Your THOUGHTS Create Your REALITY: ALIGN Your Mind & Words to MANIFEST Your Dream Life! | Lisa Nichols EP 611

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

0:12how important is the thoughts that you say in your mind quietly every day and the words you speak out loud every day how important are they together and which one is more valuable if you can only choose one so i'll start with this your life is a physical manifestation of the conversation going on in your head. I'm going to start with that. Can we just speak for like 24 hours on this? I love this. Right. Your life is a physical manifestation of the conversation going on in your head. So if you said nothing but thought everything, your life is going to show up to make your thoughts true. So you have one job to make what you think about life true so that you're not wrong.

0:55You don't want to walk around wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. You want to be right about the life you see so you're going to work hard work hard to produce the life that you talk about in your mind whether that life is no one loves me i'm all alone you can be in a group of people and you will think i'm so alone and and you will feel alone and things will show up to co-sign your loneliness just because you're looking for that if you start with i'm gonna say the mind like the mind is that thing the mind is the core engine it starts all things it shuts all things down when i start thinking something different i'm like hold on stop i want to think something i shut down that behavior i shut down that outcome when i birth something i birth it in my mind i focus on my mind i see myself there in my mind before i got on with you i was doing guided visualizations i'm recording them so people and i mean they're juicy and i'm saying see yourself here because if you can see it and then the key is evoke the emotion as if you were there and that's why people who are sad all the time are sad because they're thinking of things that make them sad and then the emotion and follows the thoughts so i'm gonna say everything starts with your thought lewis but let me just say this when you speak you speak your future into the world you speak your future whatever you say, whatever falls off your tongue, when you say I am, the unconscious mind says, and you are so.

2:31Whatever comes on the other side of that. And so you ask me a hard question, which one is most important? It starts with the thought. I think the thought is that that's where everything originates. And then you add a whole lot of turbo boost to it with your tongue. Yeah. When you align the two and then you add to it, the B12, the B12 of action. Action is like, action is like, that's the nitro. That's the nitro. Like, right. And I see so many people, they think it, they write it, they journal it, they talk about it and they do no action. And I go, you understand that the action is, that's like putting the flower in the sun.

3:13Yeah, I had, this is a beautiful explanation. when I had a Navy SEAL on, he talked about as a SEAL, he used the tongue as a rudder in a boat. He said, what you speak is going to lead you down, you know, the ocean or the river or wherever on the boat you're on. And so he never says anything negative out loud because it's so powerful in the Navy SEALs. He talked about how powerful it is. No matter how much pain they're experiencing in Hell Week and all this stuff they're dealing with, they never allow the tongue to speak something negative. Otherwise they'll ultimately quit and give up. Right, right, right, right, right.

3:48It's too painful to deal with what they deal with to then say, oh, I'm hurting, I'm tired, oh, I can't do it. Right, right, don't speak that. Don't speak that into the universe. You just, because whatever you speak feels like it expands. Of course. Right, energy grows where energy goes. It expands. So speak life, speak possibility. There is not one dark situation that doesn't have a glimmer of light. It doesn't mean it's going to be convenient to see. That's true. And most of us are looking for convenient light. I want to talk about, for a moment, purpose. Because I feel like right now we're seeing a lot of people with scattered purposes.

4:28I'm seeing so many big influencers go through divorce who are publicly had great relationships. I'm seeing people's businesses go under. I'm seeing people scattered with their purpose and unclear. Right. Let's speak to this because I think it's two different questions. One is how to truly figure out what your purpose is. Because I think it's seasonal. You know, what your purpose was when you were 10 is different now. I agree. If you think, I know what my purpose is. Like, I know I'm meant to go do this thing. I think I'm supposed to go after this. I feel like maybe I should try this thing, but I'm afraid.

5:03How would you coach someone who knows what they're supposed to do, or at least they think they do until they figure it out and it's not it or it is it? One of the first things I do is I ask them to please let's quantify and give life to what does it cost you to stay still. So number one, I would say, what does it cost you? I use this metaphor that if you went to the store and bought a dozen eggs and you went home and you scrambled all the eggs and you cooked the eggs and then you took the empty carton back to the grocery store and you said, I'd like to buy these again. The cashier, but you already bought them.

5:37Why are you buying? Why are you paying for it again? That's what we're doing. We're paying for the same behavior over and over again. And so one, get clear that you're PIF, that you're paid in full for not being inaction. Number two is let's talk about everything that happens if you fail. Let's just unpack that. You go back to where you're at now. Yeah, you'll - Right, right. Actually, you never are back to where you are now because now you got some kind of lesson that you didn't have. Experience, yeah. Right, you got some kind of experience. So what happens if you fail? Okay, great. So what lessons can we pull out of that?

6:09So now let's agree to if we fail, let's fail forward. So then let's define what does failing forward look like? So then we get very descriptive on what does failing forward look like? What will I do with the lessons? I'll document four to six things I did right. And I'll document two to three things that I can improve upon and I'll implement them all on the next go round. So then we take out all the possibility. And I even go as far as saying, so what if people judge you? I unpack it. What do people judge you? Let's say they talk really bad about you on social media for like a three days. Like it goes a while.

6:46Well, then what happens? Well, on the sixth day, I get up and do it again. We just deep dive into the darkness of your illusions, deep dive into the darkness of your mind. So like what? Okay. Well, I'll lose this money. Okay. You lost how much? 40 ,000. Okay. All 40 ,000 gone. So now what? I don't know. Okay, well, let's figure out a plan because you already lost the money. You lost the money. Let's, let's, now I can start saving again. I can do whatever. Okay, great. So then every, all these big possibilities are now just situations. Then I go to, so what can we do to eliminate the possibility of that occurring?

7:20So now we go into strategy. So I'm real big on strategy. I'm real big on milestones. I believe that you should not set a macro goal without setting several micro goals. A lot of times entrepreneurs set like big bodacious goals and you have a release of endorphins when you first set it, but then it goes away because you don't even know how you're going to get there. And so I'm real big on three things, a strategy, milestones and accountability.

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