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Viktor Frankl - When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm our host, Andrew McGivern, and let's jump into today's
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  quote from Viktor Frankel, an Austrian psychiatrist and
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  Holocaust survivor who wrote the profound book Man's Search for
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  Meaning. Frankel survived four years in
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  Nazi concentration camps, including Oswich, where he lost
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  his parents, brother and pregnant wife from that
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  unimaginable suffering. He gave us this wisdom.
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  When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are
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  challenged to change ourselves. Think about what Frankel is
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  saying here. When you can't change the
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  situation, you change yourself. Most of us spend enormous energy
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  trying to change things we can't control.
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  The economy, other people, the past circumstances that are
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  beyond our reach and we exhaust ourselves fighting battles we
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  can't win and at the very least end up stressed and full of
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  anxiety. Frankel learned in the most
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  extreme circumstances imaginable that when the external situation
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  is unchangeable, you have one option left.
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  Transform yourself. Not accept defeat.
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  Not give up. Transform.
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  You can't change that you lost your job, but you can change how
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  you respond to it. You can become more resilient,
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  more resourceful, and more adaptable.
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  You can't change that someone hurt you, but you can change
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  yourself into someone who doesn't carry that hurt forever.
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  You can't change the obstacle that's in your path, but you can
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  change yourself into someone capable of navigating around it,
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  climbing over it, or breaking through it.
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  This isn't about positive thinking or pretending
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  everything's fine. Frankel watched people die
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  around him. He knew the suffering was real,
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  but he also knew that the last freedom no one could take from
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  him was the freedom to choose who he became in response to
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  what happens. So here's the question.
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  What unchangeable situation are you fighting right now?
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  And what if instead of trying to change it, you focused on
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  changing yourself? Because that's the one thing you
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  always have control over, not the obstacle.
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  You, you can't change everything, but you can change
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  how you respond to everything. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.