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The Daily Motivation Podcast - Episode Summary
Episode Title How To STOP Chasing Results And Start Living With Intention
Host Lewis Howes
Episode Description In this episode, Lewis Howes delves into the importance of living with intention rather than simply chasing results. He emphasizes that our thoughts and intentions shape our lives and discusses how to cultivate a mindset focused on intention.
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Key Themes and Concepts
- The Power of Intention
- Quote: "Energy flows where intention goes."
- Intention should take precedence over productivity and to-do lists.
- Living with intention allows individuals to manifest positive outcomes in their lives.
- Daily Practices for Intention
- Begin the day with practices that promote mindfulness, such as:
- Breathing exercises
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Moments of silence
- Ask yourself: "What is my intention for today?"
- Identifying What’s Lacking
- Reflect on areas of life where you feel a lack, such as:
- Connection
- Love
- Joy
- Set intentions based on these reflections to create a more fulfilling daily experience.
- Shifting Perspectives
- Emphasize gratitude in everyday situations:
- Example: Thanking a driver for cutting you off as an opportunity to appreciate your job.
- Changing your perspective can invite positivity and new opportunities.
- Real-Life Application
- Lewis shares his personal journey of starting The School of Greatness:
- Launched 12.5 years ago with no prior experience in broadcasting.
- Driven by the intention to create a resource for personal development that he felt was lacking during his education.
- Aimed to teach life lessons surrounding money, relationships, emotions, and health.
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Key Takeaways
- Living with Intention: It’s not about achieving specific goals but focusing on what you wish to embody each day.
- Gratitude as a Tool: Practicing gratitude can significantly alter your outlook and attract positive experiences.
- Continuous Reflection: Regularly assess what you feel is lacking in your life and set corresponding intentions.
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Call to Action
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- Event Announcement: Lewis invites listeners to his upcoming event, The Summit of Greatness, scheduled for September 12 & 13, 2025.
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Conclusion The episode encourages listeners to stop chasing superficial results and instead focus on living with intention. By identifying what’s missing in their lives and setting clear intentions, individuals can shift their energy and attract meaningful experiences.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00I 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 wanna make it easier, you wanna make it flow, you wanna feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is gonna 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.
0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.
0:48When you live with intention, you start to manifest and attract from that intention. When you live from, I got to get this done and I got to hurry and I got to rush and that's productivity and to-do lists, it's going to just feel like stressful because you're not living with intention first. From the morning, from the moment you wake up, breathing, prayer, meditation, or just silence and not reacting. Then intention. What is my intention? My intention today is I'm just going to live with joy. I'm going to live with passion. I'm going to live with gratitude every moment I can take. Someone cuts me off.
1:27Yes. Thank you. Thank you for cutting me off because I'm in the car to go to a job that I get paid for. Yes. Thank you. I have the opportunity to work when so many people don't have the opportunity to work right now. Thank you. It's shifting the perspective no matter what. And when you live with the intention of gratitude, gosh, things just open up to you. Doors open up. People offer you jobs. People want to, want to provide for you in different ways. People want to be around you because you're living with that grateful intention. I'm not saying gratitude needs to be your thing today, but think about what is my intention for today?
2:05And typically I like to think about what is the thing I feel like I've been lacking in my life. And now I'm going to shift into an intention where I step into the thing that I've been lacking. So if I feel like I've been lacking connection, My intention is I'm going to be connected today. If I feel like I've been lacking love in my life, my intention is I'm going to be loving. If I feel like I've been lacking, I don't know, joy, fun, playfulness, my intention is I'm going to be play. I'm going to be playful, you know, in every moment that I can be within the right, you know, boundaries. And you obviously don't want to be too crazy at work or something.
2:47You got to live within the boundaries that you have at specific settings. But I'm going to be a playful human being today. I'm going to make jokes. I'm going to laugh. I want to play little games. I'm going to just bring playfulness to my moments throughout the day. And why this works, you know, quoting Wayne Dyer's The Power of Intention, is that energy flows where intention goes. Energy flows where intention goes, not where to-do lists go, not where I need to be productive goes. but the energy goes from the intention. And if you have a to-do list, but you're just like reacting, reacting, reacting, or you're just like hustling, that's your intention.
3:26And maybe you need that for this moment, but it's not gonna shift your life when you do this every single day from a reaction rather than my intention is to be my word. My intention is to be love, be joy, be play. It's like, we've got to be thinking intention and then remembering the intention throughout the day. You don't just think it and do it once and then I'm back to reactive mode. It's like, how do I be intention throughout this day? It's a powerful thing. So when you set the intention, so many things show up for you. And an example I have from my podcast, I launched the School of Greatness, this show, 12 and a half years ago.
4:09I had no experience in broadcasting or podcasts. No one knew what a podcast was 12 and a half years ago. No one knew what it was. They didn't know how to go listen to a podcast or watch it. There was no podcast on YouTube. None of this was here. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't have the skills. I didn't have the equipment. I didn't know the backend of uploading it to the hosting provider and how to put it out there. I didn't know how to do any of this stuff, guys. But I had an intention. I had an intention. I said, I want to create something that gives me the tools that I wish I had when I was growing up in school.
4:50Because school, I didn't feel like it gave me the lessons I needed. It didn't give me the experiences I needed. It didn't teach me how to navigate money. It didn't teach me how to navigate rejection from a girlfriend. It didn't teach me how to navigate my emotions and my feelings. It didn't teach me how to learn about nutrition and optimizing my health. It didn't teach me about all these different things that I'm trying to learn in life right now. So I was like, man, I wish there was a school that taught me about how to be great in all these areas of my life. Well, let me go create it. My intention is to create a school where I interview the world's greatest minds to teach me and then teach you how to overcome these challenges that school didn't teach me.
5:38This is like the school of life, the school of greatness. And that's how it stemmed from my imagination, this intention to serve, to learn and to serve you.
5:55Thank 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.
6:45Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.
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"Energy flows where intention goes, not where to-do lists go, not where I need to be productive goes, but the energy goes from the intention." - Lewis Howes
Lewis discovered something that changed everything about how he approaches each day - and it wasn't another productivity hack or morning routine. Twelve and a half years ago, when he launched The School of Greatness podcast with zero broadcasting experience and no idea what he was doing, he had something more powerful than skills or equipment: a crystal-clear intention. Not a goal to hit certain download numbers or build a platform, but an intention to create the school he wished he'd had growing up - one that taught real-life lessons about money, relationships, emotions, and health that traditional education never covered. That intention, born from his own struggles and gaps in learning, became the foundation for everything that followed.
This isn't about setting goals or grinding through to-do lists - it's about identifying what you've been lacking in your life and intentionally stepping into that energy. Feel disconnected? Set an intention to be connected. Missing joy? Choose to be playful. Lacking gratitude? Decide to live from appreciation, even when someone cuts you off in traffic. When you shift from reacting to your circumstances to living from intention, doors open in ways you never expected. People are drawn to your energy, opportunities appear, and you start manifesting from a place of authentic being rather than desperate doing.
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