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Daily Motivations

179 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 187 ratings

The Daily Motivations Podcast delivers powerful inspiration in 5 minutes or less. This 5-day-a-week show will help you transform your motivation into action and help you achieve your goals. Tune in for your daily dose of motivation!

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Episodes

The Final Episode

September 04, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 4.79 MB

This is the final episode of the Daily Motivations Podcast. 

177 - Get It Right

September 01, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.48 MB

Your job isn't to be right, it's to get it right.

176 - Need To Escape?

August 31, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 4.93 MB

How are you spending your downtime? Do you feel the need to escape or zone out? What if you used that time to create a reality you don't need to escape from?

175 - Planning Prevents Progress

August 30, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.91 MB

The value of your plan doesn't come from it's accuracy. The value of your plan exists only in it's ability to encourage you to ACT. We learn from doing. Planning can prevent progress.

174 - What If?

August 29, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.38 MB

What if instead of seeing a choice or situation as “hard” you started calling it “helpful’? What if instead of focusing on the difficulty of a choice or situation, you decided to see it as a chance to build confidence or make progress? What if you completely reframed the idea of hard and only referred to difficulties as opportunities to grow?

173 - The Key To Genius

August 28, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.74 MB

"Most geniuses – especially those who lead others – prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities"

172 - Effort Matters

August 25, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.09 MB

"no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment"

171 - Hit Your Fears Harder

August 24, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.51 MB

Hit your fears harder than they hit you.

170 - Refuse To Create Suffering

August 23, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 4.56 MB

I have suffered enough. I have created a backlog of excuses, exceptions & justifications that confined me to a life of fear, hiding, depression and negativity. I’ve left that behind. There are no more excuses, exceptions & justifications. I refuse everything that doesn’t actively support my happiest, fullest and most joyful life.

169 - Make More Magic

August 22, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.17 MB

Focus on the magic in your life and you'll immediately find more of it!

168 - It's Just A Rumor

August 21, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.5 MB

You might understand, but you do not know. Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in your muscle. 

167 - Pleasure of Your Senses

August 18, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.55 MB

There's pleasure of your senses and there's pleasure of your ego. How can you begin to seek out more things that make you feel that pleasure of your ego - proud, confident, joyful, motivated?

166 - Who Is Forcing You To Live This Way?

August 17, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 4.28 MB

When you look at what you don't like about your life, career, finances, relationships, health, physique or anything in between, ask yourself, "Who is forcing you to live this way?"

165 - Living In Your Problems

August 16, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 4.52 MB

"Before the truth can set you free you need to recognize the lie that is holding you hostage"

164 - You're Overwhelmed

August 15, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.62 MB

Of course you're overwhelmed. You're focused on way more than you need to be & you're distracting yourself from what you can do today. 

163 - Positivity Pledge

August 14, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 4.32 MB

Make this positivity pledge to create more happiness & success. Find ways to apply it today with your thoughts & choices. 

162 - The Choice Is Yours

August 11, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 1.9 MB

Are you happy with the way things are? Is comfortable & easy better than happy & amazing? If not: change. Stop focusing on the obstacles and do the work. 

161 - Your Path Or Mine

August 10, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.75 MB

How you treat me is your path. How I respond is mine. 

160 - Unstoppable

August 09, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.74 MB

You cannot expect to win while you fight harder for the validity of your problems than you do for the validity of your solutions. You must fight harder for your goals & solutions than you do for your problems & obstacles.

159 - Hard Work Pays Off

August 08, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 5.1 MB

This episode is explicit.

158 - The Work

August 07, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.48 MB

The dream isn't enough. It's about the work you put in with your hands & your feet.

157 - Pushing Or Pacing

August 04, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.34 MB

In this choice you're making, are you pushing or pacing? With your effort, are you pushing or pacing?

156 - Excuses

August 03, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.45 MB

When was the last time an excuse got you what you really want?

155 - Resisting & Resenting

August 02, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.92 MB

Why are you resisting and resenting what is hard when that is the very path to what you want?

154 - It's All Invented

August 01, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 4.52 MB

If it's all invented, invent a new narrative that serves your goals and use your choices to make it your reality. 

153 - Perspective

July 31, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.57 MB

How could I choose to see this differently?

152 - Easing Off

July 28, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.75 MB

Easing off does not make your path easier. You might sell yourself that story, but it doesn't make it true. 

151 - Create Happy

July 27, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.5 MB

A client told me she had made great strides in her happiness. I suggested that she write down, for herself, how she did that. She shared her answers with me & I'm sharing them with you. 

150 - Imperfect Improvement

July 26, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.54 MB

"Expecting perfection only leaves you with two options: do everything right on the very first try, or don’t even bother. Which is actually only one option, since 9 times out of 10, human beings don't do things right on the first try." So, what imperfect improvement can you make today?

149 - Challenges Of Your Present

July 25, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.13 MB

Do not turn away from the challenges of your present. And don't see them as a burden. They are an opportunity. When you battle with the challenges of your present you win the prizes of your future. (Traveler's Gift)

148 - The Word Water

July 24, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.53 MB

"The word water will not get you wet"

147 - Loss or Lesson?

July 21, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.85 MB

If you see it as a loss, you'll probably miss the lesson. My greatest mentor is my own mistakes. 

146 - Clinging To Comfort

July 20, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.19 MB

Where are you choosing to cling to comfort? Where are you refusing to let go of your comfort zone so you can truly make progress?

145 - Sprint of Consistency

July 19, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 5.1 MB

Success is actually a short sprint of consistency, powered by discipline, until habit kicks in & takes over. 

144 - Change Making

July 18, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.77 MB

"Changemaking isn’t about clearly outlining the rational benefit of your point of view. Changemaking happens when people fall in love with a different version of the future." ~ Seth Godin

143: Carrying Or Releasing

July 17, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 4.01 MB

When we struggle to reach our goals, it's often because we're choosing a perspective that suggests that making progress towards the goal requires carrying a burden. 

142 - Choose Your Way Out

July 14, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.58 MB

If it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't right. Fortunately, we always have the power to choose our way out of those feelings and towards something different. 

141 - Never Allow Waiting To Become A Habit

July 13, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.64 MB

Where have you allowed allowed waiting to become a habit?

140 - How To Improve Your Choices

July 12, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.91 MB

More often than not, we make choices based on what we want most in a moment. As we consider our options, we’re evaluating what is right in front of us and how we're feeling in that moment. There is a way to improve choices, reduce frustration & increase consistency.

139 - Do Not Be Overwhelmed

July 11, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.85 MB

Strive to be "an athlete in the greatest of all contests - the struggle to not be overwhelmed by anything that happens" ~ Marcus Aurelius

138 - Delayed Perfection

July 10, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.89 MB

Continuous improvement always trumps delayed perfection. 

137 - Game Changer

July 07, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.28 MB

The impossible is usually just the untried. What would happen if you brought a new, unwavering consistency to your goals?

136 - What Discipline Doesn't Mean

July 06, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.24 MB

Discipline doesn't mean you don't get what you want when you want it. I means you've chosen something you want even more. 

135 - Discipline of Patience

July 05, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.13 MB

We are creatures of urgency. If we want something, we have to react or decide now. If we feel something, we have to speak or act right away. The discipline of patience reminds us that sometimes the best choice is no choice at all. 

134 - The Quitting Filter

July 04, 2017 07:00 - 1 minute - 2.96 MB

Is this the right thing to quit? Is this the right time to quit? Is this the right reason to quit?

133 - Insecurity

July 03, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.57 MB

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. Stop letting your insecurities make decisions for you. Each time you do, you fuel that insecurity and limit your own freedom & happiness. 

132 - Best Advice

June 30, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 5.03 MB

Nothing beats a failure like a try. You don't have to quit, you just want to. Whatever your favorite piece of advice is, what are you DOING with it, and with what consistency?

131 - AMRAP Mentality

June 29, 2017 07:00 - 3 minutes - 5.37 MB

We are usually distracted. While we work on one thing, we're thinking about other things & other situations, at the expense of efficiency & quality. AMRAP mentality can be a powerful way to feel less overwhelmed & more productive. 

130 - Keep Coming Back

June 28, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 4.21 MB

No matter what happened last, I keep coming back. No matter what, I keep coming back. 

129 - Stop Lying To Yourself

June 27, 2017 07:00 - 2 minutes - 3.71 MB

Success depends, to a large degree, on how well you communicate with yourself and with others. Results & achievement will benefit from honest, effective & constant communication. Excuses & procrastination often stem from dishonest or incomplete communication with yourself. You might not think you are lying to yourself, but often times, you are. At best, you’re not telling the whole truth and you’re accepting a story that isn’t the real truth.