1829 | Zig Ziglar: “Do You Respond or Do You React?”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Legendary motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar shares a relatable story underlining how you have the choice to respond to or react to circumstances which may be outside of your control. A lot can be learned about your character by observing the way you react or respond to life’s inconveniences and difficulties, big and small.
Source: Born To Win Seminar Part 1 Zig Ziglar
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's Q-O-D is, do you respond or do you react? |
| 0:05.0 | Here we go. Oh, Welcome back to the Quota the the Day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton. |
| 0:36.2 | We've got the legendary Zigg Ziggler on the show today. And today Zigg is going to talk about something that is so important because it is character |
| 0:47.0 | revealing. You know, as he says here, you can tell a lot about somebody's character by how they react or respond to a certain circumstance. |
| 0:57.9 | And it reminds me of a quote by Victor Frankel and it goes like this between stimulus and response there is a space. |
| 1:08.6 | In that space is our power to choose our response. |
| 1:14.0 | Many of us don't choose our response. |
| 1:16.7 | Many of us don't take advantage of that space. |
| 1:19.3 | Many of us will just |
| 1:25.0 | even more space and regret what we say instead of taking that moment or taking just even more space |
| 1:29.0 | and more time before we respond. And remember, just as he says people can tell a lot about you and |
| 1:37.9 | your character from how you make that choice. |
| 1:42.9 | Zigzigglers coming up. |
| 1:46.1 | It was January the 23rd, 1981. |
| 1:48.8 | It was a Friday. |
| 1:50.2 | It had been one of those weeks. |
| 1:51.5 | I had been literally drove hard and hung up wet as we'd say down home. |
| 1:55.5 | I mean I'd been about as busy as a man can get. That particular Friday morning we had a four hour |
| 2:01.4 | recording session. |
| 2:02.6 | Now when you record, you got to move it up a notch |
| 2:04.9 | because you don't have your body language |
| 2:07.0 | and your eye contact to communicate. |
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