S2E188 Seize the Day
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
No one is guaranteed tomorrow, which is why it’s vital to make the best of every day you’re blessed with. In this episode, Brian shares some powerful tips to help you focus on others, regain your passion and seize the day to live the good life.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why you’re feeling lost.
· How a breakdown can lead to a breakthrough.
· How to seize the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Cookie Thief, by Valerie Cox
S1E035, The Other Shore with Diana Nyad
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Today - this one day - is really all we have.” – Brian Buffini
“When you get your eyes off yourself and your own problems and you get them on to others, it’s amazing how restorative it can be.” – Brian Buffini
“Relationships are everything. And they're at the heart of every good business and at the heart of every good life.” – Brian Buffini
“Be relentlessly positive.” – Brian Buffini
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the Podcast for Entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing |
| 0:07.7 | yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:21.0 | Today's episode is entitled, |
| 0:23.0 | Seize the Day. |
| 0:25.0 | Now, I'm not one usually for watching too much TV, |
| 0:28.0 | but my daughter's recently persuaded me to watch a Netflix show |
| 0:32.0 | called One Day. And it's about two friends called |
| 0:36.2 | Emma and Dexter, who meet in college and whose lives then intertwine over the |
| 0:42.0 | next two decades. |
| 0:43.0 | It's a very clever premise. |
| 0:45.0 | Each episode happens on the same date, which is July 15th, every year. |
| 0:49.0 | So we get a snapshot into that one day every year to see where the two characters are and how their lives are |
| 0:56.0 | developing for better or for worse. Now no spoilers here but it's a real tear jerker you might want to have the |
| 1:02.0 | the Kleenex handy. Anyhow the show |
| 1:05.2 | opened with a poem by English poet Philip Larkin that really hit me and it |
| 1:10.6 | said what are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us, time and time over. They are to be |
| 1:20.0 | happy in. Where can we live but days? Where can we live with days? The truth of the matter is that |
| 1:26.2 | today this one day is really all we have. Right? To be honest with you, there's something you come |
| 1:31.3 | to realize more and more is the older you get and some of your friends or family begin to you know you go through the natural |
| 1:38.1 | iterations of life and changes and move and people passing on you know no one knows the time or the day to the hour of our |
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