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The Screen Time Panic May Be Missing the Point
Mental Health

The Screen Time Panic May Be Missing the Point

byGreatNewsPodFebruary 24, 2026February 24, 2026
For the past decade, the narrative has been near-universal: teenagers are on their phones too…
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Why You Should Listen to a Good News Podcast?
Mental Health

Why You Should Listen to a Good News Podcast?

byGreatNewsPodNovember 3, 2023May 21, 2024
In a world where negativity often dominates the news cycle, it’s become essential to find…
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Can a Smile Boost Happiness Even When It Is Forced?
HappinessMental HealthThe Brain

Can a Smile Boost Happiness Even When It Is Forced?

byGreatNewsPodOctober 25, 2023February 12, 2026
Research suggests that the simple act of smiling might have the power to enhance our…
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Seligman’s Pioneering Research Reveals the Power of Positive Thinking in Boosting Well-being
HappinessMental Health

Seligman’s Pioneering Research Reveals the Power of Positive Thinking in Boosting Well-being

byGreatNewsPodOctober 25, 2023February 12, 2026
Is it possible to combat depression with "learned optimism"? According to Seligman, the father of…
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Setting Achievable Goals Increases Motivation and Well-Being
HappinessMental Health

Setting Achievable Goals Increases Motivation and Well-Being

byGreatNewsPodOctober 25, 2023February 12, 2026
Setting achievable goals can increase your motivation but also improve life satisfaction and overall well-being.
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Exercise improves mood and happiness levels in elderly adults
HappinessMental Health

Exercise improves mood and happiness levels in elderly adults

byGreatNewsPodOctober 25, 2023October 25, 2023
Exercise has long been known for its physical health benefits, but a recent meta-analytic review…
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Study shows mindfulness improves well-being and enhances psychological health.
HappinessMental Health

Study shows mindfulness improves well-being and enhances psychological health.

byGreatNewsPodOctober 25, 2023October 25, 2023
A comprehensive review of empirical studies titled “Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health” has provided…
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Harvard Study Reveals Connection Between Social Relationships and Happiness
HappinessHealthLongevityMental Health

Harvard Study Reveals Connection Between Social Relationships and Happiness

byGreatNewsPodOctober 25, 2023October 25, 2023
Researchers from Harvard University have conducted an extensive study, spanning a remarkable 80 years, to…
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50 Year Old Blood Pressure Medication Could Help People Suffering from PTSD
Mental Health

50 Year Old Blood Pressure Medication Could Help People Suffering from PTSD

byGreatNewsPodJanuary 5, 2023June 16, 2023
Recent research has found that Clonidine, a 50-year-old blood pressure drug, could be an effective…
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Exercise helps your brain stay healthy and protects against depression and anxiety.
HealthMental Health

Exercise helps your brain stay healthy and protects against depression and anxiety.

byGreatNewsPodMarch 10, 2021June 16, 2023
Exercise helps your brain stay healthy and protects you from anxiety and depression. Keep active.
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the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day
the Daily Quote – Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

Tune in daily to get a short dose of daily inspiration to kick start your day in a positive way.

the Daily Quote brings you inspirational quotes to help motivate and inspire your day with positivity.
Listen to the show for positive quotes from Albert Einstein, Maya Angelo, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, Confucius and more…

Every single day you will hear a motivational quote to fire up your day.

Dan Sullivan – “Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”
byAndrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day

Welcome to the Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kickstart your day in a positive way. I'm your host Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to you by the Great News podcast. Link is in the show notes.

Today's quote comes from Dan Sullivan, co-founder of Strategic Coach, the world's leading entrepreneurial coaching program, author of more than 50 books, and a man who has spent five decades helping people understand how their thinking shapes the reality they experience.

He said:

”Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”Here's a question. Have you ever decided to buy a particular car, say, a red Honda and suddenly that specific car seems to be everywhere? Every parking lot. Every intersection. Every street you drive down. They were always there. You just couldn't see them. Your brain had no reason to flag them as relevant, until it was relevant to you.

That's not coincidence. That's your Reticular Activating System, the neurological filter your brain uses to decide what information from the overwhelming flood of sensory input around you actually reaches your conscious awareness. And here's the critical insight: it filters based on what you've decided matters and told it to look for.

Dan Sullivan's quote is pointing at something with enormous implications for how you live your life. Your brain is not a passive receiver. It's an active filter. And what it filters for is determined by what you've programmed it to look for, through your beliefs, your expectations, your fears, and your focus.

If you wake up every morning expecting the day to be difficult, your brain will find the evidence. Every small frustration will be flagged. Every setback will feel confirming.

Not because the day is objectively harder but because your filter is tuned to difficult.

If you begin a new project with a clear and specific goal, your brain immediately begins scanning your environment for the people, ideas, and opportunities that are relevant to that goal and they start appearing almost like magic. But they were always there.

Sullivan describes a client who wrote down exactly what he needed for a new venture, and within the same week, the precise person he needed walked into a conversation completely unprompted. He had experienced not once but twice, the phenomenon Sullivan describes: once you define what you're looking for, you begin finding it everywhere.

The profound implication is this: what you consistently focus on, expect, and believe becomes the instruction set for your brain's filter. Change the instruction set and you don't just change your outlook. You change what you literally perceive to be available to you in the world.
When I started this podcast I thought it would be difficult to keep finding quotes. But then all of sudden I noticed quotes EVERYWHERE. In books I was reading, on billboards, in podcasts and YouTube videos. And on social media and then because of the algorithms I started getting fed even more quotes in my feed. There isn't a day that I don't see several potential quotes I can use in the Daily Quote.

So here's the question: What has your brain been programmed to look for right now?

Because it is finding it. Right now, today, in every interaction and every moment your filter is running. The question isn't whether your brain is looking for something. The question is whether you chose what it's looking for or whether it was chosen for you by habit, fear, or default.

You can reprogram the filter. Deliberately. Intentionally. Starting today.

What you look for is what you'll find. Choose your own adventure!

That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I'll be back tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.

Dan Sullivan – “Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”
Dan Sullivan – “Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”
May 4, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Martin Short -“No one is any one thing.”
May 3, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Colin Kaepernick – “Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.”
May 2, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Paulo Coelho – “Do something instead of killing time because time is killing you.”
May 1, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Alice Morse Earle – “Not every day is good, but there is good in every day.”
April 30, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Unknown – “Be smart. Notice everything. But act like you know nothing.”
April 29, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Carl Jung – “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
April 28, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Arthur Schopenhauer – “What the herd hates most is a person who thinks differently.”
April 27, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Norman Vincent Peale – “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
April 26, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
James Clear – “Your future is quietly shaped by what you choose repeatedly, not occasionally.”
April 25, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
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Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News
Great News | Inspiring Stories, Positive Developments and Good News

The Great News Podcast is your source for positive news, inspiring stories, and good news from around the world. We skip the doom and gloom of mainstream media to focus on scientific breakthroughs, environmental wins, and the inspiring news that proves the world is getting better. Join Andrew McGivern for a dose of optimism and uplifting stories that will change your perspective on human progress.
It is easy to find the
Keep looking for the good in the world, because it is not only there – its everywhere.

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

Turning Off Bad Genes

How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

China’s Gigantic Battery

How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

Until next time… and there will be a next time.

Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
April 14, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
The Longevity Revolution: Replicating Decades of Aging and Turning Nuclear Waste into Power
April 9, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Reversing Blindness with Cellular Rejuvenation and the Beating Heart-on-a-Chip
April 1, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Self-Spreading CRISPR and the Sun Battery That Outperforms Lithium-Ion
March 18, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Cancer-Eating Bacteria, 10-Passenger Flying Taxis, and the First Moon Harvest
March 9, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Can We Bottle the Sun? Plus the AI Tool Outperforming Doctors in Rare Disease Diagnosis
March 7, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Lower Crime and More Energy
March 3, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Saving the Banana and Reversing Brain Aging
February 28, 2026
Andrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration
Mushroom Boxes and Bacterial Mating
February 25, 2026
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How AI is Designing Custom Antibodies and Curing Cancer
February 21, 2026
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    Martin Short -“No one is any one thing.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 3, 2026May 3, 2026

    Colin Kaepernick – “Pressure comes from a lack of preparation.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 2, 2026

    Paulo Coelho – “Do something instead of killing time because time is killing you.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 1, 2026

    Alice Morse Earle – “Not every day is good, but there is good in every day.”

    byAndrew McGivernApril 30, 2026
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    Laser-Fast Internet and Epigenetic Health
    byAndrew McGivern | Good News Podcast Host - Positive News and Inspiration

    The Great News podcast is brought to you by the Daily Quote.

    Today, a discovery that could turn our oceans into a source of clean, green fuel. That's our lead story today.

    Plus, we’ll look at a ”molecular staple” for hard-to-treat cancers, a way to silence cholesterol without permanently altering your DNA, and a wireless system that’s twice as efficient as Wi-Fi.

    Turning Sunlight and Seawater into Hydrogen

    How Stapled Peptides Could Change Cancer Treatment

    Turning Off Bad Genes

    How Laser Tech Is Rewriting the Rules of WirelessAnd don’t forget to stick around for the speed round where we’ll celebrate a historic victory against an ancient disease.Chile Eliminates Leprosy

    Revolutionizing Brain Research and Treatment!

    China’s Gigantic Battery

    How CAR T Therapy Is Learning to Fight Cancer Smarter

    If you like the Great News Podcast, you will love the Great News Letter. Because the Great News Podcast is Great but the Great News Letter is Greater!

    The Great News Letter is an email newsletter that you can subscribe to for FREE and get all the good news delivered to your email inbox.

    For this episode we got some feedback from Brian de V. You can leave feedback for the show too by going to greatnewspodcast.com/feedback.

    Or if you listen in Spotify – leave a comment right there as you listen.

    Until next time… and there will be a next time.

    Keep looking for the good in the world because no only is it there, its everywhere!

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