Finding Joy in Life's Journey While Living with Urgency | Bozoma Saint John EP 885

0:00There are two big things happening at one time that I've never done before. I'm going on a book tour for my new book, Make Money Easy, and I'm doing a podcast tour at the same time. It is going to be big, and I'm going to seven cities in 10 days. Get your friends, get your family, bring everyone you know to these cities. I'm coming to Austin, Texas, New York, Boston. We're going to Nashville. Then we're going to Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Make sure to get your tickets right now. Go to lewishouse.com slash tour. Again, bring everyone you know if you're looking to create more financial freedom and abundance in your life and you want to see a massive guest live on the School of Greatness show.

0:45Get your tickets. I can't wait to see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:59I love your story about you were satisfied at 20 something years old in the back of the, you know, the cab or the black car and you're satisfied now. And I think a lot of people hear this concept of never be satisfied, but we were just talking about how, you know, be satisfied with where you are, but also be striving for your purpose, your mission and stepping into that. And what are your thoughts on the idea of never be satisfied? You know, I understand why somebody would say that, you know, like you should always be hungry like you should always be chasing that's a good motivator you know to get the next thing so that you wake up and you want to go get it but that's a terrible way to live you know it's like complete i vehemently disagree with the concept that you should never be satisfied you know it's like you should you should be satisfied you should be satisfied you should wake up feeling satisfied with your life it doesn't mean that you don't want the next thing of course you want the next thing But like, if life were to end today, would you want to have lived an unsatisfied life?

2:05Would you want like, like I think I really do think of Peter at those last days. You know, and think about all the things that he was unsatisfied about. I don't want that for myself. I don't want that for you. I don't think any of us should live that way. So be satisfied. satisfied. You know, and that doesn't mean lesser than. Be satisfied even if you're just starting out as an assistant getting coffee. If you're the CEO, if you're anywhere in between, if you're in an off season. Yes. Be satisfied. Be satisfied with like how wonderful you have it. You know, even the least of us, even the people who are like, you know, in this terrible place, like I said, like we can be satisfied like the day after peter died um actually no it was it was a few days later because we were having his funeral he died on december 11 2013 it was four days before his 44th birthday and so on his 44th birthday december 15th we had his funeral and made it a party and i was sitting there and you know kind of in a haze but then also you know that moment of clarity where I'm looking around the room and his fraternity brothers are drinking beers and they're sharing stories about him.

3:24And my daughter's sleeping on my mom's lap. And I've got my sisters in the corner trying to busy themselves, getting out plates of food and whatnot. And you see people connecting. And it was the oddest thought. I looked around and I was just like, wow, this is a good group. You know, this is a great place to be, to have this. And so I was satisfied in that moment. The most terrible thing had happened in my life. But I was looking around and feeling very satisfied with who I had around me. And that, I think, is what I would like for all of us to consider. That even when things are bad and going wrong, you can still be satisfied.

4:13You can still feel like this is it and it is okay. Yeah, it's okay. I'm a big fan of the title of the book, The Urgent Life. And when I saw this, I was just thinking to myself, yes, right away, because we have like similar, completely different experiences, but similar feelings probably from experiences we've had. So my father got in an accident. He had a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for three months when I was 21. And I remember, we didn't know if he was going to live or die, but he eventually woke up after three months. And he was a completely different person. Like he was physically alive, but emotionally and mentally kind of gone.

5:03It took him a while to like learn how to talk again. He wasn't able to work anymore. He had amnesia. So when I'd see him, like, what's your name again? It was just a different type of relationship, right? I had to learn to love my father for who he was and start to grieve the man that he once was before, right? And I remember thinking he was in his early 50s when this happened. He had worked so hard for 30 years as a life insurance salesman where he finally was starting to make money where he could travel and have some freedom in his life. And he was starting to feel like he was happy for the first time, fully happy.

5:40and then this accident happened and I remember being really angry at life that my dad didn't get to go live the rest of his life the way he wanted to and I felt like I had so much urgency to go pursue everything I wanted like from that moment on yeah I was like I'm not gonna let any fear or insecurity hold me back it might still be there but I'm at least gonna take the actions on my goals, my dreams, and live urgently. Because what if this happens to me? What if I get in a car accident tomorrow? And something like that happens to me, I'd be sad that I didn't at least go try.

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