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0:34Make sure to get your tickets right now and step into greatness with us at the Summit of Greatness 2024. Head over to lewishouse.com slash tickets and get your tickets today and I will see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:56I was the only child in my school whose parents were divorced. Really? And I remember like seeing Mr. and Mrs. Myers and Mr. and Mrs. Bourgeois. And I remember seeing them and thinking, you know, they had the two kids, the three kids, the dog, the house with the swimming pool. Like the mama stayed at home and the daddy took care of everything. And I remember thinking to myself that I was so cheated. You didn't have that. That I didn't have that life. And here was my mother. First off, she was old because she was 44 when I was born. Wow. So my mom was the oldest mom. She was the only divorced mom, single mom.

1:48My dad wasn't really in my life. And so here I am. And then on top of that, I have to have this back surgery. I'm in a body cast for a year in seventh grade. Wow. And just everything. And I've got this big accent, which I don't think I have, but lots of people think I do. But it just, I mean, there was just so many things. And I kept thinking that I was like the odd man out. I was like, I was different than everybody else. And rather than appreciating that difference, I worked so hard to be like everybody else. People pleasing, trying to fit in, doing whatever others. Oh, yeah, trying to fit in.

2:29I mean, I, you know, here was the last kid picked on the playground and I wanted to fit in so bad. Yeah. And, and I couldn't, I couldn't ever figure out how to get those pieces of the puzzle together. I was in back when I was in school, I mean, I graduated from high school in 1984. You didn't call it bullying. Like today would, you would say, oh, she was bullied as a child. She didn't call it that. You didn't call it that. You didn't call it anything. Toughen up. It's more than life. Yeah, suck it up, buttercup. You know, and I think that for me, a lot of the distractions were just trying to be like everybody else, get somebody's attention, and prove that I was worthy.

3:21I know that feeling. And you felt like you only had worth based on who you were with, it sounded like. Yeah. Or who you were friends with or who you were dating or who you were married to. Who I was associated with. Who I was attached to was what defined my worth. Wow. And I think that that was huge. Once I realized that my value was determined by me, was a turning point in my life. When did you learn that? 2017. Really? Yeah, not that long ago. So what made you think that and what made you realize and actually start to believe that? I stopped. I struggled with drinking and I stopped drinking at the end of 2015.

4:11And I think that that really started giving me a lot of clarity. I think that that alcohol had been had disguised a lot of issues that I had. But I think that when I stopped drinking and I tried, I was focused on being my best self, that helped. And then I went to a Tony Robbins event and he talked about just being present in these moments, just being present, building these moments. And I went with my son. My son was really struggling at that time. How old was he then? He was 16 years old. Wow. and um he was really kind of going through a difficult season of his own life and i and i took him to the upw for him you're right you got more out of it than he did probably and um we're there four days and at the end and my son's tall and he puts his arms around me and my ear is right at his heart.

5:17And I can hear his heartbeat. And he leans down and he says, I'm never going to forget these four days with you. Wow. And I remembered in that very second, in that moment, like, here was this child watching me. Like, you, he deserves it. He deserves your value. He deserves you to be worthy. Wow. And so I left that moment and I said, my life's goal is to string together moments of a lifetime, just like that one that I could just feel. And I just everything I do, every single thing I do is built around how I can build a moment in time for like my life, my children and the things that the people that I love.

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