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Your Home Could Be Triggering Your Asthma — Here’s What to Do About It
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Your Home Could Be Triggering Your Asthma — Here’s What to Do About It

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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.

James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
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 Andrew McGivern and this episode is brought to by the GREAT NEWS podcast.

Today's quote comes from James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, one of the best-selling books on human behaviour ever written, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. A man who has spent his career studying not just what people do, but why it matters.

He wrote:

”The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”Humanity has been searching for the meaning of life for as long as there have been humans to search. Philosophers, theologians, scientists, poets — every tradition, every era, every culture has taken a turn at the question. And the answer, after all that searching, remains as elusive as it was at the beginning.

Clear's insight is that we've been asking the wrong question.The search for meaning — treated as a discovery problem, something to be found if only you look in the right place — puts you in a fundamentally passive position. Meaning is out there somewhere. You just haven't located it yet. And so you wait. You read. You search. You hope it will announce itself when you've finally looked in the right direction.But meaning isn't found. It's made.

Clear puts it plainly elsewhere: it is the act of creating the life you want — in big and small ways — that makes you feel alive and imbues life with extra meaning. The fact that you can hold a vision in your mind and then, however imperfectly, bend reality a few degrees in that direction. That's the shift. From passive searching to active making. From waiting for meaning to arrive to building it — through the work you commit to, the relationships you invest in, the things you create, the problems you choose to solve, the people you choose to serve.

Think about the moments in your own life that have felt most meaningful. Almost none of them were moments of passive discovery. They were moments of making — a project completed, a connection deepened, a challenge met, something brought into the world that wasn't there before.

The meaning wasn't waiting for you. You created it through the act of showing up and doing the thing.This reframes everything. The question isn't what is the meaning of my life? — a question that can paralyse indefinitely. The question is what meaningful things am I making with my life right now? And that question has an answer you can act on today.So here's the question: What meaningful thing are you currently making — or what meaningful thing have you been waiting to start making — while you wait to feel more certain about the larger purpose?

Because the secret, as Clear says, isn't in the finding. It's in the making. And the making can start today — imperfectly, uncertainly, with less clarity than you'd like and more courage than you think you have.

Stop searching for the meaning of your life. Start making things that are meaningful. The meaning will follow.
That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern — I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
James Clear – “The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.”
May 13, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Laurie Buchanan – “What we don’t change, we choose.”
May 12, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
John C. Maxwell – “Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it but what we become by it.”
May 11, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”
May 10, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Unknown Author – “Remember, the life you’re comparing yours to might be built on borrowed money.”
May 9, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
May 8, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Lee Iacocca – “Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”
May 7, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Kurt Vonnegut – “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
May 6, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Jean-Paul Sartre – “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
May 5, 2026
Andrew McGivern - Motivational Quotes and Daily Inspiration | Quote of the Day
Dan Sullivan – “Your eyes can only see and your ears can only hear what your brain is looking for.”
May 4, 2026
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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.
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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
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Reversing Blindness with Cellular Rejuvenation and the Beating Heart-on-a-Chip
April 1, 2026
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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
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Lower Crime and More Energy
March 3, 2026
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Saving the Banana and Reversing Brain Aging
February 28, 2026
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Mushroom Boxes and Bacterial Mating
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How AI is Designing Custom Antibodies and Curing Cancer
February 21, 2026
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    Laurie Buchanan – “What we don’t change, we choose.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 12, 2026

    John C. Maxwell – “Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it but what we become by it.”

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    Unknown Author – “Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.”

    byAndrew McGivernMay 10, 2026

    George Carlin – “Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”

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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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    April 14, 2026
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