How To Reshape Your Identity & Find Your Purpose | EP 907

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 wanna 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.

0:58I think that when you stop and you look within and you just listen, the real you starts to speak to you. Your dream and your identity has a voice. So I believe that little Timmy Story knew I was going to be a freaking world leader even when I felt like in that house, it's like a garage. The guy that's supposed to be my dad just took all four kids and left my butt at home. Inside of me, in that quiet, I did what I just said. I was stopping. I was looking within. I was listening. And there would be a time that I would unfold as we see now. If we're not fed in the soul, no matter how strong your mind is, there's going to be conflict.

1:46So your mind could be like, I believe it all, but your soul could just be broke down. So I know people that have a broke down soul because of conflict and trauma, but yet their mind is kind of strong. but they are unstable. Sure. There has to be an alignment here and here, and then you're pretty much unstoppable. Go to nature. Whether you go to the desert, or you go to the mountains, or you go to the ocean, it's strange, man. Your soul just starts to be fed. So go to somewhere where there's not a lot of concrete and where the earth is breathing and watch how soulful you feel and how fed you start to feel.

2:29I see a lot of parents try to make up for their life that they missed. And they lived an almost life. But that's not going to happen to little Johnny. Little Kylie, she's not going to have to go through what I went through. They overdo it. Yeah, a lot of pressure on the kids. So much pressure. I was on the elevator, and this lady looked at me, and she goes, Hey, I recognize you. I go, Well, good to see you. And we started chatting about life. and she had this little kid and she goes, do you know my daughter knows all 50 states? Wow. It was just a little tiny kid. I never even asked. And I went, whoa, that's amazing.

3:10Guess what? The kid just started just spitting out the states because that was the connection between a mother and a child is perform, do, right? Be advanced. So I think a lot of parents, they try to make up for what did not happen in their life and they overcompensate. Not a great idea. I see life as it unfolds. Man, my son's in a beautiful place in his creativity. My daughter's in a beautiful place in her creativity. But they did challenge me as they got older and they would say to me, Dad, could you not life coach us at least for just a couple of days? Sure. Because I didn't realize that that's what I was doing.

3:54Like I was making everything about a life You should be doing this, or why don't you try this thing, or why don't you do this, as opposed to allowing them to discover it. 100%. And in the discovery, in the slow rollout, they have found a better rhythm for themselves. In the game of cards, as you know, if you don't like your hand, you can fold. So I see my cards, I don't like it, so I decide to fold. I feel like a lot of people that are watching right now, they have folded their dreams before they really unfolded. They folded thinking like, this is me. I'm married. I got this many kids. This is my life.

4:33It didn't work out. I fold. This is my existence. I disagree. You're still unfolding. But I'm 42. You're still unfolding. I'm 58. I'm still unfolding. So don't fold while you're still unfolding. Yeah, some people don't even pick up the cards and look at them. You know, they get dealt the cards and they say, I'm too scared to even pick it up. And so they just don't even play the hand. Yes. But again, I don't blame the parents for wanting their children to do well. Mostly if they see other children not doing well. Kind of back off a little bit. And if you feel like you've trained your children in a good way with character and morals and to be strong children, they'll find their way.

5:15They'll figure it out.

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6:19Again, have an amazing day, and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

6:34Thank you.