1785 | Ryan Holiday: “Step by Step, Action by Action.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
On today’s QOD, author Ryan Holiday encourages you to keep showing up, do your job, and trust the process.
Source: The Stoic Art Of Not Panicking | Ryan Holiday Speaks To The U.S. Marine Corps
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, today's QOD is step by step action by action here we go |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome back to the QOD the day show I'm your hope shine cracks in the shine cracks in |
| 0:36.3 | calm we have another one of my favorite authors on the show his name is Ryan |
| 0:41.2 | holiday he's got some fantastic books out there including the obstacle is the way and also one |
| 0:46.8 | that I read maybe six months ago called discipline is destiny if you struggle with self-discipline |
| 0:53.3 | read that book on today's episode Ryan's going to talk about showing up doing your job like |
| 1:01.8 | your job is to do your job and also trusting the process Ryan holidays coming up |
| 1:10.4 | so when we say the obstacle is the way that is what we are saying and we are saying that no matter |
| 1:15.6 | the obstacle that you face no matter what is happening in the world we got to do our job I know |
| 1:21.8 | I talked about the Rams earlier it was kind of a weird experience for me because I'm |
| 1:25.6 | actually a Saints fan and after Sean Payton was suspended for the trumped up bounty |
| 1:32.4 | scandal which we don't need to get into here he put this large poster on the wall the practice |
| 1:38.2 | facility he just said do your job right this is a panic real situation your coach is suspended |
| 1:43.2 | you miss him for a year it's a bunch of penalties what are we supposed to do you're supposed to do |
| 1:49.6 | your job right you're supposed to do your job in every situation and circumstance right in |
| 1:56.9 | things big and small glamorous or not your job is to do your job right whether you get credit for |
| 2:04.0 | it or not your job is to do your job right if you do it right it doesn't matter if it's not |
| 2:10.5 | fancy or special or recognized right it's meaningful and important and significant and |
| 2:17.2 | honorable if you do it well as they say how you do anything is how you do everything you take |
| 2:23.5 | the task medial or not and you do it with everything you have this is what the stoics are talking |
| 2:29.6 | about this is excellence right so when you're overwhelmed when you don't know what to do what you do |
| 2:37.1 | is the most basic part of your job when I was writing my last book this book on discipline |
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