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Ordinary people do extraordinary things here we go

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and calm happy Monday to your my friend

As I record this week's episodes I'm supposed to be on kind of like a break but it isn't really turned out to be a break

And so what I did to make this easier on me was I picked five episodes from the back catalog that I really enjoyed and that the audience really enjoyed

And so for the next five days we got nothing but classic episodes kind of like a rerun week

And we're going to start things off with the late coach Jim Valvano and coach Valvano is going to talk about how everybody needs to have a personal philosophy for success

As you know my personal philosophy is little by little a little becomes a lot

If you do these tiny small ordinary actions over and over and over again consistently over time it can lead to big time results

But the results don't come immediately but even though they don't come immediately you don't lose enthusiasm

You don't lose enthusiasm for what it is that you're creating and you have to learn how to embrace the plateaus

Because you're going to hit plateaus where you're like oh my god I'm doing all this work every single day and nothing's really changing

I was reading something the other day about George Leonard who wrote a book called mastery and he talked about these plateaus

And essentially he said that in your plateau when things aren't changing but you're still doing your little by little you're still taking action every day

That's where the magic happens because things are going on behind the scenes that are creating the conditions for the big change

And so if you're ever in a plateau you're like oh my gosh why aren't things working why isn't anything changing

Just realize that you are on the precipice of having a big breakthrough

You're on the precipice of a quantum leap in your development either personally or professionally

And so embrace the plateau have a personal philosophy and understand that ordinary people like you, like me, can do extraordinary things

Jim Valvano coming up after these words

I have an uncart bookmarker I have an everything it's what it drives me it's a passion I was 16 years old I heard the Reverend Bob Richard speak

Remember him the Wheaties guy that's Kaplan of the whole world champion Olympics five witches looked over group of these young kids at the basketball camp and said the Lord must have loved ordinary people

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