They said, thank you very much for what you did for our son. And I said, it was nothing. They said, hmm, we'll tell him that for you. We sure appreciate what you did the other day. And I said, don't mention it. And they didn't next time. They knew. Why would anyone, when you're paid a compliment, not accepted.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I am your host Sean Croxen of Sean Croxton.com.

We've got Dr. Dennis Whaley on the show.

I should say the late great Dennis Waitley.

He passed very recently.

I want to say it was this summer.

I didn't even know it.

I just was randomly Googling speakers to find clips for the show.

And I was like, wow, Dennis Whiteley passed. And I haven't featured him much on the podcast, like as legendary as speaker and author he was.

And the reason why is because honestly, his delivery can be a little monotone, but the content, when you really listen to it,

is absolutely incredible.

And today he's talking about what, in his opinion,

is your most important quality,

which is your self-esteem,

which leads to today's feature quote,

which is you always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

I remember 20 years ago, life was just bad.

And like I had just gotten out of college and girlfriend broke up with me and I was broke, you know, had this expectation of like getting out of college and making all this money. I was just very disappointed in myself. And I saw a therapist.

And either our first or our second session, he handed me a book. And the book was the self-esteem

handbook, our workbook, how self-esteem handbook our workbook how self-esteem workbook and there is a

questionnaire in the beginning of the book you know kind of like measuring your level of self-esteem

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