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Pablo Picasso - "Action is the foundational key to all success." · 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 Anna McGivern, and this episode is brought to you
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  by the Great News Podcast. Tired of all the doom and gloom
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  news for mainstream media? You'll get none of that there.
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  Instead, you'll find inspiring stories and developments making
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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. Today's quote comes from Pablo
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  Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th
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  century, who devoted nearly eighty of his 91 years to
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  artistic production and never stopped creating until his final
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  days. He once said action is the
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  foundational key to all success. One sentence, 9 words, and yet
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  it cuts through every excuse, every plan, every perfectly
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  crafted strategy that never goes anywhere.
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  Notice what Picasso calls action.
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  Not a key to success or one of the many keys.
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  The foundational key, the one everything else is built on.
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  You can have talent without action and get nowhere.
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  You can have a brilliant plan without action and achieve
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  nothing. You can have knowledge,
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  connections, resources, and the ideal moment and still fail if
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  action isn't at the foundation. Many people dream and plan and
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  hope, but never do the things that will actually lead them to
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  their goals. And here's the thing.
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  Dreaming feels productive. Planning feels productive.
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  Researching, preparing, waiting for the right moment.
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  All of it feels like forward motion, but none of it is
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  action. And without action, none of it
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  becomes success. Picasso's output across his
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  lifetime included over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings,
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  sculptures, and ceramics. He didn't achieve that by
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  waiting for inspiration, or for the perfect conditions, or for
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  someone to give him permission. He acted day after day, decade
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  after decade. The foundation was always the
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  same. Show up, do the work, take
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  action. That's not just how great art
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  gets made. That's how any success gets
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  made. I've spent more time than I care
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  to admit preparing to do things rather than doing them.
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  Researching the perfect microphone before starting a
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  podcast. Thinking my studio space wasn't
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  good enough. Outlining the perfect format
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  before recording the first episode.
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  Waiting until I felt ready, which, as it turns out, is a
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  feeling that never just happens. Changing website themes and
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  designs instead of writing the content.
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  What eventually moved things forward wasn't more preparation,
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  it was more action. Imperfect, uncertain, and just
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  good enough to start. And once the foundation of
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  action was laid, everything else had something to build on.
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  Picasso was right. It really is foundational.
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  So here's the question. What are you still preparing for
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  that you actually need to just start because the plan is never
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  going to be perfect. The timing is never going to be
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  ideal. But action, even imperfect
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  action taken today is the one thing that can actually build
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  into something. Lay the foundation, take action.
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  That's where success begins. 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.