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If you don't do this you will never achieve your God-given potential!
Episode 8025th July 2022 • The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle • Jonathan Doyle
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There is one reason why some people achieve their God-given potential and so many don't. It does not matter if you are a bus driver or a president. This one thing explains why some people achieve incredible results while others reach the end of their life wondering what it was all about.

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

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Hope you're doing well.

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Thanks so much for the pleasure of your company.

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

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

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would you have to do a Christmas day?

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The answer is yes.

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

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Encouragement and inspiration on Christmas day, I once spent

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Christmas day, I think it was 1994.

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

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It's a friend of mine.

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This was a ma.

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

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

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

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

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Pretty dark, pretty cold.

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And we're staying next door to a brewery.

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So all I could smell was beer all the time.

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And do you know what I needed that day?

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

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No.

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

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been invented, ruin this story.

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

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me a lot at that point in life.

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So friends.

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

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

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

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

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Uh, leave a rating, leave a review and go and check out all the show notes.

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There's tons of stuff here.

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That could be really useful to you.

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You can book me to speak live.

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You can get free access to my book, bridging the gap.

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It's all there in the description notes.

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So please check those out.

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

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

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

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I mean, the studio.

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

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

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Once I get back out of the studio.

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But I want to be really honest with you.

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

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I'd love to have a day off.

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

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

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

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

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

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them to you if I'm not doing them.

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The first thing about commitment.

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Is the link between commitment and magnificent obsessions.

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

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

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

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to and passionate about.

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

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I wonder, does everybody have this?

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Is this something that everybody will experience in life?

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I don't know the answer to that.

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

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

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And I just can't imagine that, um,

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Some of us would be blessed with.

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

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

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I think we all have the capacity to find something really

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

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And when we find it.

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

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Even when it's particularly difficult.

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Hence me being here in the studio.

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

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

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

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

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I'm lacking the integrity to tell you to.

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

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I don't know.

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

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What about when I do have those?

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I did a rap.

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Uh, an episode on that very recently.

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

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something useful and worthwhile.

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You got to stay committed to it.

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

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

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

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Oh my gosh.

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Basketball fans are gonna lose their mind.

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

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it wasn't the Chicago bulls.

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Now that was the other guy that was on Netflix.

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

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You're not serious.

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I'm just taking a stab.

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I think pat Riley cuts the Lakers.

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Can I do this in real time?

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

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pat Raleigh actually coached because.

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These details matter.

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Here we go.

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

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Where was he before that?

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Oh, gosh, hang in there.

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People.

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I got you covered here.

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I don't want you to.

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I don't want you to miss out.

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

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Here we go.

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I was right.

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God bless you, baby.

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Jesus.

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

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

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

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and really, we had to wait for that.

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You did.

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

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who was pat Raleigh coaching in the 1990s?

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

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

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You're either in or you're out.

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

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I like it commitment to non-negotiable in life.

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It's something that we either.

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

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

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Karen and I've been married 22 years.

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I can promise your friends.

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There have been ups.

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There have been downs.

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There's been plenty of sideways is.

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

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health challenges and family challenges and business challenges and so many

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different things that we've been through.

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And this concept of commitment.

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

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

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

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

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There's only two options.

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

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

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

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

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Is the development of this over time.

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I'm becoming increasingly aware of that.

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

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Mastery.

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

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that a lot too, in terms of acting.

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

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

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Cam Hanes is booked.

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The commitment required for excellence.

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

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

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

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

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around motivational success, dude.

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

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

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

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I think he makes a great point there about convenience.

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

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

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

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

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

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it because I just don't know whether.

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

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really important going forward.

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So.

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Commitment matters my friends.

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

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what is your magnificent obsession?

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

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And are you living.

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Under the direction of significant commitment.

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

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Are you committed to the time?

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

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highs, the lows, the ins and outs.

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

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to honor the gifts you've been given.

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

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where Jesus talks about, you know, the.

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The three different people given.

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

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their sort of rule of their king.

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And one of them hides it in the ground.

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

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

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did nothing with what they'd been given.

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

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answers we're going to have to give.

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

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do with what you were given?

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How committed were you to it?

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

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

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So friends, that's the message for today.

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Commitment, commitment, commitment.

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I don't think you're mediocre.

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I don't think you're average.

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

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that you're an artist or a brain surgeon.

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Or a street sweeper or a bus driver.

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All of these things, you can drive a bus.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All right.

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That's it for me on this one?

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Uh, please make sure you've subscribed.

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

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If you want to come and check out the YouTube channel

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here, that would be awesome.

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I would love you to do that.

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So, um, listen, God bless everybody.

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Um, I am committed.

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I'm committed to you.

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I'm committed to everybody listening to this.

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

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

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me and my mother listening.

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

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

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

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

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And I hope you can do the same with whatever magnificent

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

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

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

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