There is one reason why some people achieve their God-given potential and so many don’t. It does not matter if you are a bus driver or a president. This one thing explains why some people achieve incredible results while others reach the end of their life wondering what it was all about.
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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you as always for the daily podcast.
Speaker:Hope you're doing well.
Speaker:Thanks so much for the pleasure of your company.
Speaker:We're coming at you live 365 days a year.
Speaker:A few days ago, people were asking why every day, 365 days a year,
Speaker:would you have to do a Christmas day?
Speaker:The answer is yes.
Speaker:Because I have no idea who I may possibly reach with some.
Speaker:Encouragement and inspiration on Christmas day, I once spent
Speaker:Christmas day, I think it was 1994.
Speaker:In a hotel room in Stuttgart Christmas day, we're traveling.
Speaker:It's a friend of mine.
Speaker:This was a ma.
Speaker:Oh, I must've been about, I think it was about 20.
Speaker:And uh, to call, to get outside and stood guard.
Speaker:You know, interesting town, but it's not one of Germany's most beautiful towns.
Speaker:It was parts of it that are, so it was pretty bleak.
Speaker:Pretty dark, pretty cold.
Speaker:And we're staying next door to a brewery.
Speaker:So all I could smell was beer all the time.
Speaker:And do you know what I needed that day?
Speaker:I needed an inspirational podcast, but could I find one?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:I'm not going to let the fact that podcasts hadn't really
Speaker:been invented, ruin this story.
Speaker:But if there had been an inspirational podcast probably would have helped
Speaker:me a lot at that point in life.
Speaker:So friends.
Speaker:That's why we're doing 365 days a year.
Speaker:And also we're doing a 365 days a year because it is part of today's I guess.
Speaker:Um, Theme the theme we're going to be talking about in this episode, just before
Speaker:I do that, would you make sure you've subscribed, hit that subscribe button?
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Speaker:There's tons of stuff here.
Speaker:That could be really useful to you.
Speaker:You can book me to speak live.
Speaker:You can get free access to my book, bridging the gap.
Speaker:It's all there in the description notes.
Speaker:So please check those out.
Speaker:Today, my friends, we're going to talk about something.
Speaker:Uh, that's really central to what I'm trying to do, human to a bit commitment.
Speaker:Because at the time of recording this it's a Sunday.
Speaker:I mean, the studio.
Speaker:I've already put a lot of time in with family.
Speaker:I'm going to put a lot more time in with family.
Speaker:Once I get back out of the studio.
Speaker:But I want to be really honest with you.
Speaker:Today's one of those days when you're like, you know,
Speaker:I'd love to have a day off.
Speaker:I'd love to kind of just, you know, maybe I'll pick this up tomorrow.
Speaker:Maybe it doesn't matter whether I get through this today.
Speaker:But there's a few things going on for me as I talk to you.
Speaker:And I always try to talk to you about things that, uh, that I'm trying
Speaker:to live and that I'm trying to do, because I don't want to advocate
Speaker:them to you if I'm not doing them.
Speaker:The first thing about commitment.
Speaker:Is the link between commitment and magnificent obsessions.
Speaker:If you've been listening to me recently, You know, I've been talking about that,
Speaker:a great book from cam Hanes in Jua and that, uh, the whole concept of obsession.
Speaker:Of having something in your life that you're deeply committed
Speaker:to and passionate about.
Speaker:And, you know, I think about it a lot.
Speaker:I wonder, does everybody have this?
Speaker:Is this something that everybody will experience in life?
Speaker:I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker:I struggled to understand why some of us would have one in some wouldn't.
Speaker:I think that God creates us all with this amazing potential and capacity.
Speaker:And I just can't imagine that, um,
Speaker:Some of us would be blessed with.
Speaker:A passionate desire to do something in this world and some of us aren't.
Speaker:So I'm going to take a gamble here, inside that.
Speaker:I think we all have the capacity to find something really
Speaker:worthwhile, to be committed to and obsessed with in this life.
Speaker:And when we find it.
Speaker:One of the crucial things is commitment is the ability to stick with it.
Speaker:Even when it's particularly difficult.
Speaker:Hence me being here in the studio.
Speaker:Wanting to stay faithful to this path and wanting to make sure that.
Speaker:I'm putting content in front of people every single day,
Speaker:regardless of how I feel, regardless of what's going on, because.
Speaker:If I don't do that, then I guess what I'm doing is I'm.
Speaker:I'm lacking the integrity to tell you to.
Speaker:To tell you to do something that I'm not doing myself.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:A few listeners always like what about when you need a break?
Speaker:What about when I do have those?
Speaker:I did a rap.
Speaker:Uh, an episode on that very recently.
Speaker:But I also think if you're going to really try and do
Speaker:something useful and worthwhile.
Speaker:You got to stay committed to it.
Speaker:So I want to give you a couple of good quotes on this, that I, um, research
Speaker:first one's from pat Riley, pat Raleigh, as you would know, was the, uh, coach of
Speaker:the, um, was he the coach of the Lakers?
Speaker:Oh my gosh.
Speaker:Basketball fans are gonna lose their mind.
Speaker:Uh, if I get this wrong, I'm pretty sure pat Riley, I hope
Speaker:it wasn't the Chicago bulls.
Speaker:Now that was the other guy that was on Netflix.
Speaker:Anyway, I've just lost every basketball fan on this podcast has just gone.
Speaker:You're not serious.
Speaker:I'm just taking a stab.
Speaker:I think pat Riley cuts the Lakers.
Speaker:Can I do this in real time?
Speaker:Can I actually just, just jump out across here in the studio and find out who
Speaker:pat Raleigh actually coached because.
Speaker:These details matter.
Speaker:Here we go.
Speaker:Um, He's been team president of the Miami heat more recently, but come on.
Speaker:Where was he before that?
Speaker:Oh, gosh, hang in there.
Speaker:People.
Speaker:I got you covered here.
Speaker:I don't want you to.
Speaker:I don't want you to miss out.
Speaker:He played, but, um, he's coaching Korea.
Speaker:Here we go.
Speaker:I was right.
Speaker:God bless you, baby.
Speaker:Jesus.
Speaker:He was the coach of the LA Lakers from 79 to 1990, then the Knicks and then the.
Speaker:He's still doing some work with the Miami heat, but probably famous for most of
Speaker:us, for the LA Lakers and a whole bunch of you non-basketball fans just went
Speaker:and really, we had to wait for that.
Speaker:You did.
Speaker:Now, you know, If somebody holds you at gunpoint in the next 24 hours and says,
Speaker:who was pat Raleigh coaching in the 1990s?
Speaker:You'll you'll know the answer then you'll thank me.
Speaker:He says this, there are only two options regarding commitment.
Speaker:You're either in or you're out.
Speaker:There are only two options regarding commitment you're either in or you're out.
Speaker:I like it commitment to non-negotiable in life.
Speaker:It's something that we either.
Speaker:We stick to we weather through all the ups and downs, or we don't, we don't
Speaker:get the optionality of picking and choosing when we decide to be committed.
Speaker:Karen and I've been married 22 years.
Speaker:I can promise your friends.
Speaker:There have been ups.
Speaker:There have been downs.
Speaker:There's been plenty of sideways is.
Speaker:There's been plenty of downs and in plenty of difficult seasons now,
Speaker:health challenges and family challenges and business challenges and so many
Speaker:different things that we've been through.
Speaker:And this concept of commitment.
Speaker:You know, it's the old top gun thing.
Speaker:You know, you'll you guys will know I'm a top gun fan.
Speaker:You know, you don't leave your wing, man.
Speaker:That if you stay committed, you stay committed, you stay committed.
Speaker:There's only two options.
Speaker:According to pat Raleigh, you're either in or you're out.
Speaker:And, um, you know, this is kind of crucial here.
Speaker:This is, um, If there's something that's significant in your life, if there's
Speaker:a gift or a talent that you've been given, what's really gonna matter.
Speaker:Is the development of this over time.
Speaker:I'm becoming increasingly aware of that.
Speaker:I guess it's what Tony Robbins used to call mastery, right?
Speaker:Mastery.
Speaker:That there are some people who master the craft will Smith used to talk about
Speaker:that a lot too, in terms of acting.
Speaker:He was talking about banging and hammering on the craft, the
Speaker:craft just shit, you know, the commitment required for excellence.
Speaker:Cam Hanes is booked.
Speaker:The commitment required for excellence.
Speaker:So now that I'm getting back on the speaking circuit again, I really just
Speaker:have this fascination with getting better and better and better, and
Speaker:trying to be more effective at reaching people more and more or more quote
Speaker:for you today from Ken Blanchard, the famous author in management, all
Speaker:around motivational success, dude.
Speaker:Ken Blanchard says there's a difference between interest and commitment when
Speaker:you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient.
Speaker:When you're committed to something you accept no excuses, only results.
Speaker:I think he makes a great point there about convenience.
Speaker:When you have an interest in something, then we do it.
Speaker:When we have the time when we have the bandwidth and we have the capacity to
Speaker:do it, when we committed to something, we do it regardless of the circumstance.
Speaker:Hence me being in here on a Sunday at 2:14 PM.
Speaker:Wanting to make sure that I get this episode out today because I care about
Speaker:it because I just don't know whether.
Speaker:A single idea that I have to share with you today could be really useful,
Speaker:really important going forward.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Commitment matters my friends.
Speaker:So I'm going to encourage you as always do, to look into your life and say,
Speaker:what is your magnificent obsession?
Speaker:What's the unique potential and gift that you've been given.
Speaker:And are you living.
Speaker:Under the direction of significant commitment.
Speaker:Are you committed to the gifts you've been given?
Speaker:Are you committed to the time?
Speaker:The challenges, the ups and downs, the sacrifices, the suffering, the
Speaker:highs, the lows, the ins and outs.
Speaker:The days when it rains in the days when the sun's shining, that are going
Speaker:to honor the gifts you've been given.
Speaker:You know, a couple of weeks ago talked about that parable from the new Testament
Speaker:where Jesus talks about, you know, the.
Speaker:The three different people given.
Speaker:You know, these, uh, this, these talents, this money by a, by
Speaker:their sort of rule of their king.
Speaker:And one of them hides it in the ground.
Speaker:And the real punishment comes, you know, not for the ones that didn't make so much
Speaker:money with what they were given, but the real punishment came for the one that
Speaker:did nothing with what they'd been given.
Speaker:So maybe that's something we're thinking about that the, uh, the
Speaker:answers we're going to have to give.
Speaker:On the other side of this life are going to be, what did you
Speaker:do with what you were given?
Speaker:How committed were you to it?
Speaker:How committed were you to taking your potential and your gifts?
Speaker:And honing them and shaping them to be a blessing to people in this world.
Speaker:So friends, that's the message for today.
Speaker:Commitment, commitment, commitment.
Speaker:I don't think you're mediocre.
Speaker:I don't think you're average.
Speaker:I don't think anybody's created or made to be average or mediocre, whether it means
Speaker:that you're an artist or a brain surgeon.
Speaker:Or a street sweeper or a bus driver.
Speaker:All of these things, you can drive a bus.
Speaker:With joy, you can make it a fun experience for people.
Speaker:You can be trying to be the best bus driver you've ever been.
Speaker:If that is the charism and the talent and the gift that God's put on your life.
Speaker:So it really doesn't matter what the gifting is.
Speaker:It just matters with how much we honor it and how grateful we are
Speaker:for it and the commitment that we bring to it on a daily basis.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:That's it for me on this one?
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Speaker:Um, there'll be a link here to the YouTube channel.
Speaker:If you want to come and check out the YouTube channel
Speaker:here, that would be awesome.
Speaker:I would love you to do that.
Speaker:So, um, listen, God bless everybody.
Speaker:Um, I am committed.
Speaker:I'm committed to you.
Speaker:I'm committed to everybody listening to this.
Speaker:I'm going to be here for the long haul.
Speaker:I'm going to keep producing content, whether it's just
Speaker:me and my mother listening.
Speaker:Or whether it's 50,500,000 or 5 million people, I'm just going to keep producing.
Speaker:I'm going to stay committed to my passion, to helping people.
Speaker:I'm going to stay committed to my passion, to liberate people's potential.
Speaker:I'm going to stay committed to showing up every day and bringing this to the world.
Speaker:And I hope you can do the same with whatever magnificent
Speaker:obsession you have and whatever remarkable gift you've been given.
Speaker:All right god bless you guys my name's jonathan doyle this has been
Speaker:the daily message and i'm going to have another one for you tomorrow
