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Will Rogers - "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." · 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 your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast. Link is in the show notes.
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  Today's quote has been attributed to Will Rogers for
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  decades. And while the original source
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  can't be 100% verified, it's so perfectly captures the spirit of
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  the man, and it's hard to imagine it belonging to anyone
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  else. Rogers was a Cherokee cowboy
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  philosopher who dropped out of school in the 10th grade to
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  become a cowboy, went on to travel the world three times,
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  make 71 movies and write more than 4000 nationally syndicated
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  newspaper columns. He was a man who never once sat
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  still. He may or may not have said even
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  if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just
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  sit there. The first half of that sentence
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  is what most people want to be on the right track.
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  Direction confirmed, values aligned, half chosen and pointed
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  the right way. And then the second-half takes
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  the comfort away completely. You'll get run over if you just
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  sit there, because being right about the direction is only half
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  the equation. The other half, the half that
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  most people underestimate, is continuous forward movement.
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  The track doesn't carry you, you have to move yourself.
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  Think about what's sitting on the track actually looks like in
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  the real world. The person with the right
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  business idea who keeps refining the plan instead of launching.
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  The person in the right relationship who stops investing
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  in it because the foundation feels so solid.
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  The person who found the right career path and then coasted,
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  assuming that being in the right place was enough to make things
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  happen. The business owner who was in
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  the right industry at the right time but doesn't make the sales
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  calls thinking the product will just sell itself.
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  The direction was correct, but the momentum never started.
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  And if you can't get up to speed and you get run over.
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  Rodgers understood this from experience.
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  He put in the hard work and the long hours to succeed.
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  He wasn't just philosophically committed to forward motion.
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  He lived it. He wrote books, articles, a
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  syndicated newspaper column, frequently performed on radio
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  and was a popular after dinner speaker, all simultaneously, all
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  at full speed, right up until the plane crash in Alaska that
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  ended his life at 55. He never coasted.
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  He never sat still. The right track is a gift, but
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  it's not a guarantee. It's the beginning of the work,
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  not the end of it. So here's the question.
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  Where in your life are you currently on the right track but
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  not doing the work to pick up the speed and get some momentum?
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  Just assuming the right direction is enough.
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  Because Roger's warning isn't about people heading the wrong
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  way. It's for people who got that
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  part right who found the track and then stopped.
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  The ones who most need to hear it are the ones who the least
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  expect to. You found the track now keep
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  moving, do the hard work. 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.