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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.

Terence McKenna – “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.”
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 lets jump straight in to today's quote of the day..

Today's quote comes from Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist, philosopher, mystic, and one of the most unconventional and captivating voices of the 20th century. A man who spent his life studying consciousness, shamanism, and the nature of the human mind and who, in between all of that, said something that has nothing to do with psychedelics and everything to do with how you live your life: Terrence

McKenna once said,

”If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”The absence of a plan feels neutral. It feels like freedom with no commitments, no constraints, maximizing your options. What McKenna is saying is that it's anything but.

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so does the world around you. Someone always has a plan, the government has a plan, your employer has a plan, the algorithm has a plan, the culture has a plan. Every company you buy from. Every system you move through every day has its own agenda and that agenda easily absorbs people who haven't defined their own direction.

The planless don't escape other people's plans. They fill them. Quietly, gradually, without ever being asked. And possibly without even being consciously aware of it.

Think about what that looks like across a life. The career that happened by default, not chosen, just fallen into. The years that passed while you were meaning to get around to the thing that actually mattered. The one thing, your ONE THING.

Without your own plan, your life is shaped not by your own intention but by the accumulated gravitational pull of everyone else's expectations, systems, and agendas. Nobody forced it on you. You just didn't have a plan of your own and the world is very good at filling that space.

McKenna's point isn't that planning eliminates uncertainty. It doesn't. It's that the direction of your life, the broad, honest question of where you're headed and why, requires a deliberate answer. Because if you don't answer it, someone else will. And their answer will serve their purposes, not yours.So here's the question: Right now, in the areas of your life that matter most, are you operating from your own plan? Or have you drifted, by default, into somebody else's?

Because that slot is always available. The world will always find a use for the unintentional drifters. The only defense is a direction you chose yourself, however imperfect, however incomplete.

Make the plan. Before someone else makes it for you.

That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern and I'll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.

Terence McKenna – “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.”
Terence McKenna – “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.”
June 9, 2026
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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.

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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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    Terence McKenna – “If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.”

    byAndrew McGivernJune 9, 2026

    John A. Shedd – “A ship in harbour is safe. But that is not what ships are built for.”

    byAndrew McGivernJune 8, 2026

    Tom Cruise – “There’s no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.”

    byAndrew McGivernJune 7, 2026

    Joel Osteen – “The life in front of you is more important than the life behind you”

    byAndrew McGivernJune 6, 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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