“Have you ever wondered why so few people ever reach their goals? What is the missing ingredient that could also be holding you back? In today’s episode we explore a simple insight from former US President Theodore Roosevelt that reminds us all of the one, crucial first step that can unleash our motivation and get us on the path to new levels of personal development and success. If you start putting this mindset to work then everything can change.”
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Transcript
Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
Speaker:Once again.
Speaker:Welcome aboard my friends to the daily podcast.
Speaker:It is good to have you with me.
Speaker:There is so much going on in our world.
Speaker:We all need new skills.
Speaker:We need to be a constantly encouraged and inspired.
Speaker:Karen and I were on a conference call today and, uh, it was just fascinating to
Speaker:hear the number of people talking about.
Speaker:How much they have going on.
Speaker:It's just seems to be this moment in human history.
Speaker:Doesn't it.
Speaker:So we've got to be so conscious.
Speaker:About taking care of ourselves, using all the different skills
Speaker:and capacities that we have and all the tools that are out there.
Speaker:Hopefully.
Speaker:This podcast is one of those tools.
Speaker:One of those things that gets you going each day, I'm excited about
Speaker:the direction of the podcast we have.
Speaker:We're going to have a big pivot.
Speaker:We're going to be doing a lot more guest interviews.
Speaker:In the weeks ahead, I've got a teamwork with me at the moment.
Speaker:It's going to be, uh, bringing some great guests on the shows.
Speaker:So it's a great chance to hear the wisdom and insight of so many.
Speaker:Other people.
Speaker:I just finished Jenny Tufts books solo in recent episodes.
Speaker:I've been talking about that.
Speaker:This remarkable woman that, uh, decided to run across most of the
Speaker:world's greatest mountain ranges.
Speaker:Why not.
Speaker:I mean, if you got to do something with your time, right.
Speaker:And then instead of sitting in front of the TV, want to go out
Speaker:and run the world's greatest.
Speaker:Greatest mountain ranges, but what I took out of the book.
Speaker:I talked about a few weeks ago was just.
Speaker:An interesting quote, you made about decision-making and just
Speaker:about how sometimes you just got to make it, you just got to take
Speaker:that choice and keep moving.
Speaker:Karen and I have so much happening in our sort of business professional
Speaker:lives and all the different things that we do and that she does.
Speaker:Um, we often talk about this, that you just got to keep
Speaker:making decisions each day.
Speaker:For us.
Speaker:It's just a process of decision after decision after decision.
Speaker:So I think in life, people tend to fall into different categories.
Speaker:Don't they, some people are really good at it.
Speaker:Some people go into avoidance, they just don't make decisions.
Speaker:And always remember that not making a decision is still making a decision.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So we've got to be conscious.
Speaker:We've got to be.
Speaker:Deliberately making the choice.
Speaker:To make choices.
Speaker:We've got to be as often as possible looking at our life and constantly
Speaker:moving towards what it is that we want.
Speaker:We're never going to get perfection in this life.
Speaker:We're never going to get things exactly the way we want them completely, but
Speaker:there is something unique about the human journey is that we are desiring creatures.
Speaker:We are capable of envisioning a different future.
Speaker:I was talking to a friend on a training ride the other day about leadership and.
Speaker:I remember quoting a Nepalian who famously said that the first duty of a leader.
Speaker:Is to define reality.
Speaker:And the last is to say, thank you.
Speaker:I like this idea of defining reality, that Napoleon was like able
Speaker:to kind of look into the future.
Speaker:And construct it.
Speaker:And it's interesting cause you know, Abraham Lincoln all assessed
Speaker:that the best way to predict your future is to create it.
Speaker:The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Speaker:So there's this constant sense of.
Speaker:Looking ahead and going, what do I want from this life?
Speaker:What.
Speaker:You know, you always hear me say what I want to have be, or do.
Speaker:Because sometimes the criticism of motivation and personal development
Speaker:is people like, well, we're always focusing on getting stuff.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:It's having being, and doing and contributing.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:What do you want to contribute in the world?
Speaker:So we want to consciously deliberately be aware of what it is that we want.
Speaker:And then look at those steps and choices on a daily basis.
Speaker:And I really believe that small steps matter that just these constant daily
Speaker:small steps can make a huge difference.
Speaker:They're significant.
Speaker:They really are.
Speaker:So don't underestimate just making little tweaks on a daily basis.
Speaker:Now today, today's quote.
Speaker:I want to focus on a great quote from president Theodore Roosevelt.
Speaker:It resonates with something that's been on my mind a bit lately.
Speaker:Uh, president Roosevelt said this believe you can.
Speaker:And you're halfway there.
Speaker:Believe you can.
Speaker:And you're halfway there.
Speaker:It's a great quote, reminds us of so many crucial principles, right?
Speaker:This, this concept of faith.
Speaker:I was listening to, uh, to ed Merlot's new book or ed my lip,
Speaker:as he says his new book recently.
Speaker:And the concept of faith, this remarkable.
Speaker:It's a theory.
Speaker:Isn't it?
Speaker:It's hard to pin it down and go, well, what exactly is it?
Speaker:Is it wishing his faith just to kind of hoping, you know, of course
Speaker:in the Bible, it talks about faith is the, uh, you know, the hope of
Speaker:things that we haven't yet seen.
Speaker:The things that we know are coming.
Speaker:We've just got a hold in there with faith and believe in them.
Speaker:I think faith is a deliberate choice as well.
Speaker:We're talking about choice today and decisions.
Speaker:I think there were so many times in life where you have to choose faith.
Speaker:It's like a muscle, you have to exercise it, you know, it's even
Speaker:in the, in the, in the presence of circumstances or difficulties that
Speaker:can really be quite challenging.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You can think, well, how do I have fight in the midst of this?
Speaker:Well, the answer is you choose to.
Speaker:And you choose to, again, you know, for, for people like me and
Speaker:I think many of you listening.
Speaker:You know, if you've had, uh, challenges in life of life has really
Speaker:tested you at times, it can be.
Speaker:It can weigh you down, right.
Speaker:You can actually kind of sometimes think what's the point and
Speaker:what do I, how do I keep going?
Speaker:Why do I keep getting up every day?
Speaker:This, this remarkable human capacity for faith.
Speaker:To just keep going.
Speaker:One more step, one more step.
Speaker:You know, so many of the great faith traditions in particularly in mind,
Speaker:You know, tradition, Christianity.
Speaker:In Jesus talks so relentlessly about faith.
Speaker:You know, he sort of says, if you have the tiniest bit of faith, you can tell
Speaker:a mountain to throw itself into the sea.
Speaker:And so many of his miracles required faith required this decision to believe.
Speaker:That things could be different.
Speaker:You know, when he healed blind people there, the condition was that they
Speaker:believed that they could possibly see.
Speaker:You know, many times Jesus would say, do you want to be healed?
Speaker:Do you believe you can?
Speaker:Do you want to see.
Speaker:People had to have the faith to at least believe it was possible.
Speaker:So where did whatever you're facing in life at the moment?
Speaker:Well, I guess my hope for my prayer for you, my faith for you is.
Speaker:To start strengthening this muscle muscle.
Speaker:Almost said muscle.
Speaker:Muscle.
Speaker:The ability to step into something that hasn't happened yet to keep going
Speaker:to get up one more day and believe that you're going to get closer.
Speaker:Just keep going for do one thing in this podcast is going to give you that
Speaker:daily encouragement, that constant forward progression of hope and
Speaker:faith, that things can be different.
Speaker:If you make small, incremental daily choices.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So what did president Roosevelt's?
Speaker:I believe you can you're halfway there.
Speaker:Believe that it's possible.
Speaker:And you're halfway there.
Speaker:I watched a few moments the other day of, uh, the only one it's
Speaker:about three or four minutes of it.
Speaker:Before as usual, my tribe of children came in, had other ideas
Speaker:about how I was using my time.
Speaker:I basically never watched TV or anything like that, but I actually was watching
Speaker:a couple of minutes of this Netflix.
Speaker:Uh, documentary on the pro and professional PGA golfers.
Speaker:And I think it was M J T is it Justin?
Speaker:Thomas was who's one, one of the U S majors.
Speaker:He said, Just this line.
Speaker:He said, you know, from when I was the youngest age, I just wanted to
Speaker:be the best golfer in the world.
Speaker:You know, and look at this quote we're talking about today.
Speaker:Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
Speaker:I mean, imagine if he's dream had been, you know, I really believe in that
Speaker:I can be in the top 40,000 golfers in the world, or I really believe.
Speaker:You know, but he didn't write.
Speaker:It was like, I believe I can be the best.
Speaker:Now I'm a realist.
Speaker:I know there's genetics involved and you've got to be born in a certain place.
Speaker:There's definitely factors that we can't control in life.
Speaker:But think about the fact that he had that first bedrock, right.
Speaker:He had that belief.
Speaker:Had the belief that it was possible, he could envision a
Speaker:future where it was going to happen.
Speaker:And once that belief was in place.
Speaker:He was halfway there now, but the other half was the work and the
Speaker:dismal and the travel and the fatigue and the uncertainty and the losses.
Speaker:But without that preeminent belief.
Speaker:No one's going anywhere.
Speaker:Think about everything.
Speaker:Great that's ever happened in human history.
Speaker:You know, look good.
Speaker:Martin Luther king Jr's right.
Speaker:They had to believe it was possible that something could be slightly different
Speaker:without that faith, nothing was changing.
Speaker:So, whatever your circumstance is now you could have, it could
Speaker:be a difficult relationship.
Speaker:It could be financial problems could be health problems.
Speaker:You've got to take that first single step of belief.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:That's my encouragement for you today.
Speaker:Just begin.
Speaker:And I really want to be practical.
Speaker:It's.
Speaker:It's a moment by moment mental practice.
Speaker:It's not just a hope or a, or a wish that you send Skywood it's like, no.
Speaker:I'm going to choose to have faith I'm going to choose to consciously
Speaker:deliberately mentally believe that this is possible and i will keep moving forward
Speaker:and I will keep believing this and i'll keep acting on it and speaking about
Speaker:it and moving towards it All right my friends that's my message for you today
Speaker:believe you can and you're halfway there get to work on your faith and the rest
Speaker:will follow there'll be links floating around here You can book time with me
Speaker:for coaching there'll be other links to book me for speaking but stay tuned
Speaker:this podcast is going to be growing even more you're going to send great guests
Speaker:for your soon But um, for now This has been the daily podcast god bless your
Speaker:friends my name is jonathan doyle and you and i are going to talk again tomorrow
