How To Destroy The Fear Blocking Your Wealth In One Year | Lewis Howes

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0:30Lewis Howes:Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:42Lewis Howes:Early in my 20s, when I was trying to figure out how to make money, I had a meeting with a guy who was making multiple six figures. And for me at that time, I was like, this is a whole nother level because I was barely making a couple hundred dollars a week. And so multiple six figures in my early 20s, I was like, how is this person doing it? I remember I begged him to sit down with me. We went to a Starbucks coffee shop in Columbus, Ohio, and I had about an hour with this guy. And I said, what is the secret? Like, I just don't know how you even get someone to pay you that much money. And I remember he literally stood up and he said, if you want to create more wealth, you have to tap into being so uncomfortable within you to overcome those beliefs.

1:30Lewis Howes:And that takes a consistency of courage. And he was like, what is the biggest fear you have right now within yourself? And I was like, you mean around making money? He goes, no, just around you as a personality. And I said, to be honest, speaking in public was my biggest fear, my biggest concern at the time. And he said, that is the place that's holding you back from creating more wealth in your life. and if you want to earn more money, if you want to become financially free, I don't care if you're speaking in front of tens of thousands of people on stages or you're speaking in a group of people in a boardroom at a company, you need to have the ability and the skillset to enroll people in you, to enroll them in your vision, your desires, your dreams, your wants, what you want to create in the world, whether you're looking for an investor, you're looking for a customer, you're looking for someone to hire you, you're looking for a sale, whatever it is, you need to have the courage to be able to communicate your vision clearly and enroll people in you that you're capable of actually doing the thing that you want to do.

2:35Lewis Howes:And at that point, I was like, well, I'm screwed because I can't speak in front of five people without stuttering and stumbling and having no idea where to take them. And he said, okay, I'm going to give you a challenge. Every week for the next year, this is your goal. And by the end of the year, if you don't see yourself creating more financial opportunities for yourself, then let me know. But every single week, if you show up and do a speech every week for a year, you'll start seeing your financial capacity increasing to new levels. And I was so terrified. I was so scared that I knew that's exactly what I needed to do.

3:14Lewis Howes:It's the thing I didn't want to do it all. It's the thing I resisted the most in school. But I was like, okay, here's a guy who has a different belief that he learned how to communicate and then was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year speaking all around the country. And I said, okay, where do I go? He said, go to a place called Toastmasters. You can find them all over the world. Find one in your local city. And I signed up that week and I went every week and I gave a speech every week for a year. I didn't care if it was two minutes or 20 minutes. I showed up and I spoke. And that ability, by the end of that first year, I was making$5 ,000 a speech.

3:54Lewis Howes:I wasn't even making$5 ,000 in six months when I started this action. And I started overcoming this belief that I wasn't able to do something. And it changed my life because I started to shift my beliefs by going all in on these insecurities, these fears that were blocking me and holding me back from developing myself to have more skills that were more valuable in the marketplace and in any industry that I stepped into after that. And so you've got to be thinking about what is the thing that is holding you back the most? What is the belief? What is the fear, the insecurity that is holding you back the most?

4:35Lewis Howes:you need to start going all in on that. And this is where I started. I started with no money, with no plan, with no income. And I was absolutely certain that my problem was that I had no money. And I was like, if someone would just give me some money, it would solve all of my problems because I don't have any. And yet it took me years to figure out that my problem was every belief that I'd inherited about money. It wasn't that I didn't have it. It was the beliefs I had around money. And I want to get into these five core beliefs right now.

5:17Lewis Howes: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.

5:58Lewis Howes:Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The Daily Motivation, and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on The School of Greatness. And if you are loving The Daily Motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcast right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.

6:48Lewis Howes:Again, have an amazing day, and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

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