Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Sunday, July the twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: and MLK, Ozzy Osbourne and Albert Einstein all making an
Speaker 1: appearance in this inspiration edition of Amy and TJ. Everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to this Sunday edition where we go through our
Speaker 1: quotes of the day from last week, give you a
Speaker 1: little background on them what they mean to us. But yeah,
Speaker 1: all three of those folks actually do make an appearance.
Speaker 1: You used all of those as week. Always give you credit.
Speaker 1: Robot is the one that usually hunts down the quotes.
Speaker 1: But you found some doozies this week.
Speaker 2: Simple ones, ye, very simple, yes, and in some ways
Speaker 2: they were thematic with the news events of the week.
Speaker 2: But we'll begin with our Monday, which you know, Mondays
Speaker 2: are tough. Sometimes Mondays are devoid of inspiration, and so
Speaker 2: I liked this quote. It's from an English author. His
Speaker 2: name is Chris Bradford's. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 2: listened to or read or read to your children his
Speaker 2: books called The Young Samurai. There's a Young Samurai and
Speaker 2: Bodyguard series. But he is a black belt martial artist
Speaker 2: and I love what he has to say. Anyone can
Speaker 2: give up. It is the easiest thing in the world
Speaker 2: to do, but to hold it together when everyone would
Speaker 2: expect you to fall apart. Now that is true strength.
Speaker 1: Oh girl, what kind of Sunday or Monday were you haveing?
Speaker 1: It is how you started off the week with everybody else.
Speaker 2: It's set its set my week up well. And when
Speaker 2: I read it, I felt inspired, I felt motivated. I
Speaker 2: felt like energy surged through my body, like yeah, hell yeah,
Speaker 2: why would I give up? Let's keep on going. I
Speaker 2: think about this sometimes when I'm running, actually, because how
Speaker 2: many times do you start a run and you just
Speaker 2: want to stop? And how many things in life does
Speaker 2: that thought cross your mind? It'd be so easy just
Speaker 2: to stop.
Speaker 1: What's in that moment that keeps you going? Like there's
Speaker 1: some switch. I wish I could give the advice. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's self help books and things I've read from
Speaker 1: motivational speakers, but it happens so often in running. It
Speaker 1: does first you're like I don't want to do this,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this. You get half mile
Speaker 1: this is bullshit. You get to mile one. I have
Speaker 1: been in places with you ropes that I am almost
Speaker 1: mile one one and a half trying to come up
Speaker 1: with an excuse, like if I tell her my foot's hurting,
Speaker 1: she'll buy that.
Speaker 2: I've thought the same thing. I mean one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: And there have been times where your foot actually has
Speaker 2: hurt and then you say yeah, and then you say no,
Speaker 2: you keep going, and I so were like no, but
Speaker 2: I don't really have an excuse. I guess I do
Speaker 2: have to keep going.
Speaker 1: It is something so fulfilling about knowing that on mile
Speaker 1: one you wanted to quit, and then you finish mile
Speaker 1: six and your your goal. I was gonna do six
Speaker 1: today and I did, Like damn, I'm a badass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel well. I never regret a run, never
Speaker 2: regret a workout. And sometimes when I'm struggling with myself
Speaker 2: mentally and I want to stop, I say this to myself.
Speaker 2: If it were easy, everybody would do it, And that
Speaker 2: also helps me keep going. But I loved this quote
Speaker 2: once again from Chris Bradford. Anyone can give up. It
Speaker 2: is the easiest thing in the world to do. But
Speaker 2: to hold it together when everyone would expect you to
Speaker 2: fall apart, now that is true strength.
Speaker 1: Your quote on Tuesdays spoke to me a lot, because
Speaker 1: this is something I have struggled with for a long
Speaker 1: long time and I still struggle with it now. And
Speaker 1: it came from MLKA. This was Tuesday, right. Forgiveness is
Speaker 1: not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. It's
Speaker 1: not an occasional act. And I think we do right
Speaker 1: we go through our lives. It's I forgive this person.
Speaker 1: I didn't forgive that person. I can forgive you, forget
Speaker 1: for this. I can't forgive you for that. That's I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about forgiveness in a different way. It is a
Speaker 1: lifestyle almost, and it is not a gift that I
Speaker 1: have received.
Speaker 2: It is a mindset and I hadn't I too, like you,
Speaker 2: really looked at forgiveness on a case by case basis,
Speaker 2: and I find, being honest with myself, there are people
Speaker 2: I have not forgiven in my life. And I saw
Speaker 2: this quote and it was a call to action for me,
Speaker 2: and I actually do want to take some time today
Speaker 2: to reflect about why I haven't forgiven certain people and
Speaker 2: what I'm holding onto and who it really hurts and
Speaker 2: who it really impacts. Forgiveness. Actually, you mentioned it. You
Speaker 2: haven't received the gift. It is a gift that you
Speaker 2: give yourself. You know, yes, of course you're giving grace
Speaker 2: to someone else, and that certainly is something worth noting
Speaker 2: for that other person, But it really actually is a
Speaker 2: gift for yourself because you're freeing yourself from the weight
Speaker 2: of anger, of negative feelings, of holding on to hate
Speaker 2: for what reason? For what purpose? Do we somehow want
Speaker 2: to be a victim? Do we somehow feel power in that?
Speaker 2: And it really is weighing us all down. We are
Speaker 2: creating suffering by not forgiving people. And so, yeah, I
Speaker 2: really want to take some time with this today.
Speaker 1: I have to forgive you. Does it have to be
Speaker 1: an act of forgiveness? Meaning do you have to express it?
Speaker 1: Do you need to look at that person who wronged
Speaker 1: you and you say I forgive you?
Speaker 2: Now I don't think so.
Speaker 1: That's then I am better at forgiveness. There are things
Speaker 1: I have to let go of. But there are people
Speaker 1: I haven't made amend, didn't make amends with and say
Speaker 1: I forgive you. I have plenty of those.
Speaker 2: Look, if I would just say, if you have an
Speaker 2: interaction with any of those people going forward or potentially
Speaker 2: in the future, you just smile and yes, you do
Speaker 2: let it go. And when you make a decision to
Speaker 2: let go of any ill will or any feelings of
Speaker 2: being wronged. If you just say I released these, you
Speaker 2: will be different in your interactions with them. I don't
Speaker 2: think have to unless you need to. There are occasions,
Speaker 2: of course, where you absolutely should apologize, but sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just a mental state where you just let it go
Speaker 2: and you're kind no matter what. And honestly, I think
Speaker 2: the hardest person to forgive is yourself sometimes oftentimes. And
Speaker 2: that was actually something I was listening to the other day.
Speaker 2: How many of us, if you really think about it,
Speaker 2: feel that shame for past wrong deeds, and we've all
Speaker 2: done things that we're not proud of, and how any
Speaker 2: of us bury them and hold on to them, and
Speaker 2: they're deep inside of us and we don't even realize it.
Speaker 2: So having that moment to kind of cleanse yourself, not
Speaker 2: just for forgiving other people, but for forgiving yourself, I
Speaker 2: think it's so powerful. So thank you Martin Luther King
Speaker 2: Junior for all of your incredible words of wisdom. But
Speaker 2: this one, specifically this week. Forgiveness is not an occasional act.
Speaker 2: It is a permanent attitude.
Speaker 1: And the one on Wednesday was plucked because of certainly
Speaker 1: the news we had gotten the day before that Ozzy
Speaker 1: Osbourne had passed, and he has a lot of interesting
Speaker 1: quote out there, but I thought this was a This
Speaker 1: was a cool way to honor him in a lot
Speaker 1: of way. It summed up a lot of him.
Speaker 2: Yet most of his quotes I looked at were I
Speaker 2: actually laughed out loud, some of them having to do
Speaker 2: with sobriety or the lack thereof sobriety. But this one, actually, well,
Speaker 2: I think everyone will get the reference, and it's applicable
Speaker 2: to life. You gotta be really careful what you bite off.
Speaker 2: Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a
Speaker 2: dangerous world out there, Ain't that the truth?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But if you you know, I didn't set this
Speaker 1: up right. I might have set it up the right
Speaker 1: way when we did it during the week. But if
Speaker 1: just say, hey, read that quote and not tell you
Speaker 1: who said it, you go, oh, that makes sense, that's cool,
Speaker 1: it's something to remember. Then I tell you it's Ozzy Osboyne.
Speaker 1: I ah, I get it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not talking about doves or bats what it applies,
Speaker 2: but we are talking about just in life in general.
Speaker 2: I think all of us take on more than we
Speaker 2: should most likely, and that's what with its boundaries. Now
Speaker 2: we're all learning about boundaries, and I've been terrible about
Speaker 2: it in my life. But yeah, our health suffers physically
Speaker 2: and mentally when we take on too much, when we
Speaker 2: don't know when to say no. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of us are afraid to say no. We don't want
Speaker 2: to hurt people's feelings. We don't want to let people down.
Speaker 2: We want to be the person people come to and
Speaker 2: can count on, but we often suffer because of it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Ozzie, thank you. I thought that quote was
Speaker 2: amazing and cheeky at the same time.
Speaker 1: You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't
Speaker 1: bite off more than you can. It's a dangerous world
Speaker 1: out there. And that was on Wednesday. We go from
Speaker 1: Ozzy Osbourne Robes to Albert Einstein on Thursday.
Speaker 2: We like to just have a wide variety of notable
Speaker 2: folks who say things that are important and useful in
Speaker 2: different ways to each their own. But Albert Einstein, I
Speaker 2: loved this quote. He said, weak people revenge, strong people forgive,
Speaker 2: intelligent people ignore.
Speaker 1: We debated when you read this in real time during
Speaker 1: the Morning run last week, and we debated which one
Speaker 1: were we We're not people who seek revenge.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely not that, all right?
Speaker 1: Are we people who forgive? We just talked about maybe
Speaker 1: not so great at it? Yes, ignore, I'm I'm masterful
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: See I'm not. I think of those three revenge, forgive, ignore,
Speaker 2: I am much more likely to forgive.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I am much more likely to ignore. Probably
Speaker 1: revenge would be second. No, I'm kidding, forgive it would
Speaker 1: be second. Yes, nobody gets revenge. Who even thinks about revenge?
Speaker 2: A lot of people do what? Yes, adult, a lot
Speaker 2: of yes.
Speaker 1: Revenge, I'm going to get you back.
Speaker 2: Oh. I have seen people post things on social media like,
Speaker 2: don't cross me. You you think you know, don't mistake
Speaker 2: my kindness for weakness. You know I am going to
Speaker 2: blah blah blah that retaliation. Yes, person, People feel like, yes,
Speaker 2: they want to make somebody feel the way they felt,
Speaker 2: and we do do it without even calling it revenge.
Speaker 2: If someone attacks you verbally says something you don't like,
Speaker 2: what do you do? You go back and you say, well,
Speaker 2: what about you? You did this? That might be a
Speaker 2: mild form of verbal revenge. But I think in small
Speaker 2: ways we do tend to do that and instead of
Speaker 2: accepting responsibility or saying I'm sorry, or we go back
Speaker 2: and we get people back, or if someone says something
Speaker 2: bad about you, look at the comments section on any
Speaker 2: social media host. If someone says something, someone comes back
Speaker 2: and attacks them, and it's just attack, attack, attack, attack.
Speaker 2: So I do think revenge is a big part of
Speaker 2: our society, and I do think it's important to recognize
Speaker 2: that is weakness.
Speaker 1: What's your problem ignoring people?
Speaker 2: I guess I'm just someone who tends to react. I
Speaker 2: and sometimes reacting is in forgiving and understanding and saying
Speaker 2: I guess I could see myself doing that, or maybe
Speaker 2: they were. I make excuses for myself and for other
Speaker 2: people a lot of times because I try to understand,
Speaker 2: and I don't know. Ignoring is not in my wheelhouse.
Speaker 2: I don't. I actually, for me, I understand why it's
Speaker 2: important to be able to do that, to just say
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be affected by that, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to respond to that. I understand that's actually a
Speaker 2: really a position of strength as well.
Speaker 1: There's another quote we could add to this, to that
Speaker 1: point about ignoring. Mama, say you can't argue it a
Speaker 1: fool because from a distance, nobody knows who's who, and
Speaker 1: so intelligent people ignore how many times we've talked about
Speaker 1: this in recent times, where we have had situations where
Speaker 1: something's happening right in front of me, with somebody who
Speaker 1: is saying something that I know to be wrong, that
Speaker 1: somebody is passionate telling even correcting me about something. I
Speaker 1: just looked over at you. We shared a glance and
Speaker 1: I didn't clap back. I didn't respond. I just let
Speaker 1: somebody have their moment. I didn't need to be right.
Speaker 1: That is something I don't know where I got that from.
Speaker 1: Maybe my mom.
Speaker 2: I think your mom. Just a few times i've met
Speaker 2: your mom, I saw a quiet intelligence about her, meaning
Speaker 2: she didn't need to chime in. And I remember there
Speaker 2: was one since where your dad was saying something and
Speaker 2: your mom was like, m M. I could see she knew,
Speaker 2: and then eventually he realized that what he was saying
Speaker 2: wasn't the correct it was just a silly story about
Speaker 2: there when they met back in the day in high school,
Speaker 2: and she's like, I, yep, wasn't just any but you
Speaker 2: were wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that is it, but I don't know. I
Speaker 1: have I just don't. It's not the time or the energy,
Speaker 1: because usually what comes with that is something boiling in
Speaker 1: you that makes you uncomfortable, makes you uneasy, makes you upset,
Speaker 1: makes you emotional, and the other person is still chilling.
Speaker 1: Why am I upsetting myself for somebody who ain't even
Speaker 1: thinking about me. It's just so easy to let fools
Speaker 1: be fools. You just let it go. I don't have
Speaker 1: to be right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you let someone hang themselves, right, that's the phrase.
Speaker 1: But it's okay if they don't realize in the moment
Speaker 1: that I already won. That's what we do so often, right,
Speaker 1: we have to end that moment. That's why we clap
Speaker 1: back on social media. U uh, you can't say that
Speaker 1: I got to get the last word. I gotta be right.
Speaker 1: I can't let you show me up. Who cares?
Speaker 2: Cool kid? Actually you said it's actually not about winning
Speaker 2: or losing. It's just about let them. I love that
Speaker 2: theory for mel Robbins. Let them. That kind of plays
Speaker 2: into this let them.
Speaker 1: So take that with your folks from Albert Einstein. That
Speaker 1: was with us. That was on Thursday week. People revenge,
Speaker 1: strong people forgive, intelligent people ignore. But we got two
Speaker 1: more Ropes always gives you a bonus quote on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but we'll tell you are Friday quote, what it was,
Speaker 1: why it's a big deal, and why If you feel
Speaker 1: like your life is falling apart, this one will explain
Speaker 1: to you why things are not so bad.
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Speaker 2: to your Sunday Warning run filled with inspiration. And we're
Speaker 2: going to turn now to our Friday Quote of the day,
Speaker 2: which I think everyone at some point in their lives
Speaker 2: gets to rock bottom. Right, So this quote really spoke
Speaker 2: to me and hopefully to so many of you. This
Speaker 2: is from an unknown author and yet powerful all the same.
Speaker 2: I like unknown quotes, by the way. I don't know
Speaker 2: how we come up with them. Maybe they're attributed to
Speaker 2: so many different people they can't pick one, so they
Speaker 2: just say unknown. But here's the quote. Sometimes when things
Speaker 2: are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place
Speaker 2: when you have the perspective in some time, go back
Speaker 2: and think about your low moments, the lowest moment, the
Speaker 2: hardest moment, and you look back and you think that
Speaker 2: had to happen that way, because I wouldn't be where
Speaker 2: I am now if I hadn't on through that pain,
Speaker 2: that difficulty, because it had purpose and it changed me
Speaker 2: in a way that got me to where I am today, physically, mentally, logistically, whatever.
Speaker 2: I think, it all makes sense with perspective, and I
Speaker 2: when you're in the thick of it, it's hard to
Speaker 2: imagine you're getting out of it better and stronger.
Speaker 1: You need perspective and experience. This might you might need
Speaker 1: some years to I mean I could have been in
Speaker 1: my early thirties and wouldn't have believed this, or mid
Speaker 1: thirties and wouldn't have believed that. Would people just say
Speaker 1: that No, And if you've lived enough life you know
Speaker 1: good and hell, well you've had that moment where you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is my life is over. Even
Speaker 1: to that point.
Speaker 2: I had a couple of years.
Speaker 1: End up on the other side of it and go, wow,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even living. I wasn't where I should have been.
Speaker 1: But it takes time and perspective. But yes, things are
Speaker 1: falling apart. Could they be falling into place for you?
Speaker 1: Just think about that for so whatever's going on in
Speaker 1: your life. Think if things are actually falling into place. Wow.
Speaker 1: I think about all kinds of things right now.
Speaker 2: And I also think when when the worst thing happens,
Speaker 2: the thing that you hope never happens, that thing that
Speaker 2: you're like, please God, I won't be able to handle
Speaker 2: it when it does happen, and you get through it,
Speaker 2: you realize, wow, I can handle anything. There is this
Speaker 2: renewed sense of confidence, this renewed sense of courage where
Speaker 2: you feel like I've been there and I managed it,
Speaker 2: and I figured it out, and look at me now.
Speaker 2: It really does bring you to a new high after
Speaker 2: you've gone that low. So again, for everyone listening, sometimes
Speaker 2: when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling
Speaker 2: into place.
Speaker 1: And a bonus, as promised, Rose pluck this one out
Speaker 1: another American author. You set this one out? Where'd you
Speaker 1: grab this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I actually was just looking through inspirational quotes. I
Speaker 2: have never heard of Spencer Johnson, but he's an American
Speaker 2: author and he actually does some self help books. And
Speaker 2: I just thought this was so cool because I think
Speaker 2: so often we end up feeling well, we wake up,
Speaker 2: we have a moment, we just we have negative thoughts.
Speaker 2: We are thinking everything's messed up, things aren't going the
Speaker 2: way I want them to. You're frustrated. And I love
Speaker 2: this quote from Spencer Johnson. He said, in one minute,
Speaker 2: you can change your attitude, and in that minute, you
Speaker 2: can change your entire day. You can make a decision.
Speaker 2: It's about catching yourself. You can be in a negative
Speaker 2: narrative in your head and you start thinking everyone's against
Speaker 2: you and everything's against you, and you can just say,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, what am I doing? Why am I
Speaker 2: thinking this? And our thoughts are so powerful and you
Speaker 2: can stop yourself. So if you can just recognize we
Speaker 2: all do it, I'm gonna do probably at some point today,
Speaker 2: certainly sometime this weekend. You catch yourself, catch yourself. But
Speaker 2: it is so powerful when you can say, ah, I
Speaker 2: see what you're doing mind, and I'm going to stop
Speaker 2: that negative train of thought right now.
Speaker 1: I think some people hear that and this roll their eyes. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It sounds so easy, and I think there was a
Speaker 1: tendency at some point in my life to do the
Speaker 1: same thing. But if you stop and just try to
Speaker 1: apply it, apply it a few that, just try what happened,
Speaker 1: Just try it. And attitude often is everything, and perspective
Speaker 1: often is everything. So American author Spencer Johnson, thank you
Speaker 1: for that the bonus for today. In one minute, you
Speaker 1: can change your attitude and in that minute you can
Speaker 1: change your entire day. So with that, so as we
Speaker 1: wrap here in this last bit, when you stop listening,
Speaker 1: take sixty seconds and try to change your attitude. Just
Speaker 1: try it, give it a shout, see what happens.
Speaker 2: And with that everyone, thank you for listening to us
Speaker 2: on this Sunday morning run. I'm Amy roebuck On behalf
Speaker 2: of my partner TJ. Holmes. Go out and have a
Speaker 2: great Sunday and the rest of your week. We'll be
Speaker 2: with you on Monday morning runs, so look out for that.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you