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The Brian Buffini Show

Get Fired Up! #169

The Brian Buffini Show

Brian Buffini

Entrepreneur, Brian Buffini, Business, Entrepreneurship, Coaching, Good, Life

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

“Great things happen when you get fired up.” — Brian Buffini

It can be hard to stay fired up when faced with life’s challenges, but being enthusiastic and motivated helps you to succeed like nothing else. In this episode, Brian explains how to eliminate life’s joy stealers, how to stoke your internal engine to create momentum and how to change your state of being, renew your energy and the importance of writing 10-day goals. Get your free resource here and by the end of the episode, you’ll be fired up for life!

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Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we want to get fired up, we have to stoke the fires within.” – Brian Buffini

“The joy stealers are ultimately the things that take away our energy and take away our enthusiasm.” – Brian Buffini

“Life is hard...the locomotive on occasion has to go uphill.” – Brian Buffini

“There’s a big difference between a rut and a routine.” – Brian Buffini

“Without struggle, there can be no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

“It’s very important that we have an opportunity to measure our progress.” – Brian Buffini

“One of the ways we lose perspective is because we focus on what we don’t have instead of what we do.” – Brian Buffini 

 “You can’t have gratitude and entitlement in your heart and mind at the same time.” – Brian Buffini

“We massively overestimate what we can get done in a year...but radically underestimate what we can get accomplished in a decade.” – Brian Buffini

“A decade is made up of a whole bunch of ten day goals.” – Brian Buffini 

“Momentum is very powerful...you feel like you have the wind at your back.” – Brian Buffini 

“When we get exposed to someone else, our big problem becomes a little problem.” – Brian Buffini

“If they can do it, I can do it.” – Brian Buffini

“I did it before, I can do it again.” – Brian Buffini

“Gratitude is transformative and it changes everything.” – Brian Buffini

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Cicero 

“It’s very important that you attach celebration to your achievements.” – Brian Buffini

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

 “We need to renew physically, mentally and emotionally.” – Brian Buffini

“Renewing your mind is not refreshing your screen.” – Brian Buffini

“It’s very important that we get out of the digital life and get into the real life.” – Brian Buffini

“Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind and your spirit. Then get back to work.” – Ralph Marston

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brian Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies

0:19.4

of success.

0:20.4

Here's your host, Brian Bafini.

0:30.0

Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to the Brian Bafini show.

0:36.3

Today we're going to talk about getting fired up.

0:39.1

Getting fired up.

0:40.1

You know, when I first met my bride in 1986, she was on the US Olympic volleyball team.

0:49.0

And when we would go out on a date or we would meet, her little phrase was fire up, fire

0:53.5

up.

0:54.8

Her Beverly was nicknamed Bubbles on her Olympic team because she had this bubbly personality

1:01.0

and she was always motivating and encouraging people.

1:04.9

And that was our little phrase.

1:05.9

And sometimes she would just kind of clap her hands to get a fire up, fire up.

1:09.4

And that was kind of a mindset.

1:11.3

And obviously when you're traveling around the world, she was 42 weeks a year at that

1:16.1

stage, playing for the USA all over the world.

1:19.9

You had to stay fired up.

1:20.9

She's working out six hours a day, six days a week.

1:23.8

So staying fired up was a big thing.

1:26.2

It was interesting.

1:27.2

Here it is.

1:28.2

It's 32, 33 years later.

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