Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, and happy Sunday to you.
Speaker 2: It is Sunday, June twenty ninth, and welcome to this
Speaker 2: inspirational episode of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 1: We go through our quotes of the day.
Speaker 2: We collect them here, give them all to you one place,
Speaker 2: give you a little background about where they came from,
Speaker 2: what they mean to us, and why we chose them.
Speaker 2: I say we, but usually Robes. This is a task
Speaker 2: you usually take on in the morning for Morning run.
Speaker 2: You pick out the quotes.
Speaker 3: Yes, it actually began with you, though I should give
Speaker 3: you credit because you used to post these quotes on
Speaker 3: your door on every Monday in the GMA studios, and
Speaker 3: you collected them, had a big old folder full of them.
Speaker 3: And we have essentially run out of your quotes that
Speaker 3: you had collected over the years. So now, yes, I
Speaker 3: have taken on the duties of curating our quotes of
Speaker 3: the day for our morning run.
Speaker 2: So you started on Monday with a poet that I
Speaker 2: wasn't familiar with, but an American poet who had a quote.
Speaker 2: I think I've heard something similar to this, but I'll
Speaker 2: let you know what I I'll explain.
Speaker 1: That in a second.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is from poet Susie Cassim and the quote
Speaker 3: of the day was, doubt kills more dreams than failure
Speaker 3: ever will.
Speaker 2: Why does that sound familiar because I heard of all people,
Speaker 2: I heard Spike Lee, but it this way. He told
Speaker 2: a crowd we were doing an event, and he said
Speaker 2: it was parents that kill more dreams than anybody else.
Speaker 2: The idea that sometimes we are trying to guide our
Speaker 2: kids that you shouldn't do this, We're trying to put
Speaker 2: them in another direction, and you kill the kids dreams.
Speaker 2: So when you told me this quote, it's kind of
Speaker 2: that thing as well. Dreams don't usually die because of failure.
Speaker 2: They die because of doubt. They died because of something else.
Speaker 3: And it's a good thing to remember, because I think
Speaker 3: a lot of us are afraid to fail, and so
Speaker 3: we don't go after our dreams. But you're right, a
Speaker 3: lot of us want to steer our kids or ourselves
Speaker 3: in sensible directions, fuol proof or failure proof directions like
Speaker 3: you should become a lawyer, or you should get a
Speaker 3: job where you know you're going to get benefits. You
Speaker 3: shouldn't be an artist, you shouldn't be a poet. And
Speaker 3: that's why I love that a poet wrote this, because
Speaker 3: I'm sure she faced a lot of that. Maybe when
Speaker 3: she told her parents or she even convinced herself she could.
Speaker 3: People probably doubted her every step of the way. How
Speaker 3: can you possibly make a living these days as a poet?
Speaker 3: So I thought that was pretty cool. And anytime we're
Speaker 3: trying to pursue something new or chase a dream, I
Speaker 3: think it's so important to remember that if you can
Speaker 3: just believe in yourself, you might fail a couple of
Speaker 3: times before you make it, but then you could still
Speaker 3: ultimately make it.
Speaker 2: Because this applighter relationships as well.
Speaker 3: I think so too. I do, I actually do. Because
Speaker 3: you doubt someone, you doubt love, you stop trusting someone
Speaker 3: and that can kill a relationship. But if you just
Speaker 3: believe and you stay positive, maybe it's going to all
Speaker 3: be okay.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you Susie Cassim, American poet, for that to
Speaker 2: The quote of the day on Monday was doubt kills
Speaker 2: more dreams than the failure ever will.
Speaker 3: Our next quote of the day comes from is Ernest
Speaker 3: Hemingway a poet and an author or just an author?
Speaker 2: I thought author? Yes, maybe comes to mind initially, Yes.
Speaker 3: He I mean a prolific author, of course, but Ernest
Speaker 3: Hemingway I loved this because this is something I am
Speaker 3: constantly trying to train my brain not to do. I
Speaker 3: haven't conquered it yet, but here was his quote. Worry
Speaker 3: a little bit every day, and in a lifetime you
Speaker 3: will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong,
Speaker 3: fix it if you can, but train yourself not to worry.
Speaker 3: Worry never fixes anything.
Speaker 2: This is the key to life, I think. I think
Speaker 2: it's the key to happiness. I do too, being in
Speaker 2: the moment, training yourself not to worry about something that
Speaker 2: never probably is going to happen anyway. If you stop
Speaker 2: right now, think about the thing. What were you worried
Speaker 2: about yesterday?
Speaker 1: Did it happen today?
Speaker 3: No? Actually, actually no? And where do you worry the most? Like?
Speaker 3: Where are you in the day? Where are you in
Speaker 3: your day where you find yourself overthinking and future casting
Speaker 3: and creating worst case scenarios in your head.
Speaker 2: I sit and I'm quiet when I'm not active, when
Speaker 2: i'm not engaged, when i'm not helping, when i'm not
Speaker 2: being of service, when i'm not doing work. I think
Speaker 2: when I lay down.
Speaker 1: Is when I have it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're not in the moment.
Speaker 2: That's why I have to have the TV on at
Speaker 2: night to distract me from my own thoughts. Seriously, I
Speaker 2: know you think I'm crazy have to sleep with the
Speaker 2: TV on. That sounds insane.
Speaker 3: When we first started dating, I knew you was a friend,
Speaker 3: but I never had spent time with you in an
Speaker 3: intimate setting like a living room or a bedroom. So, yes,
Speaker 3: that was a big surprise to me after knowing you
Speaker 3: for eight years, that you always have to have a
Speaker 3: TV on, even the whole night while you're sleeping the
Speaker 3: entire night. It took a lot of training for me
Speaker 3: to be able to work through that. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I don't even know if I told
Speaker 3: you how shocking it was to me. Why so shocking
Speaker 3: because I'd never met anyone who had the TV on
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 2: But this goes back to Ernest Hemingway worry. So when
Speaker 2: I'm laying down and it's quiet and nothing is distracting me,
Speaker 2: I get to Okay, got I do this? What if
Speaker 2: this happens? Then I got to figure this out. I
Speaker 2: set the alarm. Oh my goodness, that I start the dishwasher, Like.
Speaker 1: All this is happening.
Speaker 2: So if the TV is on, I'm painting like something
Speaker 2: is keeping my attention.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 1: It keeps me from talking.
Speaker 3: It makes sense. That's why I don't like it when
Speaker 3: you're quiet, because even if I ask you what are
Speaker 3: you thinking about, you'll just say nothing.
Speaker 2: You don't want to know what's going on.
Speaker 3: But I know, oh, I know, saying nothing is better
Speaker 3: than saying what you're thinking. I get that. I find
Speaker 3: my thoughts racing in the shower sometimes when I'm running,
Speaker 3: if I don't have music or Actually that's why I
Speaker 3: do prefer a podcast or an audiobook because then I
Speaker 3: can't start overthinking when i'm running, because my mind quiets
Speaker 3: and I really I'll go into doomsday thoughts.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we just brought something up. It's now a relationship
Speaker 2: episode the shower.
Speaker 1: Same thing. I don't think in the shower.
Speaker 3: Why because you have TV shows, play TV show you
Speaker 3: freing an iPad? Oh my goodness, I just realized this.
Speaker 3: You bring an iPad and blast it on a speaker
Speaker 3: while you're in the shower so you don't start worrying.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Okay, one more time for you. Worry
Speaker 3: a little bit every day and in a lifetime. You
Speaker 3: will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong,
Speaker 3: fix it if you can, but train yourself not to worry.
Speaker 3: Worry never fixes anything, all right, the.
Speaker 2: Next one here on Wednesday, I'm going to do this
Speaker 2: in the reverse of the way I did it during
Speaker 2: the week I said who the quote was from first,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it in reverse this time. Okay, So
Speaker 2: here's the quote, stop letting people who do so little
Speaker 2: for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.
Speaker 2: Can't we all agree with that.
Speaker 3: So much, so much, And the prolific author of this
Speaker 3: quote is Will Smith. That's when you started singing, getting
Speaker 3: jiggy with it, or you just started humming it.
Speaker 2: That stuff gets in your head. That dude has some
Speaker 2: good stuff back here.
Speaker 3: And you know what. I loved his book, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I actually that was one of my favorite audiobooks to
Speaker 3: run to ever. I would actually listen to it again.
Speaker 3: And this was all before the infamous Night of the Oscars,
Speaker 3: And so I was I had just finished the book,
Speaker 3: I believe, right leading up to that night, and I
Speaker 3: was so disappointed with what happened because I know he
Speaker 3: has spent so many years working on himself truly, and
Speaker 3: you know what that just goes to say or to
Speaker 3: show you can do all the work, and you can
Speaker 3: go to therapy. And he spent time alone and he
Speaker 3: was reading all the books that you and I have read,
Speaker 3: and yet still in a moment, in a moment of anger,
Speaker 3: in a weak moment, we all can have that devastating
Speaker 3: human low moment. That's unfortunately something for him is hard
Speaker 3: to walk away from, or to even take away or
Speaker 3: to remove, or for people to forget.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, his moment happened in front of a lot of
Speaker 2: people's look and this helped me understand Will Smith a
Speaker 2: lot because I read it. I didn't do the audio,
Speaker 2: but it's a four hundred page book. It's a thick, incredible,
Speaker 2: big book, and it is incredible. You understand him so
Speaker 2: much better when you read it, and you understand why
Speaker 2: he is the way he is, why he entertained, why
Speaker 2: his personality goes back to his child.
Speaker 1: It is such a good book. This is not what
Speaker 1: this what are we turning this well.
Speaker 2: To a lifestyle podcast today?
Speaker 1: It supposed to be about inspirational.
Speaker 3: Quotes, but I think the whole book is inspirational, and
Speaker 3: I think you'll actually have a lot more compassion for
Speaker 3: him if if you were angered by or hold what
Speaker 3: happened on the Oscar night against him, if you read
Speaker 3: his book, I think maybe you'll picture him differently. But
Speaker 3: I love what he had to say because so many
Speaker 3: of us let people who don't matter affect us and
Speaker 3: affect how we think about ourselves. So stop letting people
Speaker 3: who do so little for you control so much of
Speaker 3: your mind, feelings, and emotions.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, when we come back, we're going to
Speaker 2: give you our last couple of quotes, one from a
Speaker 2: football player, another from Socrates, and we even throw in
Speaker 2: a little Dolly parton.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to this Sunday edition of our Morning Ron,
Speaker 3: the Inspiration Edition, where we go through the quotes of
Speaker 3: the day, And this one comes from Yes TJ mentioned
Speaker 3: before the break a football player, someone who even I
Speaker 3: know his name. I'm not a big knower of football names.
Speaker 2: From football over something a podcast or for pop culture
Speaker 2: or commercials.
Speaker 3: You know him from playing, probably from after he was playing,
Speaker 3: but jj watk okay, this is what he said, and
Speaker 3: I love this quote. Success isn't owned its least, and
Speaker 3: rent is due every day. I think sometimes we get complacent,
Speaker 3: maybe a little lazy, but if you truly want success,
Speaker 3: if you truly want to reach a goal, you got
Speaker 3: to work at it each and every day. It's about
Speaker 3: I just this quote motivated me to keep working, to
Speaker 3: keep pushing, to keep trying to get where you want
Speaker 3: to get, and then when you get where you want
Speaker 3: to get, climb another mountain.
Speaker 2: You know, didn't you just say something to me today
Speaker 2: about Wow, I can't wait until we get to this
Speaker 2: and then we you can take a break as it. No, baby,
Speaker 2: you gotta work hard.
Speaker 3: I did, and then this quote snapped me right out
Speaker 3: of it. So thank you for that. JJ Watt. Success
Speaker 3: isn't owned, its least and rent is due every day.
Speaker 2: Okay, you got this? The next one from Socrates? Does
Speaker 2: Socrates speak this way? You know what?
Speaker 3: I have the same question, But I have to admit
Speaker 3: this must have been translated into more of a modern
Speaker 3: American vernacular, because I had the same thought. I thought,
Speaker 3: does Socrates use the verbs screws us up? Or that
Speaker 3: that phrase? I don't think so. I think that is
Speaker 3: a loose modern translation. But here's what Socrates had to
Speaker 3: say all those so many many centuries ago. What screws
Speaker 3: us up the most in life is the picture in
Speaker 3: our head of what it's supposed to be. Ain't that
Speaker 3: the truth? Expectations or what we think should or could
Speaker 3: be can cause us the most suffering, and we're doing
Speaker 3: it to ourselves. I have tried to catch myself for
Speaker 3: the last couple of years. Every time I start to
Speaker 3: say I should have, I could have, I wish I
Speaker 3: would have, And every time my brain starts going there,
Speaker 3: I have to say, stop, what are you doing. You're
Speaker 3: not changing anything, you're not undoing anything, and you're only
Speaker 3: making yourself miserable and frustrated.
Speaker 2: It's hard to embrace what is.
Speaker 1: It's hard to accept that maybe.
Speaker 2: Like this isn't what I wanted out of life, and
Speaker 2: this is not where I wanted to be. But that's
Speaker 2: hard to accept. It's hard to surrender to so many
Speaker 2: things around you like that. But that is the cause,
Speaker 2: the sole source of your daily frustration and even depression. Yes,
Speaker 2: we are, it absolutely is. You're suffering because you're looking
Speaker 2: around and saying I don't want this, I didn't want this,
Speaker 2: this is not how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Man, it is really freeing to.
Speaker 3: Just accept it actually is exactly what. It was hard
Speaker 3: to do, though, man, especially when you're in the in
Speaker 3: the ditch and you're down on your luck and you
Speaker 3: feel like, what what did I do wrong? Where did
Speaker 3: I go wrong? This isn't what was supposed to happen.
Speaker 3: I mean we of all, I have said that to
Speaker 3: myself a million times.
Speaker 2: Down in that ditch. They're cursing us, like, yeah, what
Speaker 2: was that quote?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly like the last thing you want to hear. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you kind of want to wallow in your own misery.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't make you feel any better. I know.
Speaker 3: I think it's important to let that emotion or that feeling.
Speaker 3: You got to you got to experience it and recognize it,
Speaker 3: and then you got to let it pass right through you.
Speaker 3: So I think it's just cool to recognize it in
Speaker 3: the moment. It might take a couple hours, it might
Speaker 3: take a couple of days, but just remember what Socrates
Speaker 3: said exactly the way I'm going to read it. Can
Speaker 3: you imagine Socrates saying it just like this, What screws
Speaker 3: us up the most in life is the picture in
Speaker 3: our head of what it's supposed to be. Thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you Socrates for that all right.
Speaker 2: We got a bonus today in honor of Dolly. She
Speaker 2: was on our minds of course, and she is probably
Speaker 2: going to get us out to Vegas. This is a
Speaker 2: good reason to go to Vegas. Dolly Pardon announced that
Speaker 2: she is doing a mini residency that is going to
Speaker 2: be this December. I believe Caesars.
Speaker 1: Do I have her right?
Speaker 3: Yes, that is exactly correct.
Speaker 1: She is.
Speaker 2: It's been thirty two years since she's had a residency
Speaker 2: out there, and she's retired from touring about ten years ago.
Speaker 2: But that didn't mean she was going to stop performing.
Speaker 2: She just wasn't on the road. So this is really cool.
Speaker 2: A lot of people excited that she's they get a
Speaker 2: chance to see her.
Speaker 3: She is such an amazing singer and songwriter, so it's
Speaker 3: not surprising that this woman has so many quotes. I
Speaker 3: might I could probably do with Dolly quote once a
Speaker 3: week for an entire year, and I still wouldn't get
Speaker 3: through them all. And they're all so brilliant. This woman
Speaker 3: knows exactly she's lived so much life. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you can write country music songs, first of all, hats
Speaker 3: off to you, because I love the lyrics in country
Speaker 3: music songs. But Dolly is at the top, top top
Speaker 3: of the heap, of course, So this is Dolly's quote
Speaker 3: for your bonus quote on this Sunday morning. Run. Don't
Speaker 3: get so busy making a living that you forget to
Speaker 3: make a life.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Obviously we just had the quote on success, and that's
Speaker 3: a big part of things. But sometimes success isn't just
Speaker 3: about financial success or professional success. It's about emotional success,
Speaker 3: relationship success. And I think we all sometimes, I know
Speaker 3: I was guilty of this for so much of my life.
Speaker 3: I had a I had a one track mine of
Speaker 3: where I wanted to get to, but it was about
Speaker 3: my work. And wow, when that work all came crumbling down,
Speaker 3: what was left just me?
Speaker 1: You were screwed.
Speaker 2: I was all you had.
Speaker 1: Boy, that was that was a reality check and.
Speaker 3: Making a life. Don't get so busy making a living
Speaker 3: that you forget to make a life.
Speaker 2: You know that obviously that makes perfect sense. You can
Speaker 2: actually do both, but there's got to be some kind
Speaker 2: of a balance. We unfortunately do get our heads down
Speaker 2: and we're total to just.
Speaker 1: Go at it work hard.
Speaker 2: People have pride themselves on I did take any vacation
Speaker 2: days this week this month?
Speaker 3: Shut up just that used to be me. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be totally honest.
Speaker 2: I know we all used to have done that at
Speaker 2: some point, and sometimes it was necessary when you're young
Speaker 2: and hungry. But when you thirty two and you got
Speaker 2: other things and people and things in your life that
Speaker 2: you care about, you got to stop this. Someone compared
Speaker 2: to a standard of living, right, don't confuse a standard
Speaker 2: of living with a standard of life. Standard of living
Speaker 2: is about I have a Mercedes, I fly first class.
Speaker 2: We get caught up in that standard. That's a standard
Speaker 2: of luxury almost, yes.
Speaker 1: But a standard of life. Who are your friendships?
Speaker 2: How much sleep do you get?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: A standard of life? And it's such a difference. And yes,
Speaker 2: we have learned this later in life, after putting ourselves
Speaker 2: through hell professionally and personally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, when it all comes crumbling down, what
Speaker 3: is left It is those relationships that you nurtured. And
Speaker 3: if you haven't been nurturing those relationships, you realize that
Speaker 3: is what counts on your deathbed. You don't care about
Speaker 3: your titles. It doesn't matter how many numbers are in
Speaker 3: your bank account, It truly doesn't. It matters who's around
Speaker 3: that bed with you. Helping you make that transition. That's
Speaker 3: what matters. So Dolly and Dolly knew that. You know,
Speaker 3: Dolly had such an incredible career. I mean, she is beloved,
Speaker 3: but I love her love story and the one that
Speaker 3: she kept private and the one that she is of
Speaker 3: course morning now that her husband has passed, her husband
Speaker 3: of sixty years. But man, she is a living, breathing
Speaker 3: example of how to live. So thank you, Dolly. Don't
Speaker 3: get so busy making a living that you forget to
Speaker 3: make a life. And thank you all for listening to
Speaker 3: us on this Sunday. I hope it gave you a
Speaker 3: little inspiration, a little motivation, maybe just a different way
Speaker 3: to think about how you're going to live your day
Speaker 3: today and every day going forward. So thank you for
Speaker 3: running with us. This is the Sunday morning run. Thanks
Speaker 3: for running with us. I had to remind myself and
Speaker 3: we will see you on the run tomorrow