6 Frameworks That Will Make You Unstoppable In Your Life [Lewis Howes SOLO]

0:00What if I told you productivity isn't about doing more, it's about knowing what actually matters most. In fact, when you master these frameworks that I'm about to share with you, productivity feels almost unfair, like cheating in a sense. And today I'm going to be breaking down six frameworks that can make you unstoppable in your ability to be productive in your life. And if you want to create more with less stress and do more with more freedom in your life, more time, more energy, more peace, more abundance, then this is for you. And before we start, if you are ready to create more in your life without feeling like you're burning yourself out, without feeling like you're overly hustling every single day, then type the word freedom in the comments below right now so we can start unlocking more freedom in your life while you create the life of your dreams.

1:01Again, I have been a professional athlete in my life. I was a two-sport All-American. I've been to national championships. I built eight-figure business. I've got one of the top podcasts in the world, multiple New York Times bestselling books, over 20 million followers on all of our platforms, I feel like I've been pretty productive. But the first framework is something that I've always done from the early stages in my teen years. Really, actually before teen years, I started applying this framework. And without this framework, this simple framework, I would not be where I'm at or creating what I have and building momentum what I have without this first framework.

1:42This is the key. Most people don't have this. Most people are distracted and they don't have this first framework. So the first framework is to seek clarity first. And you might be saying, well, Lewis, of course, I know that everyone talks about finding clarity and having clarity. but most people don't have clarity. They have no idea what they want to do. They know they want to make more money. They want to have more time. They've got 10 different passion projects that they all, they want to work on all of them at the same time. If that's you, let me know in the comments where you're like, I've got so many great ideas that I don't know what to start on and how to move them all forward at the same time.

2:24You don't have clarity. If you've got a 20 different things you're trying to work on. That's not productivity. That's you holding yourself back by not being clear on what you really want to create for this season of life. It doesn't mean you can't be working on lots of projects throughout your life, but it's really seeking clarity first. And this is what all of the greatest minds in the world have who have accomplished big, great things. They have clear goals. And productivity isn't about doing more, but about knowing what matters most and focusing on that. And a powerful lesson with any high performer is high performers start every situation by seeking clarity.

3:09This is so important. And again, you may be watching and be thinking, well, I think I know what I want. Thinking you know what you want versus knowing what you want are completely different things. Because when you think you want, you're probably ruminating on it. You probably thought about it. Maybe you've told a couple people, but you haven't been clear with a clear goal, with a clear deadline, and with clear results that you're looking to create within that deadline. And you probably haven't written it down. You probably don't have it up in front of you where you can see it every single day.

3:42And you probably don't reflect on it consistently and write it down consistently. Again, if you aren't doing those actions, you're not clear. You're not clear because there are so many distractions in your day Every day that you wake up you are distracted constantly By what you have on your phone By people texting you and asking you for things By your team needing you to get things done By family members reaching out to you with their problems By checking out the news and just being distracted with your mind On what's happening in the world Whatever it might be you are facing constant distractions We all are.

4:21And it's our job to stay focused on a clear goal. This is what great athletes, great performers, great artists do. They set clear, intentional goals with a deadline. I like to look at it as a seasonal timeline. What can you do within a six-month window, a two-year window, a five-year window, based on your clear objective? High performers seek clarity more often than their peers. It's a quote from my friend, Brendan Bouchard, who researched this topic for years on high performers. Clarity is the key. This is something that I talk about in my book, The Greatness Mindset, which is about having a clear vision.

5:03All the great performers are so clear. You know, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant didn't just wake up and say, I think I wanna be the best basketball player in my generation. I think I wanna win a championship. I think I want to get results. Mr. Beast, we just had Mr. Beast on the show. He didn't say, I think I just want to make some YouTube videos and have some fun. No, he said, I am going to be the biggest creator of our time. And now he has a billion followers and has the biggest YouTube channel and just is crushing it because he is clear on his focus and his obsession. This is what great performers do.

5:42They see clarity more often than their peers. People without clarity are distracted. And when you are not clear, you're not productive. You're just doing busy work. You're doing busy work and you're not really moving anything forward because you don't know what you're moving toward. You don't have a clear aim, a clear target, a clear bullseye to try to shoot for. You've got to be clear. And it doesn't mean you may not know what you want in this moment. In my book, The Greatest Mindset, which teaches you how to unlock the power of your mind and live your best life today, gives you the exact step-by-step blueprint for you to discover internally what you want in your life, to create clarity for yourself.

6:27So this will give you the blueprint on how to find that clarity so you can eliminate distractions as well. like some of the top artists, business leaders, before they're tackling some big task, they set a clear intention. And instead of letting fear and doubt dictate your actions, ask yourself, what's the outcome that I want here? How do I want to feel in this situation? That type of questioning for yourself, that intentionality creates focus, even when there's chaos, even when there's disturbance, even when there's distraction, because we are going to be pulled in so many different directions in life constantly if we're not clear.

7:14But clarity does something powerful for you. It allows you to have the most powerful word in your vocabulary to use at all times. And that word is no. No. Because when someone asks you to do something that's an exciting opportunity or this new thing or hey you should do this thing. When you are clear and focused you don't have the energy to say yes to other things unless it serves your mission which will serve not only your goals and your vision but impact more people in the process because then you're using your time, you're using your energy to be of service to your mission, and your mission is going to help others beyond the distractions.

8:04So when you have a clear intention, it allows you to say no without feeling bad, because you say, this is where I'm heading, and I just don't have any extra time to take on this project, or help here, or do this thing. But I can help you towards my mission, if this is able to serve you in some way, then yes, I'm all for it. Or I'll say yes to someone if they're going to help me get closer to my vision, then we can help each other out that way. But this allows you to eliminate distractions in your life. If you're on social media for four hours a day, is that serving your mission? It's a yes or a no.

8:42If it's a no, then you don't do it. You start to eliminate doing things that don't serve your clear vision. And you've probably heard this before. You got to know what your goals are. You got to know what your dream is. And you got to be clear and go after it. The reason I do this video, the reason why I'm speaking this is as much for you as it is for me. Because I live in a world where I get tons of opportunities and cool things happen all the time where I can say yes to. And it doesn't mean I have to say no to everything. But if I say yes to something that is not serving my goal or my time towards my goals, then it's just going to take me longer to accomplish it, most likely.

9:26And so it's learning how to use clarity and the most powerful word, which is no, to save your time from distractions or people trying to steal your time from your goals. So here's an action step for you. a few action steps. Each morning, I want you to ask yourself, what three things must I accomplish today for it to be a win today? What three things must I accomplish today for it to be a win? And I want you to prioritize these three things and accomplish them no matter what today. If you just do that one thing, this video will be a huge help for you because most people don't write down the three most important things they need to do to move their goals forward for the day.

10:17They have a list of all these to-do things to make them feel productive because they're staying busy. And at the end of the day, you say, man, I had a very productive day. I was so busy. But busy is not productive. It's just keeping you distracted from your goals. Now, if you're busy working on the three most important things that are moving you in measurable ways towards your goal, then that's different. Now you're taking actions and those actions stack and compound over time. Now compounding gets you closer to your goal. It accelerates the goal. It starts collapsing time where it feels like time is getting quicker and the goal is coming to you faster and faster because you are compounding the actions and collapsing time at the same time.

11:06You're becoming a time traveler when you start doing that because you could do busy work every single day for a decade and still not finish a book and still not accomplish that financial goal and still not lose the weight and still not whatever fill in the blank for you. You could be doing busy work nonstop and still be saying, ah, I'm still so far away from starting this project that I really want to start. I'm still so far away from launching the nonprofit for this cause I really care about. Because you're distracted. You don't have a clear goal with a deadline. You need a measurable, clear goal with a deadline.

11:45The second action step I want you to have is before meetings or tasks, pause and ask yourself, how do I want to show up here? How do I want to show up here? Again, there's a great book called The Power of Intention. We talked about intention here. We talked about clarity. The Power of Intention, I read that book when I was in my early 20s, and it really helped me out. And it's just a simple thing that I do almost before everything that I do, where it's just a moment where I think, what is my intention? What is my intention in this moment? And a lot of the times, my internal response to myself is my intention is to have fun.

12:20My intention is to bring joy. My intention is to connect with whoever I'm meeting. My intention is to be open to possibilities. My intention is to smile. My intention is to be generous. It's not about my intention is to make a million dollars today. It's not like that. I'm thinking, what is the energy that I can bring with my intention today because that energy is what's going to help me get the results that I'm looking for. So how do I want to show up here in this meeting, in this call, in this workout, in this session that I'm doing, whatever the thing you're doing for the day, what is your intention?

13:00How do I want to show up here? And the third action step for this is to write your desired intention for the day. Okay, my intention for today, first thing in the morning, is to be calm, confident, and joyful. Again, when you bring joy to an environment, when you bring a positive attitude, when you bring a confident poise, people want to be around you. Attitude is contagious. The more positive your attitude, the more contagious others will be positive around you. And that energy is what attracts your goals. People want to be around that energy. People want to be around people that are fun, that are joyful, that are confident, not scared victims that are angry and aggressive all day.

13:44No one wants that energy in their life. So you need to be thinking about my desired intention for the day. Calm, confident, joyful, giving, a good listener, all those things. And if you can if you can do those three keys to get started here with this first key, which is seeking clarity first in your life, if you can apply those things, it will help you in everything else that you do. And in the greatness mindset, unlock the power of your mind and live your best life today. I have an entire section in here where it talks about creating your perfect day itinerary, where you schedule and map out every hour of your intention and the results you're looking to create, where you're not creating busy productivity work.

14:34You're creating an action list that is collapsing time and getting you closer to your goals. So make sure to get a copy of this. It'll walk you through step by step how to seek clarity in your life and then the system, the process to put in place to guide you throughout these next six and 12 months. And I use it over and over again. So that's the first key in the first framework. The second framework, and if this is resonating with you in any way, again, let me know, just type a yes or say, yes, this is resonating with me or share with me why this is helpful in the comments so that I can make sure to stay in touch and just learn more about what is impacting you specifically.

15:17But the second framework is to turn fear into fuel. Fear isn't the enemy of productivity. It's the sign that you're growing. And a lesson for you is that fear and doubt never go away. You know, I'm 42 years young, healthy, thriving, and fear and doubt doesn't go away. I was just in Spain last week playing with a professional handball team against some of the top professionals in the world. And listen, I've been an elite athlete most of my life. I've played in the highest levels of competition. I've played with high stakes. I played in front of big crowds, all that stuff when there's pressure on the line.

15:59And I remember last week I was in Spain playing and I was like, oh, I'm kind of nervous. It was like kind of exciting because I actually haven't felt nervous like that in a while. but I was like, oh, I'm feeling a little intimidated. I'm feeling a little nervous. These guys are, and these guys are studs. These guys were like incredible athletes and they were just top of their game, handball players. And I was like, man, okay, what am I going to do? Am I going to sit down and like be a coward or do I just move through it, use the techniques and strategies that I've learned, uh, and start the breathing techniques and start my visualization techniques and realize what I'm clear on and setting my intention.

16:41It's just like, okay, my intention is to give my best. And if I make a mistake, I make a mistake. But my intention is to give my best. My intention is to communicate with my teammates and get out of my head into my heart and communicate. Because when we're living in fear and doubt, we stay stuck in our head and we don't communicate as much. That's why whenever I feel like insecure or nervous or like I'm doubting something. It's like, I need to get out of my head as fast as possible. That fear is going to cripple me. It's going to make me shrink as opposed to expand and get into flow. So I start communicating, Hey guys, let's go.

17:17I'm high-fiving people. I'm moving the energy out of my brain and my body where I might feel nervous into connecting with teammates. Great job. Great play. Let's go. Hey, communicate. I got this guy. What's over here. It's the communication that allows me to get out of my head and get more into the moment, being present. And that helps me a lot. So a powerful, powerful lesson is that fear and doubt never go away, but productivity masters move forward away by reframing fear. So let me say it again, fear and doubt never go away, but productivity masters move forward anyway by reframing fear. And when you can reframe fear as this is just excitement.

18:00This is just nerves and it's excitement. How can I get this excitement out of my body? How can I get out of my head where I'm analyzing the fear of failure or humiliation or whatever it might be and get it out? Get it out. Start moving. Start jumping. Start setting my intention. Reminding myself of my clear vision of what I'm looking to create and start taking action and get it out. Get it out. Because the more reps you do in high stakes moments, the more comfortable you're going to be. So you just need to get in those reps as consistently as possible. And a quote for you from myself in my book is that self-doubt is the killer of dreams.

18:39Self-doubt will kill your goals, will kill your dreams, will keep you stuck in productivity mode where you feel busy, but you don't feel like you're actually making progress. And when we doubt ourselves, It's like we're putting up walls before we even start. It's like we're caging ourself when we doubt ourself and we can't get out of the cage. It doesn't matter how much talent or potential you have. If you don't believe in yourself, you'll never take the action needed to pursue your dreams. Leave a yes below if that resonates with you. If you feel that, if you feel like you've experienced that in your life, self-doubt is the killer of dreams and the more you doubt yourself it doesn't matter how much schooling how much education how many certificates you get it doesn't matter how many reps you get if you constantly doubt yourself it's going to hold you back from accomplishing what you want i'll give you a quick story around this when i was in eighth grade um i was playing with the the junior varsity and the varsity players in the high school i was in middle school but I was, you know, 6 '4", and I was a pretty good basketball player back then.

19:52And so they had me playing practices with the high school junior varsity and varsity team when I was in middle school. And I, for whatever reason, there was a player, I won't say his name, but there was a player on this team who was a senior when I was in eighth grade, who to this day is the best athlete I've ever seen. It was the freakiest thing that I'd ever seen from a human being on how this man was able to jump and just 360 dunk with ease. He had the smoothest three-point shot that it looked like he'd never missed. He had handles as a dribbler. He was so gifted athletically. He could do anything with the basketball at any moment and score at will.

20:38but for whatever reason, when he got into a game, he was an average player at best. He didn't lead. He didn't dominate. He didn't take charge. And for me, I was always like, God, give me an ounce of this talent, please. And I will dominate. I will be in the NBA. Just give me like a fraction of this talent because I, you know, I couldn't dunk at the time. I was a little slower. I didn't have the handles, but I had the fire. I had the drive. I had the willingness to lay my body on the ground at any moment and dive for the ball. I had the mindset, the attitude. I was like, I want to win and do whatever it takes.

21:22This guy was the nicest guy, the nicest guy and the most freakish athlete to this day that I've ever seen. But he was an average player when the game was on the line and he didn't dominate. Now, maybe he didn't have a clear vision for what he wanted. Again, I didn't know him that well. Maybe he wasn't clear. Maybe he didn't care about basketball that much. It was just more of an activity for him. But for me, it just showed me that the big thing is that he didn't believe in himself. His teammates were like, you're a freak of nature. You can do anything. His coaches was like, you got this. You're the leader.

22:02Everyone in the stands knew that he was the most talented person on the basketball court. But it doesn't matter if everyone in the world is cheering for you and says, you can do this. If you don't actually believe you are capable of doing it, you won't be able to create what you want. And the reverse, it doesn't matter if the world and your friends and your family all doubt you. If you believe in yourself, you can overcome all the doubts of the world and accomplish incredible things. And in fact, that's what most great performers, athletes, business leaders do. So many people doubt them, but they have this unwavering belief inside of them and says, I can do this.

22:48Wherever that comes from, they hold on to that belief. And that belief is what gives them the momentum to break through all the challenging, painful moments, all the setbacks, the hurdles, the critics, the pain, the adversity. Because if you don't have belief, it is going to be nearly impossible to accomplish what you want because there are so many challenges and hurdles along the way to accomplishing your goals. And if you don't have the clarity and the belief backing the clarity, you can pretty much give up on all the goals that you want because they're probably not going to happen. It doesn't mean you can't have a good life and accomplish certain things, but the big thing in your heart, it's probably not going to happen because you don't have the clear vision.

23:33You're not setting a clear intention and you don't have the belief backing the vision so you can overcome the obstacles in your life. So a couple action steps for you right now is Number one, to write down your top three fears this week, then put next to each one of them, the small action step you're going to take forward to help you overcome this. I actually call this in the greatness mindset. This is something that I did when I was much younger. I call it my fear list. So my, if you want to become fearless, you have to write down your fear list and go all in on your fears until your fears disappear.

24:15Because we all have fears. We all have doubts and insecurities. This is normal. We're human beings. We're going to have fears. And we're going to have fears at different stages of life. It's normal. So you want to write down your fears. I call it my fear list. And then the thing that scares you the most, you want to go all in on tackling that fear until you overcome it. Once you overcome that fear, you become like, man, man, I can do anything. I can take on anything. You feel unstoppable because you thought I would never be able to overcome this thing. And I did it. What can I do next? I can do anything.

24:50Give me whatever you want. Throw anything at me. I can take it on. You feel empowered. You feel excited. You feel motivated. The second thing, Mel Robbins talks about this a lot. She calls it the five second rule. So use the five second rule that she talks about, which is just count five, four, three, two, one, and then take action. Put yourself into action. Whenever hesitation hits, just say five, four, three, two, one, I'm going to act. You can say three, two, one, I go. Whatever it might be, give yourself a tool to move you out of that insecure mind into action, because the more action you take, the more results you will get.

25:27There's an amazing movie where there's this line in the movie called, We Bought a Zoo. I don't know if you watched this movie called We Bought a Zoo by a, and Matt Damon is like the main actor. And in a scene in the movie, he's talking to his kids about how he met his wife, his wife that he later married. And it's a cool scene. He's reenacting when he first met her and they were in like a little coffee shop or a diner. and he talks about how, you know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage, just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery. And I promise you something great will come of it.

26:15And that was his line from that. And I think a lot of us are so afraid of embarrassment that if you can literally find and muster 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery, courage, you can create amazing things. And he said how he walked into this, you know, coffee shop or restaurant and he saw her and he said a line to her and then they got married and then they had kids. And if he didn't have 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery, his life would be completely different. And where do you need to have 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery? Where in your life are you lacking the courage right now to risk humiliation, to risk embarrassment, to risk failure or looking silly?

27:03Is there a girl or a guy you want to meet that you really are attracted to that you're like, oh, we could have a beautiful relationship that you're lacking the courage because you're afraid of rejection? Is there a job or a career that you really want to go for, but you feel like it's safer to stay where you're at right now? Is there an idea that you have that you want to launch? Is there a passion project, but you're lacking the courage to tell someone to get started, to go for it? What is that in your heart that you're lacking the courage to go for the big thing that you want to create or the side project, whatever that might be.

27:37This is also just be like, where do I need to have an uncomfortable conversation with the people in my life, my loved ones, my friends, my family? Where do I need that embarrassing bravery, courage for 20 seconds. Think about that. Even comment below and share with me where you need to have that type of courage and act on it right now. After this video, how can you take action on it? Write it down what that is in your life in the comments, because I want you to inspire other people on what they're thinking about as well. And the third thing is to reframe fear as evidence You're stepping into growth, not danger.

28:16Because a lot of people are so afraid that they're going to fail and it's like it'll ruin their life. But really, we are looking for growth. And your heart's desire is to grow. It's not to stay stuck. It's not to stay trapped in this, you know, self-loathing, self-doubt prison. That's just not what you're designed to do. You're designed to overcome those fears. So turn fear into fuel. The third framework here is energy is the real productivity hack. Motivation isn't about willpower. It's about energy management. The lesson here is that without energy, nothing gets done. And if you're just doing busy work where you're trying to say I'm productive, that's not the highest level of energy.