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Augusta F. Kantra - "Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast
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  designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm our host Andrew McGivern and this podcast episode is brought
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  But just to make it easy for you, I'm leaving a link in the
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  show notes. Now let's dive into today's
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  quote, which is often misattributed to Abraham
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  Lincoln. And you've probably seen it
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  under his name on social media 100 times.
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  But the person most credibly connected to this quote is
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  Augusta F Cantra, a psychotherapist and mindfulness
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  teacher from Alabama who once wrote Discipline is choosing
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  between what you want now and what you want most interesting.
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  Quite often when people talk about discipline, it is about
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  depriving yourself for using extreme willpower.
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  But notice what Cantre is really saying here.
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  She's not telling you to be harder on yourself.
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  She's not talking about gritting your teeth, white knuckling your
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  way through temptation, or punishing yourself for every
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  slip up. She takes the punitive part of
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  discipline away entirely. That's the reframe.
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  Most of us think of discipline as deprivation.
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  Saying no, giving things up, doing the hard thing.
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  But Cantre flips it completely. Discipline isn't about denial.
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  It's about choosing. Every single moment.
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  You're making a choice between what you want right now and what
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  you want most. The cookies or the goal, the
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  Netflix binge or the business. The comfortable silence or the
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  difficult conversation. When you keep what you want most
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  at the forefront of your mind, it almost pulls you towards the
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  right actions. Rather than feeling like a
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  constant struggle, the goal itself becomes the motivation.
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  You're not fighting yourself, you're just choosing.
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  I used to think disciplined people were just wired
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  differently, that they didn't feel the pull of distraction the
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  way the rest of us do. What I've come to understand is
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  that they feel it just as much. They've just gotten clear on
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  what they want most, and that clarity makes the choice easier.
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  Not easy, but easier. When I know exactly where I'm
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  going, saying no to the detour doesn't feel like suffering, It
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  feels more like steering. Last night I was on the couch
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  playing a puzzle game on my phone and scrolling through my
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  social feeds. I was feeling lazy and that is
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  actually what I wanted to do at the time.
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  But is it what I wanted most? No, what I wanted most was to
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  produce this podcast episode, so that is what I chose.
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  So here's the question, what do you want most?
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  Not what you think you should want, Not what sounds
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  impressive. What do you actually genuinely
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  want most? Because once you know that,
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  discipline stops being a battle and it becomes a choice.
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  And choices are something you can make right now.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andy McGivern, signing off
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  for now but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.