Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome
Speaker 1: everyone to Amy and TJ. It is Sunday, May twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: and this is your Sunday Morning Run where we hopefully
Speaker 1: get you a little inspired and ready to take on
Speaker 1: the next work week, but also reflect back on the
Speaker 1: week that was. And so we are bringing you DJ
Speaker 1: all of the words of wisdom that we try to
Speaker 1: end each morning run with a quote of the day
Speaker 1: is what we call it.
Speaker 2: Hopefully give you inspiration.
Speaker 1: I don't want to presume anything as anything.
Speaker 2: They want to hear our confidence. This is going to
Speaker 2: give you inspiration, folks.
Speaker 1: This is going to change your life.
Speaker 2: Okay, too much now.
Speaker 1: All right, too far?
Speaker 2: Sorry, too much? Split the baby right there in the
Speaker 2: middle somewhere as well we need to be. But yeah,
Speaker 2: this has been fun actually because we enjoy our quotes
Speaker 2: of the day. We enjoy quotes, but you can get
Speaker 2: inspiration in just a sentence or two. Sometimes it is
Speaker 2: always fun. So we have them every day. So we
Speaker 2: got to go through for you on Sunday. And folks
Speaker 2: have been listening.
Speaker 1: Yes they have. You know, Sunday is a day we
Speaker 1: talk about this a lot. Either you go to church,
Speaker 1: maybe you take a hike, maybe you meditate, But it
Speaker 1: is a day a lot of people choose for reflection
Speaker 1: and for some sort of leaning on a higher power
Speaker 1: of the universe or just maybe being introspective. So hopefully
Speaker 1: taking all of the quotes of the day from the
Speaker 1: week before, and we can kind of go into why
Speaker 1: we chose them and what they meant to us, will
Speaker 1: give you a source of inspiration. So we'll begin with
Speaker 1: Monday and our quote of the day for Monday, and
Speaker 1: the relationship and cry once. It's better than being with
Speaker 1: them and crying daily.
Speaker 2: You can laugh about that and then sometimes it'll make
Speaker 2: you cry about it because we've all been there in
Speaker 2: a relationship with somebody one way or another. It could
Speaker 2: be a friend, it could be a relative, but it's
Speaker 2: often someone you're in a romantic relationship with and it's
Speaker 2: hard to let go. It's hard to invest something for
Speaker 2: so long in something or somebody and then think it ends.
Speaker 2: But that's the point. You're not where you need to be.
Speaker 2: We've all been there before. You go through a day
Speaker 2: in day out and you're struggling. Maybe if you're not
Speaker 2: crying daily, you're still in some way in some discomfort
Speaker 2: or disorder or not where you need to be, So
Speaker 2: end it. Cry hard and long one time, and then
Speaker 2: you stop doing it repeated.
Speaker 1: Can you just cry one time when you end a
Speaker 1: relationship for me? I don't know that that's possible.
Speaker 2: I get your point. I get your point. You can
Speaker 2: probably understand why I would say, yeah, I feel time.
Speaker 1: Actually, it was a little scary for me to think
Speaker 1: about that we could be over and you could just
Speaker 1: take one long day and cry your eyes out and
Speaker 1: woke up. Okay, fine, an hour, forty five minutes, fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: But that you could just cry once over me and
Speaker 1: the next day you're like, and we begin.
Speaker 2: A new It's but I'm not crying daily with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's the difference. Okay, that's as you were looking for. Okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't know you.
Speaker 1: Were fishing, looking for affirmation. I'm so happy you picked
Speaker 1: up what I was putting there.
Speaker 2: I didn't. It took me a second. But that's the key.
Speaker 2: I am not in a position in a relationship where
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm down or sad or crying daily,
Speaker 2: So this doesn't apply. But it's kind of funny but
Speaker 2: also serious at the same time, because it's that's real.
Speaker 2: It's a good lesson to listen to.
Speaker 1: Look, we've both been there, and I think most people,
Speaker 1: if they think about it, had been there, and a
Speaker 1: lot of you listening might be there now. And trust me,
Speaker 1: we know what that feels like. And it is so hard.
Speaker 1: They say, rip the band aid off. You know, there's
Speaker 1: all sorts of euphemisms for what you should do, just
Speaker 1: get all the pain out at once instead of dragging
Speaker 1: it out for years and years and years. But I
Speaker 1: get it. You look back and you think, I thought
Speaker 1: so hard, I tried so hard. I have to keep trying.
Speaker 1: I have to keep fighting. But at a certain point
Speaker 1: you have to take an assessment and ask, am I
Speaker 1: crying every day? Is this more miserable than it is not?
Speaker 1: And I always found when you make the decision to
Speaker 1: end the relationship, to cry once, right, to get it
Speaker 1: all out. When you feel relief, or if there's a
Speaker 1: sense that you would be relieved, that's a big eye opener, right,
Speaker 1: I mean versus like depression or fear or but if
Speaker 1: you actually think I would feel relief, that is a huge, huge,
Speaker 1: huge nudge in the right direction.
Speaker 2: That folks listen't like I thought This was Sunday Inspiration,
Speaker 2: not a relationship podcast.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, so much of how you feel is
Speaker 1: about this quality of your relationship.
Speaker 2: Of course, but that was the Monday quote of the Day,
Speaker 2: which has now spawned our relationship podcast episode that we're
Speaker 2: doing right now. Well, God got more.
Speaker 1: But I just want a little note for the listener.
Speaker 1: What TJ is trying to do is say, hurry up, Robes.
Speaker 1: This is just Monday. We have to get through the
Speaker 1: rest of the week. So that is true. So a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: I know, I know your gentle nudges. Here is the
Speaker 1: quote for Monday once again, for you end the relationship
Speaker 1: and cry once. It's better than being with them and
Speaker 1: crying daily.
Speaker 2: The one on Tuesday we had. I think it's kind
Speaker 2: of a it's kind of a spin on. There are
Speaker 2: different variations of this. You hear this sentiment in several places,
Speaker 2: but this was our Tuesday quote of the day.
Speaker 1: If you cannot do great things, do small things in
Speaker 1: a great way. I loved this quote. It is from
Speaker 1: Napoleon Hill. You may not know his name, but there's
Speaker 1: a good reason why. He was a prominent author of
Speaker 1: self help books in the nineteen thirties. However, I did
Speaker 1: say you can still find several of his books out there.
Speaker 1: He's still relevant. But it is such a good way
Speaker 1: to put it, because sometimes things are so overwhelming and
Speaker 1: you think I can't do this, I'll never be able
Speaker 1: to get there or achieve or accomplish that. But if
Speaker 1: you actually just do whatever you're doing with one hundred
Speaker 1: percent or one hundred and ten percent, that's kind of awesome.
Speaker 2: You know, you always take note. I think I say
Speaker 2: we just in general people. How mn't you ever noticed
Speaker 2: you out somewhere and you see someone in a role
Speaker 2: doing something that seemingly mundane or seemingly insignificant job and
Speaker 2: they are putting their all into it, they're happy about it.
Speaker 2: It could be someone just dumping the trash in your
Speaker 2: office and they're doing it and they're just taking such
Speaker 2: pride in their work. I always admire and take time
Speaker 2: with those folks because they're doing the Lord's work to
Speaker 2: a certain degree. If you will a job sometimes that
Speaker 2: maybe somebody else doesn't want to do, maybe not a
Speaker 2: high paying job, maybe someone at the grocery store. But
Speaker 2: when someone takes pride and everything they do, you take
Speaker 2: notice of it. So please, folks, somebody's always watching you
Speaker 2: whatever you do, and if you are not doing great
Speaker 2: things with the small tasks you're given, nobody's gonna ever
Speaker 2: trust you with the big ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it reminds me a little bit of another
Speaker 1: quote I love. The measure of a man is what
Speaker 1: he does when no one is looking. And I think
Speaker 1: it also feeds into your own personal confidence. It's not
Speaker 1: what we look like that our confidence should derive from,
Speaker 1: or what our status is, but actually how we treat
Speaker 1: people and how we treat ourselves. And so I just
Speaker 1: think that plays into all of this. And I love
Speaker 1: that every single person can take this quote and apply
Speaker 1: it and you'll be a better person and people around
Speaker 1: you will be the better for it.
Speaker 2: Isn't that great this moment, whatever you're doing, if you
Speaker 2: just decide to do it in a great way, How
Speaker 2: it would change your attitude, How it change the outcome.
Speaker 2: You could be making breakfast right now and decide, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna nail this today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a little you know, little crim fresh. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sprinkle some chives on top, because it's all
Speaker 1: about there. No, It's true though, And so I love
Speaker 1: this because for me. This is about empowerment. Here is
Speaker 1: your Tuesday quote of the day. If you cannot do
Speaker 1: great things, do small things in a great way.
Speaker 2: The next one we had on Wednesday was a It
Speaker 2: was a winner when I put it on my dressing
Speaker 2: room door at Good Morning America, but it caused people
Speaker 2: to initially react negatively and then they kind of understood
Speaker 2: what I was talking about. But this was a This
Speaker 2: was a good conversation starter at work.
Speaker 1: It certainly was. Here is the quote. We may not
Speaker 1: seem to have it all together, but together we have
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 2: Doesn't that make sense?
Speaker 1: It absolutely does. But I tease you about this on
Speaker 1: Morning Run because you are not necessarily someone I would
Speaker 1: describe as a cheerleader, and this kind of seems like
Speaker 1: a cheerleader quote. And so it was always funny to
Speaker 1: me that this came from me your files, because this
Speaker 1: does not sound like something you would ever say out loud.
Speaker 2: It seems you know what I wouldn't you. That's true. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know me, Okay, you know me well. But it
Speaker 2: makes so much and it was. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I would have liked it as much had I not
Speaker 2: worked where we were working, which is good Morning America.
Speaker 2: How any newsroom you've ever been in is chaos. And
Speaker 2: if you walk in there as an outsider and don't
Speaker 2: know the environment, you would never believe that these people
Speaker 2: are working together to get something accomplished that's going to
Speaker 2: come out on TV looking good.
Speaker 1: People are cursing at each other, they're running down the halls,
Speaker 1: they're stress. Some people might even be crying at a
Speaker 1: certain point.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we've seen that.
Speaker 1: There's yelling, there's crying, there's cursing. That is the truth.
Speaker 1: That is what's going on almost every day in a
Speaker 1: morning show.
Speaker 2: Sleep deprived, yeah, relationships not going well at home too much.
Speaker 2: All this stuff is happening. So take all that chaos
Speaker 2: into this quote now, And that's actually why I liked it,
Speaker 2: because you look in that environment. We do not seem
Speaker 2: to have it all together. Everybody looks a mess, everybody's
Speaker 2: got personal prop all this stuff. We don't have it
Speaker 2: all together. But you put us all together, and we
Speaker 2: have it all. We have everything we need to be
Speaker 2: successful once you put the group together. So just another
Speaker 2: example of we're better as a group than you're ever
Speaker 2: going to be as an individual.
Speaker 1: And that quote sums up why I actually walked into
Speaker 1: my first newsroom and knew I was at home and
Speaker 1: exactly where I was supposed to be because I also
Speaker 1: was a theater geek before, and I used to love
Speaker 1: that part of it that, yes, you all had a
Speaker 1: roll and everybody had to do it well, but if
Speaker 1: we did not count on each other and support one another,
Speaker 1: it was all going to go to shit. Like you
Speaker 1: just you have to be able to rely on one
Speaker 1: another to have this amazing product in the end, and
Speaker 1: that's a cool thing. It creates a bond, and it
Speaker 1: creates an external family. I love the concept.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to explain because when you said we just
Speaker 2: described this chaotic scene, you said you walked into and said, oh,
Speaker 2: I found my.
Speaker 1: Tribe because all of us, individually, we all need one
Speaker 1: another to make it a whole part. And I just
Speaker 1: I love the idea of that that you have to
Speaker 1: you belong you belong to you like teams I do,
Speaker 1: like teams I do. And this is a this is
Speaker 1: a team mantra. So yeah, if you're having some good
Speaker 1: workplace trouble with your team, this is a good quote
Speaker 1: to put up on the wall.
Speaker 2: You say team. If you were a professional athlete. What
Speaker 2: do you think your sport would be?
Speaker 1: Hmmm, I don't know, because I was a gymnast and
Speaker 1: that is an individual sport, although the team all around
Speaker 1: is important. But why are you asking me that?
Speaker 2: Because the idea of team I always My favorite sport
Speaker 2: is basketball was the thing I was best at and
Speaker 2: just love. If I wanted to be an a pression athlete,
Speaker 2: I would have said a basketball player. But as I
Speaker 2: got older, tennis and golf.
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny, tennis and golf.
Speaker 2: Because of the individual I don't have to depend on anybody.
Speaker 1: Else because you've been burned.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't I'm in that wild.
Speaker 1: You've been burned by teams, and so now you're like,
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully you're okay with a duo, but as
Speaker 1: long as you have a duo, that's a little that's
Speaker 1: a little bit less complicated.
Speaker 2: You know, it might even be golf. No, no, tennis,
Speaker 2: I mean, because in golf I have to have a caddy.
Speaker 2: I don't you want to talk to him? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's your Wednesday quote. Folks. We may not seem to
Speaker 2: have it all together, but together we have it all,
Speaker 2: which then takes us into Thursday one robes that you
Speaker 2: plucked out. That is just perfect. We should use it
Speaker 2: once a week.
Speaker 1: It's so true because this is a daily mantra that
Speaker 1: maybe I should even just embed in my mind because
Speaker 1: how often times we just get frustrated by everything. So
Speaker 1: here is your Thursday quote of the day. If you
Speaker 1: don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
Speaker 1: change your attitude. That is from Maya Angelou, who of
Speaker 1: course has so many incredible wise quotes that I love
Speaker 1: to refer to, but this one. From the weather to
Speaker 1: the traffic to the partner you have to work with
Speaker 1: at work. You know, like, if you can change it, great,
Speaker 1: but think about it. If you cannot change it, change
Speaker 1: your attitude, accept it.
Speaker 2: I love this is There's so many ways you can
Speaker 2: put this in, so many quotes about it, and not
Speaker 2: like you mentioned this week, even I have surrender on
Speaker 2: my arm because that's really what it's about. We are
Speaker 2: looking at terrible weather. I think you've probably noticed this
Speaker 2: in me over the past several years, but I have
Speaker 2: put this into practice when things go to app salute hell,
Speaker 2: I'm chilling. I sometimes mostly wait.
Speaker 1: There was a motorcycle issue a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That sent you and then you pulled yourself back up,
Speaker 1: and I have to say you recovered.
Speaker 2: Here you go. You know you complimented.
Speaker 1: Me, you did on that you did because you could
Speaker 1: have taken it to a whole other level.
Speaker 2: And what I ultimately say that I can do about it.
Speaker 2: The situation is going to be the exact same, no
Speaker 2: matter if I'm sitting here smiling or sitting here fuming.
Speaker 2: So choose one. I love that that is so yes
Speaker 2: that that could be a quote.
Speaker 1: We could quote you with what you just said. That
Speaker 1: could be nothing's going to change. I could be sitting
Speaker 1: here smiling, or I could be sitting here fuming. It's
Speaker 1: not going to change anything. That is actually a really
Speaker 1: really good quote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, move over, Maya.
Speaker 1: All right, So here is your Thursday quote of the day,
Speaker 1: one more time for you. If you don't like something,
Speaker 1: change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Speaker 2: And then that's takes us till Friday. You were, man,
Speaker 2: you were digging deep into the bag last week with
Speaker 2: some of these quotes, and some you got them from folks.
Speaker 2: They're old school, if you no excuse me, they are
Speaker 2: old quotes, not old school they're just ancient, actually ancient
Speaker 2: that apply today. If you told me someone walking down
Speaker 2: the street told you this, I would Okay, yeah, it
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 1: I think every week I'm going to look for one
Speaker 1: of these ancient quotes because it is such a reminder
Speaker 1: that nothing changes, that we still haven't learned, that we're
Speaker 1: still having to use the same wisdom and the same
Speaker 1: reminders to live better, even from like ancestors or like
Speaker 1: from like literally before Christ. I think we had one
Speaker 1: last week that was before Christ. This one comes to
Speaker 1: us from the seventeen hundreds in France. Okay, here is
Speaker 1: the quote of the day that I'm considering getting tattooed.
Speaker 1: The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Speaker 1: That is my quote that is speaking to me. I
Speaker 1: think once you've gone through certain shit in your life
Speaker 1: and everybody does whatever it is, you start realizing, why
Speaker 1: am I not enjoying the time I have?
Speaker 2: That is? I love it. I mean the tattoo might
Speaker 2: be a little much for me, but still to your point,
Speaker 2: you cannot come up with a better way to explain
Speaker 2: to someone in passing how they should be living their lives.
Speaker 2: That's just wonderful. That's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Speaker 1: This came to us from Nicholas Chamfort. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to say French names, but I think I'm getting close.
Speaker 1: Nicholas Chamfort. He's a French writer. As I mentioned, he
Speaker 1: lived in the seventeen hundreds. But get this, I love
Speaker 1: this little fun nugget. He was the secretary to Louis
Speaker 1: the sixteenth Sister, so here he was in the French
Speaker 1: aristocracy in the seventeen hundreds, and who knows what life
Speaker 1: was like back then and how he was living his life.
Speaker 1: It seems like he was better off than most. But
Speaker 1: I love that he realized, with all the work that's
Speaker 1: to be done and everything that's happening in the world,
Speaker 1: if you can just remember to enjoy your time.
Speaker 2: Everybody, ask yourself. You're you're listening right now. Have you
Speaker 2: laughed today?
Speaker 1: You just barey laughed here on the podcast Simmons.
Speaker 2: I don't laugh immediately when I wake up, because you
Speaker 2: don't wake up until thirty minutes later, and then the laughter.
Speaker 2: But it's one of those things. I I it was
Speaker 2: just yesterday I was annoyed at you. Oh you didn't
Speaker 2: tell playfully, okay, playfully because I looked at the clock
Speaker 2: and it was I think five or something in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: early evening, and I said, we have not kissed today, yep,
Speaker 2: And like, what is where? How do we get so
Speaker 2: caught up, so busy? What is going on in the
Speaker 2: world that you don't stop? And we were together all day,
Speaker 2: We weren't.
Speaker 1: Apart, were honestly, we were just together all day. We
Speaker 1: were never more than three feet from another day. That
Speaker 1: is actually true.
Speaker 2: So it's one of those things that you stop and
Speaker 2: don't get so busy that you forget caught up. And
Speaker 2: what that you forget to laugh or do the simple
Speaker 2: things or the things that make you happiest. So great
Speaker 2: quote again from your guy, Nicholas Champour, the French writer,
Speaker 2: The most wasted of all days is one without laugh.
Speaker 1: And with that everyone, we hope you take all of
Speaker 1: those amazing quotes to heart and have a wonderful start
Speaker 1: to your new week.