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Charles Buxton - "You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.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 because good news should be
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  heard. Find it in your favorite podcast
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  app. And just to make it easy, I've
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  left a link in the show notes. Today's quote comes from Charles
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  Buxton, a 19th century British politician, philanthropist and
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  author who wrote You will never find time for anything.
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  If you want time, you must make it.
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  That first sentence is the one that stings.
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  You will never find time. Think about how many times
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  you've said or heard. I just need to find the time.
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  Find the time to get fit. Find the time to start the
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  business, find the time to learn the skill, repair the
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  relationship, pursue the dream as if time is something that is
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  out there waiting to be discovered, hiding behind the
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  right week, the right season, the right set of circumstances.
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  Buxton wrote this in 1873, and more than 150 years later,
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  nothing has changed. People are still looking for
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  time that they'll never find, because bound time doesn't
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  exist. Here's the truth he's pointing
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  at Time doesn't appear on its own.
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  It doesn't show up when life slows down, because life doesn't
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  slow down. Every hour of your day is
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  already spoken for by something. The question isn't whether your
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  time is being used. It is.
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  The question is whether you're the one deciding how.
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  Buxton was a man who believed that nothing good comes without
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  effort and intention, that everything worth having was to
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  be actively pursued, not passively waited for.
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  Time is no different. You don't find it.
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  You carve it out, you protect it.
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  You say no to something else so that the thing that matters most
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  gets a seat at the table. Making time is an active
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  decision, and decision is an act of priority.
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  Show me how someone spends their time and I'll show you what they
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  actually value. So here's the question.
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  What have you been waiting to find time for that you actually
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  need to decide to make the time for?
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  Because the calendar won't clear itself.
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  Life won't slow down and hand you a gap.
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  If you want it, whatever it is, you have to make the time
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  starting now. 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.