1225 | Trent Shelton: “Either You Can Make Moves, or You Can Make Excuses.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Trent Shelton returns to QOD to illustrate the endless potential of the self. Most of us live in a limited mindset and tend to think of the impossibilities and all of the reasons why we can’t be something. But Trent contends that the only impossibility that exists are the walls that you create.
Trent reveals the four keys to overcoming these limiting thoughts. The first key is to stop talking yourself out of your greatness and start reminding yourself of how great you are. Secondly, stop taking advice from the wrong people and start taking advice from the successful people or those with expertise relevant to your goal. Next is to stop accepting the can’ts in your life and start challenging them.
Lastly, stop letting perception control your life and start embracing the struggles in your life. One of the worst ways to live life is faking perfection. After all, no matter how perfect you are, people are still going to judge you anyway. Ultimately, don’t let anyone, not even yourself, plant impossibilities in your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QLD is either you can make moves or you can make excuses. |
| 0:06.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm. |
| 0:38.0 | We've got Trent Shelton back on the show today. |
| 0:41.0 | He's going to give you four ways or four mindset shifts to get past your excuses. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, I read these books by his guy named Gene Landrum and he profiles all these successful people |
| 0:54.0 | and they're like little short summaries essentially of these successful people. |
| 0:58.0 | And let me tell you, all of them had excuses. |
| 1:02.0 | All of them could have said, you know what? |
| 1:04.0 | I got this going on. This happened to me when I was a child. |
| 1:07.0 | This happened to me when I was an adult. This person didn't be wrong. |
| 1:10.0 | I had this trauma this that and the other and they could have quit. |
| 1:13.0 | You know, I can say father rolled out at 10 years old. |
| 1:18.0 | Wasn't paying child support went from middle class to poverty literally overnight. |
| 1:23.0 | Hardly saw my mom because she was always at work. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm supposed to be oppressed like those can all be excuses. |
| 1:30.0 | I will not allow those things from the past to become my excuses. |
| 1:36.0 | I got to keep moving forward. |
| 1:38.0 | So whatever you think is your excuse, remember everybody has them. |
| 1:42.0 | Everybody has them. |
| 1:44.0 | But it's up to you to make that choice to move beyond and to take action and to make moves. |
| 1:49.0 | Trent Shelton coming up in one minute. |
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