How To Push Your Beyond Your Limits | Nick Bare EP 215

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

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0:50It's 2018, and at the time, my wife and I lived downtown Austin, and I was on a training run for a marathon. And that day, I had to do 18 miles. So 18 miles for me, sitting 230 pounds. A lot. Being this bodybuilder. It was a struggle fest. Yeah, man. It was a pain cave. And there was this one day that I was running down by Lady Bird Lake in Austin, 18 miles on schedule. And I got to mile 10, and I was like, today's not the day. I'm calling it quits. Started walking back to the house, and I'm in my head thinking, if I quit on this training run, what else will I quit on in life? The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.

1:31So I went back on the course. I finished the run for the day. I went one extra mile. I went 19 that day. And I came back to my house, took my hat off because I always wear a hat. And I wrote one more under the bill. Took a picture of it, posted it on social media. And it went nuts. People were taking their hat. They were writing one more on the bill. They were taking photos. They were posting it. So in my head, I was thinking, well, this struck a chord with a lot of people. There's something here that is pushing people beyond what they believe they can achieve and do. That turned into Go One More.

2:02I got it tattooed on my arm. And then now there's hundreds, if not thousands of other people who have Go One More tattooed on their body. Because of the message that it creates. And it's not just one more mile on a training run. It's not one more rep in the gym. When things get tough and challenging, you hit obstacles and resistance. It's pushing past that obstacle. it's pushing through that resistance to get the other side and realizing how much confidence that brings how powerful it is you do that over weeks months years the power and that consistency of going one more it compounds and puts you well beyond where you ever thought you could be well the reason i put it on my arm here is it was before going into a big endurance training blocks iron mans and marathons you gotta look at your watch you gotta look at it every every moment ultras Yeah, so I knew this is the ultimate, for me, ultimate placement of accountability.

2:56Just running them up, there it is. When things get hard, you have no other choice than to push through. My mom was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, stage 4 ovarian cancer. And it was one of those things that I thought, oh, my mom's going to get chemo and she's going to get through it. And she'll be living down here in Texas in six months. That was the plan. And that was the year she was going to retire, move to Texas, and live the rest of her life with her boys. And she got cancer. She got diagnosed. It was extremely aggressive. She passed away six months later. But she never gave up fighting. You know, even when she was in the hospital, even when she was in hospice, it was looking up and saying, what can I get you boys?

3:38Right. You know, she applied that to her work with special education, coaching Special Olympics, helping the community. If there's one person I respect in this world, it's my mom. 100%. There was a story that I heard when we were celebrating our 10 years in business that forever changed my life. It was a single mother. She's probably my age. And she had a daughter with her who was probably seven or eight years old. And they pulled me aside because they wanted to talk for a second. And the mother said, you know, my daughter doesn't have a father figure in her life. I'm a single mom raising my daughter.

4:14And because she doesn't have a father figure in her life, I show her the content that your team produces, the videos and the podcast, the interviews. She uses that content as a mentor and a father figure for her younger daughter. That for me, that was heavy. Or this is the responsibility that we have. These are the lives that we have the ability to change. This is who's listening to this content. We have to be a role model in a space that is notorious for not being role model worthy. Yeah. That's my guiding principle now. As soon as you realize that there's more power in presenting yourself and positioning yourself as a guide rather than a hero, you're not only going to help many, many others, but you're going to help yourself tremendously.

5:01You know, we use the word intentional a lot in our business and my family, people in my life. and I would lean back on the saying, lack of intentionality leads to a repetition of what is easiest. If you apply intentionality to everything you do in life, the decisions you make, the processes you create, the life that you ultimately end up with, being intentional with those decisions will get you somewhere that you are ultimately proud of.

5:49Thank 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 Podcasts 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.

6:39Again, have an amazing day, and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

6:55Thank you.