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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1938 | Jim Cathcart: “How Would the Person I’d Like to Be Do the Things I’m About to Do?“

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This question will change your life: How would the person I would like to be do the things I’d like to do? Because when you make decisions and take action through a lens of your future self, you will become the person you want to be.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Y'O today's Q-O-D is, how would the person I like to be do the things I'm about to do.

0:07.0

Here we go. Oh, Welcome back to the Quot of the Day Show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.

0:38.0

We got Jim Cathcart on the show today and today today Jim is going to give you a phenomenal question for you to

0:47.8

filter your being and your doing through. A lot of us allow our past to influence who we're being now and what we're doing now.

0:59.2

But if you make a shift and you decide what you want, you get clear on what you want, you can allow

1:05.8

your future self to guide your present being and your actions. So when you filter those actions through this question, how would the person I'd like to be do the things I'm about to do? You become someone different. And when you become someone different and when you become someone different you do

1:25.2

different things and when you do different things you get different results.

1:29.3

Jim Cathcart's coming up.

1:32.0

Back in 19, I think, 79.

1:37.0

1979, I was in Chicago to give a speech for an outfit called

1:42.8

Tidy Car. How many of you know what Tidy Car is?

1:45.9

Few of you do.

1:46.7

Tidy Cars an auto detailing company.

1:49.1

And Tidy Car, back in those days,

1:51.4

was a company which sold franchises for $1,500, little kit.

1:57.2

So you'd get this polishing material and this tool with which to do what they call

2:01.0

Preserve a Shine. And you could go out and start your own

2:03.8

auto detailing business and they were selling these things like hot cakes I mean that

2:08.0

was the heyday of franchising so back in those days lots of people were buying tidy car franchises, and tidy

2:14.7

realize they had to start training these people. So they brought in speakers like

2:18.0

me to come and address them once every month or so around the country.

2:22.4

Well, I was the flavor of the month for Chicago. them once every month or so around the country.

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