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John C. Maxwell - "Growth's highest reward is not what we get from it but what we become by it." · 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. Why?
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  Because good news should be heard, and the link is right
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  here in the show notes. Today's quote comes from John C
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  Maxwell, author of more than 100 books, including some of the
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  best selling, leadership and personal development titles ever
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  written, with over 30 million copies sold worldwide.
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  He's a man who spent his entire career studying what separates
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  people who grow from people who simply get older.
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  He once said growth's highest reward is not what we get from
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  it, but what we become by it. We live in an outcomes culture.
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  We measure growth by what it produces.
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  The promotion, the income, the fitness school, the skill level,
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  the milestone reached. And those things do matter.
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  Results are real. They confirm that the work is
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  working, but Maxwell is pointing at something that sits quietly
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  beneath all of it, something most people never stop long
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  enough to notice. The real reward of any growth
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  you undertake isn't the outcome it produces, it's the person it
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  produces. Think about what actually
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  changes when you commit to genuine growth over time.
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  Yes, your results improve, but something deeper shifts too.
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  Your capacity for difficulty expands.
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  Problems that would have broken you two years ago and no longer
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  do, not because the problems got smaller, but because you got
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  larger. Your patience deepens, your
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  self-awareness sharpens, your tolerance for uncertainty grows,
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  and your ability to serve other people increases in proportion
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  to how much you've invested in yourself.
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  Maxwell himself put it plainly. We cannot become what we need by
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  remaining what we are. That's the quiet urgency
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  underneath today's quote. Growth isn't optional.
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  If you want to be capable of the life you're trying to build and
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  the cultivation of that capability, the becoming is
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  always the deeper prides. Here's a useful distinction
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  Maxwell draws through his work. Most people are goal conscious.
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  They fix their eyes on a destination and measure
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  everything by whether they've arrived.
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  But the people who grow most consistently are growth
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  conscious. They focus on the journey, on
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  the person being built by the process, trusting that the
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  destination will take care of itself if the becoming is taken
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  care of first. As Maxwell says, if you're goal
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  conscious, you focus on a destination.
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  If you're growth conscious, you're focusing on a journey.
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  The trophy sits on a shelf. The person you became earning
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  that trophy goes everywhere with you for the rest of your life.
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  So here's the question in the growth you're currently
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  pursuing, or the growth you've been putting off, are you
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  focused only on what you'll get from it, or are you also paying
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  attention to what it's making of you?
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  Because the outcomes may or may not arrive exactly as you
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  planned. Goals move, timeline, shift.
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  Results are never fully under your control.
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  But that person being built by the consistent effort, the
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  becoming that belongs entirely to you, and no set back, no
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  delay, no change in circumstances can take it away.
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  Grow for the outcomes, but stay for what you become.
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  That's going to do 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.