Welcome to the Daily Quote – I'm Andrew McGivern.Today's quote comes from Willie Nelson, the legendary country music icon who's lived nine decades and learned a thing or two about resilience.He said:
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."This sounds simple. Maybe too simple. But Willie Nelson has survived bankruptcy, the IRS seizing everything he owned, multiple divorces, and the brutal ups and downs of the music industry.He's not selling empty optimism. He's sharing what works.Here's the key word: replace. Not ignore. Not suppress. Replace.You can't just stop thinking negatively. That's like trying not to think about a pink elephant – the harder you try, the more it shows up.But you can replace negative thoughts with positive ones. And when you do, something shifts.Negative thoughts create negative expectations. "I'm going to fail" leads to "why bother trying?" which leads to not trying, which guarantees failure.Positive thoughts create positive expectations. "I can figure this out" leads to "let me try this approach" which leads to action, which creates the possibility of success.It's not magic. It's mechanics.Your thoughts shape your beliefs. Your beliefs shape your actions. Your actions create your results.Change the thought at the top, and everything downstream changes with it.Willie's not saying think positive and money appears. He's saying think positive and you start taking the actions that lead to positive results.The results don't come from the thoughts. They come from what the thoughts inspire you to do.So here's the question: What negative thought is running on loop in your head right now? And what positive thought could you replace it with?Because Willie's right. Replace the thought, and you'll start to see different results.That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern – I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Welcome to The Daily Quote – I'm Andrew McGivern.
Today's quote comes from Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who wrote the profound book "Man's Search for Meaning."
Frankl survived four years in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where he lost his parents, brother, and pregnant wife.
From that unimaginable suffering, he gave us this wisdom:
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Think about what Frankl is saying here.
When you can't change the situation, you change yourself.
Most of us spend enormous energy trying to change things we can't control. The economy. Other people. The past. Circumstances beyond our reach.
And we exhaust ourselves fighting battles we cannot win.
Frankl learned in the most extreme circumstances imaginable that when the external situation is unchangeable, you have one option left: transform yourself.
Not accept defeat. Not give up. Transform.
You can't change that you lost your job. But you can change how you respond to it. You can become more resilient, more resourceful, more adaptable.
You can't change that someone hurt you. But you can change yourself into someone who doesn't carry that hurt forever.
You can't change the obstacle in your path. But you can change yourself into someone capable of navigating around it, climbing over it, or breaking through it.
This isn't about positive thinking or pretending everything's fine. Frankl watched people die around him. He knew suffering was real.
But he also knew that the last freedom no one can take from you is the freedom to choose who you become in response to what happens.
A few years ago, I faced a situation I couldn't change. A business partnership fell apart. I tried everything to fix it. Nothing worked.
I was bitter. Angry. Stuck.
Then I read Frankl's words. And I realized I was wasting energy trying to change something unchangeable.
So I changed myself instead. I became someone who could let go. Who could start over. Who could learn from failure without being destroyed by it.
The situation didn't change. I did. And that made all the difference.
So here's the question: What unchangeable situation are you fighting right now? And what if instead of trying to change it, you focused on changing yourself?
Because that's the one thing you always have control over. Not the obstacle. You.
That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern – I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

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I'm your host Andrew McGivern and lets jump into today's quote from an unkown author from the tech world who once said..."If you haven't backed up your work, you haven't done any."Think about that for a second. You haven't done any work.Sounds harsh. But it's true.You can spend ten hours writing a document. But if your computer crashes and you didn't save it, you have zero hours of work. Not ten. Zero.You can spend months building a business. But if you don't protect your contracts, your files, your data, you have nothing. One hard drive failure and it's gone.The work you did doesn't matter if you can't prove it existed.This quote comes from the painful reality of technology. Every programmer, every writer, every designer has learned this lesson the hard way. You lose something important once, and you never forget to back up again.But here's what's interesting: this principle extends way beyond computers.If you're pursuing a goal but you're not tracking your progress, you haven't really done the work. Because you can't prove to yourself that you're moving forward.If you're learning a skill but you're not documenting what you've learned, the knowledge evaporates.If you're building a habit but you're not recording your consistency, you'll convince yourself you haven't been consistent.Backing up your work isn't just about protecting against loss. It's about creating proof. Evidence. A record that says "I did this."I learned this the hard way today. I booted up my computer this morneing. Or I should say I tried to... But I got a error screen.Turns out the hard drive that has my operating system on it died and I can't get into my computer or access any of my stuff.So, today I'm recording on a different computer that I borrowed to get the podcast done but I don't have all my fancy plugins and templates that make it sound good. But I have to admit... It sounds good anyway. Maybe even better. Maybe I've been over processing a little.Anyway... this time around it looks like I didn't actually lose much data because the other hard drive that has all my recent work on it is hopefully still good. The show must go on... so I'm working on this computer for now.But enough about me, what about you? What work are you doing right now that you're not protecting? What progress are you making that you're not tracking?Because if you haven't backed it up, documented it, or recorded it – you haven't really done it.Protect your work. Protect your progress.That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern – I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.