Latest / the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day / Naeem Callaway - "Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step."
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- 0:00Podcasthero.com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
- 0:05podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
- 0:10I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
- 0:13you by the Great News Podcast because good news should be
- 0:18heard available where you find all your favorite podcasts.
- 0:22But just to make it easy for you, I've left a link in the
- 0:25show notes. Today's quote comes from Naeem
- 0:28Callaway, pastor, educator and founder of Get out-of-the-box
- 0:33Incorporated, a nonprofit organization dedicated to
- 0:37mentoring at risk youth and showing young people that one
- 0:41step forward can change the entire trajectory of a life, he
- 0:46once wrote. Sometimes the smallest step in
- 0:49the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your
- 0:52life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a
- 0:57step. That second sentence is the one
- 1:00that changes everything. Tiptoe if you must.
- 1:05Most motivational content tells you to leap, to be bold, to take
- 1:10massive action, to go all in. And while that's powerful advice
- 1:15for some people, in some moments it quietly shuts the door on
- 1:19everyone who isn't ready to leap.
- 1:21Everyone who's scared, Everyone who is unsure of themselves, and
- 1:27everyone who wants to move but can't quite summon the courage
- 1:30for a full stride forward. Callaway opens that door back
- 1:35up. He says you don't have to leap.
- 1:38You don't have to Sprint. You don't even have to walk
- 1:42confidently. Tiptoe if you must.
- 1:46The pace doesn't matter. The size of the step doesn't
- 1:50matter. The direction is everything.
- 1:55Think about how many of the biggest turning points in your
- 1:58life started with something almost embarrassingly small.
- 2:02A conversation you weren't sure about having.
- 2:05An application you nearly didn't send.
- 2:08A class you signed up for on a whim.
- 2:11A single phone call. None of those thought like life
- 2:15changing moments when they happened.
- 2:18They felt like tiny, tentative steps, and yet they led
- 2:22somewhere enormous. Callaway built his entire
- 2:26organization around this principle that the young people
- 2:30he works with don't need a perfect plan or a giant leap.
- 2:36They need someone to show them that one small step in a better
- 2:40direction is enough to begin a completely different story.
- 2:45This step creates the path, The path creates the momentum, and
- 2:50the momentum takes you somewhere at the tiptoe and never could
- 2:54have predicted. The first episode of this
- 2:57podcast was a tiptoe. I didn't announce it.
- 3:01I didn't have a plan for where it was going.
- 3:03Except I suppose I committed to myself to do it for one year.
- 3:08I took one small step, hit record, said something, and put
- 3:12it out into the world. It felt almost too small to
- 3:16matter. Looking back, that tiptoe turned
- 3:19out to be one of the biggest steps I've taken.
- 3:22Not because it was bold, it wasn't.
- 3:25Not because it became a huge show.
- 3:28It hasn't. But because it was in the right
- 3:32direction. And every episode since has been
- 3:35built on top of that one tiny, uncertain first step.
- 3:40So here's the question. What have you been waiting to
- 3:43feel ready for that you could take a little tiptoe toward
- 3:47today? You don't need confidence, you
- 3:52don't need certainty, you don't need a perfect plan or a giant
- 3:57leap. You just need a direction and
- 4:01one small step toward it. Tiptoe if you must, but take the
- 4:06step. That's it for today.
- 4:09I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
- 4:14tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
- 4:20with another daily quote.