The Secret To Building A RICH Life | Dave Ramsey EP 212

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

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0:52How does someone go from maybe more of a debt mindset or a poorer mindset into an abundance and a richer or wealthier mindset? if they've been modeling from their parents, if they were used to debt, they got into debt early on, they got credit cards early on. How does someone switch the mindset first and actually believing something completely differently? Inputs. Who are you reading? What podcasts are you listening to? Here's the thing. If you want to stay poor and you want to stay in a scarcity mindset, watch Tiger King. If you want to win at life, listen to Lewis on his podcast because it's about greatness.

1:32Yeah. You know, and Tiger King's quite the opposite. Right. So what are you consuming? You know, are you spending all your time on the cable news network? Because I got to tell you, they're not selling anything but fear. And if you turn the channel one over, you get the weather channel and the tornado's going to kill you. Did you know that? Get a helmet on quick. And so, oh my God, you know, what are your inputs? And I became hyper aware of that during this last season we've all gone through with pandemic and all these other things, the stress level for all of us that were carrying responsibility during those days and the fear of people out there, I started going, okay, you guys need to change your inputs because your brain's about to explode with fear.

2:13And so I had to really be very conscious to pull back and say, I'm not even going to turn on the computer. I'm just going to open up a book, my Bible. I'm going to go for a walk with nothing in my ears and just hear birds sing, you know, oh my gosh, you got to watch your inputs. Okay. But this, this little man can't get a head thing. If you hang out with those people, then you believe it. If you hang out with people say, take it easy and they mean it, then you're going to take it easy and you're going to be mediocre and you're not going to leave the cave, kill something and drag it home. But, but you know, what are your inputs?

2:47Who are you hanging with? Your income is going to approximate the income of your 10 closest friends. You need to pick your friends real careful. Amen to that. And you know, your mouth is going to sound like theirs. You want to have a trash mouth? Run around these people with trash mouth. You'll suddenly be saying stuff like that. I've caught myself doing it. I'm like an eight year old little boy. I mimic the people I run with. Look around. You don't want to be normal. Normal's out of control with your food, out of control with your money, out of control with your relationships, out of control with your mouth.

3:17Don't be normal. Be transformed. And how you do that your inputs the renewing of your mind what is the the thing that you feel like you need to transform in your life or business or internally to get to the next level of leadership for yourself to make an even greater impact or to renew your own mind in a way of transforming something that could support you at the next level one thing i was working on this morning because it's just happens to be top of mind is don't sweat the small stuff. I get so passionate about everything and sometimes the wrong things. I die on the wrong hill too often. Really?

4:00Yeah. Here's an example of what that might look like. It's like the little detail that doesn't go the way you want it. Then you get passionate about it. I was in a church board meeting many, many years ago and one of the old guys in there, he's like 80 years old. We're in there arguing about something around the church and he gets up He starts walking out. Where are you going? He goes, y 'all aren't arguing about anything that matters in five years. I just, I'm so wired up and over-caffeinated and passionate and everything else that personality style. And I just have to, it's a maturity thing.

4:29I have to work on it. 62 freaking years old. You know what I mean? Come on. What do you think is the quality that you appreciate about yourself the most? I hope somewhere around my tombstone, it says he left it all on the field. I hope somewhere around my tombstone it says he loved people. Yeah. Because those are the two things that I believe about myself. Again, haters don't believe those about me, but you'd have to ask somebody else to be sure about that. Was there anything that you struggled with overcoming where you doubted yourself that took you a long time to overcome that doubt and start to believe in yourself?

5:05I think any time we make a grave error that does have large impact, it takes some of your confidence and it takes you a while to trust yourself again. Like when I went broke, I not only lost everything, it broke me. I went from the arrogance to the other end of the spectrum where I really didn't trust my own judgment. And so it took me a while to trust myself again. I had to earn my own trust back as well as earn my wife's trust back. I had to put a pattern in my life that was trustworthy. First, I trusted the pattern and the truth of the principles. And later, I began to trust myself to apply them.

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6:53Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.