You Know This!
This podcast is extracted from the radio feature Motivation Minute on Music Radio 97 in Trinidad and Tobago. Written, produced and presented by Garfield King, the programme aired every weekday for 28 years - 1992 to 2020. The content served to remind of what most of us intrinsically know or feel.
Airing early in the mornings, the brief radio messages aimed to encourage the attitude … “It may not be easy, but it’s not hopeless.” ... This podcast aims to build on that ethos.
Theme music - Mike Alleyne
Airing early in the mornings, the brief radio messages aimed to encourage the attitude … “It may not be easy, but it’s not hopeless.” ... This podcast aims to build on that ethos.
Theme music - Mike Alleyne
Episodes
296 episodes
Language That Embraces Possibility
In moments of uncertainty, people don’t necessarily need certainty. They need steadiness. They need someone who can acknowledge the darkness without declaring it permanent. If we find ourselves in a tunnel with others, each time we...
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2:54
The End or Just a Pause
A tunnel, by definition, has two openings. That is not vague optimism. It’s structure. If you are in a tunnel, there is an exit, even if you cannot see it at this time. What creates suffering is not the darkness itself. It’s the story that the ...
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3:25
The Power of Independent Thinking
Independent thinking requires courage and a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths. It also brings freedom. Among other things it frees you from carrying someone else’s anger.
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2:21
New Episodes on The Way
You must have noticed there have been no new uploads for quite a while. As I age, I become aware of a shift in my perspective on several aspects of life. That shift is not a different road; it’s more a clearer view of the path...
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4:06
Acceptance does not mean surrender
Acceptance of the facts as they are right now, provides a solid foundation on which to build your strategy for moving ahead.
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1:17
There’s always an opportunity for improvement.
Belief in our ability to make a difference, to be part of something bigger than ourselves helps to focus on what needs to be done.
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1:13
Awareness of just how interconnected we are.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
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1:21
Solutions are worth the energy.
Once you decide something must be done to get back on track, energy should go into solutions.
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1:11
Stuff happens and then we learn. Well, that’s the hope.
Sometimes all you can say about bad stuff that happened in the past is that you learnt a useful lesson.
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1:15
The education of experience.
Experience can only be a teacher is we’re prepared to be its student.
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1:16
Deadlines don’t have to drain the life out of you.
Having a deadline can be very useful, but a job rushed due to an unrealistic time limit can have negative consequences.
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