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Denzel Washington - "Do what you have to do... to do what you want to do." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily quote, the
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  podcast 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. Check it out.
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  You'll find the link in the show notes.
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  Today's quote comes from Denzel Washington, two time Academy
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  Award winner, one of the most respected actors of his
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  generation, and a man whose career was built not on luck or
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  overnight success, but on decades of disciplined,
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  unglamorous work. He once said do what you have to
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  do to do what you want to do. This quote is one of the most
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  honest descriptions of how freedom actually gets built.
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  Most people want to start with what they want to do.
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  The dream job, the creative life, the financial
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  independence, the work that feels meaningful and fulfilling
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  every day. And there's nothing wrong with
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  wanting those things. The problem is the assumption
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  that that path begins there, that you can arrive at what you
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  want to do without first paying the half two costs.
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  Washington never made that assumption.
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  He has spoken openly about being more frightened by
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  procrastination and laziness than by any external obstacle,
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  because he understood that the undisciplined life doesn't lead
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  to freedom, it leads to smaller and smaller sets of options.
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  The have to do is the early mornings, the boring work, the
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  roles that weren't glamorous, the craft refined in obscurity.
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  That's what purchased the freedom to eventually do only
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  what he wanted. Think about what they have to
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  looks like in your life right now.
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  The job that funds the dream. The skill being built before it
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  pays. The discipline maintained before
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  the results arrive. The unglamorous, unsexy,
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  necessary work that most people try to skip because they can't
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  see yet how it connects to getting to what you want to do
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  later. It connects.
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  Washington is the proof that have to do isn't the obstacle to
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  freedom. It's the price of it.
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  It is the way. So here's the question.
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  What have to do are you currently avoiding to do that is
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  standing directly between you and what you want to do, the
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  things that you have to do to later be in a position to do
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  what you want to do. Because Washington isn't
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  describing a detour. He's describing the actual
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  route. The have to do is not the
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  obstacle to the life you want. It's the door to it.
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  Do what you have to do. The want to do is on the other
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  side. That's it for today.
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  I'm Anna Mcgibbon, 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.