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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

744 | Dr. Wayne Dyer: “You Have to Turn Every Obstacle into an Opportunity.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Wayne Dyer is here to share a story about how he turned an annoying obstacle into an amazing opportunity, and reminds us that it’s not important what happens to us or around us, but how we use the power of our mind to respond that really matters. Source: The Awakened Life (Audible.com)

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Yo, today's QOD is you have to turn every obstacle into an opportunity. Here we go.

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Welcome back to the Quoted The Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a

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Sean Crox and .com. We've got Dr. Wayne dire on the show today and Dr.

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dire is going to share a fantastic story about how he turned the most annoying

0:45.9

obstacle ever into an amazing opportunity. Here's Dr. dire.

0:51.4

And we were in Hawaii this summer with my wife and all of our children and and I

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got out there one morning and I was meditating. I was right over here and I was

1:01.3

out by the Hyatt Regency. Okay and they've got this strip of grass and it's about

1:04.4

the size of this stage. All right and it's out and back and it's under these

1:08.8

windows and all that and I was meditating. I had to take a mat with me every

1:11.7

morning and my little you know I really felt like Gandhi. You know it's just my

1:16.9

little loincloth except I had just a little pair of shorts on and I'd put this

1:19.9

little mat out there and I'd go out there and I couldn't wait and I for seven weeks

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in a row I got up at 5.30 every single morning. Unheard of for me. All right I'm

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on vacation. We're talking sleeping in 5.30 every morning seven straight weeks

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and I went out and I was doing this and then writing about it. My family got

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closer than ever before. My wife and I got became immensely close. I mean more

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spiritually close than we've ever been before as a result of this and I was

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sitting there meditating and I was in about after about 30 minutes or so into it

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and I was really at peace and and one of the things I've discovered in meditation

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is that my purpose is to love and to serve and to give and that if I have to judge

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all every behavior that I have every action and even every thought in terms of

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