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John Wooden - "Don't mistake activity with achievement." · 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, Anna McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach
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  who won 10 NCAA championships in 12 years.
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  He once said don't mistake activity with achievement.
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  Activity versus achievement. They look similar, but they're
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  not the same. Activity is being busy, moving,
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  doing things, checking boxes, filling your calendar, answering
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  emails, attending meetings, looking productive.
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  Achievement is actually accomplishing something, moving
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  toward a goal, creating real results, making measurable
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  progress. You can be incredibly active and
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  achieve nothing. In fact, that's what most people
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  do. They confuse motion with
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  progress, busyness with effectiveness.
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  Wooden coach some of the greatest players in basketball
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  history. He knew the difference between a
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  player who looked busy on the court and a player who actually
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  contributed to winning. Running around frantically.
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  That's activity. Making the shot that wins the
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  game. That's achievement.
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  The trap is that activity feels like achievement.
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  You're tired, you worked hard, you were busy all day.
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  That must count for something, right?
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  But Wooden's asking, what did you actually achieve?
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  What result did you create? What goal did you move closer
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  to? Because you can spend all day
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  being active and end up exactly where you started.
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  Answering 50 emails feels productive, but if none of them
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  moved your most important objective forward, it was just
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  activity. Attending 5 meetings feels like
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  work, but if none of them resulted in decisions or action,
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  it was just activity. Looking busy isn't the same as
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  being effective. Movement isn't the same as
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  progress. Activity is not achievement.
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  So here's the question. How much of your day is activity
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  and how much is actual achievement?
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  Because being busy doesn't mean you're being effective, and
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  looking productive doesn't mean you're making progress.
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  Don't mistake activity with achievement.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.