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Mia Hamm - "Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast. Tired of all the doom and gloom
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  news from mainstream media? You'll get none of that there.
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  the world a better place. Find it in your favorite podcast
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  app. But just to make it easy, I've
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  left a link in the show notes. And that brings us today's quote
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  from Mia Han, two time World Cup champion, two time Olympic gold
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  medalist, twice named FIFA Women's World Player of the
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  Year, and widely considered the greatest female soccer player in
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  history. From her book Go for the Goal,
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  she wrote. Take your victories, whatever
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  they may be. Cherish them, use them, but
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  don't settle for them. Those are 4 instructions and the
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  most important one is the last. Take your victories.
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  That means own them. Don't brush them off, don't
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  downplay them, don't deflect the credit.
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  You earned it. Take it.
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  Whatever they may be, this is the phrase that makes the quote
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  universal. Ham isn't just talking to
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  Olympic athletes. She's talking to the person who
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  finally had that difficult conversation, who ran their
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  first kilometer, who shipped the project they've been putting off
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  for months. Whatever your victory looks
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  like, it counts. Cherish them.
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  Pause. Feel it.
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  Let it matter. Too many people Sprint past
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  their winds on the way to the next thing, never stopping long
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  enough to absorb what they've actually achieved.
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  Use them. This is where victories become
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  fuel. Every win is proof.
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  Proof that you're capable, that the work pays off, that what
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  seemed hard is now behind you. That proof is momentum.
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  Bank it and build on it. And then don't settle for them.
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  Ham made her debut for the US national team at just 15 years
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  old and spent the next 17 years refusing to let any single
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  achievement become her ceiling. Two World Cups, 2 Olympic golds,
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  record-breaking gold totals, and at every peak she kept climbing.
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  The victory is not the destination, it's the launchpad.
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  So here's the question, what victory are you either
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  dismissing too quickly or settling into too comfortably?
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  Take it. Whatever it is, cherish it, use
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  it as fuel and then refuse to let it become the ceiling.
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  The best victories are the ones that make the next one possible.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew 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.