We are settling for less than we actually deserve, and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. The quote machine is back. Yes. Less brown has returned to the show with more of his wisdom, his enthusiasm and his passion for helping you to create a better life. And in this episode, he talks about how we settle for way to lessen our lives, how we don't aim high enough. You know, as kids, we aim really high, but as adults, we just, we just kind of settle for just enough. So he encourages you to aim high enough.

And once again, I hope you enjoy this clip. Here's less.

What we're going to talk about now is simply some keys to self motivation, and all of us have motivation of some sort.

I define motivation as the desire to achieve that, which you believe to be worthwhile. And many people go through life, never getting in touch with their greatness because of the lack of motivation to push themselves, or because they have not found something that they believe to be worthwhile to challenge them.

I heard a poem once that said, many of flower has bloomed unceasingly and wasted sweetness upon the cold desert air. It's translated that means simply that many a talented persons have gone unnoticed, and the world never had a chance to be exposed to their talent.

Because that person did not take the time to begin to express or to demonstrate or to motivate themselves in the direction to bring that which they came into the universe to bring.

How can you measure your motivation? How can you evaluate where you are on a scale of one to ten?

Let's do this for ourselves mentally. How do you rate yourself from one to ten, your mental attitude about yourself, how you feel about you, how you feel about life?

How do you rate yourself on a scale of one to ten in terms of your physical appearance, in terms of your health?

Do you take care of yourself? Are you allowing yourself to get overweight and out of shape? Are you conscious of your health? Are you watching the food that you take into your body?

Do you make a deliberate effort to exercise? You know it was George Burns, he said, we cannot help getting older but we don't have to get old.

And many of us get old before our time because we don't take time to take care of ourselves.

Your environment is a very good indicator on a scale of one to ten. Is it what you want it to be? Do you find it desirable or you satisfy it?

The job or career that you're involved in, someone said that 85% of the American public unhappy with their jobs, are you spending eight hours a day just doing time?

Doing something that you don't find challenging, that does not make you stretch mentally, that does not stimulate you, that does not inspire you, something that you don't find a sense of fulfillment in it.

If you're doing that day in and day out, it has to affect how you feel about yourself, your level of motivation, your relationships.

What kind of impact is it having on your life? Is it nourishing or is it a toxic relationship? Does it drain you or does it build you up?

Ask yourself that, how motivated are you to do something about it?

Your contribution, your actions, what are you giving? Many people will leave the universe without a trace.

No one will know they were here, and in fact under their name we could put under their not used up.

Will anybody know that you came this way? What contribution are you giving? What will you leave? What will be different because you came this way?

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