The Importance of Having a Clear Mission to Be Successful | Julianne Hough EP 586

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

0:11So the purpose of my life is to be an infectious light of love and joy, to celebrate the little things, and to inspire others to embrace their true essence. And that last part... Inspire others to be their true essence. To embrace their true essence. To embrace their true essence. And to find that, because I think that I had to find that in the last couple years. and we get so caught up in what we need to do and what we need to get and all those things that we forget the 10-year-old self and why we want to do it because it's fun, right? And so to inspire somebody else to break down those layers of what they've just done to survive, it's like, let's break those down.

0:54Let's break those down. And I want to be that kind of person to help people or to inspire people to find that part. I'm glad you shared your mission statement because I want to share with you mine and I'm going to ask you a question about it. My mission is to teach 100 million people to show them how to make a full-time living doing what they love. Wow. Because I believe if everyone is making a full-time living, it doesn't have to be millions, but enough to live and have a good life. Yeah. Doing the things that you're most passionate about, you're going to heal yourself so much from so much pain.

1:24Yeah. And disease is going to be gone. Relationships are going to be better. If people are doing what they love. Yeah. And they feel like what they do is matters. I agree. Make money for what matters. I agree. How important is it to be clear on a mission and to have a mission statement like you just said and like I have? I think it's really important because I never had one before and I always thought, oh, I want this, I want that, I want that. But I never knew. I didn't know why. And then I figured out why. And then I have direction now. Oh. And I have clarity. And like what's important is important and what's not important is not important.

1:58Wow. And I used to, there was no filter before. Everything just kind of blended and mixed and I felt kind of lost. But I was like, I'm not lost. I'm good. I know what I'm doing. But I was lost completely because I'm like, well, yeah, I think I'm supposed to be doing this. I think I, but having that direction, you do have a purpose. And then every day, it's not a battle or pressure to live up to it. It just kind of somehow happens because when you believe it and you think it and you say it, Like you just end up doing it. Yeah when I was like a teenager, I didn't have a mission statement of like what I'm gonna do in my life I think when you're younger, it's just trying to like figure out how to get to the next grade Yeah, get to college or whatever it is.

2:41He was like Will a girl like me, you know, can I get a girlfriend? That was like my mission, right? It depends on where you're at in your life and your mission can evolve and change definitely as the seasons change new relationships new Things happen, but I think it's invaluable to have something no matter where you're at I agree. And even if it's something that you don't necessarily believe fully, but you want, I think that's always really good to even have that. Because that, again, it gives you a reason and a purpose and a meaning behind it. Whereas there were things that I would tell myself that I wasn't fully living, but I wanted to be.

3:16And so I would tell those things, tell myself those things. I remember going in for my Footloose audition. and they didn't just give it to you no i went in and auditioned multiple amount of times and when i went in i was so insecure and i was so worried that i wasn't going to get this that i could have done that and i would have shown that or i went into the bathroom and i was like i am so good i'm so gonna get this i'm awesome yeah like i deserve this i'm gonna do this i did I did not believe that at all. But I just, I told myself in the mirror, I tricked myself into thinking it, and I got it.

3:55And like, I've done that a lot in my life. Because your energy doesn't lie. Yeah. If you show up nervous because you're thinking that constantly, it's going to come across very easily. And I've done that in like a lot of my auditions. Or when I'm feeling like, ugh, like, then I'm like, wait, wait, wait. And this is actually pre-Tony, so like I feel like I kind of did it anyway. You'd pump yourself up, yeah. But I would pump myself up and I would say things that even though I didn't believe it, like I would just say it. And then after I would be finished, I'd be like, thank goodness I told myself that, you know.

4:27Now, do you practice visualization a lot? Visualize what you want and think about it constantly or put it on a wall like images or any type of visualization? When I was a kid, I definitely did. And I had like, by the time I'm 16, I'm going to do this. By the time I'm 19, I'm going to do this and this and this. And literally it was like by the time I'm 19 I want to be a singer and that's when I released my first record When I was 21 I wanted to start my own movie and that was Footloose and You know and like there were certain things along the way that happened and they would come to fruition Like it was crazy and then I stopped doing that because I achieved all those things And I didn't have any of those and I realized I made those up when I was a kid Wow, and I was like I need to be a kid again and make up some new ones some big dreams some big dreams Yeah.

5:15You know? And like I forgot that I did that. But they kept coming true. I don't have, well I do now, but I didn't have any past 21. I was like, oh, I need to get some drinks. You know? And like really visualize like when and how and where and like the picture of what I want. What's the process of this? Do you just map it up in your mind? Do you draw it out? Do you write it down? How do you? I map it out in my mind because I am very visual. So like I just see it. Is there something to tell yourself? It's silly, but like every time an eyelash falls and I make a wish or like every time it's 11-11 or like I do.

5:54I like think about those things and I like wish for it and I think about it. And I know it sounds silly and it's not magic, you know, it's just but it is. It's like it's a reminder, like those little funny wish things. But like I'll always think about those things. I think it's brilliant because if you're not reminded to think about them, it's never going to happen. It's not just gonna fall in your lap. You're not gonna get the role of the next movie you want because you just showed up and it just fell in your lap. You've got to set the intention every day. Completely. Multiple times, probably.

6:22Yeah. For years. Well, and it's so funny now that you say that because my family has this weird thing where we always see either 11-11 or 2-11 or something 11. Same time? And we'll always text. We'll be like, 2-11, and 10 will come in. Do you text the photo of it? Do you screenshot it? Yeah, totally. And it's like, the more you think about it, the more you're going to see it, right? And it's like before, I never would have even noticed that. But we see it all the time now. We'll go and we'll see a license plate that has it or like we'll go to the grocery store and our change will be something 11.

6:55And it's like, because you're focused on that, like that's what you see and that's what you get. And so I feel like that's the same thing in life. Like whether it's a dream that you have or if it's an idea that you have, the more you think about it, the more you focus on that, the more it's going to keep coming up. And in the other side of things, the more you focus on stress and the negative drama and whatever else anger and frustration resentment the more you're going to be frustrated and resentful completely absolutely

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