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John C. Maxwell - "Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to
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  app. But just to make it easy, I've
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  left a link in the show notes. Now let's dive into today's
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  quote from John C Maxwell, author of more than 50 books on
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  leadership and personal growth, who has trained over 2,000,000
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  liters worldwide. He once said small disciplines
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  repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements
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  gained slowly over time. Now let's break down what
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  Maxwell is actually saying here, because every single word in
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  that quote is important. Every word is doing some work.
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  Small. Not heroic, not dramatic, not a
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  massive overhaul of your life. Small The discipline of a 20
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  minute walk. The discipline of writing one
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  paragraph before you open that inbox.
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  Repeated. Not once, not when you feel like
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  it, not when conditions are perfect.
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  Repeated, meaning you show up whether it's convenient or not,
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  with consistency, every day. Maxwell makes a crucial
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  distinction here. Motivation gets you going, but
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  discipline keeps you growing. Consistency is what separates
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  people who intend to grow from people who actually do so
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  gradually that you've almost don't notice it happening until
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  one day you look back and can't believe how far you've come.
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  That's the compound effect of small disciplines.
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  Invisible in the short term, undeniable over time.
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  This podcast is proof of that principle.
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  It didn't start as something impressive.
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  It started as a small discipline.
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  Show up, record, publish, do it again tomorrow.
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  That's it. No great launch, no perfect
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  setup, just the quiet repetition of a small daily commitment
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  hundreds of episodes later. The achievement didn't arrive in
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  one dramatic moment. It accumulated slowly,
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  consistently, one small discipline at a time.
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  And yesterday's episode was the 800th episode of this podcast.
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  Maxwell knew exactly what he was talking about.
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  So here's the question. What small discipline could you
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  commit to today? Not something overwhelming.
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  Not something small enough that you could do it even on your
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  worst day. Because that's the one, that's
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  the discipline that repeated with consistency every single
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  day, leads to the achievement you're after.
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  Not quickly, but certainly small disciplines, great achievements
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  every day. 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.