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Bill W - All progress starts by telling the truth · 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 let's jump into today's
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  quote from Bill W Co, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, who once
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  said all progress starts by telling the truth. 7 words.
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  One requirement for change. Bill W understood something
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  fundamental. You cannot fix what you won't
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  acknowledge. The first step in a A is
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  admitting you have a problem, not explaining it, not
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  justifying it, not spinning it. Just tell the truth about it.
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  And that's where all progress begins.
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  With truth, you can't improve your finances until you tell the
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  truth about how much you're spending.
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  You can't fix a relationship until you tell the truth about
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  what's actually wrong. You can't achieve your goals
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  until you tell the truth about why you haven't achieved them
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  yet. Most people skip this step.
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  They want to go straight to solutions, straight to action,
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  straight to the transformation. But you can't navigate to a
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  destination if you lie about your starting point.
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  Progress requires an accurate map, and an accurate map
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  requires truth. The truth might be
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  uncomfortable, it might be embarrassing, it might reveal
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  things you don't want to see. But without it, you're just
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  pretending to make progress while staying exactly where you
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  are. Bill W knew this.
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  The entire foundation of recovery is built on one simple
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  act, telling the truth. So here's the question.
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  What truth are you avoiding right now?
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  What lie are you telling yourself that's preventing
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  progress? Because you can't change what
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  you've won't acknowledge. All progress starts by telling
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  the truth. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew Mcgibbon. Signing off for now.
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  But I'll be back tomorrow, same pod time, same pod station with
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  another daily quote.