This Is Not How My Story Ends | Mel Robbins

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

0:12Here's the thing that I developed out of survival. So there are the things that you do out of survival that turn out to be brilliant. And when I was creating some of the things that I'm about to share with you, they were not because I was brilliant. It was because I was trying to keep myself going, Especially in times when I needed to pay bills and I needed to get out of debt And so whenever I felt like quitting I would literally have a pep talk with myself and I would say This is not how my story is going to end. I just refuse to believe that And I refuse to believe that this is how it ends And so I would say those kinds of things to myself even though I felt like this is the end and I just made the stupidest decision I could have ever made, or I just lost more money, or that didn't work out, just another twist, another.

1:08And so that's one thing that I would do. The second thing that I would do, Lewis, is there's this thing that I do with time traveling where I go to the past and I go to the future. So it's easy in this moment. I don't know where you are in your business. I don't know where you are in your career or your life, but it is easy to sit in this moment and to look backwards and to make sense of all of the twists and turns that have happened to you right and to say to yourself okay i can see the lessons i can see how i grew i can see how that made me stronger it is a very important skill to take that ability of making sense of the past and actually project it forward.

1:57And this is how you develop faith in yourself and your capability to see yourself through the twists and turns that life is going to demand of you. And so as you sit in this moment, the skill to develop from this point forward is to look ahead and tell yourself that I have faith that this moment too, just like every moment I can see in the past is but a brick on the path of my life that is leading me towards something I cannot see yet. And I have faith that whatever this experience is delivering, no matter how much it blows, no matter how painful it is, no matter how much I don't deserve this, that this too will be part of the thing that gets me to something even greater.

2:49And that is how I built what you're talking about, but never in a million years. Like I have big aspirations and goals just like everybody here. That's why you're here on a Tuesday night, right? You're investing in yourself. You're learning. You're surrounding yourself with incredible people that want to do the same. And so even though I had amazing goals, Like this is completely just blown apart what I ever thought was possible for myself. It's crazy. In a good way. It's amazing. Completely shocked and humbled by it all. What was the goal of like, okay, I'm going to launch this book. And did you have like a number in mind of how big it would be?

3:31And then it just went so far above and beyond? Is that what happened? Oh, like I just had always thought that it would be great to have a book that I don't like, I don't even know. Like, I wasn't even thinking, like, 10 million copies of this side or the other. Like, who sells that many books? Who's even reading books? Right? I mean, I... So I just never thought... Because it's bigger than that. It is something that has transcended the 322 pages. It has caught wind at a moment in time where everybody needs help. focusing on what's in your control so that you can focus on what's meaningful and so that you can protect yourself from outside stressors that are draining your time and energy.

4:24Like, like never more in my life has this been more important or more relevant. And so I never ever, Lewis thought that it would, I would be, I never thought that I would just be somebody that this many people knew about or that my work would be this public. Like I know the impact of the five second rule. I know that how that has spread around the world. We know of more than a thousand people that have, that have taken the time to write to us who did not die by suicide because they use the five second rule in a moment to stop themselves and ask for help. And so I thought That is the most extraordinary thing that could ever happen to a person, to put something out into the world that actually helps people and saves lives.

5:12So to think that this tool has so far eclipsed that, it's just unreal.

5:27I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. and if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you wanna make it easier, you wanna make it flow, you wanna feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is gonna help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward. We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following. And thank you for listening to this episode of The Daily Motivation Show.

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