#145: Greatness is a Choice
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We each have the potential for greatness; but, ultimately achieving greatness is a matter of our choices. In this episode Dave talks about making better choices so that no matter what you do, or whatever you aspire to do, you can become great at it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, let's talk about the topic. |
| 0:34.4 | Greatness is a choice. It's a choice. Being great, you guys know I like definitions. |
| 0:40.2 | If you look it up, great definition of great greatness, considerably, considerably above the normal, |
| 0:48.8 | considerably above average. Okay, so not just a little, not just a tweak, but a lot. Eminent. Now, the word |
| 0:57.0 | eminent means respected within a certain sphere or profession being eminent. So think about |
| 1:03.5 | this definition here. If you're considerably above normal or average, we're talking about your |
| 1:08.7 | abilities, your contribution, what you're able to do. |
| 1:11.6 | If you're eminent, if you're really respected in a certain sphere or profession, you're not born that way. |
| 1:17.6 | You know, there's the old adage, well, everybody is born with greatness. No, that's simply not the case. |
| 1:23.6 | Just look at the world today. There are a lot of people. What happened to their greatness? |
| 1:26.6 | Well, they never had it in the first place. |
| 1:28.3 | Now, everybody is born with the seeds of greatness. I believe everybody is born with the potential to become great. |
| 1:34.3 | But not everybody is born considerably above the normal or average or respected within a certain sphere of profession. |
| 1:41.3 | You have to work for greatness. We certainly have the potential for it, but there's some things we have to do. There's some things we can't do to get to that great point. So in this episode, I want to talk about if you're already great at what you do, how do you not lose it? How do you become greater yet? And if you're not yet great, how do you get to that point? What you're going to |
| 2:00.8 | realize is it really comes down to it being a choice. Greatness really is a choice. Just like |
| 2:05.7 | mediocrity is a choice. Now, there are a lot of sub-choices that need to go under the umbrella |
| 2:11.8 | of that greatness choice. And we're going to talk about a handful of them in our episode. But first, |
| 2:17.1 | it's time for our |
| 2:18.1 | quick hit Q&A. As you know, if you've listened to past episodes, you can send us a question, |
| 2:26.4 | post a question on our Facebook, send it to our Twitter, or you can email it to the producer of this |
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