Complaining about things that you can't control? The weather, the traffic,
someone who was rude to you, someone who looked at
you funny, someone who said something you didn't like the
way they said it to you. That you can't control
any of this, So you getting upset about it only
makes you disturbed, only disturbs your mind, only affects you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So what do we ever complain about something we do
have control over? Do we rarely?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Do?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We only complain about things? Yes, like you when you
said the weather.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Right, that's that's kind of that. Michael Singer actually said
that is the number one thing. If you want to
actually ask yourself, do I do this? Ask yourself how
often and catch yourself yes, even when you think it,
versus even when you say it. You can't help sometimes
what you feel, but you can decide what you're going
to say. And when you recognize thoughts that are negative
or silly in the sense that you're actually thinking terrible
(21:15):
things about things you can't control. When you can stop
your mind and oh, look at I'm doing it again
and actually laugh at it, it's a game changer. It
can absolutely change the course of your day when you
can recognize it and correct it. It is a tendency.
It's your ego protecting yourself. You're feeling a certain way,
so you want to blame something and then you want
to complain about it, but you actually have to look
(21:36):
inside and say, why am I reacting like this to
something that I can't change? It's actually insanity.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Which were the most times complaining about what other people, Yes,
this person cut me off, or I wanted that seat,
or they got in front of me, or complaining about
why we're complaining about other things we have no control.
I'm trying to think of all the things I complain
about today, I complain about. What do I complain about?
My hurts? Yes, I have a foot injury. Yes, what
(22:04):
do I complain about? I gotta cook again?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Things I say and do.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'm trying to think, But it really is most of
the time you're rolling your eyes or annoyed or whatever
by something you have no control over.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I got upset earlier because I lost all this information.
I had spent thirty minutes writing something and it disappeared.
I obviously operator error. I know I did something, but
I sat there and I had to actually actively tell
myself you cannot change it by complaining. So by you
complaining right now, all you're doing is making yourself more angry.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
In the same situation.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It took me about It took me about I'd say,
a minute and a half.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Really really important. That's not a good quote.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I love that quote, yep, And to think that it
was written thousands of years ago is all the more special.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You have the power over your mind, not outside events.
Realize this and you will find strength, and I think
oftentimes he's got Modern day guys often talk about it
as peace. We always talk about people are looking to
be happy, but what you're really looking for is peace. Yes,
peace sad is The key is realize you have no power,
(23:16):
yep or outside events. Ah, that's a great, good, good
week of quotes.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It Well, thank you. I found them, but other people
said them and I learned from them. And I actually
really enjoy this part of Morning Run because it is
fun to spend a little bit of time looking for
something that actually makes you think differently and makes you
think and hopefully act better in the future.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, thank you again, Robes, and again give you full credit.
Robes has been the one we went through all the
quotes that I had saved over the years from our
ABC days. So you have been digging up and finding
some really really good quotes, and I thank you. I
appreciate it, and I hope you all appreciate these as well.
But for now, thank you as always for hanging with
us and running with us and taking this inspirational Sunday with.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Us book for now on TJ and I'm Amy Robot.
I hope you have a great start to your week.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
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