1315 | Zig Ziglar: “You Become Part of What You’re Around.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Zig Ziglar urges you to be careful about who you spend your time with. Attitude is everything … and it can be contagious. Whose attitude are you “catching” every day? Identify who’s bringing you down, and avoid them! Surround yourself with winners. Ditch the losers. If not, becoming more successful is almost impossible.
Source: Zig Ziglar - The Secret to Staying Motivated (RARE)
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QLD is you become part of what you're around. |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and |
| 0:36.0 | calm. We've got the legendary Zig Ziglar on this show today and he's talking about your |
| 0:42.0 | attitude and how attitude is contagious. You want to do something wild? |
| 0:48.0 | Y'all just y'all, especially if you're around a bunch of people and what you will find is |
| 0:54.0 | that other people who around you will start yawning. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a trip or if you ever walked into a room, you just feel like something's not right. |
| 1:04.0 | And then you end up finding out that something wasn't right. |
| 1:07.0 | Nobody had to tell you anything. Nothing had to look out of the ordinary. |
| 1:11.0 | You just felt it. And the reason why is because your brain has mirror neurons. |
| 1:16.0 | You pick up the thoughts and the feelings of the people who are around you. |
| 1:21.0 | So other people's attitudes can be contagious. |
| 1:25.0 | You've got to ask yourself, whose attitude are you catching every day? |
| 1:30.0 | Who is bringing you down when you answer that question, avoid those people. |
| 1:36.0 | Surround yourself with winners. Get rid of the losers. |
| 1:40.0 | Zig Ziglar, coming up. |
| 1:43.0 | What I'm really saying is that Charles Dickens many years ago said that no one is useless in this world of |
| 1:50.0 | ours who lightens the load of it for somebody else. |
| 1:55.0 | When you're doing something for somebody else, you are performing a useful service and you're going to feel better about yourself. |
| 2:03.0 | Have somebody because it's impossible to row somebody across the river without going over there yourself. |
| 2:11.0 | Yes, you can get everything in life you want. |
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