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Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because great news should be heard, and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote is often attributed to Doja Cat although there isn't definitive documentation that she coined the phrase. Doja Cat is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer who rose to international fame through her unique blend of music, creativity, and social media savvy. Known for hit songs, bold artistic expression, and a willingness to take risks, she has become one of the most recognizable entertainers of her generation.She is attributed with saying:"Work hard in silence, let success make the noise."In a world where people constantly share their goals, plans, and achievements online, this quote offers a different perspective. It reminds us that we don't need to announce every step of our journey.Usually the most important work happens quietly. It's the early mornings, the late nights, the practice sessions, the study hours, and the consistent effort that nobody sees.Real progress often happens behind the scenes.And when that hard work begins to pay off, the results speak for themselves.Success has a way of getting people's attention without needing a lot of promotion.That's not to say we should hide our accomplishments. Rather, the quote encourages us to focus more on doing the work than talking about the work. Because at the end of the day, effort creates results, and results tell the story.The tip of the iceberg is what the public sees but the massive bulk of the iceberg is beneath the service. All the hard work and silent practice happens without fanfare as you build the foundation of your success. Without the silent work you will never break the surface.So here's the question: What goal could you make progress on today if you spent less time talking about it and more time working toward it?Remember, the loudest statement you can make is often the obvious success that follows quiet and consistent effort.That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back... tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because great news should be heard, and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote comes from Simone Biles:Simone Biles is an American gymnast widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. With multiple Olympic and World Championship medals, she has inspired millions not only through her athletic achievements but also through her openness about mental health, resilience, and overcoming challenges.She once said,"Turn your setbacks into setups for your comeback."Nobody enjoys setbacks.Whether it's a failed project, a missed opportunity, a rejection, or an unexpected obstacle, setbacks can leave us feeling discouraged and maybe even questioning our path forward.But Simone Biles reminds us that setbacks don't have to be the end of the story.In fact, they can become the beginning of something even better. Many of life's greatest comebacks start with disappointment. A setback often forces us to learn, adapt, and grow in ways that success never could. It reveals our strengths, sharpens our focus, and prepares us for future opportunities.The key is how we respond.Do we let the setback define us, or do we use it as fuel for our comeback?Simone Biles herself has demonstrated this throughout her career, showing that resilience isn't about never falling down, it's about finding the courage to rise again.So here's the question: What setback in your life could become the foundation for your next comeback?Remember, a setback is not a permanent condition. It may simply be preparing you for what's next.That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back... tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because great news should be heard, and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote comes from Walt Whitman:Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist who lived from 1819 to 1892. Often called the father of free verse poetry, he is best known for his groundbreaking collection of poems, Leaves of Grass. His work celebrated individuality, optimism, humanity, and the beauty of everyday life.Walt Whitman once said:"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."I love the simplicity of this message.When you face the sunshine, your shadow naturally falls behind you. The shadow doesn't disappear, but it no longer dominates your view.Life works much the same way.We all face challenges, tragedies, disappointments, worries, and setbacks. Those shadows are part of being human. But if we focus exclusively on what's wrong, those shadows can seem larger than they really are.Whitman reminds us that where we direct our attention matters.When we focus on opportunities, gratitude, progress, and possibility, we don't ignore life's difficulties, we simply choose not to let them define our perspective.That's one reason I believe in sharing great news and daily motivational quotes. There will always be problems in the world, but there are also remarkable stories of innovation, kindness, and human progress happening every day.The problem is the mainstream media, social media feeds and many of your closest friends are facing away from the sunshine and all they see is shadow. The media gets paid when they have your attention and the easiest way to get your attention is to report on all the news in the shadows. And that amplifies this idea that the world is a bad, dangerous place. And so we get trapped in a cycle of negative news reporting, doom scrolling and conversations about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket.And most of us don't even realize that all we have to do is turn around and face the sun. The shadows are still there. Bad things are still happening but now we can also see the good things too. The hope, the progress, the love... and the gratitude.So here's the question: What sunshine could you choose to focus on today?Remember, the shadows may still be there, but they don't have to be the center of your attention. Your perspective is a choice.And knowing that... direction will you be facing today?That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back... tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because great news should be heard, and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote comes from Confucius: Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, teacher, and political thinker who lived more than 2,500 years ago, from 551 to 479 BC. His teachings on ethics, learning, personal responsibility, and good character have influenced millions of people around the world and continue to be studied today.Confucius once said..."A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."One of the hardest things for many of us to do is admit when we're wrong.Nobody likes making mistakes. Whether it's a poor decision, a misunderstanding, or a missed opportunity, our first instinct is often to defend ourselves or ignore the problem.But Confucius points out something important: making a mistake isn't the real problem. Refusing to learn from it is.Mistakes are a normal part of life. In fact, they're often our greatest teachers. The key is being willing to acknowledge them, make adjustments, and move forward with a little more wisdom than we had before.When we correct our mistakes, we grow. When we ignore them, we risk repeating them.So here's the question: Is there a mistake in your life that contains a lesson you've been avoiding?Remember, it's not our mistakes that define us. It's what we do after we make them.That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back... tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because great news should be heard, and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote comes from William Blake:William Blake was an English poet, artist, and visionary who lived from 1757 to 1827. Though not widely recognized during his lifetime, he is now considered one of the most influential figures in English literature and art. His works challenged conventional thinking and encouraged people to see the world in new ways.William Blake once said..."You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."At first glance, it might sound like Blake is encouraging excess. But I think there's a deeper message here.How do we know where the boundary is unless we've explored beyond it? How do we know how much work is enough, how much preparation is enough, or how much effort is enough unless we've occasionally gone too far?Many of life's lessons come from experience. Sometimes we only learn our limits after we've exceeded them. We discover balance by experiencing imbalance. We discover moderation by understanding excess.That's true in business, relationships, health, and personal growth. Experience teaches us things that theory alone never can.So here's the question: What lesson have you learned by going a little further than you thought was necessary?Sometimes wisdom doesn't come from staying within the lines. Sometimes it comes from discovering where the lines actually are.That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back... tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because great news should be heard, and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote comes from Jordan Peterson.Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and public speaker known for his work on personality, responsibility, personal development, and meaning in life. A former professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, he gained international recognition through his books, lectures, and interviews, including the bestselling book 12 Rules for Life. His work encourages individuals to take responsibility for their lives, pursue meaningful goals, and continually strive for self-improvement.Today's quote is:"You're a fool when you try something new, but you're a worse fool if you don't try it."I like this quote because it challenges the fear that often holds us back.Whenever we try something new, there's a good chance we'll make mistakes. We might feel awkward, inexperienced, or even embarrassed. That's just part of being a beginner.Think about learning to drive, starting a business, launching a podcast, or speaking in front of an audience. Nobody starts out as an expert.The problem is that many people avoid looking foolish, so they never take the first step. They stay where it's comfortable and familiar. But by doing that, they miss opportunities to learn, grow, and discover what they're capable of.The truth is that every expert was once a beginner. Every success story started with someone willing to risk looking foolish.So here's the question: What is something you've been wanting to try but have been avoiding because you're afraid of failing or looking foolish?Remember, being a beginner isn't a weakness—it's the first step toward becoming better.That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back... tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. And you should listen because good news needs to be heard. Today's episode is a first for this podcast. Every quote I've featured has come from history, from books, from interviews. From someone I've read or studied but never met. Or at least don't know personally.Today's comes from someone I know. A good friend. Someone I was sitting next to when he said it.His name is Francis Cheung. Frank holds a PhD in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering and he is a man whose mind operates at the intersection of science and human complexity. And several years ago, Frank and I were camping on Quadra Island, British Columbia. We were up early, the two of us, watching the sun rise over Rebecca Spit - a long, quiet stretch of beach with the ocean on both sides and nobody else in sight. Nobody, except for one man. Standing alone out on the sand, facing the waves, completely still.And Frank looked at the scene, paused, and said:"It's like a metaphor for life. Every man stands alone."The people in the tents next to us laughed. I don't think they were laughing at Frank. I think they were just surprised that Frank was such a philosopher. I wasn't surprised at all but I still found the moment funny. There's something about a solitary figure on a beach at dawn that goes beyond the intellect and speaks directly to something deeper. The ocean doesn't care how many people are watching. The waves arrive regardless. And no matter how many people you have in your life there are moments where you face the ocean alone. Where the enormity of things meets you as an individual. That's what Frank saw in that man on the sand. Not loneliness. Solitude. And there's a world of difference between the two.Loneliness is the unwanted absence of connection. Solitude is the honest recognition that some things can only be faced from within. Your interior life... the questions that keep you up at night, the values you're trying to live by, the meaning you're building from your particular experience of being alive. Nobody else can navigate that for you. You stand at that shoreline alone. Every man. Every woman. Every person, regardless of how loved, how surrounded, how connected.The great philosophers understood this. Montaigne, who we featured in this podcast, retreated to his tower to think. Thoreau went to Walden Pond. Jung descended into his own unconscious. Frank probably focuses on the force.Not to escape the world, but to face something in it that could only be faced alone. I've thought about that morning on Rebecca Spit many times since. The stillness of it. The sun coming up over the water. One man out there on the sand doing something that looked like nothing which was actually, as Frank immediately understood, everything.What Frank captured in that single sentence was something a PhD in philosophy might have taken a whole chapter to say. This podcast, in its own small way, is my version of standing at that shoreline. Showing up every day, by myself... facing something, trying to make sense of it. Alone in the doing of it and even though your listening right now, I won't know about it. Okay, enough of the cheesy metaphors... I'm not as good as Frank at this, clearly.So here's the question: When did you last allow yourself to stand at the metaphorical shoreline? To be with the vast, quiet, unanswerable things, without filling the silence, without reaching for your phone, without making the solitude into something more comfortable than it needs to be?Because Frank is right. Every man stands alone. Not as a tragedy. As a truth. And a truth, honestly faced, is always the beginning of something good.That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Because good news should be heard and the link is right here in the show notes.Today's quote comes from William James: philosopher, psychologist, and widely regarded as the father of American psychology. A man who spent years in the grip of depression and existential paralysis before making one decisive choice that turned his life around. He once wrote: "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."Twelve words. The first ten are the instruction. The last two are the answer to every excuse for not following it.Most of us have felt, at some point, the quiet and corrosive suspicion that what we do doesn't really matter. That we are too small, too unknown, too ordinary for our choices to register in any meaningful way. That the world is too large and too indifferent for one person's effort, one person's kindness, one person's daily decision to show up and try to actually make a dent in anything.James understood that feeling from the inside. He spent years paralyzed by depression, unable to act, unable to see any reason why his choices mattered at all. Until one day he made a single defiant decision: his first act of free will would be to believe in free will. He acted as if his actions mattered. And in doing so discovered that they did. That's the mechanism James spent his career documenting. His central insight was that it isn't our feelings that guide our actions but it's our actions that shape our feelings. You don't wait to feel that you matter before you act as if you do. You act as if you do, and the feeling follows. The belief is built by the behaviour, not the other way around.He put it directly in The Principles of Psychology: "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out." Nothing is wiped out. Every action registers: in you, in the people around you, in the fabric of what you're building, in the person you are becoming one choice at a time. The ripples may be invisible. They are never absent.It does matter. That's not reassurance. That's the conclusion of a life's work.So here's the question: Where in your life are you holding back and waiting to feel certain that what you do matters before you'll fully commit to doing it?Because James isn't asking you to feel it first. He's asking you to act first. The certainty follows the action. It always has.Act as if what you do makes a difference.It does.That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern and I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.