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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you as always for the daily podcast.

Hope you're doing well.

Thanks so much for the pleasure of your company.

We're coming at you live 365 days a year.

A few days ago, people were asking why every day, 365 days a year,

would you have to do a Christmas day?

The answer is yes.

Because I have no idea who I may possibly reach with some.

Encouragement and inspiration on Christmas day, I once spent

Christmas day, I think it was 1994.

In a hotel room in Stuttgart Christmas day, we're traveling.

It's a friend of mine.

This was a ma.

Oh, I must've been about, I think it was about 20.

And uh, to call, to get outside and stood guard.

You know, interesting town, but it's not one of Germany's most beautiful towns.

It was parts of it that are, so it was pretty bleak.

Pretty dark, pretty cold.

And we're staying next door to a brewery.

So all I could smell was beer all the time.

And do you know what I needed that day?

I needed an inspirational podcast, but could I find one?

No.

I'm not going to let the fact that podcasts hadn't really

been invented, ruin this story.

But if there had been an inspirational podcast probably would have helped

me a lot at that point in life.

So friends.

That's why we're doing 365 days a year.

And also we're doing a 365 days a year because it is part of today's I guess.

Um, Theme the theme we're going to be talking about in this episode, just before

I do that, would you make sure you've subscribed, hit that subscribe button?

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There's tons of stuff here.

That could be really useful to you.

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It's all there in the description notes.

So please check those out.

Today, my friends, we're going to talk about something.

Uh, that's really central to what I'm trying to do, human to a bit commitment.

Because at the time of recording this it's a Sunday.

I mean, the studio.

I've already put a lot of time in with family.

I'm going to put a lot more time in with family.

Once I get back out of the studio.

But I want to be really honest with you.

Today's one of those days when you're like, you know,

I'd love to have a day off.

I'd love to kind of just, you know, maybe I'll pick this up tomorrow.

Maybe it doesn't matter whether I get through this today.

But there's a few things going on for me as I talk to you.

And I always try to talk to you about things that, uh, that I'm trying

to live and that I'm trying to do, because I don't want to advocate

them to you if I'm not doing them.

The first thing about commitment.

Is the link between commitment and magnificent obsessions.

If you've been listening to me recently, You know, I've been talking about that,

a great book from cam Hanes in Jua and that, uh, the whole concept of obsession.

Of having something in your life that you're deeply committed

to and passionate about.

And, you know, I think about it a lot.

I wonder, does everybody have this?

Is this something that everybody will experience in life?

I don't know the answer to that.

I struggled to understand why some of us would have one in some wouldn't.

I think that God creates us all with this amazing potential and capacity.

And I just can't imagine that, um,

Some of us would be blessed with.

A passionate desire to do something in this world and some of us aren't.

So I'm going to take a gamble here, inside that.

I think we all have the capacity to find something really

worthwhile, to be committed to and obsessed with in this life.

And when we find it.

One of the crucial things is commitment is the ability to stick with it.

Even when it's particularly difficult.

Hence me being here in the studio.

Wanting to stay faithful to this path and wanting to make sure that.

I'm putting content in front of people every single day,

regardless of how I feel, regardless of what's going on, because.

If I don't do that, then I guess what I'm doing is I'm.

I'm lacking the integrity to tell you to.

To tell you to do something that I'm not doing myself.

I don't know.

A few listeners always like what about when you need a break?

What about when I do have those?

I did a rap.

Uh, an episode on that very recently.

But I also think if you're going to really try and do

something useful and worthwhile.

You got to stay committed to it.

So I want to give you a couple of good quotes on this, that I, um, research

first one's from pat Riley, pat Raleigh, as you would know, was the, uh, coach of

the, um, was he the coach of the Lakers?

Oh my gosh.

Basketball fans are gonna lose their mind.

Uh, if I get this wrong, I'm pretty sure pat Riley, I hope

it wasn't the Chicago bulls.

Now that was the other guy that was on Netflix.

Anyway, I've just lost every basketball fan on this podcast has just gone.

You're not serious.

I'm just taking a stab.

I think pat Riley cuts the Lakers.

Can I do this in real time?

Can I actually just, just jump out across here in the studio and find out who

pat Raleigh actually coached because.

These details matter.

Here we go.

Um, He's been team president of the Miami heat more recently, but come on.

Where was he before that?

Oh, gosh, hang in there.

People.

I got you covered here.

I don't want you to.

I don't want you to miss out.

He played, but, um, he's coaching Korea.

Here we go.

I was right.

God bless you, baby.

Jesus.

He was the coach of the LA Lakers from 79 to 1990, then the Knicks and then the.

He's still doing some work with the Miami heat, but probably famous for most of

us, for the LA Lakers and a whole bunch of you non-basketball fans just went

and really, we had to wait for that.

You did.

Now, you know, If somebody holds you at gunpoint in the next 24 hours and says,

who was pat Raleigh coaching in the 1990s?

You'll you'll know the answer then you'll thank me.

He says this, there are only two options regarding commitment.

You're either in or you're out.

There are only two options regarding commitment you're either in or you're out.

I like it commitment to non-negotiable in life.

It's something that we either.

We stick to we weather through all the ups and downs, or we don't, we don't

get the optionality of picking and choosing when we decide to be committed.

Karen and I've been married 22 years.

I can promise your friends.

There have been ups.

There have been downs.

There's been plenty of sideways is.

There's been plenty of downs and in plenty of difficult seasons now,

health challenges and family challenges and business challenges and so many

different things that we've been through.

And this concept of commitment.

You know, it's the old top gun thing.

You know, you'll you guys will know I'm a top gun fan.

You know, you don't leave your wing, man.

That if you stay committed, you stay committed, you stay committed.

There's only two options.

According to pat Raleigh, you're either in or you're out.

And, um, you know, this is kind of crucial here.

This is, um, If there's something that's significant in your life, if there's

a gift or a talent that you've been given, what's really gonna matter.

Is the development of this over time.

I'm becoming increasingly aware of that.

I guess it's what Tony Robbins used to call mastery, right?

Mastery.

That there are some people who master the craft will Smith used to talk about

that a lot too, in terms of acting.

He was talking about banging and hammering on the craft, the

craft just shit, you know, the commitment required for excellence.

Cam Hanes is booked.

The commitment required for excellence.

So now that I'm getting back on the speaking circuit again, I really just

have this fascination with getting better and better and better, and

trying to be more effective at reaching people more and more or more quote

for you today from Ken Blanchard, the famous author in management, all

around motivational success, dude.

Ken Blanchard says there's a difference between interest and commitment when

you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient.

When you're committed to something you accept no excuses, only results.

I think he makes a great point there about convenience.

When you have an interest in something, then we do it.

When we have the time when we have the bandwidth and we have the capacity to

do it, when we committed to something, we do it regardless of the circumstance.

Hence me being in here on a Sunday at 2:14 PM.

Wanting to make sure that I get this episode out today because I care about

it because I just don't know whether.

A single idea that I have to share with you today could be really useful,

really important going forward.

So.

Commitment matters my friends.

So I'm going to encourage you as always do, to look into your life and say,

what is your magnificent obsession?

What's the unique potential and gift that you've been given.

And are you living.

Under the direction of significant commitment.

Are you committed to the gifts you've been given?

Are you committed to the time?

The challenges, the ups and downs, the sacrifices, the suffering, the

highs, the lows, the ins and outs.

The days when it rains in the days when the sun's shining, that are going

to honor the gifts you've been given.

You know, a couple of weeks ago talked about that parable from the new Testament

where Jesus talks about, you know, the.

The three different people given.

You know, these, uh, this, these talents, this money by a, by

their sort of rule of their king.

And one of them hides it in the ground.

And the real punishment comes, you know, not for the ones that didn't make so much

money with what they were given, but the real punishment came for the one that

did nothing with what they'd been given.

So maybe that's something we're thinking about that the, uh, the

answers we're going to have to give.

On the other side of this life are going to be, what did you

do with what you were given?

How committed were you to it?

How committed were you to taking your potential and your gifts?

And honing them and shaping them to be a blessing to people in this world.

So friends, that's the message for today.

Commitment, commitment, commitment.

I don't think you're mediocre.

I don't think you're average.

I don't think anybody's created or made to be average or mediocre, whether it means

that you're an artist or a brain surgeon.

Or a street sweeper or a bus driver.

All of these things, you can drive a bus.

With joy, you can make it a fun experience for people.

You can be trying to be the best bus driver you've ever been.

If that is the charism and the talent and the gift that God's put on your life.

So it really doesn't matter what the gifting is.

It just matters with how much we honor it and how grateful we are

for it and the commitment that we bring to it on a daily basis.

All right.

That's it for me on this one?

Uh, please make sure you've subscribed.

Um, there'll be a link here to the YouTube channel.

If you want to come and check out the YouTube channel

here, that would be awesome.

I would love you to do that.

So, um, listen, God bless everybody.

Um, I am committed.

I'm committed to you.

I'm committed to everybody listening to this.

I'm going to be here for the long haul.

I'm going to keep producing content, whether it's just

me and my mother listening.

Or whether it's 50,500,000 or 5 million people, I'm just going to keep producing.

I'm going to stay committed to my passion, to helping people.

I'm going to stay committed to my passion, to liberate people's potential.

I'm going to stay committed to showing up every day and bringing this to the world.

And I hope you can do the same with whatever magnificent

obsession you have and whatever remarkable gift you've been given.

All right god bless you guys my name's jonathan doyle this has been

the daily message and i'm going to have another one for you tomorrow