Open Your Eyes with McKay Christensen S1E18 - The Best Time of Your Life
Are you waiting for the best time of your life? McKay is here to tell you that NOW is that time and all you have to do is seize the moment. Turn this hour into your finest hour and watch that make all the difference.
Today, McKay opens the episode with a story of Winston Churchill, who against all odds refused to give in to the battle with Hitler, resulting in his finest hour, and goes on to discuss the need to listen to that tug, the feeling that tells you to seize the day. He then broadly expands upon the fact that the most important time in your life is now, not later, and rounds off with tips on how to make the best time of your life by breaking with unimportant things, and getting into the habit of not listening to others who try to discourage you. Listen in today and learn how to make your finest hour happen now.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
- Winston Churchill’s finest hour
- The change you experience when you decide to seize the moment
- How do you make this the best time of your life?
- Why you should value who you were before today
- The labor of Lin-Manuel Miranda - writing Hamilton
- Listening to the tug
- McKay’s finest years
- The 30 million word gap research at The University of Kansas
- 2 tips for getting started on making your finest hour happen
- What Southwest Airlines did different
Quotes:
“Many of us have felt like we've retreated over and over again, we've been let down, and in many ways life hasn't kept its side of the agreement - health problems, children's health problems, and other struggles.”
“Let us, therefore, brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.’”
“Will your friends and family and business partners look back on this time and say this was your finest hour?”
“When you open your eyes to the opportunity in front of you right now and decide that you will seize it, it's like you opened a jar of enthusiasm and adventure, and this infuses your living with real living.”
“Get focused on the work of today, rather than the hope of tomorrow.”
“You're not doing anything wrong, you're simply not doing enough of what's right.”
“If you could go back to age 20, keeping the knowledge that you have now...and you could start again knowing what you know now, would you do things differently? Would you make different choices?”
“Life is made up of little things - smiles and kindness and doing good.”
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
“The value of a future goal is the present change in you that it fosters.”
“Don't let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
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