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Bill Phillips - "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do." · 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 podcast 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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  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 is attributed to
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  Bill Phillips, fitness expert, entrepreneur, and the author of
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  Body for Life, one of the most successful transformational
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  programs ever created. He once said the difference
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  between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.
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  Very interesting because buried inside that one sentence is one
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  of the most honest and uncomfortable truths and
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  personal development. Some people think the gap
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  between who they are and who they want to be is about talent
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  OR luck or timing or circumstances.
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  They tell themselves. If things were different, I
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  would be different. If I had more time, more
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  resources, more opportunity, I'd be the person I want to be.
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  But Phillips cut right through all of that.
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  He says the gap isn't made of circumstances.
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  It's made of actions. Specifically the actions you're
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  taking or not taking every single day.
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  Think of it this way. The person you want to be, the
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  fit version, the discipline version, the successful version,
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  the confident version. What does that person do
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  differently? They show up when they don't
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  feel like it. They do the work before the
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  reward arrives. They make the choice that serves
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  their future instead of their present comfort.
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  Phillips believes that the transformation you create in one
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  area of your life is merely an example of the power you have to
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  transform everything else in your world.
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  It starts with one decision, then the next, then the next,
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  and slowly through what you do, you become who you want to be.
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  The gap isn't a mystery, it's A to do list.
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  So here's the question. Think about the person you want
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  to be. Now ask yourself, what does that
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  person do that you weren't doing yet?
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  Because that's the gap and the only thing that closes it is
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  what you do starting today that's going to do 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.