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Today's quote comes from Laurie Buchanan, holistic health practitioner, transformational life coach, and award-winning author whose entire career has been built around one foundational belief.

She once said:

”What we don't change, we choose.”

This quote has only six words. And they may be the most uncomfortable combination of six words in your vocabulary.

Think about that for a moment. What we don't change, we choose. Not what we can't change. Not what circumstances have forced upon us. What we don't change.

Most of us have a running list of things in our lives we don't like. The job that drains us. The habit we know is holding us back. The relationship dynamic that keeps repeating. The goal we keep saying we'll pursue when the timing is better. The conversation we've been avoiding. The version of ourselves we keep promising to grow into, next month, next year, when things settle down.

And alongside that list, we carry a set of stories about why nothing on it has changed yet. The timing isn't right. The circumstances are complicated. We're waiting for a sign, for motivation, for the right moment to arrive. The stories are comfortable. And they are, in the most important sense, a fiction.

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And Buchanan spent her career offering exactly this kind of clarity to the people she worked with, not because it was comfortable, but because it was the only thing that actually helped. The insight is that ignoring something doesn't minimize its impact on your life. In fact, ignoring it often increases its impact, because it winds up operating out of your awareness, and therefore out of your influence or control.

The thing you refuse to look at doesn't shrink in the dark. It grows. There's an important distinction worth making here and Buchanan makes it herself. Some things are genuinely hard to change. Illness. Loss. Systemic circumstances beyond any individual's control. This quote isn't a dismissal of real difficulty.

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There are things I tolerated far longer than I should have, in my work, in my habits, in how I was spending my time, not because I couldn't see them clearly, but because changing them felt harder than enduring them. And Buchanan's quote has a way of cutting through that reasoning very precisely. The endurance wasn't neutral. It was a choice. One I kept remaking every day I didn't act. The moment I started seeing inaction as a decision, rather than a pause before a decision, everything became clearer. And considerably less comfortable. Which is exactly the point.

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    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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