1847 | Les Brown: “You Can’t Stroll to Your Goal.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Struggling to accomplish your goals? On today’s QOD, legendary motivational speaker Les Brown gives you a reality check about what it’s going to take to accomplish them. You’re going to have be committed, persistent, and disciplined. Because it’s gonna be HARD. There’s no way around it. Embrace it.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo today's Q-O-D is you can't stroll to your goal. |
| 0:05.4 | Here we go So, Welcome back to the Court of the Day Show, I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton. |
| 0:35.7 | Come happy Monday to you my friend. We got Les Brown on the show leading off the week and today less is going to lead off the week with a reality check. |
| 0:47.0 | It's going to keep it very real with you here. |
| 0:50.0 | And if you're having trouble keeping the momentum towards your goals, |
| 0:57.0 | if you're getting frustrated, if you're struggling, if you're wondering why it isn't happening faster. It's because of this. It's because it's hard. Like |
| 1:08.4 | accomplishing your goals is really, really, really hard. It's very uncomfortable. You're doing things that you've never done before. |
| 1:16.8 | You're breaking bad habits and creating new ones. You're changing your social circle. |
| 1:21.5 | You're cutting back on scrolling and watching TV and you're in your |
| 1:25.0 | cutting back on scrolling and watching TV and your study and you're creating stuff. |
| 1:27.0 | You're not consuming a bunch, you're producing a bunch. |
| 1:30.0 | It's not easy. |
| 1:32.0 | And most people aren't willing to face that reality. |
| 1:37.0 | They want it to be play, but it's hard. |
| 1:41.0 | I know you've heard me talk about this before, but you know I kind of despise the ease and flow people. |
| 1:49.0 | Like, oh, to get to where you want to go, it's to ease and flow. Like that's not really how it works. You know, it's not about forcing it to happen, of course, but you also have to participate in the process. |
| 2:03.0 | You're going to have to do some things that you really don't really love doing. |
| 2:07.0 | Like some of the stuff you're going to do, like it's stuff you really don't want to do, but you've got to do it anyway just to get to where you want to go. |
| 2:13.0 | Like it is hard. It is difficult. But like I used to tell my Money Mind Academy students, |
| 2:19.2 | you got to make difficult normal. Like difficult is just it's the way it's the way there and so the |
| 2:25.8 | only way to do it is to embrace it to say this is how it is this is how it's going to be |
| 2:32.1 | and this is how I have to be in order to get to where I want to go. |
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