Episode 1523

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27th Jun 2025

You Can Do Anything, But Not Everything

You can do anything… but not everything.

In this episode of Morning Motivation, we unpack the fear of missing out, the trap of doing too much, and the overlooked superpower of focus. Like a magnifying glass channels the sun’s rays into fire, your greatness ignites when you choose one path — and say no to the rest. Decision is power. This is your invitation to choose.

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Transcript

 You can do anything, but you can't do everything. Life is about choices. It's about deciding where we're gonna focus our energy and focus our power. Think about the sun blazing down on the ground. It makes it warm, makes it bright. But if you take a magnifying glass and focus the ray of the sun on one particular spot, it not only makes it warm, it makes it hot, and it makes it.

Catch fire. So many of us disperse our rays of greatness across a broad space. We try to do everything and then we don't get anything because you cannot do everything, but you can do anything when you choose it. And this is where the discernment comes in. Well, I don't wanna miss out. I don't wanna skip the thing.

That could be the thing. I don't wanna let something pass me by and when we try to grab. Everything. We get nothing. Because the grass is always greener where you water it, where you place your focus is where you will achieve success and where you'll make a difference and where you'll make an impact.

Whether the impact is for your own bottom line and bank account, or for the world and for the change you want to make. And this is one of the greatest challenges for any change maker, for any influencer, for any entrepreneur, is this idea. That you can do anything, but you cannot do everything. And then to choose what that thing is.

'cause it feels like, it feels like you're saying no to so many things. When you pick only one thing, there's an infinite number of directions to go in the universe, and you need to choose one, which means you're saying no to an infinite number. But here's what we don't realize until we say yes. Yes to one direction until we say yes to one mission, we are saying no to all of them.

Doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and a little bit of the other thing that's just playing, that's just experimenting, and that's fine until you figure out what you're choosing. But until you make the decision, nothing will happen. A decision is the most powerful force in. The universe and without it, you are simply trying things so you can do anything, but you cannot do everything.

What will be your thing?

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