447 | Les Brown: “You Don’t Have to Be Great to Get Started, But You Have to Get Started to Be Great.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
It’s another Motivation Monday with Les Brown who encourages you to stop procrastinating and get started TODAY on your goals and dreams, even if you’re not sure how to do it. Get more from Les at lesbrown.com. You can find today’s full talk here.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to the quarter of the day. |
| 0:26.8 | We show I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com. |
| 0:30.2 | There is no better way to start off the week than with a less brown clip. |
| 0:35.7 | And today less is encouraging you to get started because so many of us have like big hopes |
| 0:41.2 | and big dreams. |
| 0:42.2 | We want to set big goals and we keep putting them off because it's so easy to push it |
| 0:46.8 | off to some day. |
| 0:48.7 | And one of the hardest things to do is to get started. |
| 0:52.7 | So today's feature quote is this, you don't have to be great to get started but you have |
| 0:59.4 | to get started to be great. |
| 1:02.3 | Here's less. |
| 1:03.7 | And one of the things that I can just tell you as you think about your goals and dreams, |
| 1:08.5 | all of us can say in a spirit of integrity that it's possible. |
| 1:13.1 | That if anybody at any point in time lived that dream, then it's possible that I can |
| 1:17.6 | live mine. |
| 1:19.2 | And what I did was I made a mistake. |
| 1:21.4 | I looked at my goals and dreams and my mind said, how will you do that? |
| 1:26.3 | I went from my heart to my mind and I stayed up there for 14 years. |
| 1:32.6 | 14 years. |
| 1:33.6 | I can't bring those 14 years back. |
| 1:36.2 | Those years are gone. |
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