SOG EP 1627 BONUS: “I’m a Bad*ss!” How Dany Garcia Became A Business Trailblazer & Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Empire

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

0:11I've heard you mention tools probably seven times now throughout this conversation. If you could go back to 13-year-old Danny and you could only give yourself three tools of all the things that you've learned from 13 till now, personally, physically, emotionally, spiritually that you wish you had then yeah and that you wish all young women had right what three tools would those be i would definitely um i would give i guess almost advice slash tool but i would definitely say your youth pulse is the gift of the future don't spend another minute worrying about it being anxious about it, you know, worrying that, you know, you don't have more friends, you don't fit, don't worry about any of that, you know, because it would have quieted my mind.

1:06And that means more of my mind would have gone into creation and creativity. What do I want to do? And what is this idea? And I would have started doing at a much earlier age, things that I started doing, uh, later. And, but you hadn't, what did you have more like anxiety around that? Yeah, it was more like, who am I? I literally, you know, it's always difficult to be very aware as a young person. So being very aware but not having context can be powerful. I remember looking in the mirror and thinking all these incredible aspirations I had. I wanted to, you know, build companies and be out there and have these and be influential and guide people.

1:42And looking in the mirror and being like, okay, this is what I got. I was a very awkward, young 13-year-old. Oh, I saw photos. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were both on. Yeah. Don't worry. I was like, weird looking. And I was like, all right, this is winning again. All right. All right. That's all right, because I've got a great personality. I'm really smart, you know. But I still carried that. So that means I carried a fake hurdle, right? A fake obstacle in my head. So if I could have removed that, I could have moved so much faster. Interesting. Okay, so that's the first thing. That's the first thing.

2:15Your uniqueness is the gift of your future. The gift of your future. Right. Right. Do not look at it with any other lens than that. The second thing I would say to myself, read everything you can and understand that not all of it is for you. Right. So gather, gather information. We've talked about it a little bit. When individuals who are not experiencing your life write books on how to do things, they have a whole set of different rules. And those rules actually matter. if you don't, but won't apply to you. So gather the information, gather the tools. And mind you, if you don't have these fake obstacles, you're going to have a little bit more space to have agency and be like, oh, yeah, okay, I'm going to put these pieces together.

3:01So I would definitely, there's so much in this that is about self-investment. And then the third thing I would say is have greater discipline towards your goals. Right? And I would even translate that. Create the discipline of making yourself the most important thing in your life. Which could sound, right? Catholic, that doesn't sound good. Can sound very vain. Can sound all these things. It's a dangerous lesson. Right? Make yourself the most important thing in your life. What would that have looked like for you in your teens, early 20s, instead of the path you took? I would have studied harder.

3:41Because I did want to go to Georgetown. I didn't have people around me who were like, hey, by the way, this is what you got to do. You should be studying. You should be doing this. You know, that wasn't, my family was like, we have a roof over your head. Go to school. Come home. Yes. Do chores. Don't do bad things. And it was, so there was so much to what I wanted to accomplish that I didn't have the basic tools of discipline to get to. I had great discipline when it came to work. Like I said, I started working at 12. I never stopped, and doing a great job. But carrying that over to myself, discipline for that benefit, Danny Garcia, because even when I worked, when I was working in a barn, that discipline was so that the barn was taken care of, so the horses were taken care of, so Mr.

4:29Blanchard, who owned the barn, would come in and be like, whoa, look at how clean this is, so my horse was taken care of. But it wasn't applied to me. Really? So what would you not do for yourself that you did for others? For everyone, prioritize myself, prioritize my goals, prioritize my happiness. Explore what makes me happy. Recognize that I'm uncomfortable. That may be a problem. Right. You know, just the continuous, like, how are you feeling? What do you want? When you got up today, did you do the things that led you closer to what you want to have happen? or did you do the things that led someone else closer to what they want to happen?

5:09Very interesting. And most of the time it was that.

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