Motivational Quotes: Standards, Free Space, Internal Guidance

Foreign. Hey, my friends, it's Brendon Burchard. And welcome to a special episode of the Brendon show where we jump into some of the best of my motivational quotes. Hey, y', all, y' all been asking for this for a long time and we finally put it together for you. Every single day, I do a new 60 second audio, sort of my best quotes or of coaching that we put on Instagram. And I have just gotten such an outpouring of love for these. As you can see, each of them tends to get, you know, tens and tens of thousands or tens of tens of tens of thousands of views. So much love for these. And basically what I've done is I. If you haven't seen it, please follow me on Instagram. Brendon Burchard. And what I like to do is post an actual quote of mine that I've written from one of my six books or, you know, the thousands of blogs and articles that I've done. And what I like to do is just grab a little bit of a quote, maybe it's two to three sentences. And so I read the quote on Instagram and then I just go off on that quote for like 60 seconds. So literally just one minute of fire as much as I can pretty much every single day on Instagram that I created originally. And people just wanted like a roundup of those. So finally somebody actually DM me on Instagram and said, man, you should do a mashup of all these on your podcast. These are, like, frigging inspiring. They're insightful, they're motivational because they're some of the best of what I've written. And I think you'll really enjoy these. It's kind of a funny format because each of them was only 62nd. And we're stringing together a bunch of them from this week for you right here in what we're gonna call the motivational quotes episodes. I hope you'll really enjoy that. So without further ado, enjoy these 60 seconds of motivation for your day, my friend. If you really like these, make sure you're following me on Instagram. And also just do me a simple favor that I know you guys are liking these. Take a screenshot of wherever you're listening to this, post it up on your socials and use the Brendon show. That way I can see who's really engaging with these motivational quote sessions. And we'll be doing some giveaways this week and over the next couple weeks, so make sure you use a hashtag the Brendon show when you post about these motivational quotes. Sessions with that. Let's go.

Focus on making your life extraordinary to the best of your ability right now. Give your all, but do not compare yourself to others, my friends. Your best life needs to measure up to your dreams, not others.

All of this time you spend looking.

About, thinking about and dreaming about other people's lives is only stealing away for.

Your own reverence and gratitude for your life.

It is only stealing away from your ability to be motivated and driven to architect your specific life. You need to start creating decisions about.

What you want your life to be.

Like, free of other people's, you know, example. And instead just tap into your heart and find a free moment of the day to let your own creativity and your own soul speak to you. Your real guidance, my friend, is within. So focus on your own life. It doesn't have to be a perfect day to be a happy day, my friend. Too often you're letting yourself get upset about the little things.

Knock it off.

You know, it's like you let that person's thing they said to you in.

The morning, like, be an offense to you. And now you're offended and upset for five hours.

And it's like, no, no, you just lost the day. You, you lost the war, man. You let somebody else upset you for a whole day. Somebody else, they shouldn't be able to upset you for the whole day. I understand an immediate reaction or immediate.

Emotion of fear, upset, anger, hurt, sadness.

Shame, I get that.

But if it wears on you all.

Day, that's a difference. And you got to make the choice.

To observe the things that are going.

Right, to conscientiously give appreciation to the world, to keep perspective. The world is so good. There's so many opportunities available for you. Other people are wonderful and so are you. So be happy. The most crucial task is to forge more life into your day. This does not mean new to do's. It means actually less. It means creating space to think, walk, eat, sleep, read, love, dream. Notice that list doesn't include hustle more.

Grind more, or fall trap to all.

These success imperatives that people will tell you, work yourself to death. Instead, it means learning to create free space in life where creativity and soul and vibrancy and joy can enter. Look, we can have the intent to love others, but without initiative, without real acts of respect, caring and affection for another, intention alone remains useless. Soulless thinking is not love. Giving is. That's so important in a world today where everyone says, well, I wanted this for you or I thought of that or, you know, I wish this was to be true. And it's like, that's great. But intention without initiative, thought without action is, pondering is excuse.

Making is.

Hoping is. And we have to think about that. Lots of people have big dreams but they don't take action well. Same thing in love. People want to have a deep, vibrant, connected, intimate, just passionate relationship, but they don't take the actions to do that. They think they want that, but they don't move towards it. So remember, act.

Yes.

Raise your standards. Yes. Raise your expectations. Yes. Raise your minimums of what you will allow into your life and that do not honor or respect you. Be bold, push the boundaries and you will be rewarded, my friend. I know it's so easy to back off. I know it's so easy to go. But every time I expect something, Brendon, I get discouraged. Every time I raise my standards, they disappoint me. Every time I say, you know, I should at least have that. And I don't get it. I feel like not carrying on. But listen, what's the opposite? Keep lowering your minimums. Keep lowering your standards. Keep not expecting anything. And then guess what? Suddenly you have nothing to hope for.

There's no faith. There's no vision. There's no belief. There's no mission.

There's no purpose. There's nothing higher pushing you on. It's okay that you have high standards, expectations and dreams, my friend. And if the others around you don't understand it, that's okay. Their understanding is not required for your progress. No, wait.

Listen.

No more excuses here. What is possible for you is dictated by your hunger, not your history. It's not about what you went through or which parent was the best or not the parent or which caregiver treated you fair or didn't fair or which teacher was mean to you or which bully made fun of you or what boyfriend or girlfriend broke up with you and broke your heart. Because listen, that's the human narrative. We all get treated poorly. We all have difficulties and challenges. That's the human narrative. There's only struggle and there's only progress. And the truth is some people stay staring at those past struggles and they let those past struggles become their fate. They let the past struggles become their identity. And then other people say, no, I am hungry for more. I have ambition and drive to live a better quality of life.

Okay, my friends, I hope you enjoyed this motivational session here on the Brendon show.

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