How A Meaningful Mission Will Change Your Life | Lewis Howes & Donald Miller

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show. I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life, and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make it easier, you want to make it flow, you want to feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going to help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward. We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

0:51I started the School of Greatness and I remember thinking I want to do more good in the world and I want to interview my smart friends that I have, right? And I asked a few friends about like, Like, okay, I'm thinking of doing a podcast. This is when no one knew what a podcast was. Anyways, I remember asking people, you know, what do you think I should call the name of the podcast? And they're like, well, let's just call it like the Lewis Howes Show or this and this. And I go, I think this is an opportunity for me to not make it about me. I want it to be bigger than me. I want it to be about the people that are coming on who are servicing the world in a big way.

1:24And me as a facilitator, but it doesn't need to be my show. It's the show of the most brilliant or the most interesting people in the world that I can get on and interview and ask them those questions. And the School of Greatness was all the things I wish I would have learned in school. Because school was extremely difficult for me. Being in the special needs classes, my entire... Why were you in the special needs classes? Is this part of the dyslexia and all that? Just growing up dyslexic. And then when I went to middle school, they started ranking you on your grade card. No, no, no, no. Yeah, this was...

2:01That's terrible. So they would rank you based on your class members, like where you were ranking in the class. In middle school, it's the worst possible time. So I remember I was always in the bottom four. And so I would just see this confirmation of you're not enough. Like you're stupid, you're not intelligent, you're not smart enough as everyone else around you. And being in the special needs classes, it took me seven years to finish college, like all these different things just confirmed, you know, you're not smart enough. It was the story that I told myself until I realized, wow, I'm actually really wise and I have skills in other areas of life that aren't from reading a book and testing well.

2:39You know, I'm doing homework well. Like I wasn't good at that structure. And I wish they would have taught me how to approach, you know, relationships. I wish they taught me how to heal. I wish they taught me how to deal with failure. How to be creative. how to be creative, how to make money, like all these different things. And I was like, that's what I learned. Some of that stuff through sports. And then I learned a lot of it from just interviewing mentors after school. I was like, I wish the world knew this. I'm going to call it the school of greatness. Yeah. And I wanted it to be about everyone else, not about me.

3:11And so that's kind of the journey there. Some people call that humility. I call it health. Health. Yeah. it's just an understanding of where you fit in the world yeah and it's it's it's this two things simultaneously I can have a really big impact and I'm not the most important thing I don't have to be the center of attention right and we see you've seen it you've seen a lot of times people who build communities in order to be the center of attention and you see how they implode I want to enjoy this and I'm not gonna I talk in this book about how important it is to have some sort of selfish motivation involved in your objective otherwise you're a liar right because we only do things that benefit us but then when you realize that's empty these things start becoming mutually beneficial I think we're a little hard on ourselves we say we've got to be perfect or we've got to be Saints in order to change the world you can be totally normal get irritated your kids and change the world you know watch it's a wonderful life he's not a perfect guy.

4:14Right. I think it was Wayne Dyer who talked about how so many of the people that ended up changing the world were school teachers, were these people that go off and do extraordinary things don't always start out that way. They kind of have humble jobs and humble missions, and then it just grows and expands. You don't have to have the intention of being the president or being some billionaire CEO to change lives. Yeah. And each of those people, if you look at like Mohandas Gandhi and you mentioned Mother Teresa and Dr. King. What a lot of people don't realize about Dr. King is he always 100 % felt like he was in his father's shadow.

4:52He always felt deficient. And his father was actually the big man. The guy. Yeah. Leading the church. Yeah. So really what made Dr. King, Dr. King, and what made Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa, what made Gandhi, Gandhi was not them. It was the actual mission. that's where they blew up when they realized well I've got to I've got to stop the what's happening in the civil rights you know push back to the civil rights movement I've got to stop that what's happening in the British colonialism is taking place in India I've got to stop what's happening on the streets of Calcutta you know these are just normal people who put themselves into a mission and that's why we all know their name it's not them it's that they stepped into a story

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