Pod Insights The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks Dr. Wayne Dyer: “Nobody on This Planet Is Going to Ruin This Day for You.” About this episode Dr. Wayne Dyer shares a powerful lesson on the four questions that can quietly redesign your entire life. In this thoughtful talk, he asks how you’d spend six months if that’s all you had left, who you’d actually choose to live with if you started over today, and the morning mirror exercise he does to keep anyone from stealing his day. This episode will challenge you to stop living by obligation and start living by choice. Source: How to Be a No Limit PersonHosted by Sean CroxtonFollow me on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript 0:00 Speaker 00 You know what I do, and I know it sounds silly, but I do it every morning. When I go to shave in the morning, I look in the mirror and I say this to myself. It's a terrific exercise. I say, nobody on this planet is going to ruin this day for you.
0:32 Speaker 01 Welcome back to the Quote of the Day Show. I am your host, Shawn Croxton, at seancroxton.com. We've got Dr. Wayne Dyer on the show to wrap up our week. Our QOD is this: Nobody on this planet is going to ruin this day for you. So Dr. Dyer is going to talk about a simple morning practice that he would do in the bathroom mirror, a sentence that he would say to himself before he stepped out into his day. Because here's the thing, somebody's going to cut you off on the freeway. Someone's going to scowl at you. Somebody's going to leave a mean comment. Someone's going to send you a text that irritates you. You're going to get a rude email. Somebody's going to bug you at work. Like, it's going to happen. It's really not up to you.
1:17 Speaker 01 These things happen. But what is up to you is whether you let them have your day. And that's his whole point. When someone ruins your day, it's not because they have that kind of power. It's because in that moment, you handed it to them. You gave them the power. So it's up to you to take it back. So today, before anything else, ask yourself, who's getting your day? Them or you? Dr. Dyer's coming up.
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2:08 Speaker 00 Let me ask you this question. If you suddenly discovered
2:16 Speaker 00 that you had six months to live.
2:21 Speaker 00 How would you change your life?
2:24 Speaker 00 What would you do? What would you do differently? If you really were knew that six months from now, it was over for you. You weren't gonna make it.
2:35 Speaker 00 What would you do different? And my answer to you, in terms of whatever you would do differently, would you stay in the same job? Would you stay in the same relationships? Would you stay here in Detroit? Would you get off and try other new things?
2:50 Speaker 00 My answer to you about that question, I've always thought it is a good question, is
2:57 Speaker 00 you only have six months to live. That's a good number. That's all you got. Even if you've got 30 years, or 50 years, or 90 years, it's this much time. It's this much time. That's it. They say in the end, "It's a wink of an eye", as Jackson Brown said. And no matter how I try to understand it, I can't seem to grasp it, no matter how hard I try, what death is, and what it means, and where we're going. But we know that our time here is so short. You wanna make a difference in the world? You wanna go out and help other people? You wanna end some of the real problems we have in this planet? You wanna be happier? You wanna try things you've never tried before? And you know that if you knew you had six months to live,
3:42 Speaker 00 you would do that? Then the advice I have to you is take the risk. Do it. Try it. Give it.
3:50 Speaker 00 Give it that kind of effort, because in reality, six months is a good amount of time to be thinking, in terms of how much time you have. And the future is promised to no one. That's one. One thought-provoking question of what you would do. Another question.
4:09 Speaker 00 Who would you choose to live with, if you could live with anyone else in the world,
4:14 Speaker 00 and you had no history, right now, of whom you've lived with up until now? No family?
4:23 Speaker 00 No history at all, like your life starts right this minute, okay? No parents, no children, family, whatever. Who would you choose to live with? Would you pick the people that you're in a relationship with now? Would you change some things? And then ask yourself, "Why aren't you surrounding yourself with the kind of people that you'd love to be with?" Do you have to be trapped? Can you teach the people that you do love to be excited and happy and alive and creative? And make life pleasant? Can you teach the people who are fetchers and complainers and whiners and try to bring you down and drag you down each day?
5:07 Speaker 00 You know what I do, and I know it sounds silly, but I do it every morning. When I go to shave in the morning, I look in the mirror and I say this to myself. It's a terrific exercise. I say, "Nobody on this planet is going to ruin this day for you." Nobody. Nobody. Some guy's gonna cut you off on the freeway, I know it. And he's getting up planning it already. I know that. I'm gonna get weaned, I hear. But he's not gonna get my day. And somebody's gonna talk back to me, and somebody's not gonna wanna do what I want, and somebody's gonna scowl. And I'm telling you, this is my day. And anybody, I don't care who they are, no matter how much I love them, I'm not gonna let them have this day.
5:52 Speaker 00 Once you practice that, before long, you get good at being someone that you like being around, and others do too. If you're living out of a sense of obligation, instead of choice, you are a slave. You're staying with the person you've been with because you've been with them for a long time, and that's the only reason, then I feel very sorry for you. If you're doing it because you're supposed to do it, because everybody else dictates to it, that is not operating from inner signals. Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. Relationships based on choice, freedom and love, and what I want and what you want, have all the dignity in the world.
6:39 Speaker 00 Third question. Where would you choose to live if you had no awareness of where you've lived up until now? Where would you live? Detroit?
6:51 Speaker 00 Maybe? South of France?
6:57 Speaker 00 Climate that's different? I'm talking now, you don't know where you've lived up until now. And you look on that big globe that we call our home. And you say, "Where would I like to be?" No history of where I've been.
7:12 Speaker 00 And then ask yourself, "What is it that keeps me from being there?" Is it the fear? Is it the fact that I won't make it? That I'll fail? That I'll fall on my face?
7:24 Speaker 00 And then remind yourself
7:27 Speaker 00 that most fears are only that. They're only mental. They're only thought processes. That in fact, if you're making it here and doing well and feeling a sense of success, you can do that anywhere. Anywhere. And why not be where you choose to be? Rather than staying here because your great-grandparents landed here, you know, as immigrants or whatever.
7:56 Speaker 00 Fourth question. How much sleep?
8:01 Speaker 00 How much sleep do you think you would get if you had no clock?
8:06 Speaker 00 And no ability to measure time? How much sleep do you think you'd get? Think you'd get eight hours, 10 hours, whatever it is? You think you'd spend a third of your life dead?
8:16 Speaker 01 That was Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. His website is DrWayneDyer.com. You can watch today's entire talk on YouTube. It's called "How to Be a No Limit Person." Thank you so much for tuning in. Hope you finish up this week strong. Hope you have a lovely weekend. Hope you're here on Monday with more QOD speakers. And I'm pretty excited. I got, I got some new stuff coming your way like real soon. We got a new website dropping. We got a new quiz, a new like free ebook for you. We've got Money Mind Academy 2.0 completely. It's just, it's just redone like from top to bottom. So if you took it before, like it's, it's, it's brand new. Going to be launching that in July.
8:59 Speaker 01 A lot of cool stuff, a lot of cool content on the way. So hopefully you'll, you'll stick around for that. And yeah, we'll see you on Monday. I'm out. Peace.
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