Matrix Mindset: Wisdom on Embracing the Unexpected | Carrie-Anne Moss EP 588

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

0:14As an actress, often you're unemployed. So I remember feeling and I needed to know that I was enough, regardless of whether I had a job or not. So I worked hard at that. Yeah. That was an ongoing... Because it might be a year or two, we don't have something, right? It can be. I mean, if you were to look at, I have every journal I've ever written in since I was 10 years old. I have journals and journals and journals from that apartment on Melrose and Sweets are saying, I am enough. I am enough. I am enough. I deserve success. I work through all of that really vigorously. I would wake up in the morning and do my morning pages from the artist way, Julia Cameron's artist way.

0:55And I would write and get it out. And I would apply that and go into an audition. And my mom was just saying the other day, I saw her and my brother in London, and she was saying how what she was so impressed with when I was younger and auditioning a lot was that I was able to do it and let it go and move on. And I remember... With an audition. Yeah, like not carrying on to it. I gotta get this role. I always applied to auditions that if it was meant for me, then I would get it. That if I did the work, if I did the preparation, that if it was meant for me. Not like I gotta get it. I never had that attitude.

1:33It was if it was meant for me. And if it was part of my journey, if someone else got it, it was part of their journey. Yeah. And I trusted that completely and totally. It's a great way of looking at it. Because so many people, whether it be acting or anything, like they go after something, a pitch in business. They want to get the gig. They want to get the client. But it may not be the right client. You know, just like it's not the right job as an actor. And it may actually take away from your life if you get that client or the acting gig, right? It may. Totally. Or you make that sports team or whatever it is.

2:03Absolutely. You have to trust it. How many times did I almost get a job and feel like I wanted it and it not happened? It's down to you in the last two, right? Something so much better happened. Matrix included. Really? If I had gotten other things that I thought, no, no, just things before that that seemed great. I couldn't have imagined the Matrix being in my, I couldn't have seen that. But it was the right time. It was meant to be in that way. and it doesn't mean that you don't show up and do the work of course there's work to be done you know success is when opportunity meets preparation i that was one of my founding thing as an actress my acting teacher drilled that into us you have to be prepared you got to do your work you got to do your homework you've got to be growing and looking at yourself yeah but i want to also do all of that and like have a good life and not be living in insecurity and panic over all of the things I can't control.

3:02I've worked hard at that. And now I look back and I don't even necessarily know, but I spent years doing that. Now I don't even remember who that was that ever felt that way. I feel different things now. And sometimes they'll come up and I'll go, Oh yeah, I remember that. But really I think awareness and consciousness and having that awakening, you almost don't recognize yourself. You become new and you can become new in a moment by changing the way you think. So I'm doing that dance all day long and I love it. I love life in that way. How often do you look in the mirror? Not a lot. Not a lot.

3:35When you look yourself in the mirror, what do you see? Sometimes that I'm very tired. I'm not a big mirror person. In fact, when I did the matrix, I had them take all the mirrors out of the hotel room. There was just mirrors like everywhere. Really? You had to take them out. Yeah. It wasn't really a huge deal, but it was like too much. and I said, this is kind of driving me crazy. I have to live here in this hotel room for a year. Part of what I love about my life, I guess, is I don't have to think about that too much except when I'm working. And I really, even when I'm working, I have a friend who's a producer.

4:06I worked with her a few years ago and she was like, you really need to check your hair before you, you know. I was like, I don't want to. Okay, that's right. I do care because if it's on a show or something, but like there's people that are hired to do that. They're doing it for you. I have to trust they're doing their job. Because I don't want to care. I don't want to think about it. I want to look healthy and I want my skin to look good. I want my eyes to be vibrant. I want to feel beautiful from the inside out. But to fixate on it. Oh, I can't. I just, yeah. I always, even when I was younger and auditioning all the time, I'd always just pull my hair back and I wouldn't wear any makeup.

4:42And that's what I felt most beautiful was in that place. My brother used to say it to me when I was really young. He'd always say, don't wear makeup. It's the best. It's the best. Yeah.

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