Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to this Sunday Morning run. It is Sunday,
Speaker 1: September seventh, and we are hoping to get your Sunday
Speaker 1: started with some inspiration. We like to go over our
Speaker 1: quotes of the day from our morning run, and we're
Speaker 1: going to begin with Monday and a quote that actually
Speaker 1: is simple, but I think very powerful. It's from Neil
Speaker 1: Donald Walsh and he said life begins at the end
Speaker 1: of your comfort zone. What do you think about that? DJ?
Speaker 2: Neil donald Walsh.
Speaker 1: You know, I get a lot of these from authors.
Speaker 1: Authors are apparently really good with words, and apparently they're
Speaker 1: really motivating. So I've found authors I've never heard of
Speaker 1: before suddenly popping up when I go and look for
Speaker 1: quotes that are motivating. And this one was something that
Speaker 1: really jumped out at me.
Speaker 3: What kind of an author was Neil I'm going to
Speaker 3: have because I'm trying to get I'm only asking as
Speaker 3: a matter of you know, I'm sorry that I shouldn't
Speaker 3: have done that, idn't There's not a problem.
Speaker 2: No, I can pop it up right now.
Speaker 1: But he is actually a He is of the religious
Speaker 1: He was Catholic, and he talks about he has a
Speaker 1: series of books called Conversations with God. He's also an actor.
Speaker 1: He's also a screenwriter. He's eighty one years old. He's
Speaker 1: from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But he has a bunch of books
Speaker 1: about friendship with God, conversations with God, communion with God.
Speaker 2: So this is he is.
Speaker 1: He is a religious based author. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: just interesting to hear his his quote that had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with religion or nothing. I would never have
Speaker 1: thought that he had religious connections.
Speaker 3: What don't we all, I mean, everybody listening right now,
Speaker 3: aren't we all trying to get comfortable? Yes, no one
Speaker 3: has a desire to be uneasy, because that seems counterintuitive.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants that. You all want to be comfortable. How
Speaker 3: terrible is that? And what I mean by that is
Speaker 3: where do you grow? I mean, we know this now.
Speaker 3: You have to live enough life, but you just simply
Speaker 3: cannot get better. You can't improve, you can't you can't
Speaker 3: win without discomfort. You have to be uncomfortable. It is required,
Speaker 3: and so it's just in our minds. We're all seeking
Speaker 3: a life of particular ease, if you will. But yes,
Speaker 3: I love what this author did say and how he
Speaker 3: put it so simplistically. But that is where the living begins.
Speaker 3: There is where the adventure begins. There's where the growth is.
Speaker 3: Wherever you have been uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, think about any Olympian, any just think
Speaker 1: about even physical discomfort. I think he's talking about a
Speaker 1: lot of things. But even if you looked at it
Speaker 1: from that place, you don't get to be excellent. You
Speaker 1: don't get to be at the top of your game
Speaker 1: unless you've been physically uncomfortable, whether you training and making
Speaker 1: your body what it can be.
Speaker 2: But your mind and your heart are the same.
Speaker 1: And it's only when we're uncomfortable that we go when
Speaker 1: we seek help, and we seek advice, and we try
Speaker 1: to find a better way, whether it's through therapy or
Speaker 1: through leaning on a friend. But you start to realize
Speaker 1: what I'm doing isn't working, and that's why I have
Speaker 1: to grow. And so yes, I agree, whether you're pushing
Speaker 1: yourself in any way mentally, spiritually, physically, it kind of
Speaker 1: almost takes you getting uncomfortable before you're willing to change
Speaker 1: and willing to do something differently or better or push
Speaker 1: through the pain to get to the other side. So
Speaker 1: I love that life begins at the end of your
Speaker 1: comfort zone. That's when you're living. Otherwise you're just kind
Speaker 1: of existing.
Speaker 3: Don't we say that about relationships even when we're what
Speaker 3: is the thing? You get? You have an awful conversation
Speaker 3: and then it leads to a breakthrough, right, and now
Speaker 3: everything is okay, and now we're on the other side
Speaker 3: of something because we had to be uncomfortable first. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's yes, it's counter into it what we're supposed to
Speaker 3: seek discomfort, but it is necessary.
Speaker 1: It's a nice reminder when you are uncomfortable, that you're
Speaker 1: living and that you're growing, and that you're going to
Speaker 1: do something about it. And I just it's nice to know,
Speaker 1: just to remember life begins at the end of your
Speaker 1: comfort zone.
Speaker 2: All right, we're going to move on next to the
Speaker 2: uh the age.
Speaker 1: Old quote, this one coming from Buddha and again a
Speaker 1: very simple quote but so powerful. Buddha says, this be
Speaker 1: where you are, otherwise you will miss your life. Ain't
Speaker 1: that true? And aren't we a lot of times somewhere
Speaker 1: other than where we are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is silly. I don't know why I'm having these.
Speaker 3: It's maybe because we're a little loopy. We've been up
Speaker 3: a little while. As we were recording this and had
Speaker 3: a good, nice brunch. I'm thinking about Eddie Murphy in
Speaker 3: raw stand up, and people are getting a little insight
Speaker 3: into my mindset. You have to deal with this all
Speaker 3: day long with me. Every scenario that comes before us,
Speaker 3: I can come up with a movie line or a
Speaker 3: stand up comedians line.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you say things to me and it feels a
Speaker 1: little harsh or a cerviic and you have to follow
Speaker 1: up with that's a movie line. I'm actually quoting a
Speaker 1: movie right now. Would you do often? At least once
Speaker 1: a day?
Speaker 3: Okay, this is gonna sound ridiculous to you, because I
Speaker 3: don't think I've watched this in thirty plus a years.
Speaker 3: As a kid, I used to sneak and watch Eddie
Speaker 3: Murphy raw at the house.
Speaker 2: I can see why you had to sneak it.
Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to be watching this, of course. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's saying something outlanded, yes he was, But something he
Speaker 3: said in there. He was talking about a man and
Speaker 3: a woman breaking up, and a man asking his woman
Speaker 3: where she's going? Well, where are you going to be?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be where I'm at?
Speaker 3: It was the line. Yeah, So with this quote, where
Speaker 3: are you going? To be where are you? You need
Speaker 3: to be where you at is essentially.
Speaker 2: That's what said, is not quite the same way, not like.
Speaker 3: Eddie, I'm an be where I'm at. Why can't we
Speaker 3: ever do that? Just be where you are?
Speaker 1: Because we're thinking about what we should have done, what
Speaker 1: we could have done, and what we need to do,
Speaker 1: and what we're supposed to do and what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to like and what what was that we said we
Speaker 1: were going to do. Yeah, we're never exactly where we are,
Speaker 1: and that's why we're miserable. That's why we're suffering, because
Speaker 1: when you are actually present, you are being childlike we
Speaker 1: today actually at brunch, we're watching kids skip and play.
Speaker 1: They are they are light, they are free, they are
Speaker 1: having fun because you know what they're not doing thinking
Speaker 1: about yesterday or tomorrow. They're actually exactly where they are,
Speaker 1: and that is what the goal is. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just if you can, if we can just wake ourselves
Speaker 1: up and remember I love just watching kids. They remind
Speaker 1: me more than anyone to be present.
Speaker 3: You know, It's funny you were and I'm sure I
Speaker 3: was going to stop you in the middle there, because
Speaker 3: I'm sure some adults were listening to you now and say, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: those don't have bills to bay Edel's get And yes, true,
Speaker 3: that's that's fine, But damn if that's our response.
Speaker 1: But you're not paying your bills when you're you know,
Speaker 1: like thinking about your bills. Right when I'm at lunch,
Speaker 1: I should just be at lunch and actually enjoy whatever
Speaker 1: is around me. Because the thing is we think, oh,
Speaker 1: if we're not worrying or thinking about something, that somehow
Speaker 1: it's not getting done, you're not actually getting anything done
Speaker 1: worrying or thinking about it. So that's just a reminder, Buddha,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: You know how many years ago, thousands of years ago.
Speaker 2: I don't need I don't have a concept of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, the next one comes from an unknown source, but
Speaker 1: I love it all the same. And we've all heard
Speaker 1: versions of this, but again, a good reminder. Stop being
Speaker 1: afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited
Speaker 1: about what could go right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when you do that, you're setting yourself up
Speaker 3: for right, for failure, for disappointment. I'm only saying that
Speaker 3: as a matter of that's what people often do. We
Speaker 3: don't want to think about the upside, we don't want
Speaker 3: to think, well, what if this first state really goes well,
Speaker 3: we'd rather temper our expectations so that we're not so disappointed.
Speaker 3: Why I said it all the time, No, I'm going
Speaker 3: to expect the absolute best. I am going to hope
Speaker 3: for the absolute best. Why not have the high expectation.
Speaker 1: I actually think some of the most fun parts of
Speaker 1: something new, whether it's a vacation or a new job,
Speaker 1: or going on a new date or whatever it like,
Speaker 1: the anticipation of something is sometimes a lot more fun
Speaker 1: than the actual.
Speaker 2: Experience of it.
Speaker 1: So why not go ahead and think positively and be
Speaker 1: excited about it because at least you had those moments
Speaker 1: of joy. Even if it doesn't hold up or it
Speaker 1: doesn't live up to what you thought, at least you
Speaker 1: had those moments thinking it might, and then maybe the
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 2: You can also keep.
Speaker 1: That same positivity because there's nothing good that comes out
Speaker 1: of fear of things going wrong. It doesn't change, it
Speaker 1: doesn't stop things from going wrong. It just makes you
Speaker 1: miserable anticipating it. So I love this. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything wrong about having excited expectations.
Speaker 2: Of what could be.
Speaker 3: But so to your I think you put it best
Speaker 3: in explaining getting ready for whatever the thing is, and
Speaker 3: you think it can go right, it can go wrong,
Speaker 3: and you stress yourself out thinking it can go wrong
Speaker 3: before the thing even happens. That's not fun. But what
Speaker 3: if you were to get excited about it and use
Speaker 3: that time to be you can make that.
Speaker 2: Part fun exactly.
Speaker 3: So even when once the thing comes, just gonna be
Speaker 3: what it is, you guys, we'll have a good time
Speaker 3: getting ready for its miserable.
Speaker 2: Getting ready for exactly because it might still go wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you'll deal with it when it does. And in
Speaker 2: the meantime, why don't you go ahead and manifest it to.
Speaker 1: Go Well, that's how I look at it, all right,
Speaker 1: all right? This next one, it comes from a Pulitzer
Speaker 1: Prize winning author. Another author his name is Carl Bard.
Speaker 1: Did not know who that was either, But I'm actually
Speaker 1: having fun going in and learning who some of these
Speaker 1: folks are who say these really interesting, provocative things sometimes
Speaker 1: or just simple things oftentimes that are just thought provoking
Speaker 1: and game changing. So Carl Bard said this, though no
Speaker 1: one can go back and make a brand new start,
Speaker 1: anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. So even something as simple as something happened.
Speaker 1: In your day that turned things negative.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, you can't go back and change it, can't
Speaker 1: start over. But what I can do is, right now,
Speaker 1: in this moment, decide to have a brand new ending.
Speaker 1: We all get to decide that at any point during
Speaker 1: the day, when we first wake up, in the middle
Speaker 1: of the day, at the end of the night, whatever
Speaker 1: anything in between. It doesn't matter whatever happens that didn't
Speaker 1: happen the way you wanted it to. We can start
Speaker 1: anew right now and create a different ending that's.
Speaker 2: In all of our power. That's so cool to think
Speaker 2: about it like that.
Speaker 3: And it's tough to keep that in contact well, the
Speaker 3: right perspective because something you did two weeks ago, two
Speaker 3: months ago, two years ago, a beating yourself up about right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're still beating yourself up about it. You're still word like, wow,
Speaker 3: I should have done I could have done that differently,
Speaker 3: if only I'd done that differently. But the story is
Speaker 3: like this moment. It can be different from this moment
Speaker 3: moving forward. So yeah, I love the simple way. Whoever
Speaker 3: this author you said was this is the unknown.
Speaker 2: No, this is Carl Bard.
Speaker 1: He is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, so he actually
Speaker 1: someone yeah, who we can all lean on.
Speaker 2: With some words of wisdom.
Speaker 1: So yes, thank you, we appreciate that, Carl. Once again,
Speaker 1: though no one can go back and make a brand
Speaker 1: new start, anyone can start from now and make a
Speaker 1: brand new ending. So take that with you because that
Speaker 1: is very empowering. Love that, Carlbard, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, So when we come back, we are going
Speaker 1: to hear from another author surprisingly who's going to tell
Speaker 1: us where we can focus our energy. And then for
Speaker 1: our bonus quote of this Sunday Morning, Ron, we're going
Speaker 1: to hear from Leonardo da Vinci. Before we go to break,
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Speaker 1: free shipping. Welcome back everyone to this Sunday morning run
Speaker 1: where we hopefully give you a little inspiration to start
Speaker 1: your week. And on this Sunday we will begin with
Speaker 1: another author. His name is Neil Bearingham, again an unknown
Speaker 1: for me. I did not know who Neil Baringham is.
Speaker 1: We can get into that in just a moment, but
Speaker 1: this is what Neil had to say that really gave
Speaker 1: me a new beginning on a Friday. The grass is
Speaker 1: greenest where you water. It sounds very simple, but we
Speaker 1: always talk about the grass is greener, and we talk
Speaker 1: about envy, we talk about jealousy. But if we can
Speaker 1: actually take that and turn it on its head and
Speaker 1: realize we actually have the power to make anything that
Speaker 1: we love be something beautiful, we can invest in something
Speaker 1: and make it great and make it not that you
Speaker 1: want to make.
Speaker 2: It the envy of everyone else. But this is the.
Speaker 1: Notion of what you appreciate, appreciates. The grass is greener
Speaker 1: where you water it.
Speaker 2: I love that quote.
Speaker 3: Oh no, they got some nice grass over there. Everybody,
Speaker 3: you see what everybody we say grass. But it could
Speaker 3: be somebody's car, somebody's job, somebody's wife, somebody does, somebody's family.
Speaker 3: All well, so whatever, it may be anything that somebody
Speaker 3: can be jealous of. You look and you're jealous of
Speaker 3: what somebody else has. Why aren't you cultivating? Why aren't
Speaker 3: you taking care of your own things? Look, we all
Speaker 3: get caught up in that, of course, sure, but I
Speaker 3: like the again, the simple way that this author put it.
Speaker 3: What if you just took care of your own stuff?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: So there is a I'm looking at a cartoon where
Speaker 1: they were taking what this quote said and showed a man.
Speaker 2: Standing on a.
Speaker 1: Like a lawn of grass that's dead, and looking at
Speaker 1: a lawn of grass that's green. It says what people want,
Speaker 1: pointing to the green grass, and then it said what
Speaker 1: people don't see, and it sees the guy on the
Speaker 1: lawn that's dead and brown and looking at the grass,
Speaker 1: and this is what people don't see, and it shows
Speaker 1: the man watering his grass and like working on his
Speaker 1: grass and making it beautiful. People just think people get
Speaker 1: lucky or people just have things. But actually, when you
Speaker 1: recognize that if you work for something and you actually
Speaker 1: take care of something, that's where the beauty and the
Speaker 1: joy and the love and like, you get something worth
Speaker 1: something when you put into it.
Speaker 2: And I think we all.
Speaker 1: Just you know, it's just it's a nice reminder that
Speaker 1: if you put effort into something, it is going to grow.
Speaker 1: If you take care of something, it is going to
Speaker 1: be beautiful, including relationships.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Bonus quote. This one comes to us from Leonardo da Vinci.
Speaker 1: You haven't heard this one yet, have you.
Speaker 3: I intentionally do not look ahead.
Speaker 1: Of times, all right, So I'll let you respond to this.
Speaker 1: The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you make of that?
Speaker 1: So my takeaway from this was that we think this judgment,
Speaker 1: it's about judgment, and we think we're right, we think
Speaker 1: we're better. We have our opinion about what should be,
Speaker 1: what could be, and then we suffer because it isn't
Speaker 1: what we think it should be.
Speaker 2: What do you take from this quote?
Speaker 3: Oh, I had to just break it down a little bit.
Speaker 3: I had to h and I pull it up on
Speaker 3: the computer so I could actually see it again. I'm
Speaker 3: hearing it for the first time from you. You're deceived, right,
Speaker 3: We're usually about deception, usually deceived by something or some
Speaker 3: outside force. But that deception usually has to do with
Speaker 3: right altering your idea of what you already see, believe,
Speaker 3: or think. And so to think that most of the
Speaker 3: time the alteration of our perception of what's going on
Speaker 3: has really just formed in our own heads of what
Speaker 3: we believe we're seeing. So to this the idea. It
Speaker 3: took me a second to break it down. But yes,
Speaker 3: we deceive ourselves all the time. I you know, I
Speaker 3: talk to you about this all the time, deception because
Speaker 3: you have an opinion about what you think I might
Speaker 3: mean by what I said. You're not being deceived by
Speaker 3: anything I said. You're being deceived by an opinion of something.
Speaker 3: So I it took me a second to break this down.
Speaker 3: I need to see it in front of me. But yeah,
Speaker 3: that's dead on and this was how many years ago?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I there was a reason why
Speaker 1: I had a journalism major because math was not my strength.
Speaker 1: But Leonardo da Vinci and I do think that is
Speaker 1: a good point, Like we all also, you could, you could,
Speaker 1: this could be even deeper than that, kind of taking
Speaker 1: off what you said. It's we all create our own
Speaker 1: narratives to fit how we're feeling. Right, So we are
Speaker 1: deceiving ourselves because we we in every the lens through
Speaker 1: which we remember things or see things or hear things,
Speaker 1: it's not what actually happened, it's what we thought or
Speaker 1: we perceived to be happening to justify maybe how we're feeling,
Speaker 1: or at least to justify how we're reacting. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: we're our own worst enemies, period, but our own opinions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if we can open up our minds in our hearts
Speaker 1: to recognize that we see things, all of us hear things,
Speaker 1: see things, and interpret things through our own lenses that
Speaker 1: typically fit or at least we try to have.
Speaker 2: Them fit our feelings. So that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.
Speaker 1: So Leonardo da Vinci, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: And thank you for listening to us on this Sunday.
Speaker 1: We hope you got some insight or Lisa inspiration from
Speaker 1: some of these quotes, and we hope you'll check in
Speaker 1: with us Monday through Friday on our morning run. I'm
Speaker 1: Amy Roboc alongside TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes.
Speaker 1: Have a great start to your week, Everybody,