Sunday Morning Run: Inspiration from Thomas Edison to Amanda Gorman to Maya Angelou.

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to your Sunday morning run, where we well start our week off with some inspiration from our quotes of the day for the week. We have a bonus quote for you and hope to get everyone a little motivated, a little inspired on Sunday, which we often do whether we're worshiping or finding ourselves in nature. It's that day where we reflect, and so we'll take you to our first quote of the day this past week. Take charge of your happiness and you will never be disappointed.

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Speaker 2: Don't how many people right now are Do you really think right now anybody's in charge of your happiness? Who can take it away?

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Speaker 1: You can? Oh, my daughters can not really yes, And I say they can if I let them. It's a choice you have to make. You have to recognize that it's happening and say, wait, why am I allowing someone else's energy to change? Mind? It can happen if we're not intentional about it.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that a tall task? Well obviously it is, but isn't that just what it is? It's just a tall task, isn't that I'm I'm imagining somebody rolling their eyes say yeah, that sounds great, but you don't have this in your life. You don't have this person and this crazy mother over here. And I'm just imagining what someone might roll their eyes to and I'm trying to make sure I'm being mindful of that. But but yeah, we are. There's nobody. I can't take it from you, you can't take it from me. We allow these things to happen.

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Speaker 1: We give away our power. And you look, I have seen it, You've pointed out I've seen it my dad, I see it in analyse. I can let some person cutting me off in traffic take away my happiness, you know, And like, these are all moments. So those are small, you know, anonymous things where you actually have to check yourself and say, wait, why am I getting worked up over someone who I have never met, will never know, and has no idea who I am. And so this is the moment where things start to click and you say, okay, I'm in charge of my disposition, I'm in charge of my joy. And once you realize that you're in charge, you you won't disappoint yourself. Trust this was it was disputed, unknown, disputed. Too many people have said different versions of it. But I just thought it just is a nice reminder, take charge of your happiness and you will never be disappointed. And then you actually don't have to be angry at people and blame people and point the finger at people and be nasty because you don't need to blame anyone else. Look within, You're responsible for you, all right. This next quote of the day comes from an author, Roy T. Bennett is his name. Here is his quote. Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

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Speaker 2: The fears in your mind, man, that stuff guide is. That's stuff guises more than any fear. Fear, fear, fear, Oh my god, fear made us make so many poor decisions. Fear of this and that. Yeah, well was it dreams in your heart?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Is what it said.

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Speaker 1: Be led by the dreams in your heart. If you think about I, I sometimes I try to visualize when I start to feel afraid, fearful, worry, all the things we all fear. Don't you feel your chest closing, like you actually feel your chest clothing closing? So I have when I've noticed that. That's my aha, Like I feel myself doing it. I'm letting fear take over and my heart is actually physically feeling like it's closing. And if you can just take a breath and try to open your heart back up it, you can let that joy, the dreams, you have, all the things that your heart feels lead the way instead of the fear that's closing everything off. But do you do you have a physical Am I the only one I actually physically feel it? No? Your chest isn't tightened.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't. I've heard people describe that before. I don't necessarily feel that. I don't know. You've been around me enough. When I get when I get anxious, I get you know, I get resolute. I guess I see a problem and I want to immediately fix it, or I get into that mode. I don't sit with much of anything. You see me more. I guess you would be more of a.

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Speaker 1: You withdraw to your head, though, which is where fear lies. I'm just saying, like, when have you been able to say to yourself you can feel the fear right in your head, like going crazy, and you're like in your head.

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Speaker 2: Can't remember it physically manifesting.

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Speaker 1: How do you switch? How do you switch? How do you switch back to like dreams? Or do you have to fix a problem first, you have to address the fear logically.

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Speaker 2: First, you know, my mind, I need to make sense of what's happening. I'm fearful of something, and then I get to the best decision I can based on the information I have that makes me feel better about it. But the fear day, I guess it lessens when I get information. It's that simple for me. I kind of lessen the fear by coming with practical solutions to whatever is in front of me. That could be our relationship. I could be fearful of this thing or that thing, the next thing we're about to do, and I will do okay, But there's this, there's this. We have this foundation which I've gone back to and has saved us countless times because I'm like, oh dude, come on, you know her and there is no issue. And that's the kind of confidence I always speak of. So, yeah, you feel the fear. Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway. It's not just being fearless. Fearlesses will get you in all kinds of trouble. Don't be fearless, really? Yeah, oh no, I don't want to be. You want to follow some fearless idiot in the war. No, I want you to be scared. It's okay.

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Speaker 1: There is a healthy fear for sure.

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Speaker 2: All fear, I would say, is healthy if you're actually addressing it the correct way. Fear. Yeah, fear is absolutely healthy and we need it. Feel it, then do whatever that thing is anyway, And that makes you courageous.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time you were led by the dreams in your heart?

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Speaker 2: Been about now? Younger than ten?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't do dreams. I don't. I don't do dream I do goals. I don't do dreams. I'm not a dreamer. I don't even dream of winning the lottery. I have a goal of doing so, and then I go buy a lottery ticket. But I don't just dream of things. And I'm not a dreamer.

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Speaker 1: You're not a dreamy guy. Yeah, I mean you're dreamy, trust me, but not in that other way.

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Speaker 2: Oh body. One of the quotes is that the bonus quote.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, all right. Our next quote comes from Thomas Edison, and I have heard this quote, but I didn't know he said it. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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Speaker 2: It's one of my favorites. I've heard of variations of this, and I've used it several times. I thought it was from a different I thought it was from an author, but.

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Speaker 1: Again, maybe there are definitely plenty of iterations of that.

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Speaker 2: But it's most people fail because they don't realize how close they were to success when they decided to give up. I haven't said that for years and years, and it makes so much sense. Are you a failure? Why did you quit? You quit? I just love all those stories who I mean from I even think Microsoft, Amazon, All those guys have stories of how somebody rejected them or told them they were crazy for what they were trying.

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Speaker 1: To do, isn't I think Lucille Ball is one of those famous ones where she says she got hundreds of rejections. All it takes is at first. But I think actors, anyone who puts themselves out there in some sort of subjective way, knows that a hundred people can say no, and you just need that one person to say yes. And the biggest difference between succeeding and failing is continuing. You have to keep trying. Someone's gonna say yes. And by the way, with all of those no's and all of those rejections along the way, you learn something each time. So you know, with rejectionist protection, yes, but you got to keep on going. You got to keep trying. You got to keep pushing because someone somewhere out there is going to give you a chance.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to do though, right you, I've been rejected one hundred and four times. You're not thinking, Okay, one hundred and five is going to be the one until it is. It's just it's tough to keep going to get to one hundred and four, even to get to four. You're like, you get rejected three times. I really want to try it a fourth. I really want to try to tenth of twenty. Man stick with it.

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Speaker 1: But I love hearing those stories. I like from authors and actors and yes, entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 2: Everybody has them. Every success story you see and we just see the end product that we so many people want it immediately. No, those folks went through.

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, and the way up is not a straight line. It goes up and down and backwards. Sometimes it's that just that belief in yourself and that belief that there will be a better day and I love that, so thank you, Thomas Edison. Our next quote of the day, This one was beautiful and from a beautiful human. Amanda Gorman and I just this one. Actually we used this one during the week when things got a little, I don't know, gloomy. I actually said this out loud and it changed my attitude. The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.

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Speaker 2: Brave man, that word is that's a big one, and that's that idea is you. Of course, this idea all the time, that you were always looking for the light. Where's the light? It's you, You actually the light And that's a huge responsibility. It feels heavy sometimes, but that's a she put it in a beautiful way, a reminder at the brave part I get hung up on.

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Speaker 1: I also think it's brave to see the light in other people, because you know, I think a lot of times we want to the worst or distrustful, but to actually look for the light in other people is a beautiful, brave thing to do. Because you're you're saying, I'm going to believe that there's good there, and yes, finding the courage to then be the light as well?

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Speaker 2: What do you start with when you're appro do you do we start? Do you start with a clean slate or do you start with the benefit of the doubt that this is a good person? When you meet.

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Speaker 1: Somebody, I don't know. I think it depends on the person. It depends on the situation, It depends on the energy, It depends on your mood, It depends on how much sleep you got the night before, right, I think all of that plays into it.

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Speaker 2: I think too often it seems like these days we're starting with the negative. This has to be was the thing with you looking for the worst and somebody you'll find it? Yes, But if you're looking for the best, you'll find that as well. What do you lead with? I'm asking you all who are listening, what do you lead with? When you meet somebody? Are you leading with?

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Speaker 1: Im?

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Speaker 2: Find the best in this person.

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Speaker 1: And you can start with the person you live with, you know, because I think even you get comfortable and you think you start kind of creating this enemy like behavior if someone does something or the person who's supposed to love you does something you don't like it's so easy to put them in enemy territory. But instead if you could just say, where's the good, where's the light, and just look for that and focus on that. Because I love what you just said. I think it's so true. We will find what we're looking for in someone period. So let's look for the light and remember to be the light. I thank you, Amanda Gorman. That was so beautiful. One more time for you. All the new dawn blooms as we free it, for there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough.

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Speaker 2: To be it.

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Speaker 1: That is beautiful, all right. So after the break, we're going to talk. Oh one of my favorite quotes ever from Maya Angelou, and we have a bonus quote from another American writer that is going to change the way you live today. Before we go to break, I have to tell you about new leggings I've been living in lately. They're from this brand called Tona, and fun fact here, they were actually designed by the same visionary behind Lululemon. So from that alone, you already know they're going to be pretty good. These leggings feel like a second skin. They're super flattering, super comfortable and somehow still supportive. I've been wearing them on my morning runs and they've quickly become my everyday lounging leggings too. And here's what makes them even better. Every pair you buy helps fund a mental health counseling session for a teen in need. Tona's on a mission to end teen suicide and self harm, which we think is so important and incredible, so we've partnered with Tona to give you twenty percent off your order and free shipping. Head to tonaactive dot com and use code iHeart for twenty percent off and free shipping. Welcome back to your Sunday morning run, where we hopefully will help you get a little inspiration on this Sunday. And this one is just a beautiful one from Maya Angelou, who just has so many words of wisdom it's too many to count. I could we could probably do a weekly like for an entire year and still probably go on for five years, ten years with Maya Angelou quotes. But this is a good one. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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Speaker 2: When you use that when I kind of challenge folks, like, how many moments can you remember that took your breath away this week? Should we have them weekly? Should we have them daily?

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Speaker 1: I think daily?

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Speaker 2: Are they rare?

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Speaker 1: Yes? You know what? I think that if we really start to think about how magical it is that we're all here, the planet, we're standing on the perspective of the Earth to the rest of the galaxy and universe. I mean, you really just start to think about all the things that had to happen for you to even be here, That in and of itself should take your breath away. Our mere presence here should take our breath away. Every time I see a little baby, or when I see someone who is either struggling with their weight or struggling with their age out there running on that running trail, I am blown away. Like you can find magical moments, I think hourly, if we're looking for them, if we're acknowledging them, I think the problem is we don't even recognize what should be taking our breath away.

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Speaker 2: I give you that. That's something I'll always compliment you on and say it's one of the most attractive things about you is that you find joy in the little things all the time, and it drives me crazy. Oftentimes we walk down the street and we're on a train, or we're even at a restaurant, and the number of people who are looking down at their phones and we sometimes we're in wonderful, beautiful places. We look out the window we're looking at like you all are missing all of this and your heads are down. That that's a part of what you speak of too. You're not looking and not even hoping to be in awe of the world around you.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of this. It's a childlike state to almost have magic glasses on where you everything you see is wonderful or awe inspiring. I mean, I know you've teased me, but and I now become a little joke. But when it rains and we're walking down the street, I'm like, look at how the road is glistening with the rain. And the movie sets that they spray roads down to make it look prettier, but like, just to even take in after the rain, or it doesn't even have to be a sunset. It could just be a smile on someone's face that you weren't expecting. It's about looking for it and recognizing it right and doesn't that bring you joy to recognize or to realize how special little moments are. I think it's a game changer in attitude, but maybe that's just me. All right, let's move on to our bonus quote for this Sunday. This comes to us from Natalie Babbittt. I'm not familiar with her, but she's an American writer. I love this. Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, You just have to live.

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Speaker 2: Say the first part again, don't.

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Speaker 1: Be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that what they say that? The only people are that are scared of dying are the folks who haven't lived. And that makes perfect sense, right, if you are right, you're only thinking about what you've missed or what you haven't gotten to do, or that makes perfect sense.

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Speaker 1: But we're afraid of the wrong thing. We're afraid of something that's inevitable. We're afraid of dying. We're afraid and we're all going to But we're not adequately afraid of living an unlived life. We're not afraid of not We're not thinking about that. We don't have a fear of missing out because we always think there's more time. We always think there's another day. We always think next year, five years from now, ten years from now, I'll do that, or when I get this, I'll be happy, or when I do that. No, it's about acknowledging how important is to live in the moment and live your life as it is right now, and to appreciate it and to live it and to experience it. I just it's a remind we're afraid of the wrong thing.

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Speaker 2: Does that look different for so many other people?

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Speaker 1: Though?

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Speaker 2: What does that look like when we talk about a life lived? It could be different things for different people, I suppose, right, But what is the commonality. I'm trying to find the commonality, And.

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Speaker 1: I think it's about appreciation and gratitude, like appreciating a wonderful meal, or being grateful to be with the person you love, or really really taking in that sweet hug from your little girl. You know, it's those moments that we just assume we'll have more of. But if you actually lean into to the beauty of them and how amazing they are, you're living it, your experiencing and yes, if you have something you want to do. I know there are financial reasons why people can't do certain things, but you can find things that you love instead of saying I wish I could do that, or I should do that, but like just actually start doing it, being it, living it. It's a wake up call.

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Speaker 2: Nice, it's a good bonus.

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Speaker 1: It's a bonus called Okay, don't be afraid of death, be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. Natalie BABBITTT thank you very much for that, and thank you for listening today. On this Sunday morning run, I'm made Robock along with TJ. Holmes. Have a great start to your week. Everybody,