Attract FINANCIAL ABUNDANCE Into Your Life | Dave Ramsey EP 446

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.

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0:50What is the thing that you feel like you need to transform in your life or business or internally to get to the next level of leadership for yourself? I get so passionate about everything. I was in a church board meeting many, many years ago, and one of the old guys in there, he's like 80 years old, we're in there arguing about something around the church, and he gets up and starts walking out. Where are you going? He goes, y 'all aren't arguing about anything that matters in five years. I'm so wired up and over-caffeinated and passionate and everything else that it's a maturity thing I have to work on at 62 freaking years old.

1:24You know what I mean? Come on. Was there anything that you struggled with overcoming where you doubted yourself that took you a long time to overcome that doubt and start to believe in yourself? Anytime we make a grave error, it takes some of your confidence, and it takes you a while to trust yourself again. Like when I went broke, I not only lost everything, I was broken. I went from the arrogance to the other end of the spectrum, where I really didn't trust my own judgment because I had destroyed everything. It was a nuclear landscape, you know, after that. And so it took me a while to trust myself again.

2:04I had to earn my own trust back as well as earn my wife's trust back and earn the money back in the process. But I had to put a pattern in my life that was trustworthy that I began to trust. First I trusted the pattern and the truth of the principles, and later I began to trust myself to apply them. That's a wound from trauma is what it is. And so it's much like I've got a friend who went through a divorce and he doesn't trust himself to pick a wife. He thought he was a good judge of character, and the lady he married was not a good person, and she messed him over big time. And so he doesn't trust, he's wounded, doesn't trust himself again.

2:42And I think that's one of the hardest things. In business, it's the same thing. I trust the wrong people inside the building, and then I have to clean up the dadgum mess for the next 18 months, you know? And that's my fault. And so I got to trust myself on my judgment of the person's character again. That's very hard.

3:02How does someone go from maybe more of a debt mindset or a poorer mindset into an abundance in a richer or wealthier mindset if they've been modeling from their parents, if they, you know, they were used to debt, they got into debt early on, they got credit cards early on, how does someone switch the mindset first before acting with these steps and actually believing something completely differently? Inputs, you become who you hang around with and what you read. If you want to stay poor and you want to stay in a scarcity mindset, watch Tiger King. If you want to win at life, listen to Lewis on his podcast because it's about greatness.

3:39And Tiger King's quite the opposite. So what are you consuming? I became hyper aware of that during this last season we've all gone through with pandemic and all these other things. The stress level for all of us that were carrying responsibility during those days and the fear of people out there, I started going, okay, you guys need to change your inputs because your brain's about to explode with fear and say, I'm not even going to turn on the computer. I'm just going to open up a book, my Bible. I'm going to go for a walk with nothing in my ears and just hear birds sing. You know, oh my gosh, you got to watch your inputs.

4:16Okay. This is a little man can't get a head thing. If you hang out with those people, then you believe it. If you hang out with people say, take it easy and they mean it, then you're going to take it easy and you're going to be mediocre and you're not going to leave the cave. Your income is going to approximate the income of your 10 closest friends. You need to pick your friends real careful. If you could only share one quote in the Bible that you love the most, what would that quote be? You know, I would have to go all Christian on you and go back to something about, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, because it all starts and ends there.

4:48But out of that, then there's life lessons all through Proverbs, the book of wisdom, there's Romans 12, 2. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Don't be normal. Look around. You don't want to be normal. Normal's out of control with your food, out of control with your money, out of control with your relationships, out of control with your mouth. Don't be normal. Be transformed. And how you do that? Your inputs, the renewing of your mind.

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