The School of Greatness - 351 It's Time to Step Up

Episode Date: July 8, 2016

"How much longer are you going to play it safe in life?" - Lewis Howes If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/351

five minute friday episode number three five one and it is time to step up this is your wake-up call this is the moment this is the moment you decide to make a change the moment you decide that this is a choice that will change your life forever you get to finally step up in this moment. How many years have you been going about doing the same things, thinking the same things, saying the same things, being the same way to all the people in your life, and never fully going after the dream that is burning inside of your belly? How many years have you been making excuses

for why you have not stepped up yet? How many people try to inspire you to step up and yet you tell them excuse after excuse of why you're too old, why you're too young, why you're not educated enough, why you're not smart enough, why you're not good looking enough, why you don't have the experience.

How many excuses have you made in your life that have held you from fully going after your purpose, your mission, your dream, the thing that brings the fire out of you and inspires those around you? How long and how much longer are you going to hold yourself back? Play small. Play it safe. Stay comfortable. Not hurt anyone's feelings.

How much longer are you going to play a safe life and never, ever do anything that leaves a mark on this planet? This is your wake-up call. This is the moment you decide. You have a choice. Every single breath. Every single time your heart moment you decide. You have a choice. Every single breath, every single time your heart beats, you get to make a choice. Am I going to move towards my dreams or am I going to waste another breath, waste another heartbeat and allow my fears, my insecurities, my stupid stories that I have going in my head over and over that I'm not worthy

enough, that I'm not good enough, that I'm not smart enough, that I'm not ready enough, that I don't have enough experience. Hold you back from fully opening your heart, expressing yourself, and living like a man or woman on a mission to change whatever it is you want to change and live however you want to live. This is your wake-up call and you have a huge decision right now. I am calling you forth. I am calling you forth to get out of your comfort zone. Whatever you normally do on a day-to-day basis, you are going to do completely opposite for the rest of this day. If you're

usually quiet, then you're going to be outrageous. You're going to be loud. If you're usually loud and crazy, you're going to be reserved and quiet, and you're going to open your ears, which you've never really opened fully, and you're going to listen to the people around you. If you don't feel worthy, you're going to walk around like the worthiest person in the world and act as if you are so worthy and so deserving of everything you want and feel that and experience it and be it and live it. If you dress conservative, you're going to dress wild. If you dress wild, you're going to dress conservative. Whatever the thing is in your mind right now where you think, man, if I did that, I would be so crazy uncomfortable.

You are going to do that the rest of this day because that is going to move you towards your dream. Yes. The only way you can get closer to your dream is doing things that are going to make you feel so freaking uncomfortable. You must be uncomfortable in order to achieve your dreams, in order to get the woman of your dreams, in order to get the man you've always wanted, in order to have the family, the relationships, the health you want. You need to get uncomfortable. If you stay comfortable the rest of this day, then you're probably going to stay comfortable the rest of your life.

then you're probably going to stay comfortable the rest of your life. You have a choice. This is your wake-up call. What are you willing to do to get uncomfortable right now in order to start moving towards your dreams? This is your wake-up call. What decision are you going to make right now in order to step up your life and move towards your dreams? This is 5-Minute Friday.

We do this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I am so blessed and grateful that you decided to show up. My mission is to serve 100 million people around the world, to show them how to live fully, follow their dreams, and make a full-time income in the process. I believe we can have it all in life. I believe we can live a rich life. That means have the things we need taken care of,

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