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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

712 | Inky Johnson: “Never Complain About Something that You’re Not Willing to Change.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Inky Johnson returns to the show for your Motivation Monday. Today, Inky is talking about shifting your perspective, trading complaining for appreciation, and getting back to passion and purpose instead of seeking out validation for our egos.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOT is never complain about something that you're not willing to change.

0:07.0

Here we go!

0:30.0

Welcome back to the QOT of the Day Show.

0:35.0

I'm your host, Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and .com.

0:38.0

We've got Inky Johnson on the show for your motivation Monday.

0:42.0

And today Inky's talking about shifting your perspective, changing the way you look at things.

0:48.0

He's also talking about committing to the process and rediscovering the passion for what you do.

0:54.0

Here's Inky.

0:56.0

My question was always, could I become committed to the process of what I was doing without being emotionally attached to the results of what I was doing?

1:04.0

In other words, if I didn't get what I thought I was going to get, can I still show up and be just as dedicated, just as committed, and just as on fire as I was at day one?

1:13.0

Because everybody knows how to respond when they get what they're supposed to get and things go the way they're supposed to go.

1:19.0

I think that's the reason a quote says, you judge the character of a person not by where they stand in times of comfort and convenience.

1:24.0

You judge the character of a person by where they stand in times of challenging controversy.

1:28.0

You got some of the most brilliant people on the face of this planet.

1:31.0

When they hit adversity, they can't fight themselves out of a paper bag.

1:34.0

And it's not even that they don't have the will.

1:36.0

Like they got it.

1:37.0

It's that the perspective about the adversity isn't right.

1:40.0

And I firmly believe perspective draws performance every day at a week.

1:44.0

How individual view what they do will always affect how they do what they do.

1:48.0

And so I went to my cousins and they were like, ink, we want to go to the NFL, but we can't play organized sports.

1:54.0

I was like, cool, let's just start practicing in the street.

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