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Unkown Author - "You are not responsible for the version of you that exists in someone else's mind." · 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 because good news should be
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  heard. Find it in your favorite podcast
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  app. And just to make it easy for
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  you, I've left a link in the show notes.
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  Now let's dive into today's quote from an unknown author.
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  But it may be one of the most quietly liberating things that
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  you're going to hear this week. Someone, somewhere may have once
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  said you are not responsible for the version of you that exists
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  in someone else's mind. Wow.
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  Read that one again. You are not responsible for the
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  version of you that exists in someone else's mind.
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  Think about how much energy most of us been doing exactly the
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  opposite of that. Managing perceptions, explaining
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  ourselves, correcting misunderstandings, Worrying
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  about what someone thinks of us based on a conversation we had
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  three years ago, A decision they misread, a moment they witnessed
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  out of context. We carry the weight of other
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  people's versions of us, versions we didn't author and
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  can't control, as if they're our responsibility to fix.
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  Here's the truth this quote is pointing at.
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  Every person who has ever met you has built their own internal
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  version of you, filtered through their experiences, their own
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  wounds, their own assumptions, and their own limited
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  information. That version isn't you.
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  It's a construct, A portrait painted by someone else with
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  their own brushes and their own palette.
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  And no matter how carefully you live, how clearly you
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  communicate, or how consistently you show up, you cannot fully
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  control what that portrait looks like, because people will
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  misread you. They'll remember you wrong.
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  They'll hold a version of you that's outdated, incomplete, or
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  simply inaccurate. That is not a problem you
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  created, and it certainly is not a problem you can solve.
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  What you are responsible for is the version of you that you're
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  actively creating through your choices, your actions, your
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  integrity, and how you treat people.
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  That version belongs to you. The rest belongs to them.
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  So here's the question. Whose version of you are you
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  currently carrying that was never yours to manage in the 1st
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  place? Because you can set it down
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  right now. You are not the portrait someone
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  else painted of you. You are the person standing in
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  front of that canvas, choosing who to be next.
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  That version, That one's yours detected.
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  Build it and let the rest of them go.
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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.