Bill Phillips - "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."

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Today's quote is attributed to Bill Phillips, fitness expert, entrepreneur, and the author

of Body for Life.

One of the most successful transformational programs ever created.

He once said, the difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.

Very interesting, because buried inside that one sentence is one of the most honest and

uncomfortable truths in personal development.

Some people think the gap between who they are and who they want to be is about talent

or lack or timing or circumstances.

They tell themselves, if things were different, I would be different.

If I had more time, more resources, more opportunity, I'd be the person I want to be.

But Phillips cut right through all of that.

He says the gap isn't made of circumstances.

It's made of actions, specifically the actions you're taking or not taking every single

day.

Think of it this way.

The person you want to be, the fit version, the discipline version, the successful version,

the confident version.

What does that person do differently?

They show up when they don't feel like it.

They do the work before the reward arrives.

They make the choice that serves their future instead of their present comfort.

Phillips believes that the transformation you create in one area of your life is merely

an example of the power you have to transform everything else in your world.

It starts with one decision, then the next, then the next, and slowly through what you do,

you become who you want to be, the gap isn't a mystery, it's a to-do list.

So here's the question.

Think about the person you want to be.

Now ask yourself, what does that person do that you aren't doing yet?

Because that's the gap, and the only thing that closes it is what you do starting today.

That's going to do it for today.

I'm Andrew McIvern signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow, same pod time, same

pod station, with another daily quote.