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A.A. Milne - People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Anna McGivern for November 2nd.
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  Today is 0 Tasking Day and yes, you heard it right, 0 Tasking
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  Day celebrated every year on the 1st Sunday of November.
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  This officially is the laziest holiday on the calendar, and I
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  mean that as the highest compliment. 0 Tasking Day
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  encourages us to accomplish absolutely nothing, not a zilch
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  0 tasks. In our productivity obsessed
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  culture where we're constantly optimizing, hustling and
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  grinding. 0 Tasking Day arrives like a permission slip from the
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  universe itself. It's a day that says hey, that
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  To Do List. It can wait.
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  That inbox still going to be there tomorrow?
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  Those dishes? They're not going anywhere.
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  The beauty of this day is its simplicity.
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  You don't have to plan, elaborate self-care routines or
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  schedule a relaxation appointment.
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  You just don't do things. And isn't that refreshing?
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  A holiday that requires 0 preparation, 0 effort, and 0
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  guilt about doing 0 things. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from A A Milne, the beloved character writer of
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  Winnie the Pooh, who said people say nothing is impossible, but I
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  do nothing every day. Leave it to Pooh Bear to
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  accidentally drop one of the most profound observations about
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  rest and productivity. On the surface, this is classic
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  Pooh, a silly play on words that makes a smile.
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  But look deeper and there's real wisdom in there.
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  In a world that tells us doing nothing is impossible, who
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  gently reminds us that not only is it possible, it's something
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  we can practice daily. This connects perfectly to 0
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  Tasking Day, because both challenge our cultural obsession
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  with busyness. We've somehow convinced
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  ourselves that our worth is measured by our output, that
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  rest is something we have to earn, that doing nothing is
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  equivalent to being lazy. But Poo understands something
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  we've forgotten. Sometimes, doing nothing is
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  doing something. It's giving your mind space to
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  wander. It's letting your body recover.
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  It's allowing creativity to bubble up from somewhere deeper
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  than your To Do List can reach. The joking Pooh's quote is that
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  he's not striving to do nothing, he just naturally does it.
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  And maybe that's the real lesson.
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  Rest shouldn't be another task to check off.
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  It should be as natural as honey is to a bear.
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  But here's the challenge for today.
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  And yes, I recognize the irony of giving you a task on 0 task
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  in day. But bear with me.
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  Today, give yourself permission to do absolutely nothing.
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  And I mean nothing. Don't productive nothing where
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  you're resting but secretly planning your week.
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  Don't Instagram nothing where you're scrolling and calling it
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  relaxation. Don't even self-care nothing
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  where rest becomes another item on your Wellness checklist.
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  Just be. Sit in a chair and look at
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  clouds. Lie on the floor and listen to
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  music, Stare at your ceiling, take a nap without setting an
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  alarm. Whatever.
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  Nothing means to you, do that. And when that voice in your head
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  says, shouldn't I be doing something, just remember Pooh's
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  wisdom. You are doing something, you're
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  doing nothing. And people say that's
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  impossible, but you're proving them wrong.
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  That's going to do it. For today, I'm Enya McGivern
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  signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.
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  Now if you'll excuse me, I have some very important nothing to
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  do.